Showing posts with label Toronto. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toronto. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Shots fired at US Consulate in Toronto, police say - POLITICO

Two men were involved in a shooting outside the U.S. Consulate in Toronto early Tuesday, Canadian police said in a press briefing, coming as the White House faces increasing international backlash amid its now two-week-long war with Iran...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/10/toronto-us-consulate-shooting-00820763 


 

Sunday, July 15, 2018

New investigation says partner in Trump's Toronto hotel raised financing after sending $100 million to a Putin-controlled bank - Business Insider

A Financial Times investigation into the financing of President Donald Trump's Toronto hotel tower has found fresh evidence suggesting links between the US President and Russia. The FT claims it has seen documents suggesting that the Kremlin may have been involved in indirectly financing the project. There is no suggestion that Trump knew.....
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-toronto-tower-financing-linked-to-russia-2018-7

Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Here's what the Toronto van attack suspect has in common with 2014 Isla Vista killer Elliot Rodger - Raw Story

Reports that the suspected Toronto attacker was an "incel" — a portmanteau for "involuntarily celibate," an identifier used as a rallying point for virginal misogynists online — reveal the similarities between this most recent attacker and the man who killed six people in Santa Barbara, California in 2014. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/heres-toronto-van-attack-suspect-common-2014-isla-vista-killer-elliot-rodger/

Thursday, April 26, 2018

When Toronto Suspect Said ‘Kill Me,’ an Officer Put Away His Gun - The New York Times

He pointed an object threateningly at Constable Ken Lam, the Toronto police officer who was the first to encounter him as he stepped outside of his rental van. Constable Lam pulled out his gun and commanded the man, 25-year-old Alek Minassian, identified by the police as the driver who had plowed down dozens of pedestrians on a busy Toronto street on Monday, to get down.....

Thursday, May 18, 2017

A Russian state bank reportedly financed an $850 million deal with a Trump business partner

Last week, lawyers representing President Donald Trump issued a circuitously written letter seeking to minimize the allegations that their client — who, again, is the president of the United States of America — has potentially compromising financial ties to the Russian government.

This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the president's business ties to Russian state institutions go deeper than previously known. The Journal said on Wednesday that the state-run bank Vnesheconombank (VEB) financed an $850 million deal with Russian-Canadian real estate developer Alexander Schnaider — who then funded the construction of a Trump-branded hotel in Toronto. ...
https://thinkprogress.org/russian-bank-involved-with-trump-business-partner-ac1393e9d95c









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