Lara Salameh was supposed to be flying out of Beirut Thursday en route to Montreal with her husband and two daughters, but the night before, their flight was cancelled.
She said Air France told her service out of the Lebanese capital was suspended because of the unstable security situation — one that Ottawa has been warning Canadians about as fears of war between Israel and Hezbollah grow.
Salameh is one of the 21,399 Canadians registered as being in Lebanon, a country the Canadian government is urging its citizens to leave. It says they can’t rely on government evacuation flights if war engulfs Lebanon.
The shocking Islamic State-inspired mass casualty terror plot targeting Toronto has scores of loose ends.
Foremost among them: How did the alleged father-son terror tag team get into Canada? When did they arrive? Under what circumstances? And were they vetted?
On Wednesday, law enforcement announced that they had thwarted what RCMP Supt. James Parr described a targeted attack in its “advanced” stages.
Iran was behind the anti-Israel protests on at least one Canadian university in an attempt to undermine Western support for Israel and fuel divisiveness on Canadian soil, sources combating digital disinformation told Iran International.
Cyber security company XPOZ, through the use of a large-scale analysis of factual evidence and data that’s collected on social networks, came to the conclusion that Iran was behind the campus protests at McGill university in Montreal.
Analysts working for the American cyber company, which monitor social media, use AI technology to unmask the networks and campaigns behind “inauthentic” users interacting on a large scale.
A Canadian warship was deployed to the Bering Strait in July to keep an eye on a Chinese polar research vessel as it navigated the passage between Russia and Alaska, underscoring Beijing’s growing interest in the region.
The HMCS Regina shadowed the Chinese Research Vessel Xue Long 2 sometime between July 7 when it left its home port of Esquimalt, B.C., and July 25 when it returned.
The father and son accused of plotting a violent Toronto terrorist attack in support of the Islamic State denied the son’s involvement during a court appearance Thursday.
Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and his son, Mostafa Eldidi, 26, appeared in Newmarket court on terrorism charges for allegedly plotting what authorities have called a “serious and violent attack” in Toronto. The men were arrested at a Richmond Hill hotel Sunday.
Could be twins, at least on spiritual plain says Star
It is time for Canadians to confront Poilievre’s assault on decency
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”
This dramatic rebuke by lawyer Joseph Welch to U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy during a televised hearing in 1954 turned public opinion decisively against the senator’s infamous campaign to persecute his opponents with baseless accusations.
As Americans struggle to overcome a new political threat, it is time for Canadians to confront the assault on decency happening in our own country.
We live in a country where our Prime Minister in pure Maduro fashion freezes bank accounts to criminalize dissent.
A country where our PM declares us racist for questioning his society destroying mass immigration scam.
A nation where our PM taxes us to death and decrees in Great Leap Forward style ludicrous EV Mandates in the name of climate change.
We live in a Canada where our PM condones foreign interference so long as it benefits his party.
A state where our PM uses identity politics to divide and conquer so he might curry favor with ethnic vote blocs.
I have no idea what alternate reality the Star writer lives in because Trudeau’s Liberal government is the assault on decency.
A father and son accused of planning a terrorist attack in Toronto had filmed a video of themselves holding weapons in front of the ISIS flag, sources told Global News.
The video of Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, 62, and Mostafa Eldidi, 26, showed them with an axe and machete, according to three sources.
Two of the six terrorism charges filed against the pair accuse them of possessing those same items for the benefit of ISIS.
Global Affairs Canada is warning more than 20,000 Canadians in Lebanon that they can’t rely on government evacuation flights if war engulfs that country.
The department says 21,399 Canadians have officially registered as being in Lebanon, though it expects many more are present in the country.
The arrest of a father and son accused of planning a mass casualty attack in Toronto on behalf of ISIS suggests the enduring appeal of the terrorist group.
Five years after it was defeated in Syria, where it committed scores of atrocities, the so-called Islamic State continues to inspire violence far from the Middle East.
The alleged plot disrupted by this week’s arrests involved an axe and machete, which were seized by police, according to court records obtained by Global News.
The sentencing of Calgary terrorism sympathizer Zakarya Rida Hussein was adjourned again Tuesday, this time so his lawyer can deal with a new “wrinkle” in the case.
Defence counsel Alain Hepner asked Justice Harry Van Harten to delay sentencing submissions to September, so he can deal with the latest issue with his client and the offender’s family.
Canada is the most permissive country in the world regarding legal and medical gender transition processes for minors, a new report has found.
Canadian policies tend to be less strict than those in Northern and Western European countries, according to the findings of a landmark study series from the Calgary-based Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy and Do No Harm, a group of health-care professionals and policymakers who advocate for keeping identity politics “out of medical education, research, and clinical practice.”
Venezuela’s election “result” made it a black Sunday for democracy around the world.
The opposition parties claimed they won the vote in every single state of the country, but President Nicolás Maduro said he won the count , 51 per cent versus 44 per cent for opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez.
Exit polls conducted by U.S. firm Edison Research suggested Gonzalez won 64 per cent to Maduro’s 31 per cent . But the electoral council, led by Maduro acolyte Elvis Amoroso, awarded the election to the president, without publishing detailed results.
Peel Regional Police began investigating Ontario business magnate Frank Stronach after York Regional Police approached their neighbouring agency for assistance, a source with knowledge of the case told CBC News.
CBC is not naming the source, as they were not authorized to speak publicly.
Investigators have declined to say when police first learned of sexual assault allegations surrounding the 91-year-old billionaire, and why Stronach’s local police service north of Toronto sought help from another agency.
The average Canadian family last year spent more of its income on all forms of taxation (43%) than on basic necessities, such as food, shelter and clothing combined (35.6%), according to a new report by the Fraser Institute.
