French Riots of 2023: The Police Were Right

Just over a year ago, France was gripped by a wave of violent riots following the death of Nahel, who was shot by a police officer as he fled after being pulled over. At the time, the young boy became a symbol of ‘police violence’ and ‘systemic racism’ on the part of the police. The in-depth investigation now proves that the police version of events was the correct one.

Let’s review the facts. On June, 27th 2023, Nahel Merzouk, a French-Algerian aged 17—i.e., under the legal driving age in France—was at the wheel of a powerful rental car registered in Poland, a Mercedes A-class, worth €50,000, with two minors as passengers. Refusing a police traffic stop, the young man ran the car at an officer, forcing the latter to shoot in self-defence. Nahel died as a result of the close-range gunfire.

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SLOBODIAN: Trudeau stubbornly says his work isn’t done, byelections say it is

After nine excruciating years of arrogant Liberal rule, rays of sunshine are finally peeking through the dark clouds that have been hovering over Canada.

Prime Minister Trudeau, who sniffed at and scorned Canadians while forging ahead with his own detested secretive, destructive, twisted ideological agenda, got another byelection boot, in another supposedly safe Liberal riding.

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MPs to investigate former defence minister Harjit Sajjan’s use of special forces to rescue Afghan Sikhs

The Commons committee on national defence plans to investigate the actions of former defence minister Harjit Sajjan, who instructed the military to rescue a group of Afghan Sikhs in 2021, which military sources said undermined the mission of getting Canadians and Afghans linked to Canada out of Kabul.

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Did We Just See the Worst Vote Against Israel From the UN?

On Wednesday, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted overwhelmingly with a vote of 124-14 to strip away Israel’s right to self-defense in the region, calling for the IDF to withdraw to pre-1967 territory lines. Forty-three countries abstained. Especially given that there is no mention of the October 7 terrorist attack against Israel perpetrated by Hamas, the vote was a particularly egregious one from the anti-Israel body.

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Geoff Russ: The Liberals are being consumed by the diaspora politics they nurtured

The Liberals are being engulfed by diaspora politics and the post-nationalist experiment they brought upon Canada.

In the early hours of Tuesday morning, the final votes in Montreal’s LaSalle-Émard-Verdun byelection were counted. They revealed that the Bloc Québécois candidate had eked out a narrow victory, wrenching a previously thought safe seat from their Liberal rivals.

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The Vatican now considers Europe’s Islamization “inevitable”

Benjamin Franklin is credited with creating the expression “nothing in life is inevitable except death and taxes”. Today, however, to a cardinal candidate to become Pope, the Islamization of Europe is also inevitable.

I met Cardinal Christoph Schönborn. I think it was in 2004. We were in Rimini and I had the opportunity to talk to him for an hour. We talked about relativism, Europe, the cultural crisis. A cultured cardinal, pro Israel, aware of the fracture we were experiencing although at the time it was only the beginning. This is why I was surprised by what Schönborn, Archbishop of Vienna, a former student of Joseph Ratzinger and today one of the cardinals most admired by the reigning Pontiff, just stated to a French magazine. According to him, faced with the growth of Islam in many historically Christian nations, the decline of Europe should be considered “inevitable.”

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Trump Made Them Do It

The New York Times devotedly follows the cardinal rule of liberalism—never blame the victim!—at least for officially designated victims of American racism and classism. Slavery, for example, not higher rates of criminal offending, is responsible for blacks’ “unequal involvement in the criminal justice system.” If unwed mothers are poor, the reason lies in heartless welfare rules, not in the decision to have a child out of wedlock.

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Jerry Grafstein: The war against Jews comes to Canada

The roots of antisemitism in Canada are deep, tangled and growing. Nowhere in Western democracies has the rise been so swift, obvious and evident as in Canada. B’nai Brith Canada’s annual report tracking antisemitic incidents across Canada with impeccable statistics proves the point. Metro Toronto Police statistics also confirm this fact. There are more hate incidents against Jews and Jewish institutions per capita in Canada than all other minority groups put together. Per capita, the number of antisemitic incidents in Canada is highest in the Western world, and Toronto leads the world in per capita antisemitic incidents.

Maybe be a little more discerning of who you allow to immigrate?

 

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Why Is Hamas So Confident That It’s Winning?

After nearly a year of suffering and grievous losses, most Israelis and Palestinian Arabs will likely observe the anniversary of the war started by Hamas on Oct. 7 with sorrow. But not everyone. An interview The New York Times conducted with Khaled Mashaal, the head of Hamas’s “political wing,” in his luxurious living quarters in Doha, Qatar, revealed he thinks the war has gone just fine.

As the Times put it, Mashaal thinks that Hamas is “winning the war” and is confident that the genocidal Islamist organization will, despite the battering it has received from the Israel Defense Forces, play a “decisive” role in Gaza in the future.

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Why does Ottawa keep stoking housing demand instead of addressing supply?

The federal government just announced what it is calling the “boldest mortgage reforms in decades to unlock home ownership for more Canadians.” Unfortunately, there are good reasons to be skeptical that the proposed measures will help anyone buy a first home.

The government is implementing two new measures: increasing the $1-million price cap for insured mortgages to $1.5-million and expanding the eligibility for 30-year amortizations to all first-time homebuyers and all buyers of new builds.

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Dutch Government Officially Requests Opt-Out From EU Asylum Rules

The Netherlands today officially asked the European Commission for an exemption from the EU asylum rules. In a letter, asylum and migration minister Marjolein Faber told the Commission the new government “aims to drastically reduce the volume of migration to the Netherlands” and that this is necessary to “fulfill our constitutional duties—providing for public housing, health care, and education.”

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