Europe can’t afford to get war fatigue, Ukrainians tell Meloni

Senior Ukrainian politicians appealed to Europe to not abandon the country after the Italian prime minister unintentionally disclosed during a prank call that European leaders were growing weary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine after the country’s unconvincing counteroffensive.

“I see that there is a lot of fatigue … from all the sides,” Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said to two Russian comedians, pretending to be the president of the African Union in a hoax call, which was made public on Wednesday. “We [are] near the moment in which everybody understands that we need a way out.”

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Israel-Gaza demonstrations: What is allowed in Germany?

When can a demonstration be banned?

Article 8, paragraph 1 of Germany’s constitution, or “Basic Law,” states: “All Germans shall have the right to assemble peacefully and unarmed without prior notification or permission.”

In principle, there is a high bar to be met in Germany before restrictions on freedom of assembly — including an outright ban — can be imposed. The ban must be very well justified, as the highest German court, the Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, has repeatedly made clear.

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Why doesn’t Justin Trudeau understand that Canadians want change?

Surely Justin Trudeau knows about the unofficial 10-year rule: The one that says Canadians allow prime ministers a decade or thereabouts at the helm, before they want change. The latest example was Stephen Harper, who tried to extend his stay in 2015, only to be sidelined by Mr. Trudeau.

A 10-year time frame is fair. It is a lot of time – more than enough, actually. It gives a leader ample opportunity to put his or her priorities in place. Then fatigue tends to set in and the time-for-change chorus grows.

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Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah makes first speech on Israel-Gaza war

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shia Islamist group Hezbollah, is addressing his followers in his first public comments since the Israel-Hamas war broke out.

The speech is likely to indicate the group’s next moves, as its fighters and the Israeli army are engaged in intense attacks on the Lebanon-Israel border.

This has raised fears the area could become another front in the conflict.

So far, however, the violence has largely been contained.

Since Hamas carried out the 7 October attacks on Israel, killing more than 1,400 people, Lebanon has been on edge, closely watching Hezbollah.

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Trudeau Liberals lying about Immigration numbers

Time to address the immigration number that matters now

Don’t look too closely at the immigration targets the federal government set Wednesday. They’re not the numbers that matter right now.

Immigration Minister Marc Miller kept the already-planned target of 500,000 in 2025, but said there’d be no increase in 2026. But that isn’t Canada’s immigration number.

The figure that matters more is the 2.2 million in temporary residents who are in Canada. That number has surged for reasons that have nothing to do with immigration planning. And the Liberal government should be screwing up their courage to do something about that, right away.

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Sam Bankman-Fried Is Found Guilty of 7 Counts of Fraud and Conspiracy

Sam Bankman-Fried, the tousle-haired mogul who founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, was convicted on Thursday of seven charges of fraud and conspiracy after a monthlong trial that laid bare the rampant hubris and risk-taking across the crypto industry.

Mr. Bankman-Fried became a symbol of crypto’s excesses last year when FTX collapsed and he was charged with stealing as much as $10 billion from customers to finance political contributions, venture capital investments and other extravagant spending. A jury of nine women and three men took just over four hours of deliberation on Thursday to reach a verdict, convicting Mr. Bankman-Fried of wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering.



He will appeal.

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Avi Benlolo: The extreme rise in antisemitism is hardening the Jewish community

We have always stood up for others. Who stands up for us now?

A number of years ago, I participated in a press conference alongside a group of Holocaust survivors to denounce the heinous and barbaric gassing of entire villages by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Following the so-called Arab Spring and his own citizens’ calls for freedom, al-Assad had murdered between 350,000 and 500,000 men, women and children, which constituted a genocide.


We saw hints of this shift last year. People began to note a “silence” from the usually reliable chorus of support for the Jewish community.

Part of the problem as I see it lay in the weaponization of hate by extreme-left groups such as the ADL, the SPLC and Canada’s silly junior club member Anti-Hate.ca. Anti-semitism by Progressives and Muslims is almost always given a pass by these groups while white people are painted as NAZIS in waiting just for being “White.”

Aided by their fellow travelers in academia and opportunistic politicians they encouraged the demonization of western culture and heritage and helped spawn the insanity of the Black Lives Matter movement. A spasm of anti-white hate that will harm the black community for many years to come.

In Canada questioning immigration, multiculturalism or diversity is typically enough to have you suspected of being at least NAZI adjacent.

Only recently has the national disaster of the Trudeau government’s mass immigration program forced people to find the nerve to speak out.

And where has that lead us? Mass celebrations of Hamas atrocities in our streets. 

Bear in mind that these celebrants are not newcomers to our country they are the children of Muslim immigrants and their hatred of Jews and Israel is bred in the bone at home, in their community and in their mosques and long nurtured by our politicians and public institutions at all levels.

Grievance and entitled victimhood are called diversity, equity and inclusion. We should rename Islamic Heritage Month Hamas Appreciation Month if we really want to accurately celebrate the balkanization of Canadian society.

Tolerating the intolerable and pitting ethnic groups against one another may win you votes in Canada but it also hardens it’s intended victims.

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Hamas killers ‘roasted babies in an oven’ during October 7 terror attack, Israeli first responder claims

An Israeli first responder to the October 7 terror attack has claimed that Hamas terrorists roasted a baby in an oven in shocking video testimony.

Asher Moskowitz, of the United Hatzalah first responder group, published a video of himself speaking to a camera, delivering his witness account.

In it, he claims he saw the remains of a baby who had been baked to death in an oven at kibbutz Kfar Aza, where more than 100 civilians were killed.

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New Immigrants Say Canadians Pay Too Much in Taxes: CRA Report

Many new immigrants to Canada say Canadians pay too much in taxes, according to in-house research for the Canada Revenue Agency.

When asked if they arrived with any preconceptions about the Canadian tax system, newcomers often mentioned it being an “expensive” part of living in Canada, according to the report, “Qualitative Research On First Time Tax Filing With Newcomers To Canada.”

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Photo of man dressed in Hamas Halloween costume could be AI-generated

Police investigating complaints over a picture of someone who appeared to be dressed as a Hamas fighter at a Halloween event have suggested the image may be AI-generated.

It follows the circulation of an image on social media which appeared to show a person in the Guildhall Square in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, dressed in a uniform with “HAMAS” spelt on it.

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CBC president defends broadcaster’s Israel-Hamas coverage in a testy meeting with MPs

Catherine Tait, president and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada, defended the public broadcaster’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas conflict in a sometimes testy meeting with MPs Thursday.

Tait, who was called to appear before the House of Commons heritage committee after her term at the CBC was extended this summer, said CBC’s journalists are independent from government, the company’s executives and the board of directors and are free to report on the conflict as they see fit.

She defended the newsroom’s longstanding practice of not referring to attacks or their perpetrators as “terrorism” or “terrorists,” saying CBC journalists do not want to be seen taking sides in the conflict.

At the CBC it’s Hands off Hamas but woe to Trudeau’s critics …

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