Diane Francis: Trudeau’s open immigration policies are becoming a problem for Americans

The foolish immigration policies of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals and their NDP backers have burdened Canada’s health-care system, inflated housing costs and are now starting to annoy Washington.

America’s immigration problems at its southern border are nightmarish by comparison, but some members of Congress have also voiced concerns that their northern border with Canada has become a backdoor entry into the United States for increasing numbers of illegal migrants and drugs.

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Brother of Hamas victim fears antisemitism in UK

The brother of a British-Israeli man murdered by Hamas has told the BBC he has never been more fearful of antisemitism in the UK.

Bernard Cowan, from Scotland, was killed by Hamas gunmen in his home on a kibbutz in Southern Israel during the 7 October attack.

The 57-year-old left his family in Glasgow when he was just 19 to move to Israel.

His brother Colin says he “is filled with dread” as a Jew living in Britain.

We know the causes. Islamist immigration, a sick and twisted left wing education system, multicult, DEI and cowardly politicians.

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Montreal Métro stations vandalized with Hamas support posters

The Montreal police have launched an investigation after more than a dozen métro station entrances were covered with posters early Tuesday condemning Canada for being “complicit” in the “genocide” in Gaza.

Montreal police spokesperson Sabrina Gauthier said multiple 911 calls were received around 5 a.m. Tuesday reporting the presence of the posters referring to the Israel-Hamas war at 16 métro stations. She said apart from the messages condemning Canada’s position, the posters also provided links to various websites and referred to planned demonstrations.

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We’re not biased – millennials are more pro-Palestine, says TikTok

TikTok has said that younger generations are simply more likely to be pro-Palestinian than older people as it hit back at claims from US politicians that it is “brainwashing” the youth against Israel.

The video app pointed to polling data showing that millennials in the US are significantly less sympathetic to Israel than their parents. TikTok denied that its algorithm, which chooses what videos people see, is manipulating users.

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Most Canadians want Justin Trudeau to cut the carbon price on all home heating, poll suggests

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests most Canadians want more carbon price carve-outs, and that Ottawa’s decision to lift the levy on heating oil for more than one million households is so far not driving support towards the governing Liberals.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged his government will not cave to pressure from premiers and opposition parties to keep watering down his signature climate policy by removing the carbon levy from more forms of heating fuel. In interviews with The Canadian Press and Radio-Canada, federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has said no more exemptions will occur while he’s in the job.

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Alleged Isis ‘Beatles’ gang member jailed for eight years

A former drug dealer who was alleged to be the fourth member of the so-called Isis “Beatles” kidnap gang has been jailed for eight years for terrorism offences after he was deported from Turkey.

Aine Davis, 39, from Hammersmith, west London, persuaded his wife to try and smuggle €20,000 to him in Syria, using a friend who hid the money in her underwear.

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Liberal MPs Among Canadians in DC Tuesday to Battle Rising Antisemitism

Two Liberal MPs are part of a Canadian delegation in the U.S. capital on Nov. 13 to join a multilateral effort to combat the rise in antisemitism.

Mental Health Minister Ya’ara Saks and Montreal MP Anthony Housefather are taking part in two days of meetings as part of the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians.

 

Could have saved a lot of money by just reading this blog.

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Hamas has held some Israeli hostages since long before Oct. 7.

The plight of families desperately seeking the return of their loved ones abducted from Israel on Oct. 7 is painfully familiar to Aviram Shaul.

His brother, Oron Shaul, was serving in the Israeli army when he was killed in 2014, during the last major war in Gaza. Israel says Hamas still has his body, along with that of Hadar Goldin, who was killed in the same war. The group is also believed to be holding two living Israeli civilians, Avera Mengistu, who crossed into Gaza in 2014, and Hisham al-Sayed, who entered Gaza in 2015. The Israeli government has said both suffered from mental health issues before they crossed out of Israel.

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Chaos ensues after massive Diwali celebrations take over Mississauga parking lot

Videos showing a rowdy Diwali celebration at a Mississauga parking lot are grabbing attention online for the second year in a row.

One of the clips posted to TikTok shows hundreds of people gathered at Westwood Square Mall in Mississauga on Sunday, waving flags with fireworks heard going off in the background.

In another video, two groups of people appear to be throwing trash and refuse at each other before several police officers can be seen approaching one of the groups.


I see the police employed the latest in crowd control techniques.

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Canada’s richest 1% saw largest leap in annual income in years, while lower earners’ wages declined

The annual incomes of Canada’s wealthiest people jumped by nearly 10 per cent on average, a year into the COVID-19 pandemic — at a time when the bottom half of the nation’s wealth distribution saw their incomes slump for the first time in decades, according to a recent report from Statistics Canada.

In 2021, the latest data Statistics Canada has made available, Canada’s top one per cent earned an average $579,100 — a 9.4 per cent increase from 2020, and one of the largest gains seen in recent years, the report found. The data is based on the tax filings of individuals prior to paying their taxes, an analyst from Statistics Canada noted.

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The Biden Administration Loses Its Stomach for Israel’s Self-Defense

By and large, Biden administration officials have said all the right things about Israel’s obligation to neutralize the intolerable threat posed by the Iranian proxy groups on its borders. But that resolve dissipated rapidly when Israel embarked on its mission to destroy Hamas, which suggests the Biden administration supported it only in theory.

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