Thursday, October 17, 2024

'He is God's problem now': Texan pays tribute to funny, foul-mouthed father in obituary 

Two men, one elderly and one middle-aged, stand outside with their arms around each other's shoulders. The younger man is smiling and the older man is waving with a cigarette between his fingertips.

When Robert Adolph Boehm died on Oct. 6 at age 74, his son decided to honour his memory by writing an obituary as chaotic, irreverent and expletive-laden as his father was in life. 



source https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/robert-boehm-obituary-1.7355078?cmp=rss

Ex-Canadian Olympic snowboarder wanted for murder, running transnational drug ring, U.S. officials say

A man takes a tight turn on a snowboard.

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder and 15 others are facing criminal charges for allegedly running a drug-trafficking ring that shipped hundreds of kilograms of cocaine to Canada and used violence — including murder — to achieve its goals, the the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ryan-james-wedding-fbi-investigation-1.7355177?cmp=rss

India denies working with mobsters to target Sikh separatists on Canadian soil

A poster with a man's face is pictured behind a woman walking down a street.

India's government on Thursday denied it was working with mobsters to target Sikh separatists in Canada as alleged publicly this week by Canadian officials in an escalating diplomatic dispute.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/india-denies-canadas-allegation-it-has-worked-with-mobsters-1.7354861?cmp=rss

15 dead, 5 of them children, after Israeli strike on Gaza school, Palestinian officials say

A boy climbs through rubble

An Israeli strike on a school sheltering the displaced in northern Gaza on Thursday killed at least 15 people, including five children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry.



source https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-school-strike-1.7354567?cmp=rss