Canada offers free benefits to Gaza refugees, details remain unclear

Gazan refugees arriving in Canada will receive free health care, language training, work and study permits, and other financial assistance, the Department of Immigration announced this week.

However, the department did not disclose the total cost of the program.

“Financial assistance will help Gazans meet their basic needs such as food, clothing, and housing as they arrive in communities across Canada and find jobs,” the department said in a statement. “More details about this program will be shared when available.”

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Hamas leader’s death ‘may boost UK terrorist groups’, says ex-MI6 chief

Islamist terrorist groups in the UK could get a “boost” after the death of Hamas’s leader, a former head of MI6 has said.

Yahya Sinwar, the chief architect of the October 7 attack on Israel which murdered about 1,200 people in the south of the country, was killed by the IDF on Wednesday.

Sir John Sawers, who led the UK’s foreign intelligence agency between 2009 and 2014, told Sky News that “Islamic terrorism may actually get a further boost, if that’s the right word, from events in the Middle East”.

It’s getting harder to recall a time when the west did not have to worry about Muslim terrorists.

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Justin Trudeau has no shortage of headaches. What’s his biggest one?

Susan Delacourt: Earlier this week, for non-column purposes, you and I were chatting about the fire hose of news in what was supposed to be the post-Thanksgiving “break.” Justin Trudeau is facing a caucus mutiny, a diplomatic blow-up with India and, let’s not forget, the all-day testimony before the foreign-interference inquiry. Assuming that nothing else explodes into the headlines next week, maybe we should start with this question: which one of those things is going to cause Trudeau the most headaches when the Commons returns from the so-called break?

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Newcomers owe it to Canada to reject extremism

What do Canadians — permanent residents and citizens — owe to Canada regarding the politics of the “old country” conducted here?

With the astonishing allegations of criminal activity, including extortion and homicide — “well over a dozen credible and imminent threats to life” — made against the government of India by the RCMP, long-standing issues in Canada’s Sikh community were brought into the spotlight. But diaspora politics is a bigger challenge than any one community, as this past week also highlighted in regard to foreign interference by China.


That will depend on where the “newcomers” hail from.

Canada is a case study illustrating the import of incompatible cultures that have no connection to our heritage and traditions is a recipe for disaster.

Do not vote for those who wish to replace you.

Defending yourself and your family’s best interests does not make you a racist.

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Harris World Betrays Its Own Disappointment over Fox Face-Off

The Democratic candidate’s boosters have telegraphed how they really think the Bret Baier interview went.

We all know campaigns will say anything if they think it’ll move a vote.

It’s why we have to ignore the overt messaging and look at the subtext.

To get inside a campaign’s thinking — whether it believes it’s winning or losing, whether it’s confident or in a full-blown panic — we have to listen for what’s not being said in the midst of all the insisting and the shouting.

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In Death, Hamas Leader May Have Won Wider Support Than When He Was Alive

Across the Arab world, U.S.-aligned governments find themselves in difficult positions as clerics and citizens praise Yahya Sinwar

For more than a year, Mustafa Muhammed, a displaced Palestinian, had sensed other Gazans living in tents there turning against Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who orchestrated the Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Some people sleeping on the street or among the debris of their homes after waves of Israeli bombardments were growing openly scornful, he said.

That is, until Sinwar was killed—not deep in a tunnel, or fleeing Gaza, as many people suspected would be the case, butdying in an encounter with Israeli soldiers in the south of the strip.

Sinwar’s final moments were on display in a video released by Israel that apparently showed the Hamas chief critically injured, throwing an object at a surveillance drone shortly before his death. When Gazans saw the footage, many changed their minds, Muhammed said.

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Elon Musk’s tale of government regulation tells why American innovation is dying

Elon Musk has told a tragic and hilarious story about his run-ins with the government when he was trying to get SpaceX in the air. It’s the kind of thing that explains why America’s greatness is slipping, and the world will suffer for it.

In her relatively short lifespan compared to the world’s other nations, America has generated an extraordinary number of new ideas or refinements on old ideas. This explosive creative energy has rescued humankind from the stagnation of the old world. And yes, the beauties of the old world as much as the next tourist, but the reality is that, for the most part, the operating theory was that because what they’d done worked, there was no need to change.

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Justin Trudeau Has a Big Political Problem: Justin Trudeau

OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau reinvented Canadian politics when he was elected prime minister at the age of 43 in 2015, with a brand built around his good looks and energy.

Almost a decade later, Trudeau is fighting for political survival. About two-thirds of the public disapproves of his performance. His Liberal Party is losing once-safe seats, and some members of his caucus say Trudeau needs to go. And the Trudeau brand is now stubbornly unpopular as Canadians say they are simply tired of him.

“He was youthful, sexy, and you know, Mr. Selfie,” said Andrew Perez, a strategic-communications adviser and Liberal Party supporter. “Now there’s a disdain for Trudeau, even among very progressive people.”

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Inside furious Kamala’s campaign as infighting grips staffers and Trump emerges as red-hot favorite

Kamala Harris has embarked on a desperate last ditch bid to keep her presidential bid alive amid sliding poll ratings little more than two weeks before polling day.

The Democrat nominee is struggling to keep a lid on recriminations from colleagues infuriated at her high-handed approach as they see the key battleground state of Pennsylvania slip from their grasp.

The VP has been forced to abandon her safety-first strategy of cozy sit downs with friendly outlets, in a high-stakes pivot towards finding unlikely recruits for her fraying electoral alliance.

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How often do caucus revolts succeed?

Does Justin Trudeau smell a whiff of grapeshot?

After a disastrous summer for the Liberals that saw two byelection defeats in historically red seats, and constant rumblings of dissatisfaction within caucus, the prime minister has held firm.

There have been no major cabinet shuffles (as of yet), no grand policy announcements, and no real changes to speak of.

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Bruce Pardy: At TMU medical school, some students are more equal than others

Canada’s newest medical school will select students not for their ability, but their identity. Great, as if Canada’s healthcare system wasn’t bad enough already.

The school, which opens next fall at Toronto Metropolitan University, will reserve 75 per cent of its seats for Indigenous, Black, and other “equity-deserving” groups including 2SLGBTQ+. These students will need an undergraduate GPA of only 3.3 on a 4-point scale, and maybe not even that; for comparison, the University of Toronto medical school’s average accepted GPA is 3.95. Able-bodied straight white students can’t apply for these seats. It’s TMU’s affirmative action school for doctors who can’t get in on their merits. Canada now has full-blown racial and gender discrimination. How did we get here? The Supreme Court of Canada is largely to blame.

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