What calculation was behind Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s about-face on the carbon tax on Thursday?
Was it that Environment and Climate Change Canada looked at Canada’s emission figures and concluded such a heavy carbon levy wasn’t needed to save the planet? A little bit lighter one would do?
Using dogs, ‘sponge bombs’ and search-and-destroy teams, Israel’s ground invasion depends on clearing the underground network, which could be as long as 300 miles
The Israel-Gaza war may be won, or lost, underground.
At the al-Shifa hospital in Gaza, Palestinian doctors are relying on a dwindling supply of electricity to keep patients alive: 55 prematurely born babies are depending on generators for their survival, according to one doctor quoted by Reuters last week.
Yet beneath their feet Israel alleges that Hamas has stockpiled, for its own aims, enough fuel to power the generators of Gaza’s largest hospital and keep the incubators running.
A British television station regularly features a Hamas fugitive who recently used the channel to praise the “resistance fighters” who murdered seven Jews in a synagogue on Holocaust Memorial Day.
Al-Hiwar TV is an Ofcom-regulated satellite news and current affairs channel with headquarters in London that broadcasts 24/7 to Arab communities in the UK and the Middle East. It is popular with younger audiences, with 4.2 million followers on Facebook and 1.2 million subscribers on YouTube.
As the vast majority of westerners unite to support Israel in the aftermath of Hamas’s horrific terrorist attack, a poll by Harvard University and Harris Insights and Analytics shows a disturbing split among generational lines. The poll found nearly a third of Americans aged 18 to 24 think the statement, “Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israeli civilians by shooting them, raping and beheading people including whole families, kids and babies,” is false.
Move could see funding to charities and mosques whose leaders or guest speakers have voiced hateful views cut off
Michael Gove and Suella Braverman have ordered a crackdown on extremism amid warnings that Britain has become a “permissive environment” for anti-Jewish hate.
Civil servants in the department run by Mr Gove, the Communities Secretary, are drawing up a new official definition of extremism. The move could see Whitehall, councils and police forces cutting off funding to charities and mosques whose leaders or guest speakers have voiced hateful views.
Separately, Home Office officials are believed to be examining potential changes to terrorism legislation, such as the expansion of some definitions in existing laws.
Should have been done years ago.
The affordability crisis is taking its toll on Canadians. Their money problems, as a new poll tells us, are getting so bad that they’re having trouble sleeping and it’s hurting their personal relationships.
This is why it’s welcome news that the federal carbon tax, which raises the cost on pretty much all consumer products, may finally be on its way out. Anything the government can do to make life easier, they absolutely must. It’s a moral imperative at this point. And anything they’re currently doing that is driving up the price of goods—like the carbon tax—is just plain wrong.
Thousands of people broke into aid warehouses in Gaza to take food and “basic survival items”, a UN agency said on Sunday, in a mark of growing desperation and the breakdown of public order in the enclave.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, said its warehouses and distribution centres were looted by people grabbing flour and “basic survival items”.
UNRWA provides services to hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza. Its schools across the territory have been transformed into packed shelters housing Palestinians displaced by the conflict. Israel has allowed only a small trickle of aid to enter from Egypt, some of which was stored in one of the warehouses that was broken into, the agency said.
Hamas is just fine thank you. – As Gazans Scrounge for Food and Water, Hamas Sits on a Rich Trove of Supplies
The United Nations General Assembly once again displayed its hatred of Israel and its anti-Semitism in passing a resolution Friday calling “for an immediate, durable and sustained humanitarian truce, leading to a cessation of hostilities” in the Mideast.
Thousands of demonstrators join banned pro-Palestinian march in Paris
In France it is claimed over 1 million people were demonstrating in support for Palestine. pic.twitter.com/3E3f3NazCT
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) October 29, 2023
Very little news coverage of the Paris march to date.
h/t Mauser
Meanwhile in the restive backwater of Toronto: Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters take over downtown Toronto streets
Current and former soldiers have launched a lawsuit against the top leadership of the Canadian military and the Department of National Defence, alleging abuse of power and violation of charter rights with regard to COVID-19 policies.
The lawsuit involves 128 individuals who say they were coerced into taking injections due to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) COVID-19 vaccine mandate, with some refusing and being expelled from the military and others complying and allegedly suffering from severe adverse effects.
A Broadway theater producer is the latest New Yorker to be caught on film brazenly tearing down fliers of civilians in Israel kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, The Post has learned.
In a video shared online by neighborhood blog I Love the Upper West Side, James L. Simon, who co-produced the 2022 Broadway revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” is seen at West 62nd Street and Broadway using scissors to remove a poster featuring one of the roughly 200 hostages taken by Hamas during its Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel.
A political science professor says the recent announcement that Ottawa will pause carbon pricing for home heating oil deliveries for three years will likely need to go further to boost the federal Liberals’ performance at the polls in the next election.
The federal government announced the measure on Thursday, along with other incentives to cut heating oil costs as affordability concerns have left the party flailing in the polls in Atlantic Canada.
Iraqi immigrant Salwan Momika, who became well-known across Sweden this year after carrying out several protests in which he burned copies of the Islamic Quran, often causing violent reactions in Sweden and abroad, now faces deportation as authorities claim he provided them with incorrect information.
The Swedish Migration Agency announced this week that Momika would be deported back to his native country as the board is revoking the three-year residency permit that Momika was granted in April of 2021 along with his refugee status and, according to a report from state-run broadcaster SVT, will ban him from entering Sweden for the next five years.
A statement from a group of Jews has blasted Toronto Metropolitan University for its lack of action to a letter signed by law students that allegedly promotes “violence against Israel and the Jewish people.”
The statement was sent to TMU’s Dean Donna Young and President Mohamed Lachemi.
Mohamed? Nuff said.
The overall number of temporary residents reporting income in Canada has increased close to 150 per cent between 2010 and 2020, a new Statistics Canada study found.
That growth is being driven by postgraduate work permit holders and international students with study permits.
The federal government runs two programs for temporary foreign workers and residents: the Temporary Foreign Worker program and the International Mobility program.
Another scam run by corporate interests to flood the country with cheap labour and benefit their bottom line.
