Michael Taube: Police inaction is allowing hate to fester

Hamas’s violent Oct. 7 attack against Israel has led to pro-Palestinian demonstrations of varying sizes around the world and a significant increase in antisemitism in Canadian cities, on a scale not witnessed since the end of the Second World War.

Toronto has experienced several pro-Palestinian demonstrations in front of the clothing chain Zara at the Eaton Centre shopping mall. It led to a tense verbal jousting last month between a masked demonstrator and passers-by, with the protester yelling, “I’ll lay you out on the floor” and threatening to put an unidentified individual “six feet deep.”

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Iranian woman whipped 74 times for refusing to wear hijab

An Iranian woman received 74 lashes for refusing to wear the hijab, defying the strict dress code even as she was taken to be whipped.

Roya Heshmati, 33, was charged with “encouraging permissiveness” after appearing unveiled on several occasions in the capital, Tehran.

“Her penalty of 74 strokes of the lash was carried out in accordance with the law and with sharia,” and “for violating public morals,” the judiciary’s Mizan Online website said late on Saturday.

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Justin Trudeau seems to have forgotten it’s his job to hold the country together

Of course Premier Danielle Smith’s proposal to separate Alberta from the Canada Pension Plan should be abandoned. Such a move would be bad for the CPP, bad for Alberta pensioners and bad for the country.

Of course Premier Scott Moe’s decision to stop collecting the carbon tax on home heating in Saskatchewan should be abandoned. The tax must and will be remitted to Ottawa one way or another.

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The faces of the girls still being held by Hamas

Karina Ariev, Lil Albag, Agam Berger, Daniela Gilboa

Watching the terrified faces of the four bloodstained teenage girls being paraded by Hamas gunmen was beyond their parents’ worst nightmare.

The haunting images were taken just hours after they were kidnapped and Liri Albag, Karina Ariev, Daniela Gilboa and Agam Berger appeared shadows of their former selves.

Three months have passed since that recording of them lined up against a wall in Gaza, their hands bound behind them – and still they are in captivity.

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John Ivison: Trudeau won’t shake off this latest vacation fail as easily as the others

The British public accepted the Royal Family’s six-week-long summer sojourns as long as they were taken at a gloomy, cold castle in the rainy Scottish Highlands.

Similarly, the Canadian public is amenable to their prime ministers taking vacation time, as long as they don’t look like they are having fun.

Liberal graft.

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Hezbollah senior commander killed in alleged Israeli drone strike

Jawad – Aspiring Rapper just getting his life together

Hezbollah and foreign media reports claimed on Monday that the IDF killed Wissam al-Tawil, known as Jawad, a key operations commander in southern Lebanon, in an air strike in Khirbat Salem, Lebanon.

It was unclear if Jawad, a reportedly significant figure within Hezbollah, had been killed as part of ongoing exchanges of fire between the IDF and Hezbollah or whether he was specifically targeted.

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Small Towns Overrun by Migrants Begin Pleading for Help as Biden’s Border Crisis Worsens

The migrant crisis that has rocked New York and Chicago and other big sanctuary cities has jumped its traces. Now, in a new development, small cities and towns across America are being inundated with migrants being bused from the southern border and impacting local law enforcement and city services.

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‘Substantial’ property tax increase coming to Toronto, city’s budget chief warns

Toronto’s budget chief is warning that a “substantial” property tax increase will be part of the city’s new spending package, as council grapples with a long-brewing fiscal crisis.

Coun. Shelley Carroll, who was appointed budget chief by Mayor Olivia Chow last year, had a blunt message when asked if property taxes are headed up: Yes.

And not by a small amount, she said, because Toronto needs to face its structural deficit head-on.

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Boobytraps and explosions in the hunt for Hamas tunnels

The underground explosion, just before noon, could barely be heard, muffled by tons of earth covering the suspected Hamas tunnel.

On the surface in Gaza City the detonation of thousands of kilograms of explosives felt like a small earthquake. Even the heavy tanks securing the Israeli operational perimeter bounced from the shock. The effect on the buildings remaining nearby, however, was barely discernible.

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Despite supporting Hamas Chairman Chow is chased from her own skating party by anti-semitic Mohammedans and their useful idiots

Mayor Olivia Chow’s first annual skating party at Nathan Phillips Square was cut short on Sunday by demonstrators calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

Chow had invited residents to celebrate the new year, along with city councillors and members of the new Professional Women’s Hockey League, at an event with free hot chocolate. But as soon as Chow took to the microphone to welcome attendees, she was interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters and was soon escorted off the ice.

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French Report: Illegal Immigration Costs €1.8 Billion Annually

The president of France’s supreme audit institution admits to deliberately delaying the release of a report on illegal immigration costs until after the parliamentary debate—and vote—on immigration law. The report, just released by the Cour des Comptes, shows the exorbitant sum of €1.8 billion charged to illegal immigration in 2023.

Published on Thursday, January 4th, the report is a harsh indictment of government policy, in particular the actions of Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, who boasts of having taken a tough stance on managing illegal immigrants. Darmanin claims to have introduced an effective policy for expelling illegal immigrants and says the expulsion rate of delinquent foreigners is up by 30%.

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Jan 6

h/t DS

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