Canadian delegation, including 6 MPs, denied entry into West Bank over alleged link to Israel-designated ‘terror entity’

OTTAWA—The Israeli embassy in Ottawa says a group that included six Canadian MPs was denied entry into the occupied West Bank on Tuesday because of an alleged financial link to an aid organization Israel considers a “terror entity.”

In a statement to the Star, Israeli embassy spokesperson Yifah Mivtach Greenvald said the group that organized the trip — Canadian Muslim Vote — receives the “vast majority” of its funding from Islamic Relief Canada, which Greenvald said is a subsidiary of Islamic Relief Worldwide, a listed terror entity in Israel.

Canada has not designated the group on its own terror list.

h/t Patti Jo

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When Canadian Soil Becomes a Megaphone: Why Terrorist Glorification is a Foreign Policy Issue

When MP Roman Baber rose in the House of Commons on 17 November to table Bill C-257, he was not just tinkering with legal technicalities. His proposal would create a new Criminal Code offence of “wilfully promoting a terrorist activity or a terrorist group,” punishable by up to five years in prison and classified as a terrorism offence. In plain language, Parliament is being asked whether glorifying terrorism from Canadian soil should itself be treated as a terrorism crime.

Supporters, including organizations such as the Canadian Jewish Law Association and B’nai Brith Canada, say the bill fills a dangerous gap exposed by rallies and online content that appear to praise Hamas and other listed entities. Critics worry about overreach and the chilling of legitimate protest.


Curtailing speech is always a double edged sword and our history with such measures typically results in attacks on Canadian heritage and values.

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How did Canada’s young people become its unhappiest generation?

Only four countries have seen a worse decline — Jordan, Venezuela, Lebanon and Afghanistan.

VANCOUVER — As a teen growing up in Toronto, Bhavik Sharma imagined what life would look like at 25.

He and his high school friends would be starting families. They’d be on six-figure salaries and living comfortably.

Now 27, he’s back living with his parents in Kitchener, Ont., driven out of Toronto by high rent and other costs.

“I think back then, in that generation, it was definitely a lot easier,” Sharma said of the path to adulthood for his parents, who moved to Canada from India about 30 years ago.


They’d probably be happier if you interviewed Canadians and not foreigners for this article.

Funny how mass immigration isn’t mentioned as if a generation’s problems appeared from nowhere.

I have faith young people are smart enough to recognize gaslighting. AKA Liberal Party Media/Academic propaganda.

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Why Quebec’s Liberal scandal is a Canadian problem

In Quebec, certain words don’t land softly. Corruption is one of them. It’s a word that once even earned Quebec the cover of Maclean’s magazine as “the most corrupt province in Canada,” a headline that infuriated the political class precisely because it cut so close to a long, uncomfortable narrative.

So, when that word is once again associated with the Quebec Liberal Party, it’s not just another headline. It’s a crisis with national consequences.

Pablo Rodriguez, the former federal cabinet minister brought in earlier this year to revive the provincial Liberals, now finds himself at the centre of a criminal investigation by UPAC, the province’s anti-corruption police. The probe touches two sensitive nerves.

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Rick Ekstein: Mark Carney has inflamed antisemitism. Will Canada too pay a price?

Carney speaks at a Muslim Brotherhood function

I woke up Sunday morning to a photograph I never expected to see: my friend, human-rights lawyer and regular National Post contributor Arsen Ostrovsky, bloodied among the walking wounded at Bondi Beach.

Arsen is now in hospital — and extraordinarily lucky to be alive. A bullet grazed the top of his head. Doctors have told him that had it been a few millimetres lower, he would almost certainly have been killed.

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Terry Newman: Liberals give $100K to antisemitic Muslim murder cult group to fight antisemitism

The Liberal government doled out almost $100,000 to a Toronto organization that claimed it would fight antisemitism but appears to be doing nothing of the sort.

This year, Toronto Palestinian Families (TPF), which describes itself as “a grassroots group led by Palestinian families advocating for safe and inclusive spaces free from anti-Palestinian racism and other forms of inequity,” was given $99,500 by the Canadian Heritage department for a proposal titled, “Combating Anti-Semitism and Anti-Palestinian Racism for All.”

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Liberal, NDP MPs to visit West Bank, connect with Palestinians to win over the murder cult vote

A group of five Liberal MPs and a lone NDP parliamentarian are planning to spend three days in Israel and the occupied West Bank, at a time of heightened tensions between Ottawa and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government.

“I think being present helps; it does calm the situation because when you have internationals present, local actors will be on their best behaviour, or better behaviour,” said Liberal Sameer Zuberi, the MP for the Montreal-area riding of Pierrefonds-Dollard, speaking to CBC News before he traveled.

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Joel Kotkin: Carney faces up to the reality of Trudeau’s climate fantasies

Sometimes policy change is necessitated by reality. The welcome new entente cordiale between Ottawa and Alberta, fast tracking new energy developments, marks a pleasant example.

This is all the more remarkable since Prime Minister Mark Carney, was once a leading voice against fossil fuels; as head of the Bank of England, he led the charge for banks to bankroll the much-ballyhooed transition to renewables. Yet a decade later, he appears to have shifted from a “net-zero” crusader to seeking to become “an energy superpower.”


I doubt Carney has had a road to Damascus moment.

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GUNTER: Floor-crossers to Liberals go against voters’ wishes

I’m sorry, Mr. Ma, but it makes you look a little flaky to be elected to the House of Commons for the first time in April, then in December to switch parties from the Conservatives to the Liberals.

Yet that’s exactly what Ontario MP Michael Ma did on Thursday. After being elected as a rookie Conservative in the riding of Markham-Unionville not quite eight months ago, Ma decided to flip allegiances.

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Report Raises Concerns About Canadian Universities, Others Collaborating With Beijing-Backed AI Labs

A new report warns that prominent Western universities, including Canadian institutions, have collaborated with Chinese artificial-intelligence labs on research that could advance Beijing’s mass-surveillance apparatus and other tools tied to human rights abuses.

The Dec. 8 report, authored by the New York-based business intelligence firm Strategy Risks in partnership with the non-profit Human Rights Foundation, outlines how leading Western institutions in countries such as the United States, Canada, and others in Europe have collaborated with Chinese AI labs that are part of, or closely connected to, Beijing’s surveillance and security apparatus.

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Jamie Sarkonak: DEI funding exploded under Trudeau so much it can’t even be counted

It isn’t possible to hate this evil man too much.

In 2023, the Treasury Board of Canada’s program spending on diversity, equity and inclusion was roughly 100 times what it was in 2016. Public Safety Canada’s was about 40 times higher. The federal Crown prosecution service spent 20 times more.

These are some of the figures that were revealed in a House of Commons report tabled in response to a question by Conservative MP Vincent Ho. Back in October, he asked all federal departments to detail their DEI program spending, DEI-related jobs and DEI contracts, along with an explanation of how they evaluate DEI performance.

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Margareta Dovgal: Liberals twisted themselves into pretzels over their own pipeline MOU

The plan isn’t designed to succeed

Playing politics with pipelines is a time-honored Canadian tradition. Tuesday’s events in the House of Commons offered a delightful twist on the genre.

The Conservatives introduced a motion quoting the Liberals’ own pipeline promises laid out in the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Alberta, nearly verbatim. The Liberals, true to form, killed it 196–139 with enthusiastic help from the NDP, Bloc, and Greens.

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Canadian hate speech law ‘would criminalise biblical passages’

Planned changes to Canada’s hate speech law would criminalise biblical passages, critics have claimed.

Under Canada’s criminal code, anyone found guilty of “wilful promotion of hatred” faces up to two years in jail.

But it also says that prosecution should not apply to a statement made in “good faith” and “based on belief in a religious text”.


Carney’s kid is a tranny so you know where his sympathies lie.

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Donald Trump has a plan for America’s place in the world. What is Mark Carney’s vision for Canada?

The promise of a new and long-awaited national security strategy would be laughable if it were not so late in coming

OTTAWA — The promise, yet again, that Canada will soon produce a new and long-awaited national security strategy would be laughable if it were not so late in coming, a perennial work in progress, not to mention fairly relevant right now.

The latest word is that sometime in the new year, weeks after the U.S. threw down its own aggressive America First plan on the desks of global leaders, the Liberal government will present Canada’s vision of the main threats to national sovereignty and security, and how best to tackle them.

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Too Close for Comfort: Carney Floor Crosser Comes From a Riding Tainted by PRC Interference

OTTAWA — Mark Carney’s minority government is now one seat shy of a House of Commons majority—not because Canadians changed their minds in an election, but because a newly elected Conservative member of Parliament, Michael Ma, has crossed the floor to join the Liberal caucus.

Floor crossing is legal. It is also one of those Westminster quirks that can be permissible while still corroding public trust—especially when it is used to rewire the meaning of an election after the ballots are counted.

h/t Mauser

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