Greta Thunberg: I was tortured, beaten and starved by Israel

Greta Thunberg has claimed she was “hit, kicked, starved and tortured” during her time in Israeli custody.

The Swedish activist accused Israeli guards of defacing her suitcase with the words “whore Greta”, drawings of a penis and images of the Star of David.

The 22-year-old was detained by Israel earlier this month after taking part in an attempt by the Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.

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Cars or canola? Canada between a rock and a hard place

“One of the remarkable things about life,” said the great sage Calvin — co-star, along with Hobbes, the tiger, of “the last great newspaper comic strip” — is that “it’s never so bad it can’t get worse.” So did the Canadian auto industry find out last Sunday, when the Chinese ambassador to our country, Wang Di, told CTV News reporter Vassy Kapelos that “China [would] remove the tariffs on the relevant products of Canada” if we, in turn, eliminated the tariffs we’ve imposed on Chinese electric vehicles.


Tough call for the Elbow people ahead.

Carney luvs China as does our China class but his Liberal Party also hates the West.  

Trump is fulfilling a campaign promise to re-shore auto assembly and as we have seen with Stellantis  auto manufacturers are heeding his call.

It may be that Canada’s auto-industry or what’s left of it is part supply only.

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Charlie Kirk: US revokes 6 visas over social media comments

The US State Department on Tuesday revoked six visas over social media comments on the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

Kirk was shot dead when speaking at a rally at a Utah university in September. The suspect in the assassination faces the death penalty if convicted.

Read the Twitter thread.

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Some flights delayed after Kelowna airport public information system hacked with pro-Hamas messaging

Kelowna International Airport says some flights have been delayed after a third party hacked its terminal display screens and public address system with pro-Hamas messaging on Tuesday evening.

The incident happened at about 5:15 p.m.

“We are experiencing some delayed flights,” the airport said in a news release.

h/t Auntie Polly

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Hostage families confirm identities of three of four bodies handed over by Hamas

Israeli hostage families have confirmed the identities of three of four bodies handed over by Hamas in Gaza on Tuesday.

The bodies of Tamir Nimrodi, 20, Eitan Levy, 53, and Uriel Baruch, 35, were part of the latest return, the Hostages Families Forum said. Scientists are still working to identify the fourth body.

So far seven hostages’ bodies are confirmed to have been sent back from Gaza. Hamas has yet to return the other bodies as agreed under a ceasefire deal brokered by the US.

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B.C. premier calls on feds to support forestry workers amid new U.S. tariffs on lumber, wood

B.C. Premier David Eby is calling on the federal government to protect forestry workers as new tariffs imposed by the U.S. president threaten to topple an already struggling industry.

On Tuesday, the U.S. slapped a 10 per cent tariff on Canadian lumber — on top of a 35 per cent duty already in place.

The U.S. also put a 25 per cent tariff on some Canadian wood products, like furniture.

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Oxford Union alumni will descend on city to try to oust president-elect for Charlie Kirk remarks

Oxford Union alumni plan to descend on the university city this weekend in an attempt to oust the president-elect.

Former members of the debating society are considering travelling from as far afield as Hong Kong and New York to vote against George Abaraonye in a poll on his leadership on Saturday, sources told The Telegraph.

University alumni have been encouraged to attend the in-person vote in order to preserve “the reputation of Britain’s historic institutions”.

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Cocaine trafficking sentence cut in half for Jamaican facing deportation from Canada

An Ontario judge cut the sentence in half for a Black cocaine trafficker from Jamaica facing “a significant likelihood of deportation” because he’s already serving a six-year prison sentence in Canada for trafficking in fentanyl and gun-related offences.

Police caught Roosevelt Rush, a 32-year-old who was living in Brampton, with 55 grams of cocaine after he was released from custody on bail in December 2022 before sentencing took place for his fentanyl trafficking and gun convictions. The Ontario Court of Justice heard Rush was wearing a GPS monitoring device when authorities tracked him to Belleville, where he was caught with the cocaine.

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Trump says Hamas will be forced to disarm or ‘we will disarm them’

Donald Trump has said that Hamas will be forced to disarm after questions swirled around the group’s status following the signing of a peace deal meant to bring an end to the war in Gaza.

Speaking with reporters on Tuesday, Trump said: “If they don’t disarm, we will disarm them and it will happen quickly and perhaps violently.

“But they will disarm, do you understand me?” he added, saying it should take place in a “reasonable period of time”.

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Hamas executes ‘collaborators’ in Gaza as it clings to power

Horrifying footage has emerged which shows Palestinians being executed by Hamas, sparking fears that the Gaza peace deal is already at risk of collapsing as the terror group tries to cling to power.

In disturbing footage circulating on social media, a group of men can be seen kneeling on the ground with their hands behind their backs.

Armed militants – some wearing Hamas-style headbands – stand behind the victims with their faces covered before gunshots ring out and the seven kneeling men fall to the ground, apparently lifeless.

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