‘Amsterdam riots were not pogrom,’ mayor says, defending Muslim population

Amsterdam Mayor Femka Halsema said she regretted calling the riots in Amsterdam a “pogrom” because this was being used to discriminate against the Moroccan-Muslim population of the city, Dutch media reported on Monday.

The riots that erupted following an Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv game led to mass violence throughout the city. Large groups attacked people they suspected were Jewish or Israeli, often demanding to see their identification to confirm their ethnicity.

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Migrants receive gold-plated benefits — Ottawa pivots on immigration

According to a government document circulated online on Monday, people seeking asylum in Canada can receive $224 per day to cover housing and food while waiting for application processing — that’s $81,760 per year.

Claimants in Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) operated hotels, regardless of how they enter Canada, are provided with accommodations and meals once they are relocated, says the document dated March 14, noting the average cost per room across all sites is $140 per night. The average cost per day for meals is $84.

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Amy Hamm: Trudeau Liberals soft on sex work

Women are being trafficked, their bodies abused and sold every day in Justin Trudeau’s Canada. Does he even care?

A decade after the passage of Canada’s Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) — a law that, in part, makes it illegal to purchase, but not sell, sex — a crowd of more than 150, including Alberta Lieutenant Governor Salma Lakhani, gathered in a hotel ballroom in Edmonton early November for a somber, but hopeful, celebration of the milestone. It is good legislation that recognizes sex buyers as predators and sellers as their prey. Unforgivably, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government — which took office one year after the law received royal assent — has since granted funding to pro-prostitution groups that undermine the spirit and intent of the law designed to protect women and communities. While it is still illegal to purchase sex, our current government appears sympathetic to the enormous pressure from Canadian lobby groups to change this.

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SecDef Pete Hegseth Will Be a Welcome Injection of Vitamin I (Infantry)

While the nomination of Pete Hegseth stunned me at first, upon further reflection its genius became clear. Donald Trump isn’t bringing Pete Hegseth, a decorated Infantry major and longtime Fox host, into the Pentagon to don the green eye shades and closely manage every element of the military behemoth like a reborn Robert McNamara. Trump hired Hegseth to channel George Patton and apply a jump boot to the buttocks of our deadweight military along with an injection of combat arms leadership and attitude.

h/t DS

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Don’t dare to criticize Islam in Europe or the police will come

In 1984, Soviet dissident Gunnars Astra was sentenced to twelve years in prison in the USSR for possessing a copy of George Orwell’s “1984” and for secretly translating it. In our 2024, it is difficult to grasp the paradoxes of a new 1984. A clear mind and intellectual courage are needed.

We long for the days when the expression “politically correct police” was just an ironic quip by Philip Roth, not a literal description of what is happening in the West.


WTF?

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Painting Tories as ‘Trump-lite’ not a winning strategy for Liberals post-U.S. election, say strategists

Liberal MPs need to stop comparing Canada’s Conservatives to Donald Trump’s Republicans as that strategy is losing its persuasive power following the U.S. presidential election, say observers.

Former Liberal staffer Olivier Cullen was among several strategists who advised the Liberal government to avoid such language.

“Positioning yourself as running against Trump-lite may not be the best approach,” he said.

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‘What’s happening in Canada?’: clashes between Hindus and Sikhs spark fears of growing divisions

The Hindu Sabha Mandir temple in the Canadian city of Brampton lies beside a busy road in a suburb where many homes are still strung with lights left over from Diwali. Standing over the parking lot, a 17-meter-tall statue of the monkey god Lord Hanuman gazes out over the traffic as worshippers come and go.

A couple of minutes down the road, the Gurdwara Dasmesh Darbar Sikh temple sits near a strip mall with sari shops, Indian restaurants and other businesses indicative of the city’s large south Asian population.

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France and England are the European countries with the highest number of anti-Christian crimes

Church Arson France – Parish of St. Paul in Corbeil-Essonnes

The Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in Europe (OIDAC) has published its annual report 2024 (referring to 2023). According to the organization, during that year more than 2,400 attacks against Christians took place in Europa.

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Police say Halifax Walmart oven death deemed not suspicious: ‘No evidence of foul play’

In ruling that a young woman’s death in the walk-in oven of a Halifax Walmart last month was not suspicious, police are acknowledging there are questions about the case that “might never have answers.”

The body of 19-year-old Gursimran Kaur was discovered Oct. 19 by her mother, who also worked at the same Mumford Road Walmart. Kaur and her mother, originally from India, moved to Canada about three years ago.

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