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Toronto police are seeking to hold a convicted firearms trafficker responsible for a death allegedly caused by one of his smuggled guns, a novel use of a criminal negligence charge in Canada that has the potential of holding gun smugglers accountable for the deadly toll of their illicit wares.
On Wednesday, Toronto police announced a charge of criminal negligence causing death against Jeffrey Gilmour, a 44-year-old Toronto man who is serving a 3½-year sentence for firearms-trafficking offences.
some still being held a alleged gun smugglers that have attacked troops and kidnappings and they are offering a reward for a terrorist released from guantanamo bay eight years ago who is back in action even as they try to close the doors on the administration center. are you concerned about the ability to track the individuals as they get out in the world? yes, we are. it isn t just this particular gun runner, as you recall, that we are offering a stipend to bring him back into custody. but there was one in afghanistan who was in custody and who is now the head of isis. it is a little reminder these terrorist combatants we find on the battlefield are constructed
meanti meantime, the 74 people on board ringing in the new year, you can hear with their own special celebration. singing and dancing. more fallout, though, from the government, fast & furious firearms operation. american agents sold the firearm, suspected gun smugglers between 2006 and 2011 hoping they could track the weapons to high profile mexican drug traffickers. those are your headlines. thanks for being here on this new year. i m ana ka rare bra. we wondered what changes 2014 might bring to the world of health and medicine. we invited elizabeth cohen to join us, to bring out the crystal ball. there are a lot of new fda regulars that came out in 2013.
murders. so if history is any guide, clearly, those lives saved are largely the lives of people of color. we re saving lives. that s what we re engaged in. we just had a center for disease control study come out that sudden new york city has the lowest ratio of teen-agers carrying guns than any city in america. steve: you got to wonder whether or not, since we do have on a wiretap one of the bad guys, one of the ailed gun smugglers saying, i m not going to go into new york city s brooklyn because of stop and frisk, you got to wonder if that after that judge threw it out, you know, why not? let s go. brian: it is modified. the supreme court said it s constitutional. let s hope they get it back. meanwhile, red light cameras are supposed to bust the people that run red lights, right? turns out those eyes in the sky are going after drivers who did nothing wrong. steve: not the gum chewers
independence. but some republicans take issue with how holder demonstrates those traits. i believe eric holder is one of the worst attorneys general in the history of the country because he selectively enforces the law based on his own ideology. two years ago republican congressman peter king called for holder s resignation, upset because holder favored civilian criminal trials rather than military tribunals for the 9/11 terror suspects. king wrote in a new york post quote, the guy just doesn t get it and because he doesn t he should resign forthwith. there was also anger over holder s assertion arizona s tough immigration law would lead to racial profiling and that the justice department would no longer defend the defense of marriage act which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. but the pot really boiled over in 2011 with fast and furious, a failed atf operation that put weapons in the hands of suspected gun smugglers. one of those guns had killed border patrol agent