Canada

Canada’s Conservative leader is calling on Ottawa to designate an Iran-backed militant group as a terrorist entity after one of its members was accused of contributing to an attack on a Canadian synagogue, as well as the March shooting at the U.S. consulate in Toronto.

Pierre Poilievre says in a letter to Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree that American authorities have found that Kata’ib Hezbollah and its alleged commander directed attacks on Canadian soil.

h/t Patti Jo

The halal meat market in Canada is a growing industry — increasing by almost $1 billion over the past decade.

These numbers are based on statistics estimated by the food professor or Sylvain Charlebois’, Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University.

On July 26, an Islamic convention called “LIT” was held at the Embassy Plaza in the Montreal suburb of Laval. What was said there raises serious concerns about how some Muslim communities integrate into Canadian society.

The conference’s website states that the target audience of “Montreal’s largest Islamic convention” was youth aged 15 to 30, and its purpose was to “unify the Muslims.” Yet based on recordings of the talks reviewed by National Post, the purpose of unifying Muslim youth appears to include encouraging them to detach themselves from Canadian society and its “immoral” western law-based paradigm, in favour of a community-based Islamic one.

Barely a month after the senseless murder of a police officer from PDQ 26 in Montreal, two female police officers from the same sector were disarmed and beaten last weekend during a routine intervention.

In the early hours of Monday morning, shortly before 2 a.m., two SPVM police officers intercepted individuals for a minor traffic violation.

According to our information, the offenders were riding without helmets on a single electric scooter on Mistral Street in the Villeray district.

Following this intervention, the two men allegedly resisted and struck the two police officers. One of them reportedly even managed to disarm one of the officers by seizing her expandable baton. It is unclear, however, whether he used it to strike the officers.

The two young women who were with the two suspects also reportedly participated in the skirmish, but in a more moderate way.

In total, four suspects were arrested. Mohamed Mountassir, 25, faces the most serious charges: disarming a peace officer, assaulting a peace officer, and obstructing police work. The judge granted him bail pending his trial, subject to certain conditions.

Samir Ben Zerraouia, 25, was charged with assault and obstructing a police officer. He too was released pending trial.

The two women, Imane Chemouri, 25, and Doha Sakri, 23, have been released, but could soon be charged with assaulting police officers and obstructing their work.

All have been released.

Note this is Google translated.