Gov’t report warns about Hamas-Israel conflict inspired attacks by mystery people

The government’s terrorist threat assessment agency is warning that extremists motivated by the Israel-Hamas conflict could attack crowds at events in Canada.

In a series of strategic intelligence briefs issued in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the analysts cautioned about mass violence spilling into this country.

The Integrated Terrorist Assessment Centre (ITAC) predicted attacks could target protests, cultural centres, diplomatic posts “or other symbols of Israeli or Palestinian interests in Canada.”


The report is deliberately vague about who is likely to do the the attacking but it’s a fact Canada now has more White Supremacist groups than White citizens.

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Green Party-supporting student wanted to kill 50 politicians

A left-wing anarchist who said he wanted to kill at least 50 politicians has been found guilty of terrorism offences after compiling and sharing a bomb-making manual.

Jacob Graham, 20, a computer science student at Hugh Baird College who modelled himself on Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, dedicated his manual, called the “Freedom Encyclopaedia”, to “terrorists past and future, anarchists etc”.

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Derek Finkle: What the study praising Toronto safe-injection sites doesn’t tell you

On the Sunday of the Family Day long weekend, three days after a proposed class-action lawsuit against a Toronto supervised consumption site was all over the news, the Toronto Star published a feel-good harm-reduction story.

The Star article had an intriguing headline: “Here’s what happened to overdose deaths in Toronto neighbourhoods with safe consumption sites.” The story was about a study published this month in The Lancet.

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London police: ‘From river to sea’ chant in public protest not criminal

Chants proclaiming that “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” at public protests is not a criminal offense, the London Metropolitan Police said on Thursday night in response to the projecting of the phrase on the Big Ben clock tower.

“This is a chant that has been frequently heard at pro-Palestinian demonstrations for many years, and we are very aware of the strength of feeling in relation to it,” the police said on social media.

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CBC preps public for totally completely unexpected decision by Jagmeet Singh to run out the election clock as Trudeau’s sidekick

The Liberals and NDP still have reasons to work together — are they good enough?

If the 44th Parliament can hold it together until April 28, it will become the longest-lasting minority Parliament in modern Canadian history.

This Parliament’s longevity is already well above average — 823 days as of Thursday. The 10 minority Parliaments that existed between 1957 and 2021 lasted an average of 526 days.

The chance to make history isn’t the best reason the Liberals and NDP have to reach an agreement on pharmacare, but there’s something to be said — maybe even a lot — for stability.

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CBS seizes confidential files of fired reporter pursuing Hunter Biden laptop story in ‘unprecedented’ move: sources

The acclaimed CBS reporter who was investigating the Hunter Biden laptop scandal before she was fired last week had her personal files seized by the network in an “unprecedented” move, sources told The Post on Thursday.

Catherine Herridge — who is the middle of a First Amendment case being closely watched by journalists nationwide — was among 20 CBS News staffers let go as part of a larger purge of hundreds of employees at parent company Paramount Global.

h/t Mauser

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Westlock, Alta., residents vote to get rid of town’s rainbow crosswalk in plebiscite

They made Justin cry.

Residents of Westlock, Alta., voted in favour of a bylaw Thursday evening that bans certain flags and crosswalks from being displayed on public property, including the town’s only rainbow crosswalk.

A plebiscite over a neutrality bylaw, spurred by a door-to-door petition signed by more than 700 residents, was announced in November. The bylaw, which will be implemented after Thursday’s vote, bans crosswalks and flags supporting “political, social, or religious movements or commercial entities,” in an effort to keep public spaces politically neutral.

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Muslim terrorist Shamima Begum loses 412th bid to return to UK in citizenship appeal

Shamima Begum, the schoolgirl who left the UK to join Islamic State in Syria, has lost the latest round of her legal battle with the Home Office over its decision to remove her British citizenship.

Begum, who was born in the UK and raised in Bethnal Green, east London, was barred from entering the country and had her citizenship stripped in 2019 by Sir Sajid Javid, then home secretary, shortly after she was found by The Times in a refugee camp.

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Philip Cross: Conservatives warned that wokeness was coming. Liberals didn’t listen

Conservatives have always ridiculed the rise of the woke movement and identity politics. Traditional liberals have recently joined in, most notably the philosopher Susan Neiman in her 2023 book Left is Not Woke. In part, these liberals are attempting to reverse declining public support for left-wing political parties, which the public now associates with woke’s inherent extremism. But more traditional left-liberals fail to acknowledge their role in encouraging woke ideology, which conservatives warned for decades was the inevitable outcome of modern liberal thought.

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Rust trial: Armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed was ‘sloppy’ before Alec Baldwin gun fired

A movie set weapons handler who loaded a gun for actor Alec Baldwin before it fired and killed a cinematographer was “sloppy”, her trial has heard.

“Negligent acts” by armourer Hannah Gutierrez-Reed, 26, led to Halyna Hutchins’ death during the production of Rust, prosecutors told the court.

Ms Gutierrez-Reed’s lawyers laid the blame at the feet of Mr Baldwin, who they argued violated basic safety.

Mr Baldwin, 65, is also charged over Hutchins’ death on 21 October 2021.

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Canadian churches are still being set ablaze. Does anyone care?

The word “epidemic,” once limited to describing the spread of disease, has evolved both colloquially and formally as a label for all sorts of deleterious activities that have become widespread. Gender-based violence is an epidemic, according to the federal government and various municipalities. So, too, is opioid and other drug addiction, as described by the government’s standing committee on health. Loneliness is an epidemic, says the National Institute on Aging. Even the issue of car theft in Canada has been called an “epidemic” by various media outlets.

It’s a rhetorical flourish: a way to convey impact and severity with a single word, invoking a sense of urgency to act.

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Suella Braverman says Islamists are in charge of Britain now

Islamists are now in charge of Britain, Suella Braverman has said, as the Speaker of the House of Commons admitted he was wrong to ignore protocol over security threats to MPs.

In an article for The Telegraph, the former home secretary said Britain was “sleep-walking into a ghettoised society” threatening free expression and British values in the wake of the Commons chaos.

Her comments come just a day after Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle sparked a furious backlash over a Gaza ceasefire vote by allowing a vote on a Labour amendment, leading to accusations that he had given in to extremists.

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Ontario housing supply overstated by almost 1 million, land development study reveals

Ontario’s regional planning authorities are overstating the number of lots that are ready for construction by nearly a million housing units, according to a new study commissioned by groups representing the province’s building and land development industry, a discrepancy the industry says debunks any notion it is “sitting on supply.”

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