Terry Newman: The TDSB should know that field trips are not for indoctrination

On Wednesday, secondary students from the Toronto District School Board were taken on a field trip to the Grassy Narrows River Run, near Kenora, Ont. The event was communicated to parents as an educational opportunity for the students to learn about the issue of mercury contamination affecting the First Nation. The permission slip sent home stated that, “while at the event, students will not be participating in the rally itself; instead, they will observe and learn from the presentations and discussions.”

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‘It was like a battle’: Spanish city in Africa becomes front line in new migration crisis

First came a campaign of online calls to breach the border en masse. Then, days later, hundreds of young men swept towards the razor-wire fences that separate a Spanish territory from Morocco.

The security forces were waiting. Fnideq, the Moroccan town that abuts Spain’s tiny north African city of Ceuta, became the scene of beatings, clashes with police and mass arrests as the authorities drove them back.

“It was like a battle,” said Ibrahim, 18, who was among those trying to smash through the border on Sunday. “Some people behind us on a hill were throwing stones at the police at the crossing. When we moved and tried to break through at a different point, [the police] charged at us and chased us away.”

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Group urges Ottawa to unseal all Nazi records and make them public

B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the federal cabinet to unseal all classified records related to Nazi fugitives in Canada and make the digitized documents available to the public, Blacklock’s Reporter reveals.

In a petition to the House of Commons finance committee, the group emphasized the importance of waiving confidentiality regarding enemy combatants and collaborators.

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Who was Ibrahim Aqil, the Hezbollah commander with a $7m bounty on his head?

In April 1983, a truck loaded with 2,000lb of explosives sped through the gate to the US embassy in Beirut and struck the building.

The blast turned the embassy into rubble and killed 63 people, including 52 American and Lebanese employees.

One of the men behind it was Ibrahim Aqil, a senior Hezbollah commander with a $7m US bounty on his head, who was allegedly killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut on Friday.

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US Border Patrol Apprehends Record Number of Migrants Crossing From Canada

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has reported an unprecedented number of migrant encounters at the border between Canada and the United States from last October through July of this year.

There were 19,498 migrant encounters recorded between border posts along the northern border for the 10-month period between October 2023 and July 2024, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics.

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Cat lost in Yellowstone travels 800 miles to reunite with owners after two months

For two months, a California couple was heartbroken, worrying about the whereabouts of their beloved cat after losing him in Yellowstone national park, a wilderness larger than some US states.

But as summer came to a close, so did their tragic story. Benny and Susanne Anguiano reunited with their lost feline Rayne Beau last month after an animal welfare group called to let them know their cat had been found in Roseville, California, about 800 miles (1,287km) from Yellowstone.

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JAY GOLDBERG: Thank Trudeau’s carbon tax for surging heating bills

Taxpayers better brace themselves for the bruising impact of the Trudeau government’s carbon tax on home heating bills this winter.

If you heat your home with natural gas, like more than 75% of Ontario households, you will be paying a lot more to stay warm.

The carbon tax increases the cost of natural gas by 15 cents per cubic metre.

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Mr. Trudeau, we’re still waiting for the names of those who collude against us

Canada’s inquiry into foreign interference entered its second half this week, with a shift in focus from the meddling that occurred in the last two federal elections to the issue of the targetting of MPs in general, and the things Ottawa needs to do to protect democracy from malevolent actors.

Potentially included in that latter category is an unnamed group of MPs who are alleged to have wittingly colluded with foreign governments in the past – a shocking revelation made in a heavily redacted report released in June by the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians.

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‘There Was Complacency’: Secret Service Reveals Failures That Led to First Trump Assassination Attempt

Breakdowns in communication with local law enforcement impeded the Secret Service’s ability to competently address the first attempt on former president Donald Trump’s life at a Pennsylvania rally in July, according to a preliminary report released Friday.

Secret Service acting director Ronald Rowe, who replaced Kimberly Cheatle following her resignation due to fallout from the attempted assassination, laid the blame on complacent Secret Service agents, who he vowed would face unspecified consequences.

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The same people who were wrong about all things COVID hate Trump and love Kamala

I’ve been arguing with certain progressives over politics. My attempts to awaken them from stupor have fallen on deaf ears.

This is the pivot-point moment. The election’s results will determine our future as a nation, so it seems important to break through their “TDS.” If we can elect Trump (and keep him alive so that he can take office), we have a chance to redeem our country and get back on a positive track—a monumental task, to be sure. I am equally certain that if we elect the K-puppet, we are doomed to lose our culture, freedom, and ultimately, our great nation, which will be destroyed and become a failed banana republic communist autocracy.

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Covid study: ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ virus originated in animal market

Scientists have said it is now “far beyond reasonable doubt” that Covid-19 originated in an animal market rather than from a laboratory leak, following fresh analysis.

Researchers from the United States and France have conducted the most thorough genetic analysis yet of hundreds of samples collected in Wuhan, China, in the early days of the pandemic in January 2020.

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