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Pe’er Krut: Anti-Israel tirade at Ontario high school shows Jews are targets wherever they go

With shots fired at two Canadian Jewish schools in late May, and an anti-Israel tirade waged by a guest speaker reported at a Catholic school, where should Jewish students turn? Where are we safe?

On May 21, students at St. Theresa of Lisieux Catholic High School in Richmond Hill, Ont., were unwittingly ushered into an assembly where a guest speaker, introduced simply as a surgeon, projected graphic imagery from the Israel-Hamas conflict. Accompanying the visuals were a series of unfounded claims about the war, according to an anonymous letter shared by the Jewish Educators and Families Association of Canada.

It is long overdue that blame be placed on our mainstream political parties for their callous import of Islamists. Why were they so cruel to us?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Father’s Day Message? Sending Canadian vessel to Cuba alongside Russia’s was carefully planned: Minister

OTTAWA – National Defence Minister Bill Blair’s office says sending a Canadian ship to Cuba, where it docked alongside some of Russia’s fleet, was a “carefully” planned move to increase its presence in the region.

Spokesman Daniel Minden issued a statement saying the visit to Havana’s port “was carefully and fulsomely planned,” and the minister authorized it on the advice of the Royal Canadian Navy and Canadian Joint Operations Command.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government, Cuba

Internal dissent among B.C. teachers union over Israel-Hamas war as Holocaust education becomes mandatory

Next year, Grade 10 students in British Columbia will be required to learn about the Holocaust as part of their coursework to graduate. It is content the provincial government added to the mandatory curriculum last October, weeks after the deadly Hamas attacks on Israel.

But internal communications among members of the BC Teachers’ Federation, as well as screenshots of deleted social-media posts obtained by The Globe and Mail, show deep division about the current conflict in the Middle East, with some Jewish teachers deeply offended by the actions of other teachers belonging to a social-justice group.

You knew that was coming.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada, Holocaust

Douglas Todd: Canadian politics turning more tribal

‘People are voting based on their social identity. It’s become them versus us,’ says Greg Lyle, a pollster and former Conservative party activist in the 1990s.

The quickest way to get a start in politics in Canada is to appeal to members of an affiliated ethnic or religious group to take over a nomination battle or leadership convention, specialists say.

It’s not a new political strategy, but more and more it’s becoming the technique for scrambling to the top in Canadian politics.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Identity Politics", "Mass Immigration - Follow the money", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Poll says Muslims & Jews least likely to vote Conservative

… Sikhs are most likely to support opposition leader Pierre Poilievre, at 54% followed by Christians and Hindus at 53% each.

Muslims were least likely, at 15% followed by Jewish people at 42%.

Ironically, the number of Jews and Muslims who would vote Liberal was almost similar, at 33% and 31%, respectively. But Muslims were more than twice as likely of all religious groups to support the NDP, at 41% compared to 20% for Sikhs and Jews.

Muslims and Jews for Junior?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

The letter and the law

When war erupted in Gaza, some TMU law students signed an incendiary petition criticizing Israel. Then came the backlash – and an existential crisis about their school’s mission

When a new law school in Toronto opened its doors in September, 2020, its brochure promised an unapologetically “progressive” legal education.

Ryerson Law, as it was then called, embraced diversity, equity and inclusion. Technology would be central. The curriculum included professional placements, so students would graduate ready to be working lawyers. At its core, this new school – soon to be renamed the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University – promised to change the status quo.

“We are ready to engage with the most challenging legal issues of our time,” dean Donna Young, the only Black woman leading one of Canada’s 24 law schools, said at the launch ceremony.

A DEI law school is a dubious law school.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", "Oct 7 2023", Canada

Trudeau’s Canada: Global Study Deems Vancouver & Toronto Housing “Impossibly Unaffordable.”

Global study ranks two Canadian cities high on list of most expensive places to buy a home

As Canadians continue to struggle with the extremely high cost of buying a home in some of the country’s major urban centres, a new global report is underscoring just how expensive some of those markets are.

A study by Demographia, which examines international housing affordability, has deemed Vancouver and Toronto as “impossibly unaffordable.”

David MacDonald, a senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, says the findings of the study aren’t surprising.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", "Societally Destructive Immigration Policy", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Dear Ukraine, This is a very bad look.

For Ukrainians in Canada, new conscription rules increase pressure to fight

Dmytro lives a simple life in Winnipeg — baking bread at a supermarket or playing volleyball with fellow Ukrainians.

Dmytro, who is non-binary and uses the pronoun they, says they feel safe in a country that accepts them as they are. But they know it’s different in Ukraine.

“You’re going to be looked upon as a person who is weak, a person who is afraid, the person who is working [for] their enemy,” said Dmytro, a tall, slim 20-something with a mop of brown hair.

Dmytro needs to be put on the next plane to Kyiv.

The average age of a Ukraine soldier is 43.

Ukraine’s young men of fighting age have said nyet to the defense of their homeland but Trudeau continues to dump billions on Zelensky who more and more seems bent on prolonging the war beyond reason.

Much as I wish to continue my support for Ukraine there is a clear need for sober review.

Though to be honest I would not fight with Trudeau as PM.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia", Canada, WTF?

This isn’t just another byelection in Toronto — it might reveal the future for Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre. Here’s what’s at stake

It’s a fascinating political petri dish under the microscope by parties, pollsters and pundits alike.

Candidates and campaign volunteers will tell you what really matters to voters in the Toronto-St. Paul’s federal byelection is: housing, the high cost of groceries and staples, or how to tackle acts of rising antisemitism in a midtown riding that has the fifth largest Jewish population in the country.

But ask voters on the street, and they’ll tell you what really matters is Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre.

They’re trying to spin that a win for the Libs in next week’s byelection is simultaneously a national endorsement of the worst Prime Minister ever and a repudiation of Poilievre.

But it’s an ultra safe riding in the heart of Canada’s most progressively stupid city.

The only story will be a loss for Junior’s candidate.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Why Transitioning to Electric Vehicles by 2035 Is Unrealistic

The federal government has mandated that all new light-duty vehicles be electric by 2035. Achieving that goal would require vastly more electrical generation capacity and an enormous expansion of charging stations.

A Fraser Institute study published in March found that handling the higher load would require either 13 large new gas plants or the equivalent of 10 new mega-dams the size of B.C.’s $16-billion hydro Site C. Just one problem: almost all viable hydro sites have already been dammed. Plus, it took 10 years to get environmental approval for Site C and another 10 to build it.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"EV's - Electric Vehicles", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

As Dictated To The Star By Katie Telford On Behalf Of Xi Jinping …

In Justin Trudeau’s paranoid Ottawa, insiders say treason allegations are being carelessly tossed around

By Justin Ling Contributor

Eighty years ago, cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko walked out of the Soviet embassy in Ottawa with a briefcase full of documents and a plan to defect. When he finally got an audience with the RCMP, he revealed the most extensive espionage and influence campaign Canada had ever seen.

Gouzenko’s defection spurred a series of investigations, a public inquiry, and a media frenzy. Revelations of how Moscow sought to steal secrets and infiltrate Ottawa gripped the nation and woke Ottawa up to new realities of the Cold War.

The gall.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada - Security Risk Under Liberal Party Regime", "Canada's China Class", "China - Communist Slave State", Canada, Canada's Corrupt Liberal Government

Meet the student group — with alleged links to Hamas — driving the anti-Israel encampments

In the early hours of October 7, the National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) switchboards lit up across America, coordinating a lightning PR response to Hamas’s invasion of Israel.

The group’s “Day of Resistance Toolkit” distributed to its chapters called the slaughter “a historic win for Palestinian resistance.” The toolkit contained information for walkouts on campuses across the U.S. and Canada and templates for a graphic featuring a hang glider, a novel weapon used by Hamas fighters penetrating the Israeli border on the day of the invasion.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada