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You don’t need a calculator to do the math.
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Winnipeg is Canada’s most violent big city — by a long shot. As of Monday morning, there have been 38 homicides this year in the Prairie metropolis which boasts a population of 705,000 souls.
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Compare that to Toronto with four times the population and 61 slayings so far in 2023. How high is the murder rate? At the same rate, if the ‘Peg had Toronto’s population, there would be 160 homicides, obliterating all-time Canadian murder records.
On Sunday, the city awoke to its latest outrage. Four people were shot dead at a Langside St. home in the downtown core with another victim in critical condition clinging to life in hospital. So far cops have not released names, motives or suspects. Investigators will only say that they haven’t ruled out an underworld settling of accounts. Two of the dead were sisters, according to family.
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“We’re dealing with something very, very serious,” police spokesperson Const. Jason Michalyshen told reporters.
One neighbour told CBC News: “It’s scary because I have children. I don’t take them out at night or really early in the morning anyways just because I know stuff like that will happen.”
Others pointed to a high volume of traffic in and out of the house and the fact the area is plagued by drugs.
MAXWELL VICTIM CLAIMS SHE WAS FORCED INTO THREESOMES, GANG SEX
One of the victims who pointed the finger at disgraced socialite Ghislaine Maxwell during her explosive sex-trafficking trial is now suing Jeffrey Epstein’s estate and the woman known as “Epstein’s pimp.”
Elizabeth Stein was a student when she was recruited by the moneyed madam and then allegedly raped multiple times as a sex slave in the couple’s horrid sex trafficking scheme.
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“I was assaulted, raped, and trafficked countless times in New York and Florida during a three-year period,” Stein testified.
In her lawsuit, Stein claimed Maxwell asked her to deliver purchases from the department store where she worked to the St. Regis where she met the gruesome twosome at the bar. She went back to the couple’s room where they changed into monogrammed bathrobes.
“Maxwell then encouraged (Stein) to join them for a threesome and assured her ‘it would be fun,” the complaint reads, adding that she was “hesitant and afraid of Epstein or Maxwell hurting her physically and professionally.”
But Stein could not escape the duo’s clutches and was taken to Epstein’s pedo place in Palm Beach. There, she claims she was raped by the pool while other guests watched. She was then forced into group sex at Epstein’s New York abode.
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Epstein topped himself in 2019 and Maxwell is serving a 20-year jolt in the slammer.
MAFIA GRAVEYARD?
FBI and NYPD detectives are digging up two properties in Orange County in Upstate New York suspected of being a mob graveyard or contraband connected to the Gambino crime family. Retired NYPD Det. Tom Howell lives across the road. Howell said: “Ha! That tells you a bunch of things! Could be guns, could be bodies, could be drugs. Who knows what’s in there, if there’s anything?”
AND FINALLY …
Ariella Messina had one concern as cops searched her bag for drugs (they found them!): Her dildo. She pleaded with a Florida SWAT team: “Don’t take my dildo.” Messina, 27, made the special request after investigators found her “blue vibrator” in a backpack along with cocaine, meth, drug paraphernalia, and brass knuckles, The Smoking Gun reports. She was arrested along with five others. She was on probation for an earlier dope bust.
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