Just how big is B.C.’s Aboriginal title iceberg, anyway? Enormous …

VICTORIA — A claim of Aboriginal title to all of Kamloops, the Sun Peaks resort and surrounding lands has languished in plain sight in the B.C. Supreme Court registry for 10 years.

The Shuswap (Secwépemc) Nation’s claim came to light this week courtesy of Elenore Sturko, the much-on-the-ball independent MLA for Surrey-Cloverdale.

(Incognito)

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Bible verse on pastor’s campervan ‘could be hate speech’

A church leader has claimed the police warned him that that Bible verses on the back of his campervan could be considered “hate speech”.

Mick Fleming, 59, said he was approached by a police officer who commented on his campervan while he was at a petrol station in Burnley, on Oct 27.

Mr Fleming, who recently gave up all of his belongings and now lives in a van, has the Bible verse John 3:16 emblazoned on the back of it.

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Chairman Chow defends calling Gaza war a genocide

Mayor Olivia Chow on Tuesday defended her recent remarks on the war in Gaza that have sparked complaints to both the provincial human rights tribunal and the city’s integrity commissioner.

At a charity gala hosted by the National Council of Canadian Muslims on Saturday, Chow gave a speech, in which she described what has transpired in Gaza as a genocide, a characterization that has been the subject of fierce debate through the war.

“The genocide in Gaza impacts us all,” Chow said, adding “our common bond of shared humanity is tested. And I will speak out when children anywhere are feeling pain and violence and hunger.”

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Brahim Kaddour-Cherif: migrant sex offender arrested after accidental release

A migrant sex offender who was mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison has been arrested.

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, a 24-year-old Algerian national, was arrested in Islington after being spotted by a member of the public just before 11.30am, the Metropolitan Police said. “Officers responded immediately and he was arrested,” the force said on X.

Kaddour-Cherif was accidentally released from HMP Wandsworth in south London on October 29 when he was supposed to be in custody awaiting trial. Police were informed of the mistake only on Tuesday, prompting the manhunt.

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By the numbers: Here’s what needs to happen in a budget vote to avoid an election

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government was elected just a few seats shy of a majority, meaning the Liberals will need the co-operation of one of the opposition parties to pass their budget.

The budget is considered a confidence vote, meaning the government will fall if it fails to pass and Canada would be heading for a second election this year.

While the Liberals gained an extra vote on the same day the budget dropped, — via former Conservative MP Chris d’Entremont crossing the floor — the Liberals are still a couple votes short of a majority in the House.

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Wave of Far-left Violence Against AfD Alarms Even German Authorities

Germany’s interior ministry has sounded the alarm over a growing threat to members of the right-wing Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), following a series of arson attacks and physical assaults carried out by far-left extremists.

In the latest incident, a car belonging to Bernd Baumann, the AfD’s parliamentary group leader, was set on fire outside his Hamburg home in the early hours of Monday morning. The blaze destroyed three nearby vehicles.

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FARROW: Ottawa’s anti-church tax plan would punish the poor

When Parliament’s finance committee slipped Recommendation #430 into its 2025 pre-budget report, few noticed. Yet the clause proposing to delete “advancement of religion” from Canada’s definition of charity could transform the country’s social landscape. If adopted, every church, synagogue, mosque, and temple would be taxed like a business and lose its authority to issue receipts to donors.

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Pub seen in Reform video told to paint over St George’s Cross

A Lib Dem council demanded a pub remove its St George’s Cross painted on its white exterior an hour after it was featured in a Reform UK promotional video.

Jerry Kunkler, the landlord of Moonrakers Inn in Pewsey, Wiltshire, since 1981 and the county’s longest-serving councillor, painted the current cross on the pub for the World Cup in 2022.

However, he received orders to paint over it almost immediately after it was seen as a backdrop in a Reform video.

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