The OPP Are Texting Potential Murder Witnesses: What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. ‘ISIS Sent Four Car Bombs. The Last One Hit Me.’
“Our convoy had already been targeted by suicide car bombs three times, over a long day spent under fire. So the Iraqi forces had brought up a tank, and its main gun kept scanning the road ahead toward Mosul. But the shouts started coming from behind us instead, and when I turned to look, I knew right away: Here was bomb No. 4, seemingly out of nowhere. By the time I saw it, the vehicle was maybe 70 feet away.” New York Times photographer Bryan Denton recounts the car bombing he survived in Mosul.
2. The OPP are texting potential murder witnesses
“On Thursday, the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) will send text messages to anybody who was in the vicinity of a murder in the hopes that one of them will have information that can help catch the culprit. One of the recipients may even be the killer. Others may wonder how the police obtained their phone number in the first place, or knew where they were on the day in question.”
3.The invisible empire of Alex Jones
“How the Donald Trump campaign turned America’s greatest conspiracy theorist into a household name.”
+1: Donald Trump the candidate promotes Trump the brand on campaign trail.
4. As French begin demolishing Calais refugee camp, someone sets it ablaze
“Fires are raging across parts of the ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais, three days into a French operation to demolish it. It was unclear who set the dozens of fires overnight and in the morning.”
5. Toronto workers billed health plan $1.9m for Viagra and Cialis
“City workers made millions of dollars in questionable claims for large quantities of erectile dysfunction pills and highly addictive opioids including Fentanyl, the city’s auditor general says.”
