On Aug. 6, Ottawa’s Capital Pride released a pro Palestinian statement which likely garnered considerably more attention than its authors imagined it would. The statement vaguely attempted to call out all intolerance, including antisemitism, but could not hide the fact that it was itself decidedly antisemitic, though that irony was obviously lost on Capital Pride.
Screw that. No prisoners.
Twenty years after the end of the siege that killed 333 people, the echoes of brutality in North Caucasus still resonate, offering parallels with the war in Ukraine
The first thing I saw as I approached the school was four bodies under a sheet, the feet poking from underneath still domed and plump, so young were the victims.
A few metres away, a man in shredded clothes was curled in a ball, gibbering in terror. Soon I would look on as a woman outside the town hospital was told her child had died in the gymnasium. She let out a cry of grief like a wounded animal and fell to the ground. It was a moment that would haunt my dreams for years to come.
B.C. activists Charlotte Kates and her husband Khaled Barakat who are facing calls for their deportation over their support for Hamas and its October 7 massacre in Israel say they are Canadian citizens.
Yvette Cooper has been accused of suggesting that everyone arrested in connection with the riots is guilty.
Campaigners have urged the Home Secretary to order the deletion of a tweet from the Home Office’s official account which referred to more than 1,000 people detained by the police as “criminals”.
In a letter to her, the Free Speech Union raised concerns that the post on X, formerly known as Twitter, risked prejudicing the trials of those yet to appear in court.
OTTAWA — The Canadian government is being accused of backpedaling on its promise to suspend arms exports to Israel after the U.S. government announced a plan to sell made-in-Canada explosive mortar cartridges to the Israeli government.
Last week, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken approved a sale to Israel of 50,400 explosive mortar cartridges worth roughly $83 million. The cartridges are expected to be manufactured by Québec-based General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems Inc. and delivered in 2026, pending congressional approval.
An explosion took place outside a synagogue in southern France on Saturday morning, which police are treating as attempted arson.
It was caused by two cars being set alight outside the Beth Yaacov synagogue in La Grande-Motte, authorities said. One of the vehicles contained a hidden gas bottle.
France’s Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin called the incident “an obviously criminal act”.
In a post on X, formerly Twitter, he wrote: “I want to assure our Jewish fellow citizens and the municipality of my full support”, adding that all means were being mobilised to find the perpetrator.
Outside of 2020, when we were in lockdown, 2024 has been the worst year on record for teenagers to get a summer job, whether as a cashier at a convenience store or selling ice cream.
Despite the challenges teenagers are currently having in the job market, the number of temporary foreign workers approved for those same positions has never been higher, thanks to the federal government’s deregulation of the temporary foreign worker program in 2022.
According to BILD information, an arrest was made
Solingen (NRW) – They wanted to celebrate carefree, but he deliberately stabbed them: The police are hunting the knife attacker from Solingen who killed three people and injured eight others at the “Festival of Diversity”. Now there is an initial description of the perpetrator.
Knife Attacker still on run after leaving 3 dead and 8 injured #Solingen Diversity Festival
A knifeman has left at least three people dead after stabbing random passersby in the neck in a horrific ‘terror attack’ at a diversity festival in Germany.
Eight others have been injured, five of them seriously, in the knife attack in the western German city of Solingen last night, police have said.
A desperate manhunt has been launched to find the killer who fled after carrying out the ‘brutal and senseless’ killings.
The usually quiet Fronhof central square was packed for the three-day Festival of Diversity, but the upbeat atmosphere swiftly turned to terror when those gathered close to the stage reeled as a man randomly began stabbing attendees in the neck with a knife.
From the Beeb …
Police revealed that a 15-year-old had been arrested in connection with the case
The teenager is suspected of knowing about the attack beforehand and not reporting it to police
A federal advisory body is calling on Canada’s security agencies to publish detailed descriptions of their current and intended uses of artificial intelligence systems and software applications.
In a new report, the National Security Transparency Advisory Group also urges the government to look at amending legislation being considered by Parliament to ensure oversight of how federal agencies use AI.
Your social media is being scraped by who knows who that’s a given.
Climate change is to blame for rising violence in one of Berlin’s most famous parks, according to a major German newspaper.
The Mauerpark has already seen 108 reported offences in the first half of 2024, making it one of the German capital’s crime hotspots. However, liberal Der Tagesspiegel quotes an activist who takes the term ‘hotspot’ one step further.
The news that the national board of the Canadian Public Employees Union has called on its vice-president, Fred Hahn, to step down, after posting an antisemitic video, feels like a tipping point.
The union said in a release that it has lost confidence in Hahn, who is also president of its political wing, CUPE Ontario, for posting a digitally manipulated video that showed a Jewish Olympic athlete leaping off a diving board and turning into a bomb.
Canada’s public service unions appear to be infested with Fred Hahn types. They really need to smashed.
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) operatives allegedly acted as Elections Canada poll workers in the 2021 campaign, according to documents submitted to a federal inquiry, per Blacklock’s Reporter.
Former Conservative MP Leona Alleslev in a sworn affidavit said she was told by Chinese Canadian constituents they knew of foreign operatives working at polling stations.
Instead of being the bumbling screw-up and colossal failure of five months ago, Kamala Harris is now the front-runner. Pardon my skepticism.
In March of this year, Pulitzer-winning Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker called for Vice President Kamala Harris to do everyone a favor and resign her office. Harris was known then to “embarrass her boss with her sometimes inane, rambling remarks and a laugh that erupts from nowhere about nothing obvious to others.” Harris was, according to Parker (who hadn’t been privy to the universal omertà that would be later imposed across media), “a colossal failure as border czar.” And she could possibly be Biden’s “downfall” in 2024. She had an approval rating of just 37.2 percent. And there was “no reason to think her ranking would spike were she suddenly promoted.”
The first occupants of the Olympics village in Paris quickly taught the caterers that athletes did not favor their “climate-friendly” diet of things like avocados on toast plus almond-milk coffee. The athletes demanded more meat and eggs.
Paris Olympics CEO Etienne Thobois told reporters they suddenly needed more animal protein, causing them to order “700 kilos of eggs and a ton of meat, to meet the demands of the athletes.”
