Female boxer withdraws from Canadian tournament after being told her rival was transgender

A female boxer withdrew from a Canadian tournament after being told her rival is transgender, citing safety fears.

Dr. Katia Bissonnette, from Saguenay, claims she was given just an hour’s notice she was being matched with transgender fighter Mya Walmsley last month.

The two had been due to face off in the 2023 Provincial Golden Glove Championship in Victoriaville, Quebec.

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University of Alberta fires Sexual Assault Centre head who signed letter calling Hamas rape reports ‘unverified accusation’

The University of Alberta says it has fired the director of its campus sexual assault centre after she signed an open letter calling reports of sexual violence during Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel an “unverified accusation.”

University president Bill Flanagan issued a statement Saturday afternoon, saying that “effectively immediately,” the director of the U of A Sexual Assault Centre “is no longer employed by the university.”

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No deal yet: Netanyahu shoots down ‘incorrect reports’ of imminent hostage agreement

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there was no deal yet to secure the release of some 240 hostages held by Hamas “as of now,” and dismissed “a lot of incorrect reports” in recent days about imminent agreements to free at least some of the hostages.

In a lengthy Saturday evening press conference, Netanyahu said that if a deal emerges, the Israeli public will be updated.

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Conrad Black: New York Times writer pretends to be very scared of Israel’s Netanyahu

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, writing on Nov. 14, raised with concern the difference between the American and Israeli views of how Gaza should be governed after the presumably successful conclusion of Israel’s current military activity there. This in itself need not raise a high state of alarm as the same veteran commentator opined that former President Trump’s fictionalized collusion with Russia was as great an intrusion on and threat to American sovereignty as the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.

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Here Comes (Almost) All of the J6 Video. Democrats Won’t Be Happy

Among the many unanswered questions about what actually transpired during the Capitol Hill riot on January 6, 2021, is that of where all of the security video went. There are a few sensational snippets showing some of the worst moments that show up regularly and Tucker Carlson released more of it somehow earlier this year. But we were assured that there were thousands of hours more that never seemed to be released.

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GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau ‘excited’ to show Canadians his fiscal responsibility

Says his kids punched him out

Heading into his government’s fall economic statement on Tuesday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has always exercised fiscal restraint since he was elected in 2015, that Canada has one of the strongest economies in the developed world as a result and electing Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre as PM would endanger those accomplishments.

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Whether You Buy an EV or Not, You’ll Still Pay for It, Study Says

The true cost of EVs is masked by a litany of subsidies, transfers, and other expenses that are passed on to Americans who don’t own EVs, the report states.

Despite predictions that electric vehicles (EVs) will soon be cheaper than gas-powered cars, a new study argues that the “socialized costs” of EVs, or the amount that is not paid by the buyer but by all Americans in the form of taxes, subsidies, and higher electricity costs, can sum to as much as $48,000 per vehicle over its expected 10-year life.

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String of Ottawa events linked to antisemitism alarms local Jewish community

OTTAWA — A string of events in Ottawa linked to antisemitism is creating alarm among Jewish people in the capital city, with a community leader saying the Israel-Hamas war is exposing hatred that has existed for years.

An Ottawa woman is facing charges, including attempted arson to endanger life and damage property, after gasoline was poured in the clinical area of the General Campus of The Ottawa Hospital last week.

There were messages left nearby that police described as related to the conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip, although they said they did not believe the incident was motivated by hate.

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Justin Trudeau is struggling to walk a very fine line on the Israel-Hamas war

The war between Israel and Hamas creates two challenges for Justin Trudeau, as it would for any Canadian prime minister.

First, he must try to take and hold a principled position on a dire conflict. Second, he must try to hold together a country whose citizens are understandably agonized by the death and destruction.

The strain of both those tasks only becomes more apparent with each passing day. Within 24 hours of Trudeau’s remarks on the conflict Tuesday, Trudeau was heckled by pro-Palestinian protesters inside a Vancouver restaurant for what he didn’t say — and scolded online by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for what he did say.

He’s kissing Hamas Ass.

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On the Moral Rehabilitation of Gaza

Moral lessons from World War II.

As the war between Israel and Gaza rages on, some inevitable questions must be raised. If Hamas, an indisputable rogue organization that governs a region which exists more like a plot of land in a state of nature than as a civilized geographic entity, is not totally obliterated (which, with sentimental calls for ceasefires and daily pauses in aerial bombings and ground incursions on Israel’s part, seems unlikely), then can Hamas be politically rehabilitated? What would such rehabilitation look like? Or should we be thinking of more robust and radical solutions such as global incarceration whereby a country is evicted from the community of nations and radically contained militarily?

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Why the Support for Hamas? Leidensneid.

Americans were horrified at the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas against Israeli villagers on October 7 this year. The brutality and futility of the attack rocked the imagination. Yet within days, we witnessed huge protest marches in U.S. and world capitals and universities in favor of Hamas. Their favored chant, “from the river to the sea,” means only one thing, and that is the annihilation of Israel and all its Jewish inhabitants.

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