OTTAWA — The woman arrested over the weekend in connection with an incident at a downtown Ottawa anti-Israel protest last week is a long-serving public servant with experience at a number of government agencies.
The woman arrested in Ottawa today is the head of PYM Ottawa (Palestinian Youth Movement) Sarah Wazzi Moukahal.
It hasn't been a good week for the Hamas activists in Ottawa. pic.twitter.com/QzZlUWPZMr
— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) November 24, 2024
Electric-vehicle dreams are crashing into reality, and the latest signs come from Europe. Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt last week filed for bankruptcy, one day after Ford announced 4,000 job cuts in Europe because of the government-mandated EV transition. Will the next Trump Administration learn from Europe’s blunders?
“The global auto industry continues to be in a period of significant disruption as it shifts to electrified mobility,” Ford said Wednesday. “The transformation is particularly intense in Europe where automakers face significant competitive and economic headwinds while also tackling a misalignment between CO2 regulations and consumer demand for electrified vehicles.”
Ukraine wants to convince Trump that it is not a charity case but a cost-effective and geostrategic opportunity that will enrich and secure the United States.
KYIV — As Ukraine prepares for the looming uncertainty of a new U.S. president, officials and business executives here are coming up with ways to sell Donald Trump on the idea that a strong Ukraine is useful to his own political goals — and expressing cautious optimism that he may act faster and more decisively than President Joe Biden.
The District of Columbia’s attorney general on Monday sued an activist known for his calls to abolish the police, saying that he diverted $75,000 from a charity to pay for mansion rentals, a trip to Cancún and designer clothes.
Attorney General Brian L. Schwalb, an elected Democrat who oversees nonprofits in the city, said Brandon Anderson had turned an anti-police-brutality charity called Raheem AI into a piggy bank for himself.
Mr. Schwalb also sued Raheem AI. He asked a judge to shutter the organization, bar Mr. Anderson from leading any other Washington nonprofit and order Mr. Anderson or Raheem AI to repay the $75,000. The money would then be given to a charity chosen by the judge.
The state of Delaware has elected a dude in a dress to the House of Representatives. Sarah (formerly Tim) McBride is a man who pretends to be a woman, and he will be going to Congress next year, which has provoked a fight over where he will, well, go when he is in Congress next year.
Last week, the Runnymede Trust published a report, forecasting a ‘bleak and dystopian’ future for Muslims in the UK. Chief executive Shabna Begum told the Guardian that
“Sayeeda Warsi coined the term ‘the dinner table test’, but I think we’ve got even beyond that… The way politicians talk about Muslims now is so derogatory, it’s in the most brutally divisive terms.
“Politicians are engaging in a popularity contest and that popularity contest is measured by how far they are willing to bully and demonise Muslims. And that has become not just an acceptable kind of currency, but a way in which to earn your political stripes.”
h/t Patti Jo
Hindus in Brampton, Ont., say Peel Regional Police aren’t protecting them, with recent violence outside a Hindu temple bringing built-up distress to a boiling point.
The attack on the Hindu Sabha temple during Diwali weekend on Nov. 3 “really shocked the community,” says Pushpita Prasad, chief communications officer for the Coalition of Hindus in North America (CoHNA). “It has left us traumatized.”
Brampton isn’t part of Canada any longer.
Amazon will never be neighbourly
“You have to be a neighbour to have a neighbour.” That’s Mark Jamison’s mantra — and he should know. Until he retired, after all, the 68-year-old was the postmaster in Webster, a small town enveloped by the mist and hollers of North Carolina’s Great Smoky Mountains. And while he surely dealt with letters and parcels, townsfolk brought Jamison their troubles too. The title of postmaster, he says, “gives you some heft” in a quiet place like Webster, where he was the only representative of the federal government. Between sorting mail, that authority meant he also wrote money orders for people who couldn’t read, or else deciphered tax statements. Sometimes, he just offered advice to the downtrodden or simply loosened the jars of old ladies driving home from the store.
Six minutes. That’s all it took for two men to meet on the F train in New York City—and for their lives to change forever. It began a little after 2 p.m. on Monday, May 1, 2023. Jordan Neely, a homeless black man who suffered from schizophrenia, began screaming on the F train that he was looking for food. According to witnesses, Neely said he was “ready to die.” That he would “kill a motherfucker.” The other riders were scared.
Ontario’s Ministry of Labour is investigating the Alberta-based recruiter who was involved in bringing in scores of temporary foreign workers to staff low-wage jobs at Canadian Tire stores across Canada.
A ministry spokesperson told The Globe and Mail in an e-mail that it is conducting an open investigation into Allison Jones, the owner of a recruiting agency and an immigration consulting agency in St. Albert, outside of Edmonton. It did not provide any additional details about the probe.
Ms. Jones is a popular recruiter among franchisees of the Canadian Tire and Tim Hortons chains, helping franchise owners fill low-wage positions in their outlets with labour from abroad.
Canada is on a “clear path” to hit NATO’s defence spending target over the coming years, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, as pressure ramps up on Ottawa in the wake of the U.S. election.
Addressing the annual NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Montreal on Monday, Trudeau said Canada has so far made sure that its investments in targeted NATO spending “are as concrete as possible,” but added that more needs to be done.
Every USA election cycle, there is a predictable chorus of celebrities vowing to pack up and relocate to Canada. If their candidate loses, they’ll board the first flight, ticket in hand, maple leaves in their eyes. It’s an old refrain, and by now, the polite Canadian in me wishes to say, “Thanks, but no thanks.” There’s no reason to uproot your Hollywood lives. We’re very happy here! And to be honest, Canada is closed. We’ve already let enough ‘bad actors’ into our country the past few years.
Too bad Trump can’t be the dictator on Day One that the commies claimed he would be because the Republicans in Congress seem committed to making things much more difficult than they have to be. They need to get on board or get out of the way. We’ve lost one nominee already, and they are showing that familiar wobbliness that they always get about Pete Hegseth and several others. They have announced no clear plans for the first hundred days, and when someone does not tell you the plan, you can assume that there is no plan. Plus, they seem to be going back to their old habits of selecting congressional leadership not based on core attributes like merit, loyalty and lib owning. Trump 2.0 is focused and eager to keep his promises and make America great again. The GOP Congress seems far too focused on business as usual.
h/t DS
A local rabbi is speaking out after he says police asked him to leave the site of a pro-Palestinian protest in downtown Montreal, saying his presence was a provocation.
Adam Scheier, the head of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim, said Sunday he was asked to move away from an area where protesters were marching downtown, for fear that his presence, as a person wearing a Jewish skullcap or kippah, could provoke violence. Neither Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante nor the Montreal police have commented on the event.
It’s an injustice, to be sure, but one can’t help feeling a sense of schadenfreude at the rabbi getting a taste of the shiny new Trudeaupia he has helped to foster.
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) November 25, 2024
She’s trying to explain something and make it clear. Do you get it? pic.twitter.com/MRw41lPeBi
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) November 25, 2024
