
On the world stage where tragedy is an ever-running production, hopefully the curtain is finally coming down on the war in Gaza and the remaining hostages will come home.
Israel and Hamas have accepted at least the first phase of the ceasefire deal driven by President Donald Trump. The remaining abductees, living and dead, are to be released. Rejoicing Palestinians are flooding back to the wreckage of their homes and lives.







A Toronto high school’s decision to play an Arabic version of “O Canada” on Oct. 7 — the two-year anniversary of Hamas’s massacre of 1,200 and kidnapping of 251 in southern Israel — was not an act of inclusion. It was a calculated political statement.



