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Mélanie Joly visiting Israel to push for Gaza humanitarian aid passage …. to shore up Hamas vote bloc in Canada

OTTAWA – Canada’s foreign affairs minister has arrived in Tel Aviv as she visits Israel and Jordan to hold talks on the impacts of Hamas’ attack on Israel and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Global Affairs Canada says in a statement that Minister Mélanie Joly travelled to the Middle East through Greece, the destination of the first two airlifts of Canadians out of Israel.

The statement says Joly will “reaffirm Canada’s support for Israel and its right to defend itself in accordance with international law,” while pushing forward collective efforts to ensure the swift passage of humanitarian aid and the protection of both Israeli and Palestinian civilians.

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

When Canadian Troops Booed Their Prime Minister

It doesn’t often happen that soldiers boo their political leaders. For one thing it is beyond disrespectful for military members to show contempt in public toward those to whom they are subordinate in a liberal democracy. Even if troops dislike a particular politician, or disdain politicians in general, it is a gross breach of discipline to show it publicly.

But that is what happened to William Lyon Mackenzie King during the Second World War. It’s a dubious distinction.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Douglas Todd: B.C. imam condemns ‘murdering’ Israel, and Muslims who voted for Trudeau

Younous is consistent, this still is from an earlier rant. Ain’t multiculturalism grand?

Any Canadian Muslims who voted for Justin Trudeau should be shamed, says a longtime imam in Victoria who on Wednesday called Israel “a terrorist, illegal, occupying, settler, murdering, apartheid state.”

Younos Kathrada, head of Muslim Youth of Victoria, this week used his public Facebook platform to attack “sellout imams” who have stood ”front and centre” in photos with Trudeau. One of Kathrada’s followers comments: “May Allah give him (Trudeau) what he deserves.”

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

Ottawa extending amnesty for ‘assault-style’ firearms again, until October 2025

OTTAWA – The federal Liberal government says it will extend an amnesty order on guns it prohibited in the wake of the deadly 2020 Nova Scotia shooting rampage for an extra two years.

Public Safety Canada quietly posted the extension on its website about the yet-to-be-developed firearms buyback program, saying the amnesty period that was set to expire at the end of the month will remain in place until Oct. 30, 2025.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Gun Control, Gun Rights

Terry Glavin: Hamas supporters enjoy safe haven and left-wing backing in Canada

“To see what is in front of one’s nose,” the British literary giant George Orwell wrote in 1946, “needs a constant struggle.” Averse as Justin Trudeau’s Canada has become to any serious moral inquiry or anything like intellectual struggle, we shouldn’t be surprised that it is only now that a bloodcurdling sociopathology that has been incubating under Canadian noses all along is at last coming to public notice.

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

Canada Increasingly Being Left Behind on Allies’ Joint Actions

The latest crisis to shake the planet, Hamas’s terrorist attack against Israel last weekend, has provided one more indication that Canada is increasingly being left out of its allies’ joint actions.

In a joint statement following the attack, leaders of a subgroup of five of the G7 countries, known as the Quint, expressed their “steadfast and united support to the State of Israel” and their “unequivocal condemnation of Hamas and its appalling acts of terrorism.” The signatories included the United States, the UK, France, Germany, and Italy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

War crimes inquiry research sheds fresh light on Canadian screening, policies

New facts emerge from decades-old war crimes study

OTTAWA – When an individual suspected of taking part in the Second World War murder of Jews in western Ukraine applied for admission to Canada in 1951, immigration officials did not follow up with potential witnesses who might have provided crucial details.

In another case, a Slovak leader hoping to unite émigrés under his leadership was allowed to visit Canada repeatedly in the 1950s and ’60s, despite a record of war crimes.

In 1962, the RCMP learned that a Soviet trial of concentration camp guards in what is now called Belarus had named two people living in Canada as active participants in the execution of civilians during the war.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada

Should Government help 70 Canadians stuck in Gaza? Hell No!

OTTAWA – Around 70 Canadians are stuck in the Gaza Strip and have asked for help, federal government officials said Wednesday, but the Canadian government has no way of reaching them without a humanitarian corridor.

For Canadian citizens, permanent residents and their families seeking to leave Israel as violent clashes continue, military flights from Tel Aviv to Athens could begin as early as Thursday evening local time.

Officials who spoke with reporters on background Wednesday afternoon said approximately 1,000 Canadian citizens and permanent residents in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank have asked for consular help and about 700 of them want to get on a flight out.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, Gaza, WTF?

Repeat Offender: Senior federal public servant faces possible disciplinary action for anti-Israel remarks

The Privy Council Office has launched an internal investigation into a senior public servant for posting anti-Israel sentiments on social media in the aftermath of the massacre of civilians by Hamas gunmen.

Nisam Siddiqui, a former senior analyst at PCO who is now listed as a senior adviser at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, accused Canada and other Western countries of aiding Israel in “war crimes and crimes against humanity” against Palestinians in Gaza.

It’s the second time this bigot has been called on the carpet. He still has a job of course.

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

WTF?

h/t Sweetpea

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

No silver bullet when it comes to solving Toronto’s rental woes, experts say

When it comes to solving a problem as complicated as Toronto’s housing crisis, there’s no such thing as a silver bullet, says one expert.

CBC Toronto spoke to Douglas Kwan, the director of advocacy and legal services at the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario, and other housing experts after hearing from hundreds of our readers about how hard it is to be a tenant in the city. We asked them about some of your most popular ideas to help curb the rampant unaffordability.

Justin will keep the immigration floodgates open so why bother speculating about a fix?

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Homelessness & Affordability Crisis", Canada

Diversity is depraved!

The post was taken down but the account still hosts lots of vibrant diversity that contributes to the multicultural mosaic of Canada.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, WTF?

For first time since 2015, next election expected to be a referendum on Trudeau’s leadership, say political players

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to power eight years ago and has won three back-to-back elections, but veteran political strategists and political insiders say the next election will be the first time when Canadians will vote on the prime minister’s leadership and his record, say some veteran political strategists.

But others say it’s too early to predict the ballot question as it could also hinge on whether Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre (Carleton, Ont.) is a “risky choice” to become prime minister.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada