There is rising Holocaust skepticism in Canada, especially among young people, according to a new national poll.
The new poll, which was conducted by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies, comes amidst rising rates of antisemitism in Canada following the October 7 terrorist attack on Israel and the nation’s subsequent war against Hamas.
Barring a surprise, which is still possible, today France may have its first elected ultra-right government led by Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (formerly National Front). The only other time that that brand of politics emerged as government in France was in the 1940s under Marshal Petain during the German occupation.
At a broader level, this would be the second time since the general election in the Weimar Republic in Germany in 1932 that an ultra-right party wins a straight parliamentary majority in a major European democracy.
Should we rush to join those on the ultra-left who are crying wolf about “fascism” seizing control of France?
Pro-Palestinian Protestors shut down Victoria Pride Parade for 20 minutes – force route to be changed @CHEK_News #Pride #YYJ pic.twitter.com/qNXAgsQ18t
— Paul Haysom (@PaulHaysom) July 7, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
Ontario Superior Court Judge Markus Koehnen granted the University of Toronto’s request for an injunction authorizing police enforcement of the university’s demand that the anti-Israel encampment on its campus be removed. Although the university had complained of antisemitic signs and slogans and verbal abuse and intimidation, the judge rejected these claims and obtusely construed the case as one that pitted the university’s claim that the encampment was a form of unlawful trespass, against the claim of the occupiers, an informal coalition of anti-Israel and other protest groups, that what they were doing constituted a legitimate exercise of their constitutional right to freedom of expression.
There’s an awful lot of red media faces out there this week. And the reason why is obvious.
As President Joe Biden proceeded along his path to the White House and then through the four years of his term, the mainstream media couldn’t praise him enough for saving democracy from former President Trump.
Statistics Canada’s June jobs report, released Friday, was dismal.
Nationwide, Canada lost – lost! – 1,400 jobs last month. Typically, healthy economies pick up jobs in the summer months. Seasonal increases occur in tourism, agriculture, forestry, construction and other industries.
But not in Liberal Canada where woke virtual signalling has displaced sound economic policy for the past nine years.
The electric vehicle revolution is encountering significant hurdles as consumers grapple with high costs, infrastructure challenges, and geopolitical tensions, potentially slowing the transition from traditional gas-powered cars, according to a report by Fast Company.
Kimberly Polman, a resident of Squamish, British Columbia, was charged with:
One count under Section 83.181 of the Criminal Code: Leaving Canada to Participate in Activity of Terrorist Group
One count under Section 83.18 of the Criminal Code: Participation in Activity of Terrorist Group
PARIS—A coalition of leftist parties won the most seats in France’s parliamentary elections, according to projections based on early ballot counts, in a stunning come-from-behind victory fueled by a groundswell of opposition to Marine Le Pen’s anti-immigrant forces.
A projection by polling firm Elabe estimated that the New Popular Front—a coalition of parties that includes socialists, greens and far-left France Unbowed—is expected to garner between 175 and 205 seats in the 577-seat National Assembly. The party of President Emmanuel Macron and its allies won between 150 and 175, according to Elabe, while Le Pen’s National Rally and its allies finished between 115 and 150 seats.
h/t DS
The young, middle-class families Toronto needs to function and thrive are packing up, leaving the city’s viability at risk.
A recent Angus Reid poll found that more than 40 per cent of Greater Toronto Area residents are “seriously thinking of leaving Ontario because of the cost of housing here.” Quality of life and other cost-of-living concerns were also cited as reasons to leave the province. Recent immigrants to Ontario expressed the highest desire to move. Many consider Alberta, with its high wages and relatively affordable housing, as a prime destination. Others said they were considering moving to the United States.
Immigrants who contributed to the high cost of housing now want to leave after the damage is done. Toronto is so diverse everyone hates each other.
The inside story of the Biden team’s failure over nine days to contain the crisis from his debate with Trump.
President Biden’s top aides awoke after debate night with a plan to contain the damage: A raucous North Carolina crowd, a message of resilience, a demonstration of vibrancy.
For the first time, Biden would admit what the world had watched for years. “I don’t walk as easy as I used to. I don’t speak as smoothly as I used to,” he rehearsed at the Westin Raleigh-Durham Airport with Mike Donilon, his message guru. “But I know what I do know … I know how to do this job.”
It was a comeback tale, based on the notion of a single bad night. “When you get knocked down, you get back up!” Biden declared, nailing the lines off a teleprompter, at full volume, to cheers. His next campaign ad was set.
Whenever the federal Liberals finally decide to hold a national caucus meeting, here is the problem confronting them about the government of their leader, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
On every one of the top issues Canadians say they are most concerned about, Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives have a big lead over them.
The Cher department in central France used to be a stronghold of the left.
During World War II, it was one of the heartlands of the French resistance fighters known as maquisards. France was at the time partly occupied by Nazi Germany, while the rest of the country was under the rule of French general Philippe Petain, whose Vichy government was collaborating with the Nazis.
Since the 1950s, several provincial towns of the Cher, such as Vierzon, even voted in the Communist Party.
An NDP insider says New Democrats were surprised by the Liberals’ loss in the recent Toronto byelection — and now see the governing party’s weakness as an opportunity.
Anne McGrath, principal secretary to NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in the House of Commons, told CBC News the party thought the outcome of the Toronto St Paul’s byelection would be close but not a Conservative upset.
The NDP lost vote share in the St. Paul’s byelection.
However big the headline change in the vote between the past two elections, drill down into two demographic pockets of Britain and you find staggering shifts.
It all centres around the relationships between the Labour Party and not just Muslim voters, but Jewish voters too.
It leaves a party in government that has made progress in winning back trust among people from one faith group while suddenly finding itself with a lot of work to do to win back many members of the other.
