(IRGC) Quds Force Brigadier-General Esmail Qaani is alive and is currently being interrogated in Iran, sources claim – report

Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force Brigadier-General Esmail Qaani is alive and currently under investigation in Iran, the Middle East Eye reported on Thursday, citing several sources.

His whereabouts have been unknown since Israel’s Saturday strike in Beirut that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s presumed successor, Hashem Safieddine.


Khaled Mashal: ‘Iran assassinated Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran’

Senior Hamas official Khaled Mashal claimed in an interview with the Qatari Al Arabi news channel that Iran assassinated Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

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TD Bank Faces $3 Billion in Penalties and Growth Restrictions in U.S. Settlement for money laundering by drug cartels.

TD Bank is expected to pay about $3 billion in penalties and accept limits on its growth in the U.S. as part of a settlement with regulators and prosecutors over charges it failed to properly monitor money laundering by drug cartels.

As part of the agreement, the bank’s primary U.S. regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, is expected to impose an asset cap barring the bank’s retail business from growing above a certain level in the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.


But TD was the Social Justice bank! – Oh well they’ll just jack up customer service charges and pay this off in a week or two.

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Israel in Danger: Enemies Foreign and Domestic

September 1. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announce that the bodies of six hostages, who were abducted alive by Hamas on October 7, were recovered from a tunnel in southern Gaza’s Rafah. All of them had received recent gunshot wounds to the head.

Several Israeli politicians did not incriminate Hamas. Instead, they tried to incriminate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — as many, both inside Israel and outside it, have been trying do since he won election two years ago.

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HORCSOK: Time to question cycle lobby’s misleading data

Behold! The Future!

Toronto’s cycling lobby, led by groups like the Toronto Community Bikeways Coalition (TCBC), claims a surge in bike lane usage, backing their argument with statistics that paint a picture of soaring ridership.

However, a deeper look reveals a troubling trend — these numbers are often cherry-picked to support an agenda rather than reflect reality.


Typically a high usage bicycle lane day in my neighborhood is one rider.

I usually encounter more adult riders on the sidewalk when out and about and even at that it’s just two or three.

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Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs accuses feds of leaking explosive video of him brutally beating then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura

Sean “Diddy” Combs’ on Wednesday accused the feds of leaking the explosive 2016 footage that showed the disgraced hip-hop mogul brutally beating his then-girlfriend Cassie Ventura in a hotel hallway.

Combs’ legal camp claimed in a new filing that Department of Homeland Security agents undermined the Bad Boy Records founder for seven months leading up to his bombshell indictment on sex trafficking and racketeering charges — and is calling on a judge to take action.

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CSIS Had to Make Public Safety Minister ‘Comfortable’ With Wiretap of Ontario Politician: Deputy Minister

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) had to make then-Public Safety Minister Bill Blair feel “comfortable” with a request for surveillance powers on an Ontario politician, a former top Public Safety official told the Foreign Interference Commission.

The commission has been probing why it took Blair 54 days to approve the 2021 warrant application against a subject whose identity was not revealed during proceedings.

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Judge slams Trudeau, media for false claims about deaths, ‘secret burials’ at residential schools

A retired Canadian judge says people are being “deliberately deceived by their own government” after blasting the Liberal federal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for “actively pursuing” a policy that blames the Catholic Church for the unfounded “deaths and secret burials” of indigenous children.

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Democrats Will Have a Stroke if This Polling Data Is True

On Wednesday, political analyst Mark Halperin dropped some incredibly bad news for the Democrats. According to Halperin, new private polling shows that Kamala Harris is in an extremely dangerous position in critical battleground states.

If the polling data Halperin discusses holds, Harris may be facing an extremely steep uphill battle to secure the electoral votes she needs to win.

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Pierre Poilievre’s antics are making Parliament miserable for everyone. Give us a break

It’s time to put this Parliament out of its misery — or at least on life support.

Canadians can be excused for ignoring the dysfunction of this fall, or tuning it out. Even people paid to keep an eye on the antics in Parliament are finding it hard to watch.


“Antics” = Getting to the roots of yet another LPC scandal.

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UK: Anti-Semitic hate crimes rise at eight times the rate of Islamophobia in wake of Oct 7

Speculation suggests there must be an as yet undetermined cause for this alarming spike.

Anti-Semitic hate crime rose at nearly nine times the rate of anti-Muslim offences in the wake of the October 7 Hamas terror attacks on Israel, official figures show.

The number of anti-Semitic hate crimes more than doubled, from 1,543 to 3,282 in the year to March 2024, a 113 per cent increase and the highest on record.

More than eight in 10 of the hate crimes were committed after the October 7 attack, rising from 95 recorded by police in September to 577 in October alone.

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Geoff Russ: How Hamas supporters could help pick the next Liberal leader

If you thought the Freedom Convoy types played a role in the last federal Conservative leadership race, just wait and see what the Hamas and Hezbollah types will do when the Liberals try to find a new leader.


Trudeau laid the groundwork for this and I don’t doubt it could happen.

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