Jewish pro-Palestinian protesters occupy Ottawa parliament building

A group of Jewish-Canadian activists protesting Israel’s ongoing armed offensive in Gaza have occupied a parliamentary building in Ottawa on Tuesday morning.

The demonstration organized by the Jews Say No to Genocide Coalition filled the lobby of the Confederation Building on Wellington Street, which houses the offices of many government and opposition members of Parliament.

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Meet La Barbie: the Tren de Aragua thug accused of turning a hotel into a sex trafficking empire

After allegedly being imprisoned, beaten and raped, the woman needed help to make it across the lobby of the hotel so she could finally escape.

Emerging into downtown El Paso, court documents state, she made her way to an immigration centre, where she readily admitted to a US Border Patrol agent that she had crossed illegally into the country from Mexico just months earlier.

Some time after arriving in the city in southern Texas, she told investigators, she had been drugged, assaulted, and forced into prostitution by a woman called Estefania Primera.

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Joe Adam George: Dirty money from Canada mustn’t prop up Hezbollah’s narco-terrorism any longer

A 60-day ceasefire deal between Israel and the Shiite Muslim terrorist group Hezbollah is now in force after months of a full-scale war between the two sworn enemies. However, it would be delusional to think that this deal will keep the Jewish state safe from an army of genocidal jihadists whose hybrid-guerilla warfare methods inspired fellow Iran proxy, Hamas, to carry out the October 7 massacre. If anything, this temporary truce offers Hezbollah much-needed respite from the pummeling it has received at the hands of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) since September.

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Hamas shares video of Israeli-American hostage blaming Netanyahu

Hamas has released a video of the Israeli-American hostage Edan Alexander — who appeared to be speaking under duress — expressing disappointment at Binyamin Netanyahu and sending a “message” to Donald Trump.

Alexander, 20, seen for the first time since he was kidnapped on October 7 last year, said he was “disappointed” at the Israeli prime minister’s recent $5 million offer to anyone who returns the hostages alive.

“The prime minister is supposed to protect his citizens and soldiers,” Alexander can be heard saying. “But you neglected us.”

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Canada’s ambassador says Trudeau told Trump the Canadian border can’t be compared to Mexico’s

TORONTO (AP) — Canada’s ambassador to the United States said Sunday that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was successful in getting President-elect Donald Trump and key Cabinet nominees to understand that lumping Canada in with Mexico over the flow of drugs and migrants into the U.S. is unfair.

Kirsten Hillman, Canada’s ambassador in Washington, told The Associated Press in an interview that Trudeau’s dinner with Trump on Friday was a very important step in trying to get Trump to back away from threatened tariffs on all products from the major American trading partner.

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Mark D’Souza: Ensuring TMU medical school doesn’t sink on her maiden voyage

With a year to go before its proposed launch, the shadow of the soft bigotry of TMU’s social justice-based medical school already hangs over us. A former specialist colleague reached out to tell me her patient just got a new family doctor who is Black, and he was worried if this doctor was competent or an affirmative action hire. She told him all current doctors have gone through the most stringent of examinations. But will her answer change in a few years? It feels like TMU’s medical school is the Titanic in harbour about to sail on its doomed maiden voyage.

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Retired Ontario Provincial Police Inspector publicly attacks Julian Fantino for exposing brother’s corruption

Corrupt cop’s brother attacks Fantino in National Post.

I like and respect retired OPP Inspector Bill Van Allen although I’ve never met him. We do seem to have a difference of opinion about his brother, former OPP Detective Sergeant Jim Van Allen. Since Bill has publicly jumped into the discussion by launching Ad hominem attacks against former OPP Commissioner Julian Fantino and yours truly in the National Post, I’ll pick up gauntlet here and lead Bill through the overwhelming and irrefutable evidence that proves corrupt and illegal acts by his brother Jim.

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Canada lists Ansarallah, known as the Houthis, a terrorist entity

The Canadian government has listed the Yemeni militant group Ansarallah, commonly known as the Houthis, as a terrorist group in an effort to “fight terrorism globally.”

In a statement released on Monday, Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada said that Ansarallah, a Yemeni militant group, has met the definition of a “terrorist group” under Canada’s Criminal Code.

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Ukraine buys thousands of armoured robot buggies to hold front lines

Ukraine has bought thousands of uncrewed robotic ground vehicles next year to shuttle ammunition and supplies to infantry in the trenches and evacuate wounded soldiers.

The buggy-like vehicles, an example of how technology is transforming trench warfare in Ukraine, would spare troops from operating in areas near the front where Russian shelling and drones are rife, Mykhailo Fedorov, the deputy prime minister for innovation, said.

Mr Fedorov, who has overseen drone procurement for most of the war, told Reuters: “This year we purchased several thousand ground platforms, and next year, I believe, we need tens of thousands.”

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