DOCUMENTS: Feds have spent $199.2 million on paperwork administering #carbontax since Parliament introduced the fuel charge in 2019. https://t.co/afGHHPshuq #cdnpoli pic.twitter.com/esQa2jPGkA
— Holly Doan (@hollyanndoan) December 7, 2023
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Author: Blazingcatfur
Influencer who posted video mocking Israeli baby deaths and asking if Hamas ‘added salt or barbecue sauce’ to child put in an oven is given ten-month suspended jail term in France
An influencer who mockingly asked what side dishes should accompany an Israeli baby who was reportedly burned to death in an oven has been given a ten-month suspended jail sentence.
Paris’ judicial court today handed 37-year-old Warda Anwar, also known as Haneia Nakei, the sentence after she was prosecuted for apologising for terrorism and publicly inciting hatred.
In a video published to the Parisian influencer’s Instagram account, which has nearly 11,000 followers at time of publication, she reacted to information reported by an Israeli rescuer, who claimed they found a baby placed in an oven by Hamas during the terror group’s incursion into Israel.
Huh?
Terry Glavin: Nope, Trudeau hasn’t been ‘vindicated’ on India murder allegations
It’s been a full week since federal prosecutors in New York unsealed an indictment that lays out an aborted murder-for-hire plot hatched in India last spring, and there’s still nothing to warrant claims by the federal government and its friends that the news is a vindication of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s melodramatic detonation of Indo-Canadian relations in September.
Germany to Criminalize Migrant-Ferrying NGOs
The German Ministry of the Interior has proposed a draft amendment to its Residency Act to redefine what constitutes human trafficking into the EU—a move which could criminalize the work of ‘search and rescue’ NGOs operating on the Mediterranean Sea, EU Observer wrote.
Existing German laws already prohibit facilitating irregular entries into the EU for the sake of financial gain or personal advantage, which means NGOs can ferry migrants from the Libyan and Tunisian shores to Europe under the term ‘rescue’ unobstructed.
Project Safari: ServiceOntario employees trafficked hundreds of GTA car owners’ addresses, then helped ‘re-VIN’ their stolen cars, Toronto police say
Seven GTA residents, including ServiceOntario employees, are accused of taking part in a major auto theft ring that involved widespread identity theft.
Some 73 charges were laid in the police investigation, called Project Safari, which began in February 2023.
“As the project progressed, investigators learned that suspects were conspiring with employees at ServiceOntario, who were trafficking in driving and vehicle data taken from the Ministry of Transportation database,” Toronto police said in a prepared statement.
Suspected Russian mole ‘passed on German secrets to Wagner’
An alleged Russian mole at the heart of Germany’s foreign intelligence service tipped off the Kremlin that western spies had cracked the communications of its biggest mercenary force in eastern Ukraine, according to a report.
Carsten Linke and his alleged middleman, Arthur Eller, a well-connected German diamond trader, will go on trial next week for aggravated treason. It is Germany’s most significant espionage case in decades.
17,000 Canadians Died While Waiting for Medical Care – A 5-Year High
The number of Canadians who have died while on a waiting list for medical care is at a five-year high, according to a new report.
Over 17,000 patients died before they could be treated with surgery or diagnostic scans, says a SecondStreet.org report published on Dec. 6.
That number represents a 64 percent increase since 2018, the report said.
Residents to vote on bylaw that would force Alberta town to remove its Pride crosswalk
Residents of Westlock, Alta., will vote in a plebiscite in February on a proposed bylaw that would force the town to remove its only Pride crosswalk, painted last summer.
Town council voted unanimously Nov. 27 to hold a municipal plebiscite on a proposed “crosswalk and flagpole” bylaw which would ban crosswalks or flags that support “political, social, or religious movements or commercial entities.”
The proposal aims to keep public spaces politically neutral in the town 90 kilometres north of Edmonton.
De Niro Goes Off-Teleprompter, Off-Script, Off Rocker
At last week’s Gotham Awards, actor Robert De Niro amplified his ignorance by twisting together superficial movie history and fashionable political bias. It was another of the actor’s obsessive public denouncements of President Trump, again revealing the madness that has overwhelmed show-business liberals. De Niro was invited by the Gotham Film and Media Institute to present the organization’s Historical Icon and Creator Tribute to director Martin Scorsese and Apple, producers of Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, but De Niro went off-teleprompter in a fit of misguided political animus.
Anti-Israel White House Interns Publicly Rebel Against Joe Biden
The interns, who are paid, accused the Jewish state of committing “genocide.”
Agroup of 40 White House and Executive Office of the President interns sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday to shame them for supporting Israel and to demand that they call for a “permanent ceasefire” in the Israel–Hamas conflict. The interns deemed Israel’s actions in the conflict to be “an ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people” and said that they “will no longer remain silent.”
Who Are Populist Voters?
Supporters of such campaigns around the globe are more diverse than academics and the media acknowledge.
The world watched as a political earthquake hit the Dutch parliament on November 22. The party of populist radical-right politician Geert Wilders, whom many caricature as the Dutch Donald Trump, won 37 seats in the Netherlands’s 150-seat Second Chamber, potentially positioning him to become the country’s next prime minister. Hundreds of left-wing voters immediately took to the streets of Utrecht and Amsterdam and protested his victory.
German government begins razing the forest that acted as a backdrop for many a Grimm’s fairy tale, to make way for wind turbines
Say “verabschiedung” to the magical woodlands that inspired the backdrop for many a Grimm’s fairy tale—or I suppose more appropriately given the shift in demographics, “مع السلامة”—as the German government has officially commenced a controversial deforestation initiative.
My colleague Monica Showalter wrote an excellent and in-depth analysis almost two years ago on the government’s proposal to axe large swathes of Germany’s most famous, and “1,000-year-old” forest to make way for wind turbines—which you can read here—and the project has finally commenced.
‘Profound Moral Bankruptcy’: Fierce Reaction to Ivy League Presidents Saying Calls for Jewish Genocide Are ‘Context-Dependent’
Since the painful testimony from three Ivy League university presidents took place Tuesday, social media has been awash with criticism for the women and the institutions themselves after they said that calls for the genocide of Jews had to be put in the proper “context” before action could be taken.
The chairwoman of the House Republican conference, Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, asked the three presidents a fairly simple question: “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?”
The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism:
Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment?
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— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) December 5, 2023
Trump terror is back
Articles in the forthcoming edition of the Atlantic are bound together by a shared theme, one that will be familiar to readers of the magazine over the past seven years. In the January/February issue of the publication, 24 writers “imagine what a second Trump term would look like”, with new pieces spread across the Atlantic’s website.
David Frum heralds the “the danger ahead”; Caitlin Dickerson cautions against Trump’s “anything-goes approach to immigration enforcement”; Anne Applebaum predicts “the end of American influence”.
Depravity that defies comprehension: Women raped – whether alive or dead.
Horrified witnesses to Hamas’s October 7 massacre have been left suicidal, with at least one person already taking their own life, it has been reported.
It comes amid the release of testimonies given by those who saw the terror attack first hand – or were among the first at the scene in the days that followed.
Survivors and witnesses to October 7 have said Israeli women were raped – whether they were alive or dead – and tortured in unimaginably cruel ways.