Canada used to be a nation of peace, order, and good government. Not anymore. You’d be hard pressed to find any of the three on the streets of Ottawa last weekend, at a Palestinian protest which glorified Hamas and its violent assault on Oct. 7.
“Our resistance attacks are proof that we are almost free,” one marcher said, to the cheers of the crowd. “Oct. 7 is proof that we are almost free. Long live Oct. 7, long live the resistance, long live the intefadeh, long live every form of resistance.”
Pro-Palestinian protesters have demanded that a walk organised by a Jewish group in London this weekend is subject to strict police restrictions.
The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism has called for supporters to walk through central London on Saturday, but has insisted it is not a march and so does not need to be cleared by the Metropolitan Police.
But pro-Palestinian activists, who are planning to gather in Hyde Park on Saturday, have demanded “equality under the law” and said that if their gathering is subject to strict police conditions, the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism walk should also be.
The country is of America’s staunchest allies in the war on terror and the world’s most enslaved nation
In April 1864, the US Senate passed a bill that set in motion what would become the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Slavery was to be abolished.
Seven months later, Union forces would burn Atlanta to the ground, a year after Lincoln’s address at Gettysburg marked the battle that began the South’s collapse and the April 1865 surrender of General Robert E. Lee and his Confederate army.
The Civil War remains the bloodiest and most divisive conflict in American history with at least a million dead, including soldiers and civilians from both sides.
“Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter cried foul over the lack of available information about what happened to the students whom she alleged sprayed “chemical weapons” at the anti-Israel protesters occupying Columbia University last week.
Isra Hirsi, 21, who was suspended by nearby Barnard College over her involvement in the Thursday demonstrations, called the higher education institutions hypocritical for their approach to the unrest.
A Jewish French woman was allegedly raped, kidnapped, and threatened with murder by a man in Gennevilliers who reportedly sought revenge for Palestinians, French media reported on Tuesday night.
The 32-year-old was charged on Tuesday with religiously-motivated death threats and use of narcotics, according to Le Parisien. BFMTV said that the rape allegation is still being investigated, but the prosecution did believe a kidnapping charge was warranted.
h/t MP
TORONTO – A few Ontario government members have voted again today to uphold a ban on keffiyehs in the legislature, prompting some people watching question period from the public galleries to put on the scarves.
Legislative security ejected the protesters, who were shouting, “free free Palestine.”
The Speaker of the legislature has ruled that people in the chamber as well as in the building cannot wear keffiyehs, which he says are being worn to make a political statement.
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Protesters kicked out of the Ontario Legislative Building and trespassed from Queen’s Park for defying the recent keffiyeh ban.#cdnpoli #Toronto #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #ProtestMania pic.twitter.com/bAcwfdp603
— Caryma Sa'd – Lawyer + Political Satirist (@CarymaRules) April 23, 2024
h/t Patti Jo
“Allah, Allah, who f*ck is Allah”, shout British patriots. pic.twitter.com/lMrGUj9d8v
— RadioGenoa (@RadioGenoa) April 23, 2024
h/t Miss Trixie
MONTREAL – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says two former United Nations employees in Montreal have been charged after they allegedly took part in a conspiracy to illegally sell Chinese-made drones and other military equipment to Libya.
The RCMP says Fathi Ben Ahmed Mhaouek, who is 61 and lives in the Montreal suburb of Sainte-Catherine, Que., has been arrested and is expected to appear in a Montreal court today.
Police say his alleged accomplice, Mahmud Mohamed Elsuwaye Sayeh, 37, remains on the run and INTERPOL has issued an alert to police around the world.
Investigators with Alberta Health Services served closure orders on four halal grocery stores in Calgary on Friday, and another on a Calgary halal warehouse and distribution centre. The outlets are accused of purchasing and reselling uninspected meat to the public, which is against the law in Alberta.
Shawdesi Bazaar Foods and Catering, located in a strip mall east of Calgary International Airport, was ordered closed because “there is evidence that uninspected meat has been purchased and sold at this location,” according to the closure order.
On Friday, April 20th, the French capital was the scene of street violence from the Afghan community. While the trouble went unnoticed by the mainstream press, the nation’s Right condemned the wilful blindness of the national media.
Afghan immigrants spent two days over the weekend destroying Paris and causing an estimated loss of millions.
Not a single French politician has spoken out and condemned.
The biggest news companies did not cover or report on the story.
There were no police interventions. pic.twitter.com/rsxgKxS2fl
— Klaus Arminius (@Klaus_Arminius) April 22, 2024
The dominant issue in the Milton byelection doesn’t seem to be expanded Go-Train service or building Hwy. 13 — it’s Gaza. That’s based on what is being said and what is not being said by candidates and leaders.
Isla Bryson, Scotland’s most notorious transgender rapist, has claimed to be a victim of ‘hate crime’.
In a letter to prison authorities, seen by the Sunday Mail, Bryson, a man known formerly as Adam Graham, lists a number of supposed indignities he has been made to suffer while serving an eight-year sentence for raping two women. Back in 2023, the tattoo-faced criminal was infamously sent to a women’s prison, HMP Cornton Vale, sparking a huge public outcry. Since he was moved to the all-male wing of HMP Edinburgh, he says he has been denied access to women’s toiletries and make-up, and has been persistently ‘misgendered’ by prison officers. One female prison officer allegedly referred to him as ‘son’, for which she has since apologised.
While antisemitic slogans shouted during a weekend anti-Israel protest triggered a rare, online-only rebuke from the prime minister, Canadian Jewish groups blame the deafening silence from Canada’s political leaders for emboldening protesters, resulting in a conspicuous increase in hateful rhetoric.
BREAKING: Chrystia Freeland declines to condemn "Long Live October 7th" as hate speech. pic.twitter.com/xzUKJw63ks
— Amazing Zoltan (@AmazingZoltan) April 22, 2024
A judge has dismissed an application to throw out the case of a Calgary man accused of going to Syria to fight with ISIS, for what the defence said were unreasonable delays in the court process.
Justice Corina Dario made the ruling on Monday, saying 34-year-old Jamal Borhot’s rights had not been violated, which allowed the trial to officially begin.
Borhot pleaded not guilty to the charges.
