You know you’re probably not doing your best as a leader to stem an ever-growing wave of hate in your country when another leader has to personally phone you up to tell you so. That’s what happened Thursday after a repeated attack on Beth Tikvah synagogue in Montreal. That’s the message that was delivered.
Here’s a JNS write-up on Herzog’s statements.
Herzog slams ‘vile’ wave of violence against Canadian Jewry
Five men from Chile have been arrested and charged in a series of alleged residential break-and-enters across Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area (GTA).
York Regional Police officers launched an investigation on Dec. 13. The suspects were identified after allegedly committing a residential break-and-enter on Avenue Road and Wilson Avenue in Toronto.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/fohekTm11f
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) December 20, 2024
She’s a Justin lackey. h/t Patti Jo
A Pakistani man arrested in Quebec for an alleged plot to kill Jews in New York City has been transferred to a provincial detention centre in Montreal from Rimouski, Que.
Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, who appeared in Quebec Superior Court this morning, was transferred to the jail in the city’s east end on Thursday, but his lawyer says he hasn’t yet been able to review court documents with his client in person.
The departure of Chrystia Freeland from the federal cabinet is an interesting moment. That sounds like a statement of the obvious, but it’s an interesting moment for more than just the obvious reasons. While most of the speculation and analysis — and even, frankly, simply gossip — surrounding Freeland’s departure focused on what it meant politically for her and the prime minister and the government, and what it told us about the personal relationship between the two, there’s another element here. What does it tell us about the government’s vision of Canada in a changing world?
If there’s a vision at all.
My conversation with @TerryGlavin:
pic.twitter.com/C4S4hUz7fn— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) December 19, 2024
They hate Trudeau, we hate Trudeau. Muslims are not really antisemitic per Glavin, well none that he pals with.
Cambridge, Ontario resident Uwais Motala threatens to kill Christian white people & Jews in this very racist rant directed to those who question the "Free Palestine" movement.
"We're coming, you won't be able to handle all of this, there's not enough bombs to kill all of us, you… pic.twitter.com/sUqO3pkLnn
— Leviathan (@l3v1at4an) December 19, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
The resignation of Chrystia Freeland from cabinet on Dec. 16 again amplified divisions within the Liberal caucus on whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should stay on as leader, and some MPs previously mum on the matter are now speaking out.
Over 10 Liberal MPs have now publicly called on Trudeau to step down. This is still short, however, of the 23 who signed an internal letter in October calling for his resignation.
It appears at least some of the new voices being heard didn’t put their names on that letter and have changed their minds since the last internal crisis in the fall.
President-elect Donald Trump has once more brought up the notion of Canada becoming the 51st U.S. state, this time saying “many Canadians” support the idea.
“Many Canadians want Canada to become the 51st State,” Trump wrote in a Dec. 18 Truth Social post, adding that Canadians would “save massively on taxes and military protection.”
I would.
There are lessons to be learned and warnings to be heeded from Whittaker Chambers’ fight against communism.
In April 1939, ex-communist underground courier Whittaker Chambers was hired by Time magazine to review books for Henry Luce’s flagship publication. Chambers began his journey into communism in the mid-1920s. In the early 1930s, he joined the underground, accepting and passing secret U.S. government documents from traitorous New Dealers to his Soviet handlers in Washington, D.C. He broke with communism in 1937-38, then joined the staff at Time, where for the next decade he fought a one-man literary Cold War against communism at home and abroad, including an effort to warn the country about the Chinese communists during World War II and after.
Justin Trudeau took the Liberals from third-party status to a majority government in 2015 with his personal brand. Nine years later, his popularity and that of his party has faded, the latest blows being the resignation of senior cabinet ministers and calls from caucus members for Trudeau’s resignation.
Rebuilding the party from the bottom up, doing a broad review of core policies, and repositioning the party are some of the suggestions made by disenchanted insiders. They do not see the current approach, which has resulted in the Conservatives forging an over 20-point lead in the polls, as boding well for the future.
In fairness to the Prime Minister, who knew that if you spent three months undermining your own Finance Minister, refusing to express confidence in her while your underlings trash-talked her to the press, then told her over a Zoom call that you were about to move her out of her plum job into another with no staff or power or responsibilities but, by the way, would she please stay on long enough to deliver a mini-budget with a $62-billion deficit in it so you could make it look like that was why you were firing her and then give her job to Mark Carney, she would take it the wrong way? Women, eh?
The federal government is promising a suite of measures to disrupt the flow of fentanyl and strengthen 24/7 surveillance of the Canada-U.S. border — including outfitting the RCMP with helicopters, drones and mobile surveillance towers and creating a new joint “strike force” to go after organized crime.
Newly sworn-in Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc, flanked by a handful of cabinet colleagues, provided more details Tuesday about how the government plans to spend $1.3 billion to secure the Canada-U.S. border and allay U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s concerns about irregular migrants and drugs.
I call BS. Trudeau will deliberately botch this to punish Canadians.
Worthwhile Canadian Resignation
It may be that Chrystia Freeland could have resigned even more dramatically from Justin Trudeau’s government in Canada, though it would have taken something akin to kneeing him in public. But after the humiliation the prime minister visited on one of his most loyal and talented Cabinet ministers, he should have seen it coming.
The rise and fall of Justin Trudeau as Canadian prime minister is on the brink
Once the poster-boy for liberal politics, his popularity has waned and his approval rating has dipped below 30 per cent several times this year.
Trudeau in peril after spat over Trump threat sparks crisis
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government has been thrown into fresh disarray with the abrupt departure of his finance minister, Chrystia Freeland.
Canada: Trudeau’s Stumbling Government Appears on Verge of Collapse
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who has been fending off no-confidence votes and calls for his resignation for months, found his position increasingly perilous on Monday following the resignation of his deputy prime minister and minister of finance, Chrystia Freeland.
Justin Trudeau Nears the End in Canada
Canada’s press is reporting that Justin Trudeau may resign as Prime Minister, and why keep the country in pain any longer? The Liberal government has been on political life support for some time, and our neighbors to the north deserve a new election.
Trudeau’s own party turn on him to resign
Justin Trudeau is under mounting pressure – including from his own MPs – to step down as Canada’s prime minister before the end of the year.
Nearly half of Canadians (45 percent) are concerned they might not be able to afford their Christmas gifts this year, according to a new survey.