For anyone who doubts that Canada’s safer supply experiment has been anything other than a disaster, I offer the story of Mark. It’s a must-read.
I was introduced to Mark, not his real name, by a B.C.-based addiction physician. Mark came from a good family and excelled in school and sports as a child, but was abused by a teacher and a family member at a young age, leading to lifelong anxiety issues that required therapy.
We have just obtained what appears to be a leaked email written by CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp) employee George Achi instructing reporters to:
1. not to mention Gaza has not been occupied since 2005
2. not refer to Palestinian terrorists as terroristsIf true, this… pic.twitter.com/rqlhfm1clX
— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) October 8, 2023
Reminder this is a long term policy …
Avoiding use of the word ‘terrorist’ and ‘terrorism’ has been CBC policy for its reporters for more than a decade, similar to many other media outlets.
CBC Policy:
Use of the word ‘terrorist’: April 15, 2011https://t.co/HkWRIWezes https://t.co/NPmUqnKt5U— Lorrie Goldstein (@sunlorrie) October 8, 2023
Policy for a reason …
Only. Votes. Count. After Christianity, Islam was the second most commonly reported religion in Canada in 2021, with nearly 1.8 million, or 1 in 20, people. Approximately 335,000 people reported being Jewish in 2021. https://t.co/63wwPUJZOS
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) October 8, 2023
First Canada saw cheering for a Second World War Nazi-related Waffen SS soldier, now there’s jubilation in Toronto over the mass slaughter of innocent Israelis.
Most of the dead are believed to be Jewish – just like those exterminated in the Holocaust. But some here thought this was fantastic and went public to party about it.
Free Palestine Car Rally
Mississauga, Canada #PalestineUnderAttack#Palestine pic.twitter.com/vQEjSNoE9W— Insaf Khan 🇵🇰🌏 (@mipakwatan) October 8, 2023
Mississauga, Canada #PalestineUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/Y4p23cpsFP
— Insaf Khan 🇵🇰🌏 (@mipakwatan) October 8, 2023
Only. Votes. Count. After Christianity, Islam was the second most commonly reported religion in Canada in 2021, with nearly 1.8 million, or 1 in 20, people. Approximately 335,000 people reported being Jewish in 2021. https://t.co/63wwPUJZOS
— Fancypants Maloney (@fancypants_s) October 8, 2023
Israel’s counterterrorism expert who predicted the Hamas invasion
A little over a month ago the former counter-terrorism adviser to two Israeli Prime Ministers authored a prescient essay, outlining an invasion of the Hamas terrorist movement into Israel.
The counter-terrorism adviser, Yigal Carmon, the founder and president of the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), wrote on August 31 the “Signs Of Possible War In September-October.”
Carmon noted “There has also been an increase in efforts by Iran and Hezbollah to smuggle weapons into the West Bank, similar to the smuggling of weapons into Gaza.”
Israeli intelligence last week concluded Hamas would not launch a full invasion
Israeli officials falsely concluded that Hamas was not interested in provoking a full-scale war with Israel, it has emerged, as questions swirl over major intelligence failures that led to Saturday’s assault.
According to Haaretz, an Israeli Left-wing newspaper, an assessment by security services last week found that Hamas was eager “to avoid a full-fledged war with Israel”, with officials unaware of plans for the combined rocket assault and raids on the south.
The same assessment concluded that Hamas did not want to “jeopardise past achievements that bettered the lives of the Gazan residents”, Haaretz reported, referring to economic incentives offered by Israel to Gaza to ease tensions, such as work permits.
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REAL BGMI moment by Palestinian Fighter's …#Israel #Palestine #Lebanon #Gaza #GazaUnderAttack #طوفان_الأقصى #Hamas #hamasattack #FreePalestine #PalestineUnderAttack #طوفان_القدس #طوفان_الأقصى #Hezbollah #Gaza pic.twitter.com/00nCyRaa1z
— Debojyoti Goswami (@DebojyotiGoswa9) October 8, 2023
The good news for Canadians paying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s carbon tax is that the feds will send out their latest quarterly climate action incentive payment this week.
The bad news is that according to the independent, non-partisan parliamentary budget officer, most Canadians paying the federal carbon tax receive less in rebates than they pay in carbon taxes.
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah, this week threatened Europe with a new wave of Syrian refugees in an apparent bid to gain leverage over the European Union and force the United States to lift sanctions on Syria.
Speaking on a Lebanese TV broadcast on Tuesday, Nasrallah said that rather than fleeing to Europe in rubber dinghies, Lebanon could provide the refugees with full-sized boats.
Sharing is good, but there are rules to passing out intelligence
When I was a kid growing up in southwestern Ontario I remember a video/song that extolled sharing. It was, so I learned through Google, produced by the United Church of Christ and went something like this: “That’s the way it is, truly-ooly-ooly is. It’s nice to share.”
I wonder if Cameron Ortis, the RCMP official charged by the Crown with “sharing” intelligence illegally, saw that video too?
Hundreds are dead on both sides after Hamas fired thousands of rockets at Israel, which retaliated with strikes on Gaza.
The Palestinian group that controls Gaza attacked Israel by land, sea and air in an operation that was unprecedented in its ambition and ferocity. More than 50 Israeli hostages were also thought to have been taken forcibly to Gaza.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, whose government has faced mass domestic protests since the start of the year, said the country was “at war”. He pledged that the “enemy will pay an unprecedented price”. President Biden said the United States had “rock solid and unwavering” support for Israel.
Mobilizing tanks for war. Keep the soldiers of Israel in your prayers. #IsraelUnderFire pic.twitter.com/jbCQdYvnMa
— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) October 7, 2023
Israeli child held captive in Gaza subjected to bullying by Palestinian minors. Outrageous! #IsraelUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/lzMafHAUCq
— Hananya Naftali (@HananyaNaftali) October 7, 2023
During the last few hours, IAF aircrafts attacked a buried launch site and two terrorists who were near it. In addition, a terrorist cell was identified that tried to enter Israeli territory through the Zikim beach and was thwarted by an IAF aircrafts. pic.twitter.com/gQDRSm86S1
— Israeli Air Force (@IAFsite) October 7, 2023
Politicians and their families are entitled to the occasional spot of R&R, just like everybody else. Being an elected official, after all, is a stressful job that requires long hours and subjects one to withering public scrutiny.
One politician who’s never had trouble prying himself away from the office is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Through his eight years at the helm, Trudeau’s various family getaways have been the source of much public fascination and, on more than one occasion, political controversy. From an ethically dubious trip to Aga Khan’s private island, to a $6,000-per-night hotel suite in London, perhaps no Canadian prime minister has ever travelled in style quite like Trudeau.
Just a day after Iran-backed Hamas terrorists slaughtered and kidnapped Israeli civilians, leaving a trail of bodies across Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip, Iranian Islamists in the United Kingdom are organizing an event, at a venue in London controlled by a British Hamas network, featuring pro-Hamas voices, including a prominent American Islamist leader.
On October 8, the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) is hosting a talk on “Justice, Peace and Reconciliation in Palestine.”
Counter-extremist analysts, such as noted counter-Islamist activist Habibi, have reported that speakers include Mohd Azmi Abdul Hamid, a Malaysian cleric who has apparently praised “jihad” against the “Zionist regime to the last breath and blood.”
The budget for Canada’s new flagship ocean research ship increased 28 per cent this year jumping from $995 million to $1.28 billion.
Construction of the offshore oceanographic science vessel is underway at the Seaspan Shipyards in North Vancouver, B.C., as part of the National Shipbuilding Strategy.
It will replace the decommissioned Canadian Coast Guard Ship Hudson — now at a wreckers yard — to provide scientific and ocean mapping missions in Atlantic Canada.
The intelligence failure was astonishing. As Israel fell silent to observe a religious holiday, it was surprised by a massive assault that nobody had anticipated. This was as close as the Jewish state had ever come to destruction. By the end, casualties were three times higher per capita than the United States had suffered in Vietnam. This was the Yom Kippur war of exactly 50 years ago. Yet it forms a disturbingly close parallel to the catastrophe that engulfs the Jewish state today.
A news crew drove through the kibbutz where Hamas committed its earliest atrocities during the raid into southern Israel. It looks like a new “highway of death.”#IsraelUnderAttack #IStandWithIsrael #Palestine #Hamas #Gaza #TelAviv
#Palestinian isreal #OperationIronSwords pic.twitter.com/3QrNINUg6H— War Stalker 🔎 (@SDFronttwit) October 8, 2023
Israel now faces extremely difficult choices.
The Hamas surprise attack on Israeli civilians changes what had been the recent rules of the game between Hamas and Israel, and it may change much more in the Middle East.
For several years, and especially in the last year, it seemed that Hamas had decided to seek calm in Gaza, where it governs, while supporting violence and terror in the West Bank. And in the West Bank, terrorist attacks increased each month. Meanwhile, Israel allowed 17,000 workers to enter Israel from Gaza each day, and there was talk of raising that number to 30,000. It seemed that there was a silent agreement between Israel and Hamas to keep things quiet in Gaza.
The naked body of a woman was paraded through the streets in the back of a pick-up truck on Saturday as Hamas fighters sat on her corpse.
A celebrating crowd surrounded the armed men in combat fatigues, who shouted “Allah Akbar” from the open back of the truck.
Some in the crowd, which included youngsters, spat on the woman’s body before the truck sped away on a day of unprecedented massacres of Israeli civilians.
No such thing as “Disproportionate response.”
Europe’s middle classes are increasingly dissatisfied with governing institutions and establishment political parties, while skepticism of the war effort in Ukraine is more widespread than many thought, a new study has found.
The report by the Martens Centre, the think tank of the centrist, pro-EU European People’s Party, acknowledged that mainstream parties and governments are losing support, but claimed the solution was more European integration.
“There is no denying that representative institutions and traditional political parties are in crisis. Our results only confirm that,” the study stated.
