Last week, there was a (smallish) chance we could have seen a federal election called. That’s because any election called from here on out will be fought using the new 343-seat map, instead of the old 338-seat map used for the past three general elections.
In a lengthy social media post, Elghawaby referred to the chant as “a few individual protesters engaged in problematic speech” — and said that it was “patently false and harmful” to insinuate that the chant was representative of the protest as a whole. Most protesters, she said, were peacefully trying to stop the “decimation of an entire population in Gaza.”
SYDNEY (AP) — Australian police arrested seven teenagers accused of following a violent extremist ideology in raids across Sydney on Wednesday, as a judge extended a ban on social media platform X sharing video of a knife attack on a bishop that started the criminal investigation.
The seven, aged 15 to 17, were part of a network that included a 16-year-old boy accused of stabbing a bishop in a Sydney church on April 15, police said.
Clips of the stabbing were taken from the church service’s livestream and subsequently made the rounds on X. An Australian regulator on Monday ordered the platform to take down the videos, an action the platform is fighting.
Canadian Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland on Monday initially refused to condemn slogans celebrating the Oct. 7, 2023 terrorist attack on Israel as hate speech – until she watched a video of the vile chants.
Freeland, a member of Canada’s Liberal Party, plead ignorance when asked by a reporter if chants of “long live October 7th” and “October 7th proves we’re almost free” – both bellowed by anti-Israel protesters during a weekend demonstration in Ottawa – constitute hate speech.
BREAKING: Chrystia Freeland declines to condemn “Long Live October 7th” as hate speech. pic.twitter.com/xzUKJw63ks
— Amazing Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) April 22, 2024
Please Make Freedo Liberal Leader so we can Kim Campbell her butt.
Germany has said it will restore cooperation and funding to Unrwa operations in the Gaza Strip after an independent review said Israel had not provided evidence to back up claims that hundreds of employees of the UN agency for Palestinians were members of terrorist organisations.
Berlin’s foreign and development ministries said in a joint statement on Wednesday that following Monday’s publication of the review, conducted by the former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna, the German government would soon resume cooperation with the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa).
OTTAWA – A new poll suggests the Liberals have not won over voters with their latest budget, though there is broad support for their plan to build millions of homes.
Just shy of half the respondents to Leger’s latest survey said they had a negative opinion of the federal budget(opens in a new tab), which was presented last Tuesday.
Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire and urge the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, to end US military aid to Israel.
The 300 or so arrests took place on Tuesday night at Grand Army Plaza, on the doorstep of Schumer’s Brooklyn residence, where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide.
3,000 activists from Jewish organizations organized a sit-in, including a seder dinner on the occasion of Passover, outside the home of Congressional Majority Leader #ChuckSchumer in #NewYork, to protest the United States’ continuous funding and arming of Israel in its genocidal… pic.twitter.com/WbtJZJMXYx
— Megaphone News English (@MegaphoneNewsEN) April 24, 2024
Thousands of Jewish anti-genocide protesters have gathered for a Passover Seder protest in Brooklyn, New York pic.twitter.com/TdyuXbVoKo
— Nina Lakhani (@ninalakhani) April 23, 2024
Canada used to be a nation of peace, order, and good government. Not anymore. You’d be hard pressed to find any of the three on the streets of Ottawa last weekend, at a Palestinian protest which glorified Hamas and its violent assault on Oct. 7.
“Our resistance attacks are proof that we are almost free,” one marcher said, to the cheers of the crowd. “Oct. 7 is proof that we are almost free. Long live Oct. 7, long live the resistance, long live the intefadeh, long live every form of resistance.”
Pro-Palestinian protesters have demanded that a walk organised by a Jewish group in London this weekend is subject to strict police restrictions.
The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism has called for supporters to walk through central London on Saturday, but has insisted it is not a march and so does not need to be cleared by the Metropolitan Police.
But pro-Palestinian activists, who are planning to gather in Hyde Park on Saturday, have demanded “equality under the law” and said that if their gathering is subject to strict police conditions, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism walk should also be.
Danielle Smith has long promised to be the most combative of Premiers. She has lived up to those words, perhaps especially so in legislation introduced this month, the Provincial Priorities Act (Bill 18), which would allow her government to say a pre-emptive yea or nay to every funding deal Ottawa makes in Alberta.
There is a long list of downsides for the academics and cities caught in the crossfire. But given the angry national mood – including frustration with the federal Liberal government’s reach into realms that are mostly provincial, such as housing, electricity, dentistry or school lunch programs, for all the good and the bad – the bill could be a win for Ms. Smith and her unabashed main cause: autonomy from Ottawa.
“Parents of children at Dyffryn Aman school say they have spoken to their children and that the students are being held in lockdown in their classes.
“It’s believed that whatever incident took place has ended, with three ambulances and two air ambulances leaving the scene around half an hour ago.
We were the bad guys for campaigning for safer schools in Wales and more safe guarding for children.
As authorities maintain schools are safe, Voice Of Wales reports the truth.
Stabbing in Ysgol Dyffryn Aman with the school on lockdown! pic.twitter.com/nNk2M9HGIU— Voice Of Wales (@VoWalesOfficial) April 24, 2024
UPDATE: Wales stabbing latest: Female teacher attacked by schoolgirl
The UN’s human rights chief has said he is “horrified” by the destruction of Gaza’s Nasser and al-Shifa hospitals and the reports of “mass graves” being found at the sites after Israeli raids.
Volker Türk called for independent investigations into the deaths.
Palestinian officials said they had exhumed the bodies of almost 300 people at Nasser. It is not clear how they died or when they were buried.
Israel’s military said claims that it buried bodies there were “baseless”.
Chinese candidates applying for a Canadian taxpayer-funded exchange program need to declare allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leadership and the Party’s “socialist system,” The Epoch Times has learned.
The Met is ill-suited to a divided society
Even in supposedly secular and tolerant London, the safety of Jews has recently come to seem an unnervingly fragile thing. Last week, a London police officer was filmed threatening to arrest a man for being “openly Jewish”, and there have been calls for the Met chief Mark Rowley to resign following his force’s litany of failures on this front.
But is it fair to castigate the police? A closer look at the Met’s history reveals that the officer in question was less displaying prejudice, than applying principles the force has upheld since its formation in 1829. The decisions taken by the Met officer in the controversial clip appear, in this context, less evidence of Met bias or leadership failure, than the logical consequences of shifts in the capital for which the Met bears no responsibility, and the way these changes mesh with the Met’s longstanding model of policing.
Kicking Off – Police and St George celebrating football fans – police horse now in separating the trouble pic.twitter.com/mXbRiGv976
— Paul Brown 🇬🇧 Browns fan🏈 London News 🎥Vlogger (@PaulBrown_UK) April 23, 2024
