Inside the U of T encampment: Why this protest isn’t like the others you’ve seen

A young man in ball cap, shorts and sneakers carries his phone aloft, livestreaming as he strides around the pro-Palestinian protest camp at U of T.

“These people support terrorists,” he proclaims. “They don’t believe what happened on Oct. 7 was terrorism.”

“That’s because it wasn’t!” says a woman, head wrapped in a keffiyeh, face covered in a surgical mask. “You’re delusional.”

I applaud the Star’s sense of fairness. It’s important we see matters through the eyes of the youth.

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MANDEL: Toronto Police Supt. Stacy Clarke apologizes for cheating scandal then plays race card and permanent victim status

She’s sorry. But.

For the first time since the scandal broke more than two years ago, Toronto Police Supt. Stacy Clarke spoke publicly about helping Black officers cheat on their promotional exam, owning that what she did was wrong and apologizing to police and her community for not taking the “right path.”

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Sick Jews

I doubt that there is any national or religious group that produces the percentage of people who aid those who wish to hurt, let alone kill, that group as do Jews.

When one observes Jews who defend those whose raison d’etre is the annihilation of the one Jewish country on Earth, you have to ask: Why are there no others like them? Were there blacks who defended slavery? Were there Armenians who defended the Turkish mass murder of fellow Armenians during World War I?

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China forces all high school pupils to do military training

All high school pupils in China will be forced to undergo mandatory military service under a new law on “defence education”.

The law, which will end a nationwide debate over what is already a common practice, also proposes drills for middle school pupils — aged 12 to 15 — and says that defence education should be part of the syllabus even for primary school children.

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The Real Reason Hamas and Egypt Oppose Israel’s Control of Rafah, the Only Border Out of Gaza

On May 6, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) captured the Palestinian side of the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, drawing condemnations from the Iran-backed Hamas terrorist group and Egypt.

The IDF said it had “intelligence that terrorists were using the border crossing for terror purposes.” A day earlier, Hamas terrorists fired rockets from near the Rafah terminal toward the Kerem Shalom area (near the Israel-Gaza border), killing four Israeli soldiers and wounding several others.

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Germany: 2 AfD politicians attacked in Stuttgart

Police in the southwestern German state of Baden-Württemberg said two politicians were attacked in the city of Stuttgart on Wednesday evening.

The two, who were identified as state lawmakers from the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD), suffered slight injuries, police said.

The incident is the latest attack on politicians in Germany, following days of violence against multiple left-leaning and Greens politicians.

“Far Right”

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Canada’s foreign student scam ‘mismatched’ job market, data shows

Canada’s foreign student push ‘mismatched’ job market, data shows

Canada’s recruitment of international students has tilted strongly toward filling spots in business programs, while doing little to meet the demand for workers in health care and the skilled trades, according to a CBC News analysis of federal data.

CBC obtained figures from Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) showing the fields of education chosen by foreign students who received study permits from Ottawa to attend college or university in each year since 2018.

Experts say the figures demonstrate that neither federal nor provincial governments — nor Canadian colleges and universities themselves — focused international student recruitment squarely on filling the country’s most pressing labour needs.

There is no “Labour Shortage” there is a “Bodies needed to depress wages” crisis in Canada.

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Media Panic that Pro-Hamas Campus Protests May Hurt Biden, ‘Like 1968’

After weeks of defending pro-hams campus protests, the media are now panicking that those same protests might hurt biden’s re-election chances. In the past week, a slew of political commentators have written articles comparing the current situation on college campuses to the anti-war protests of 1968, and warning that a summer of radical leftism may clinch the 2024 election for Donald Trump.

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