Vivek absolutely nails it on Justin Trudeau. pic.twitter.com/fId1V1qaiR
— Glenda M 🇨🇦 🍎 (@McfarlaneGlenda) December 24, 2023
h/t Mauser
Author: Blazingcatfur
Antique box tells heart-breaking and forgotten Canadian history
Five years after it was discovered in a Scottish auction house in Glasgow, a long wooden box of about 80 glass negatives is now in Canada, where it is putting a spotlight on the heart-breaking history of the British Home Children.
The child migration scheme sent a group of 100,000 impoverished children from Britain to overseas colonies between 1869 and the 1940s. The images discovered inside this humble wooden box in 2018 – now seen for the first time – reveal much about a difficult history shared by the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth.
“This box is a critical part of our history,” Lori Oschefski, president of the charity Home Children Canada who has just purchased the box for the foundation’s archives, said. “I’ve never seen anything like it. By far, it’s the most complete box that I have ever seen.”
Photo of Swansea police arresting drunk man likened to Renaissance art
A photograph of police arresting a drunken man outside a Swansea takeaway on “Black Eye Friday” has gone viral, with some comparing it to “a boozy Renaissance painting” and others seeing the influence of French Romanticism.
One admirer of the shot, by Dimitris Legakis, thought it merited a spot alongside the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo: “Wind Street. Swansea. Put it in the Louvre.”
Victoria theatre entrance vandalized amid protest over play set in Israel
Stickers and graffiti saying “Free Palestine” have been plastered outside the Belfry Theatre entrance in protest against the staging of The Runner, a one-man play that focuses on the experience of a volunteer member of ZAKA, an ultra-Orthodox rescue service in Israel.
UK: Police arrest protester over ‘pro-Hamas’ words at Gaza rally
One of Scotland’s most prominent pro-Palestine activists has been arrested under counter-terrorism laws.
Mick Napier, a veteran campaigner, has been charged with expressing “an opinion or belief” in support of Hamas, which is a banned organisation in the UK.
He was taken into custody after speaking at a rally in Glasgow against Israel’s attacks in Gaza. He was released and is due to appear in court in January.
Ottawa: Pro-Hamas protest group plans to fight $1,500 noise infraction tickets in court
An organizer of recent protests in support of Palestinians in the ongoing Gaza conflict says she’s shocked and disappointed by the city’s decision to hand out bylaw noise infractions at the event, noting that the event has gone on for over 10 weeks with no issues.
Sarah Abdul-Karim, a member of the Palestinian Youth Movement, confirmed Sunday that three tickets, at $490 each, were handed out during Saturday afternoon’s event.
“Each person who was on the (microphone) got a ticket,” she said.
Ottawa police did multiple attempts to silence this protest, but we are still here chanting: “Shame shame Ottawa Police” #gaza #Palestine #GazaConflict #Isreal pic.twitter.com/mOJhUZqVsC
— IZ🇵🇸 (@IZ_Palestine) December 23, 2023
Thousands join Christmas migrant caravan as it treks through Mexico and towards the U.S. border
The biggest migrant caravan for 18 months set off for the US from Mexico on Christmas Eve as border crossing records continue to tumble.
Around 10,000 people led by Mexican activist Luis Rey Garcia Villagran left the southern Mexican border town of Tapachula for the long march north as more of those already at the US border finished their journey this evening.
President Joe Biden has hauled Secretary of State Anthony Blinken away from the crisis in the Middle East for a summit with Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Wednesday, after US authorities recorded more than 242,000 migrants crossing in November alone.
BREAKING: Another massive caravan is on its way to storming the U.S. border.
This was just taken in Tapachula, Mexico: pic.twitter.com/X2ySAo1vU1
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 24, 2023
h/t Mauser
WTF?
Time required for a F1 pit stop from 1990 to 2023pic.twitter.com/NvoV0gEr6W
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) December 24, 2023
h/t Mauser
Hamas supporter threats cross the line. Mall marchers exceed Charter limits, Canadian tolerance standards
HAD ENOUGH yet? Of disruptive pro-Palestinian protests in Canada, I mean. Screaming mobs waving the Palestinian flag this week stormed into busy shopping malls in Toronto, Ottawa and Vancouver disrupting Christmas shopping — hauling down a Christmas tree at one.
Terrified children could be heard on videos crying as their mothers whisked them away from Christmas displays swarmed by demonstrators, leaving one mall Santa stunned at the commotion.
Freedom of expression carries with it the democratic limits that the Charter allows for. It does now allow for harassment, intimidation, mischief or counselling hatred and terrorism. It certainly should not allow thugs to ruin some kids’ Christmas.
Pope: Free Israeli hostages and end the Gaza war
The Pope has called for an end to the war in Gaza and for the freeing of Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
In his traditional Christmas Day message, Pope Francis also called for more aid to Gaza in order to solve a “desperate humanitarian situation”.
The war between Israel and Hamas began on 7 October, when Hamas gunmen attacked Israel, killing some 1,200 people and taking some 240 hostage.
Barbara Kay: The Christian organization that is a true friend of Israel’s
Since Oct. 7, I have been writing columns about alarming spikes in antisemitism and the revival of Jews’ historical fears. But in this, my pre-Christmas and final column of 2023, I feel bound to light a candle instead of cursing the darkness. So I’m shifting my focus to gratitude for Christian philosemitism.
I am grateful for all the warm and sympathetic emails I have received from Christian readers, both Catholic and Protestant, who immediately understood Hamas’s pogrom for exactly what it was — terrorism and an act of pure evil — and were horrified by those who strove to give it “context,” or to explain it as an act of “decolonization” or “resistance.”
Standing over Sinwar’s crater of a house, an inside look at Khan Yunis
This time, going into Gaza, I brought earplugs and a face mask.
When I last visited northern Gaza, including Shifa Hospital, I learned the hard way how thunderingly loud it was inside a “Namer” armored personnel carrier (APC) and decided that on the trip to Khan Yunis, being able to hear myself think was a priority.
Likewise, the dust that I inhaled on my last trip to Gaza – the area is so destroyed that both open and mostly closed vehicles get covered in dust – convinced me to pull out the “rainy-day” coronavirus masks that I still had lying around so I could breathe normally.
🔴WATCH: IDF soldiers exposed Hamas' northern headquarters.
Dozens of meters deep, the underground headquarters was made up of 2 levels, with an intricate tunnel network—used for directing combat and the movement of terrorists. This network was connected to a shaft leading to… pic.twitter.com/rioSighGz0
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) December 24, 2023
You could turn off the immigration spigot you lying asshat …
No ‘silver bullet’ to fix housing as population rapidly grows: Trudeau
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he knows young people are frustrated with him, and chief among those frustrations is the high cost of housing, which has left many young people feeling home ownership is out of reach.
However, Trudeau denies critics who suggest the federal government only began taking the housing file seriously in the last few months.
What a shitheel.
Ukraine war sparks Scrapheap Challenge as engineers create ‘Frankentanks’
Heavy casualties suffered by both sides in the Ukraine war have ignited a race to replenish vehicles lost in combat and protect those that remain operational.
With Ukraine’s supply of Western-donated vehicles beginning to dry up after its counter-offensive failed to produce a breakthrough, and with Russia losing hundreds of tanks in failed eastern assaults, engineers are using every means at their disposal to plug the gaps in their forces.