OTTAWA – Efforts by the City of Toronto to protect schools, seniors’ homes and places-of-worship from disruptive protests are being opposed by city activists.
The Toronto Sun intercepted a letter distributed among city non-profit groups and community activists opposing a proposed “bubble zone” bylaw declaring “vulnerable institutions” no-go zones for protesters.
Days before the RCMP picked up a Kitchener man believed to be planning to travel abroad to join an international terror organization, he was arrested at Pearson International Airport for allegedly making death threats to police officers, the Toronto Sun has learned.
Husam Taha Ali Al-Sewaiee, who has lived in Canada for a number of years but is originally from Yemen, was charged on April 15 after allegedly uttering threats toward officers and released on an undertaking to appear at a later date in court for that allegation.
An Israeli woman on the way to a hospital to give birth was shot and killed in the West Bank on Wednesday, in an attack that Hamas applauded as a “heroic act.”
The baby boy survived after being delivered in an emergency cesarean section, Israeli health officials said, and remained in “serious but stable” condition. No Palestinian militant group took responsibility for the attack, but a Hamas spokesman praised the shooting in a statement.
There has been a sharp rise in plots by the Iranian regime to kidnap or assassinate dissidents, journalists and political foes living abroad, according to reports by Western intelligence agencies.
These attempts have escalated dramatically since 2022, with even US President Donald Trump among the alleged targets. In the UK, police are questioning a number of Iranians arrested earlier this month on suspicion of planning a terrorist attack. The BBC understands the alleged target was the Israeli embassy in London.
And court documents from Turkey and the US – seen by BBC Eye Investigations and BBC Persian – contain evidence that Iran has been hiring criminal gangs to carry out killings on foreign soil, allegations the Iranian regime has previously denied. Iranian officials did not respond to a fresh request for a comment.
India and Pakistan launched a series of lethal missile attacks against one another last week. Fighting broke out after New Delhi blamed Islamabad for a jihadist assault in Kashmir last month, in which 26 non-Muslim tourists were killed. A ceasefire was announced by US president Donald Trump this week, which was welcome news after reports the administration received ‘alarming intelligence’ regarding a possible escalation in the conflict.
Yemeni terror suspect placed under house arrest at Toronto mosque
A Yemeni arrested as he was allegedly trying to leave Canada to join a Middle East terrorist group has been released on bail to live under house arrest at a Toronto mosque.
A copy of an Ontario judge’s release order obtained by Global News shows Husam Taha Ali Al-Sewaiee was ordered to “reside at the mosque” in Toronto’s North York district.
BREAKING: A powerful Muslim organization in Canada — that has yet to condemn October 7 — has presented government with "The Nakba Bill."
This is model legislation for Parliament. The organization says they’re optimistic it will pass.
Here are a few points the Bill includes:… pic.twitter.com/QiWMlAa1jX
— dahlia kurtz ✡︎ דליה קורץ (@DahliaKurtz) May 15, 2025
h/t Auntie Polly
Besides the growing number of UK residents who are Muslim to begin with, there are the others for whom the fear of a violent Muslim backlash dictates the limits of free speech. This in the land of the Magna Carta, no less.
We live in strange times, when the Pulitzer Prize is awarded to the Palestinian Arab poet who attacks Israeli hostages and denies that the Bibas children were strangled and mutilated in Gaza.
Strange times, given that the “thoughtcrime” prophesied by George Orwell’s pen – those committed by those who dare to think things that the “Ministry of Truth” has decided should not be thought – is now a reality in the country of the author of “1984.” Orwell’s book was written in 1948 when the Soviets had swallowed up half of Europe and were eager for more.
The backlash against Keir Starmer has begun. Some senior figures within the Labour party have criticised the Prime Minister’s warning on Monday that Britain is in danger of becoming an ‘island of strangers’.
Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, and Eluned Morgan, the first minister of Wales, are among those who believe the PM is being alarmist. Morgan said one should not use ‘divisive language when it comes to immigration.’ She added that reducing immigration, in the manner Starmer outlined on Monday, would damage Wales’s care sector.
And also presumably the country’s hairdressing industry. Yesterday it was reported that the town of Porth in south Wales (population 5,970) will soon have its 14th barber shop, this one run by a Kurdish businessman.
“They think women can be afraid on the street, but they don’t make the connection with immigration.”
Collectif Némésis is a French association that defends women’s safety in public spaces and women’s values in European civilisation. We spoke with its founder, Alice Cordier, about why she started the association, what it has achieved, and what frustrates her about the right wing when it comes to standing up for women’s rights.
Ever since the terrorist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) conquered the Syrian capital Damascus with Turkey’s help in December of 2024, HTS fighters and their affiliated militias — often offshoots of ISIS and al-Qaeda — have been massacring religious minorities throughout the country. The internet has been flooded with images — some discredited as old or manipulated, but many not — of Alawite men, women and children being barbarically shot at close range.
An Islamic State financier from Toronto has admitted he used online fundraising platforms to collect tens of thousands of dollars for the terrorist group’s fighters overseas.
At the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Monday, Khalilullah Yousuf pleaded guilty to terrorist financing and participating in terrorist group activity.
Police are searching for two men, one of whom was armed with a sledgehammer, after they say that anti-Muslim slurs were “etched” into a parked vehicle outside a home in Etobicoke last month.
Toronto police say they were called to the area of Steeles Avenue West and Martin Grove Road at around 3:35 a.m. on April 26.
According to police, the victim’s vehicle was parked in the driveway and was vandalized by two suspects. Police say that the suspects were captured on the vehicle’s video camera. The damage included paint and anti-Muslim slurs etched into the vehicle, police say.
Driver jailed for murdering biker who did wheelie
A driver who chased and murdered a biker by deliberately ramming him with his car after seeing him do a wheelie has been jailed for life.
Abdirahman Ibrahim, 21, “weaponised” his Seat Leon and twice drove into Liam Jones, 22, as he rode his e-motorbike in Sheldon, Birmingham, on 1 August 2023, Birmingham Crown Court had heard.
Ibrahim remained emotionless in the dock as he was handed a life sentence with a minimum term of 22 years on Monday.
NEW: Man fatally mows down e-bike rider to “teach him a lesson” for doing wheelies
Abdirahman Ibrahim, 21, followed Liam Jones, 22, to a quiet residential street in Stechford, Birmingham, and rammed into him twice
West Midlands Police released CCTV footage after Ibrahim was… pic.twitter.com/D2TxVNEQEg
— Unlimited L’s (@unlimited_ls) February 19, 2025
Dawn breaks in Hapatnar, a remote village filled with walnut growers and pony owners.
Naushad Hussain, 28, a taxi driver, wakes early, slips out of the family house into the cool mountain air and heads off to work. It is April 22, a Tuesday, in Indian-controlled Kashmir.
The 30km drive to Pahalgam, a bustling tourist town framed by the Himalayas, takes about half an hour.
