MPs Criticize Toronto Police for Bringing Coffee to Protesters Targeting Jewish Neighbourhood

A number of MPs and other politicians have criticized the Toronto police for delivering coffee to pro-Palestine protesters. Amid public concerns that these demonstrations pose a threat to Jewish communities and also disrupt traffic, this action has heightened those worries.

In a video posted on social media platform X, Toronto lawyer and online commentator Caryma Sa’d captured a Toronto police constable delivering a cardboard urn of Tim Hortons coffee along with a stack of cups to a protester during an anti-Israel demonstration that blocked access to the Highway 401 overpass at Avenue Road on Jan. 6. This location is in close proximity to neighbourhoods like Armour Heights, in the district of North York, that are known for their dense Jewish population.

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They finally found a grave …

‘Ancient remains’ unearthed at construction site in Toronto’s east end

Workers unearthed human remains Friday while installing a water service line in the east end, the City of Toronto says.

The remains were found at the construction site on Withrow Avenue. The city said crews subsequently contacted Toronto police, who launched an investigation led by an anthropologist.

“The anthropologist confirmed they are ancient remains. Construction is halted while the investigation is ongoing,” the city said in a statement.

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Canada must expand eligibility to welcome Hamas supporters fleeing the place they made the ‘Worst Place on Earth’ says Der Starmer

On Dec. 22, as Ottawa shut down for the holidays, Immigration Minister Marc Miller announced what many in Canada with loved ones in Gaza had been seeking for months: special immigration measures that allow Palestinians with family in Canada to seek temporary refuge here from the bombing, mass displacement, and impending crises of famine and disease in Gaza.
These conditions led Global Affairs Minister Melanie Joly, as early as Oct. 14, to describe Gaza as “one of the worst places on Earth to be right now.”

The policy as announced, however, suffers from serious deficiencies. It excludes the families of Palestinians who are in Canada seeking protection, even if they have already been found to be refugees under Canadian law.

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FBI ‘must release Epstein mansion CCTV that could show Prince Andrew’

A lawyer representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein has urged the FBI to release CCTV footage that he claims could show Prince Andrew at the paedophile’s mansion.

Spencer Kuvin, an attorney who has represented nine victims of Epstein, is urging US law enforcement to release the footage from home surveillance cameras in the wake of newly released records detailing Andrew’s connections to the convicted sex offender.

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Colby Cosh: CBC finds its purpose — exposing the national shopping cart crisis

EDMONTON — Over the holidays, the federal government informed us that the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is in for a “redefinition” of its purpose and mandate. Don’t worry, CBC-lovers: it’s clear enough that there’s no immediate threat of change. The heritage minister, in promising to consult Canadians on why we might need such a thing as a CBC, managed to confirm that she likes it just the way it is. And sometimes we feel the same way. Only an abundantly resourced public broadcaster with tendrils in every community could produce anything like CBC News’s panoramic vision of an overlooked national problem with abandoned shopping carts.

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Blunt talk on military challenges is a ‘good thing,’ retired defence chief says

Three retired Canadian defence leaders say chief of defence staff Gen. Wayne Eyre making the right move in sharing public statements about the challenges facing the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) around personnel shortages, aging equipment and operational readiness.

This level of candor is not usually seen among military leaders when it comes to sharing issues with the CAF, but retired Royal Canadian Air Force commander and former chief of defence staff Gen. Tom Lawson sees it as a positive.

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Moloch Is Back: Sacrificing Our Children

Raising children to become terrorists or to sexually transition are the cruelest forms of child abuse.

One of the things that Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Sheikh Hassan Yousef, has publicly emphasized is the cruelty that he experienced during his childhood. In his early years while being indoctrinated to hate Israel and Jews generally he was also physically brutalized and abused. Since defecting to Israel in 1997 Mosab has for some time been advocating for the complete and utter destruction of Hamas and yet he continues to profess love for his father. This may seem paradoxical but it isn’t. Mosab is that rare individual who has been able to see through his parents, and in his case see all the way into the darkness of his father’s heart, and yet continues to love him. In most cases the love of a child for his or her parents is unshakable regardless of how he or she was treated when growing up. In addition to that offspring never stop seeking their parents praise and approval. This dynamic between parent and child has been playing out in the war between Israel and Hamas.

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Christine Granville: The Polish aristocrat who was Churchill’s favourite spy

Britain’s longest-serving World War Two spy, Christine Granville, risked her life countless times carrying out missions across Europe, yet today her contribution is barely known. Who was she and why does the nation owe her such a great debt?

On 15 June 1952, Granville returned to the west London hotel she called home, her flight to Belgium having been cancelled due to engine failure.

After making her way to her usual room on the first floor, she heard a man in the lobby shouting her name and demanding the return of some letters. Downstairs, she found herself faced by her former lover who suddenly thrust a commando knife into her chest, fatally wounding her.

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Why German farmers are taking on the ruling coalition

He wanted to get away from it all. The splendid solitude of the tiny North Sea island of Hooge was a momentary refuge from the waves of political tumult buffeting his country. But when Germany’s vice chancellor Robert Habeck returned from his holiday on Thursday, a group of furious farmers prevented his ferry from docking on the mainland. Germany’s 2024 began as 2023 ended: with public confidence in the government at a low ebb.

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Banned under Islam. Self censored in Islamicized Europe

The famous animated film “Persepolis” by the Iranian Marjan Satrapi was condemned as “anti-Iranian” by Tehran for having denounced the Islamic revolution of 1979. This complaint led Satrapi to emigrate first to Austria and then to France, a country from which she can no longer return.

Persepolis has since become a “cursed” film.

Islamic fundamentalists even tried to burn down (with journalists inside) the television studios of the Tunisian channel Nessma during the “Arab Spring” (which was a freezing Islamic winter). The station was broadcasting Persepolis at that time. Nessma director Kabil Kaorui was also prosecuted for showing the film.

Now it’s Europe’s turn.

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Gaza War: It isn’t Over Until it is Over

As the war in Gaza enters its third month, the short-attention span syndrome that characterizes our age swings in full gear to reduce it to a version of background noise. You might have noticed that the war is bowing out of front pages and dropped down several slots in TV news bulletins.

Even more interestingly we are beginning to hear growing chatter about the day-after of this tragic conflict, with the assumption that the actual fighting is heading for a close as the subtext.

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