A society that tolerates intolerance – as we now do – can pass as many laws as it likes against “hate” but it won’t reduce hate-motivated crimes.
We have never had as many laws against hate as exist today in Canada and yet we have never seen more hatred on our streets – as illustrated yet again by Saturday’s annual hate-fest known as the Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto outside the U.S. consulate, which was recently shot up.
Hate crimes against Muslims are almost twice as likely to result in prosecution than those against Jews, figures have revealed for the first time.
The rate of the offences targeting Muslims that resulted in a charge or summons was 6.7 per cent in the year to March 2025, equivalent to one in 15 offences recorded by the police.
However, just 3.8 per cent of anti-Jewish hate crimes led to a charge or summons in the same 12-month period, which was one in 26.
This is not an overnight development that just happened in the past two weeks, after the Trump administration and Israel launched attacks on Iran.
Reports were emerging in January that even while Iranian citizens fed an uprising that led to the murder of roughly 40,000 of them at the hands of the Iranian regime, members of the regime have been quietly relocating to Canada.
h/t PA Cat
An explosion at an orthodox Jewish school in Amsterdam on Saturday was “a deliberate attack against the Jewish community” and a “cowardly act of aggression”, the city’s mayor said.
The overnight attack on a school in Buitenveldert, an upmarket district in the south of Amsterdam with many Jewish businesses and synagogues, damaged an external wall of the building. There were no injuries.
Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote: “No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
He was speaking of the citizen in relation to his community, but the situation for political leaders is rather different. They are compelled to wear more than one face when addressing the multitude – especially in democracies, which are made up of different constituencies with differing interests. Things get more complicated, however, when two different public faces are in tension with one another, as has been the case for Mark Carney since he assumed the premiership of Canada a year ago this week.
Left-wing activists have started a shoplifting spree across Britain in protest against “billionaires hoarding wealth”.
Members of Take Back Power, which is viewed as the successor to Just Stop Oil, stole food from supermarkets in four cities on Saturday morning and donated it to food banks.
The activists claimed “liberating” produce from the branches of Sainsbury’s, Morrisons and Tesco was “non-violent action to resist the super-rich”.
Ben Woodfinden: Canada has failed its younger generations, which no longer have the opportunity to live the life that their parents did
In the 2024 World Happiness Report, Canadians over 60 ranked eighth in the world. Canadians under 30 ranked 58th. Happiness is, of course, subjective and hard to measure, but the gap between a country that still works for one generation and has completely failed another points to a broken social contract.
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Donald Trump has said the US military has bombed a small island off the coast of Iran – home to a major oil terminal that is considered the country’s economic lifeline.
The US president said Kharg Island’s military facilities were “totally obliterated” but that it had held off targeting its oil infrastructure.
Trump, however, warned that he would reconsider the decision not to target oil facilities on the island should Iran or others “do anything to interfere” with the safe passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz – one of the world’s most important shipping channels, located south of Iran’s coast.
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 Kharg Island sits just 15 miles off Iran’s coast, comfortably inside the range of Iranian missiles, drones, and coastal artillery.
So if the U.S. ever tried to land Marines there they’d be storming a beach while the mainland shoots at them the entire time.
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— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) March 14, 2026
Barbara Boyd gives her take on the Kharg Island action last night
President Trump is following the pattern/plan used in Venezuela
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CALGARY — While Statistics Canada released new data on Friday that Canada’s economy lost 83,900 jobs in February, Employment and Social Development Canada announced changes to the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFW), drawing consternation from many observers.
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Toronto police say a man has been charged following an investigation into a suspected hate-motivated criminal harassment case.
In a release, police say that between Feb. 28 and March 6, the accused engaged in harassing conduct targeting a complainant in the area of Eglinton Avenue East and Mount Pleasant Road.
News broke the other day that Winston Churchill’s image will be removed from the United Kingdom’s banknotes. (American Thinker’s Andrea Widburg did a splendid job covering that and all its implications here.)
Evidently flora and fauna are less “controversial” so we will see flowers and hedgehogs on their currency instead. That’ll work until the institutional left finds something objectionable about flowers and hedgehogs, but here we are.
Of course, any nation is free to redesign its currency at will, but this choice is consistent with the U.K.’s recent string of decisions to willingly, even lustily accelerate their own civilizational erasure.
