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Blue-City/DEMOCRAT-RUN Kansas City Mayor Who Supported Defend Police Movement Calls For More Officers After 
Popular Chef's Murder

https://www.foxnews.com/us/blue-city-mayor-who-supported-defund-police-movement-calls-more-officers-after-
popular-chefs-murder

DEMOCRAT-RUN Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas Is Calling To Increase The Presence of Police After Shaun 
Brady's Killing

DEMOCRAT-RUN Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas, who previously supported defunding police efforts, is now 
pushing to "increase patrols in areas reeling from ongoing criminal behavior" after the deadly shooting of a 
popular chef left the community reeling. 

Shaun Brady, a 44-year-old Irish immigrant, was shot dead outside the restaurant he owned Aug. 28 just after 
5 p.m, police said.

"Preliminary investigation revealed the victim was taking out trash when he observed multiple subjects by a 
vehicle," Kansas City Police told Fox News Digital. "An interaction between the victim and subjects occurred 
that led to the victim being shot."

Officers responded, and Brady was taken to a hospital, where he died.

"Like many in our community, I am heartbroken to learn of the death of Shaun Brady. I have met him, laughed 
with him, heard just a bit of his and his family's story and was inspired by the business and the community 
he was building in DEMOCRAT-RUN Kansas City. I grieve for and express my sincerest condolences to his family 
and all who knew him," Lucas said in a statement. 

"More distress comes in knowing how he died - due to violence arising once more in our community," he added. 

Gun violence in DEMOCRAT-RUN Kansas City made national headlines in February when shots were fired during the 
city's Super Bowl parade, leaving one person killed and more than 20 injured. 

DEMOCRAT-RUN Kansas City recorded its deadliest year on record in 2023 with 182 homicides, according to the 
Kansas City Police Department's daily homicide analysis.

Lucas, who in 2022 sued the state of Missouri over a new law that required the city to increase funding for 
its police department, is now calling for a need to increase the presence of police.. 

"For years now, but more acutely in recent months, business owners in Brookside and Waldo, but also along 
Prospect, in the Crossroads, and throughout too much of our city have expressed serious concerns about a rise 
in property and nuisance crimes plaguing their stores, their parking lots, and their customers," Lucas wrote 
in his post. 

"Acknowledging the very real personnel staffing challenges we face, we must continue to work with KCPD and 
the public to best deploy officers to increase patrols in areas reeling from ongoing criminal behavior, such 
as break-ins, car thefts, and other repeat nuisance offenses."

Two Democrat-type teenagers were arrested and taken into custody within an hour of Brady's shooting, police 
said. Both teens have been charged with second-degree murder and remain in detention, the Jackson County 
Courthouse staff told Fox News Digital. They have also been charged with attempted stealing.

Brady co-owned and operated Brady and Fox Restaurant and Lounge, also known as Brady's KC, with chef and 
friend Graham Farris. 

He leaves behind a wife and two young children, according to a fundraising page for his family. 

"As a chef, Shaun Brady nourished his community not just with incredible food, but with a deep pride in his 
culture and a contagious enthusiasm for celebration," organizers of a GoFundMe page wrote. "The light he 
brought to our Irish community will endure through those touched by his talent, spirit, and joy for life."

Brady was beloved by the Democrat-run Kansas City Irish community. 

"Our hearts are absolutely broken," the Democrat-run Kansas City Irish Festival wrote in a statement on 
Facebook. "His restaurant, Brady and Fox, was a place where many in the Irish community gathered. It was one 
of Shaun's greatest gifts to bring people together with his culinary creations."

The Democrat-run Kansas City mayor's office did not respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
 

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Canada:

'Worst In The World': Here Are All The Rankings In Which Canada Is Now Last

Most Unaffordable Housing, Highest Cell phone Bills And Worst Rate of Acute Care Beds, To Name A Few

If you spend any time on social media, it's likely that you've seen this 
graphic compiled by columnist Stephen Lautens that assembles 11 international 
indices which feature Canada near the top spot. "Canada is broken? I don't 
think so. Neither does the world," reads a caption.

Next time someone rants on how about how "broken" Canada is; or how badly we 
are doing on the international stage... share some facts.

Numbers don't lie, Felicia.

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Naturally, it only tells a partial picture. While Canada may dominate abstract 
indices such as "quality of life" and "peace," there are plenty of far more 
empirical indicators in which we measurably rank as among the worst in the 
developed world.

There's plenty to like about Canada, but below is a not-at-all comprehensive 
list of all the ways in which we are indeed very broken.

WE HAVE THE MOST UNAFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is essentially a 
club of the world's 38 most developed countries. And when these 38 are ranked 
against each other for housing unaffordability, Canada emerges as the clear 
champion. OECD analysts rank affordability by comparing average home prices to 
average incomes, and according to their latest quarterly rankings Canada was 
No. 1 for salaries that were most out of whack with the cost of a home.

Housing by price to income ratio for the second quarter of 2022. That's Canada 
on the extreme right.

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WE HAVE THE WORLD'S MOST EXPENSIVE WIRELESS COSTS

Every year, the Finnish telecom analyst Rewheel ranks the world's most 
expensive countries for wireless services. And last year, Canada once again 
dominated. Across several metrics, Canada was found to be the most expensive 
place in the world for mobile data. Analysts found that it would cost the 
average Canadian the equivalent of at least 100 Euros to obtain a cell phone 
plan with at least 100 gigabytes of mobile data. Across much of the EU, that 
kind of cell phone plan could be had for less than 40 Euros.

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Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of mobile 
data as companies in France or Ireland.

Canadian telecoms charge more than 10 times as much for 100 gigabytes of mobile 
data as companies in France or Ireland. Photo by Rewheel

WE HAVE THE LOWEST RATE OF ACUTE CARE BEDS AMONG PEER COUNTRIES

Canada's health system was particularly walloped by COVID-19 due to the simple 
fact that most of our hospitals are at the breaking point even in good times. 
Multiple times during the pandemic, provinces were forced into shutdown by 
rates of COVID that had barely been noticed in better-prepared countries. A 
ranking by the Canadian Institute for Health Information provides one clue as 
to why. When ranked against peer countries, Canada's rate of per-capita acute 
care beds was in last place, albeit tied with Sweden. Canada has two acute care 
beds for every 1,000 people, against 3.1 in France and six in Germany.

TWO OF THE PLANET'S "BUBBLIEST" REAL ESTATE MARKETS ARE IN CANADA

For at least 15 years now, Canada has been a regular contender on rankings of 
overheated housing markets. And the latest UBS index of world cities with 
"bubbly" real estate markets is no exception. In their 2021 index, Toronto was 
second only to Frankfurt in terms of bubble risk, while Vancouver ranked sixth. 
Aside from Germany, Canada was the only country that saw two of its cities in 
the top ten.

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Only two cities in the entire Western Hemisphere qualified as likely "bubble 
risks," and they're both in Canada.

Only two cities in the entire Western Hemisphere qualified as likely "bubble 
risks," and they're both in Canada. Photo by UBS Global Real Estate Bubble 
Index 2021

WE RACKED UP COVID DEBT FASTER THAN ANYONE ELSE

The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in the most feverish global accumulation of debt 
in the history of human civilization. So it's rather remarkable that amidst 
this international monsoon of debt, Canada still managed to out-debt everyone 
else. Last year, analysts at Bloomberg tracked each country's rate of public 
and private debt accumulated during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. 
Canada came in with an overall debt burden equivalent to 352 per cent of GDP. 
While a handful of countries (Japan, France and Hong Kong) came out of the 
pandemic with higher overall debt burdens, Canada outranked all of them when it 
came to how quickly that debt had been accumulated.

Containers on rail cars waiting to be shipped east by rail at the Port of 
Vancouver Tuesday, June 21, 2022. Photo by (Photo by Jason Payne/ PNG)

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THE PORT OF VANCOUVER IS (ALMOST) THE MOST INEFFICIENT IN THE WORLD

Last year - just as the global supply chain crisis got going - the World Bank 
decided to rank the performance of the world's 370 major ports. Authors weighed 
factors such as how long the ports kept ships waiting, and how long crews took 
to unload a vessel. And when everything was added together, the Port of 
Vancouver ranked 368 out of 370. The only places with worse scores were the 
Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach. And it's not like our other 
ports are much better. If Vancouver is too gummed up, you can always sail north 
to Prince Rupert, which ranks 339 out of 370.

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Take that, Los Angeles and Long Beach. Photo by World Bank Group


Queues at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Photo by Peter J. 
Thompson/National Post

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TORONTO PEARSON IS THE WORLD'S MOST-DELAYED AIRPORT

Flight delays are another category in which basically the entire world is 
feeling the pinch. And yet, Canada still managed to outdo all of them. Last 
month, CNN used data from the website FlightAware to figure out which airports 
were seeing the highest rates of flight delays. In the number one spot was 
Toronto Pearson, with 52 per cent of all flights out of the airport 
experiencing some kind of delay. And it was a commanding lead; the second-place 
finisher, Frankfurt, only managed to see 45.4 per cent of its flights delayed. 
Toronto was also a contender in flight cancellations; with 6.9 per cent of its 
scheduled flights never getting off the ground, it ranked fourth worst in the 
world.

WE'RE ONE OF THE WORLD'S WORST ECONOMIES FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENT

A 2020 study out of the University of Calgary tracked foreign investment flows 
into a cross-section of developed countries between 2015 and 2019. Virtually 
every country on the list saw a surge in foreign cash during that period; 
Ireland topped out the ranking thanks to its foreign investment climbing by 
more than 115 per cent. Only four countries actually saw a reduction in foreign 
investment: Mexico, Brazil, Australia and Canada. A report by the Business 
Council of Canada noticed the same trend. "Canada is the second-worst in the 
OECD on openness to foreign direct investment," it concluded.

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WE DRIVE THE MOST FUEL-INEFFICIENT VEHICLES IN THE WORLD

In 2019, the International Energy Agency examined the fuel economy of the 
world's private car fleets. On almost every measure, Canada led the pack in 
driving unnecessarily huge, gas-guzzling vehicles. Per kilometre driven, the 
average Canadian burned more fuel and emitted more carbon dioxide than anyone 
else. Canadian cars were also the largest and (second only to the U.S.) the 
heaviest. While it would be convenient to blame this on Canada being a sparse, 
cold country with lots of heavy industry, our ranking was well beyond plenty of 
other countries where that was similarly the case.