Hamas Friendly Liberal and NDP MPs returned from the West Bank with a message for Justin Trudeau

OTTAWA — When the Israel-Hamas war hit the 100-day mark, a group of Canadian MPs and organizations had just embarked on a trip to Jordan and the West Bank with one goal in mind: to bear witness to the ripples of the conflict, and to tell Ottawa what they had seen.

Now, five MPs — two Liberals and three New Democrats — are wrapping up a weeklong visit to the Middle East that included meetings with Palestinians in refugee camps and Israeli settlements, Canadian diplomatic representatives, United Nations agencies and progressive Israeli organizations.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

UK: School that barred student from displaying Palestinian flag may be forced to close after receiving ‘arson and bomb threats’

Primary school engulfed in Palestine flag row may be forced to close

A primary school in east London may have to close its doors and switch to online learning after receiving “arson and bomb threats” during a row over a Palestinian flag.

A video shared on TikTok last year claimed that an eight-year-old pupil at Barclay Primary School in Leyton was bullied by teachers for wearing a badge showing the Palestinian flag on his coat.

The school said it was forced to close early for Christmas because of “escalating threats against staff” after rumours spread online that teachers had “traumatised” the boy.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Randall Denley: Olivia Chow has the Trudeau Liberals in a tight corner — for now

The city of Toronto’s proposed 2024 budget is both outrageous and a master class in political manoeuvring. At a time when people are struggling financially, who would suggest a 10.5-per-cent tax increase, then threaten to boost it by an additional six per cent if the federal government doesn’t pony up more money?

BUT …

Gripped by Toronto’s annual budget panic? Just wait for the surplus

… As regularly as it panics over its budgets, Toronto runs big surpluses. Spending rises, no surprise there. But so does revenue. Year after year, more than one in every 10 dollars of Toronto’s revenue has flowed through to a surplus on the bottom line. The city’s accumulated surplus – the measure of net worth that represents its ability to deliver services – stood at $32.3-billion at the end of 2022.

Anyone who knows this history would bet that Toronto ran another healthy surplus in 2023. Notwithstanding the peaking budget panic, I’ll stake my soon-to-jump property tax bill that Toronto will run yet another one this year.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Toronto - Canada's version of a Democrat run city"

‘I will commit a new terrorist attack’: Woman who attacked Scarborough Canadian Tire vowed continued support for ISIS in prison

Rehab Dughmosh, Muslim terrorist

Convicted Toronto terrorist Rehab Dughmosh — who attacked a Scarborough Canadian Tire in 2017 with a golf club and a knife, shouting “This is for ISIS” — continued to express her solidarity with the Islamic State terror group and a desire to kill people while in prison, and she may commit another terrorism offence now that she’s been released, an RCMP officer told a judge on Wednesday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Canada, Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, WTF?

Military Program to Recruit Permanent Residents Enrolled a Fraction of Applicants

Just 77 applicants have successfully enlisted in a Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) program that aims to recruit immigrants, according to a briefing note for Defence Minister Bill Blair.

Between Nov. 1, 2022, and Nov. 24, 2023, the CAF received 21,472 applications from permanent residents. Of those, 77 permanent residents were successfully enrolled by the end of that period, according to the Dec. 11, 2023 briefing note, which was first obtained by Blacklock’s Reporter.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"CAF - Canadian Armed Forces"

“You’re Big Brother:” EU Parliament Votes To Make Hate Speech an EU Crime

Sparking intense criticism from conservatives, the left-leaning majority of the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling for the extension of the EU crime list to include hate speech and hate crimes, which would allow the European Commission to introduce binding minimum penalties for all member states.

The vote, that took place on Thursday, January 18th, passed with 397 for and 121 against, with only 26 abstentions—the latter mainly coming from a handful of dissident leftists concerned that the law may be used to silence anti-Israel voices. As always, only the two conservative blocs, ECR and ID, voted against it while all leftist parties and the center-right EPP supported the report.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEuropean Union, hate crimes, Hate Speech

Canadians ridicule Trudeau gov’t after ‘renewable’ energy failure nearly ends in catastrophe

An extreme cold snap which led to near minus 50 degrees Celsius (58 degrees Fahrenheit) temperatures in much of Western Canada over the weekend, and nearly caused one province’s power grid to collapse due to a failure of wind and solar power, saw many call out Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government’s green energy agenda which is looking to phase out carbon-based power in favor of “renewables.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

Israeli father says Hamas tried to sell his son’s decapitated head for $10,000

A fallen Israeli soldier’s father claimed that after his 19-year-old son was killed, Hamas terrorists tried to sell his decapitated head for $10,000 in Gaza.

David Tahar, father of former Israel Defense Forces Sgt. Adir Tahar, said Hamas abused the body of his son after he was killed during the terrorists’ Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel.

h/t MW

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023"

Trudeau pushes back after Netanyahu again rejects two-state solution

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized Benjamin Netanyahu’s position on Palestinian statehood after the Israeli prime minister claimed in a nationally-televised news conference that the so-called “two-state solution” is dead.

“I was not surprised to hear Prime Minister Netanyahu share that. That has long been his position,” Trudeau said Thursday when asked about the comments at a press conference in Iqaluit.

“He and I had, just a few weeks ago, an extensive conversation on exactly this topic and others

I doubt Netanyahu thinks about Junior at all.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Oct 7 2023", Canada

Eritrea’s strife goes global as diasporas, including those in Canada, clash at cultural festivals

From Toronto and Calgary to Melbourne and London, Eritrean events have seen sometimes violent fights between a repressive regime’s supporters and its opponents

On a freezing morning in Toronto this winter, dozens of Eritrean-Canadians gathered on a plaza in front of City Hall, waving Eritrean flags as they braved the sub-zero temperatures in a bid to save their annual festival.

Passersby might have been puzzled by their pleas for constitutional freedoms and police protection. But it was the latest chapter in a global struggle between rival Eritrean factions – and another sign of how diaspora groups in Canada and elsewhere are becoming the new battleground for the tensions in their home countries.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inEritrea

Nova Scotia man charged with igniting massive Barrington Lake wildfire

HALIFAX – A 22-year-old Nova Scotia man has been charged with allegedly lighting a fire last May that grew to become one of the largest wildfires in the province’s history.

The Barrington Lake fire southwest of Shelburne, N.S., was ignited on May 26, 2023, and burned 23,000 hectares before it was brought under control on June 13 and extinguished more than a month later amid heavy rain. The fire forced the evacuation of more than 6,000 people and destroyed 60 homes and cottages, as well as 150 other structures.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists"

Region on Fire: President Biden Sits on Sidelines as Pakistan Attacks Iran

The White House is largely silent as war in the Middle East threatens to engulf the entire region.

Pakistan’s air force launched retaliatory airstrikes against Iran Thursday morning with the aim of taking out militant hideouts, in an attack that killed at least seven persons and sent tensions between the neighboring nations soaring.

The strikes in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchestan province followed Tuesday’s Iranian attack on Pakistan that killed two children in the southwestern Baluchistan province. The attacks Tuesday and Thursday appeared to target separate Baluch militant groups that the two countries say find safe havens in the other. Earlier in the week, Iran also attacked sites in its old foe, Iraq.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inIran, Pakistan