Public sector union apologizes for president’s antisemitic comments

OTTAWA – Leadership of the third-largest federal public service union is apologizing for antisemitic statements made by its former president, who resigned Monday after his past social media posts surfaced.

In a statement released late Tuesday evening, the national executive committee of the Canadian Association of Public Employees (CAPE) confirmed that Camille Awada made multiple antisemitic posts on social media “in years past.”

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The strange story behind Joni Mitchell’s ‘outrageous’ blackface experiment

Joni Mitchell will forever be associated with the Laurel Canyon folk music scene of the late Sixties and early Seventies. The scene was a cornerstone of California’s predominantly white, beatnik counterculture; other proponents included The Mamas & the Papas, Carole King, The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield. But this categorisation overlooks the huge influence of jazz and soul music on the career of Mitchell, who turned 80 recently. Indeed, Mitchell’s relationship with black music is one of the most underappreciated yet defining characteristics of her decades in the spotlight.

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GUNTER: Bloc supporting Trudeau punishes rest of Canada

It’s no surprise the Bloc Quebecois voted with the Liberals on Monday to maintain the federal carbon tax on home heating. Of course, they did.

Quebecers don’t pay the federal carbon tax. That province has its own made-in-Quebec carbon-pricing scheme, so voting to continue imposing the Liberals’ system on the rest of the country had no consequences for Quebecers, and thus few political consequences for the Bloc.

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New emails show DHS created Stanford ‘disinfo’ group that censored speech before 2020 election

New emails show officials at the Department of Homeland Security created a Stanford University “disinformation” group that censored Americans’ speech before the 2020 election, according to a House Judiciary Committee report exclusively obtained by The Post.

The House panel’s 103-page staff interim report says never-before-seen emails and internal communications were obtained from the group, known as the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), and show how it worked with DHS’ Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to flag, suppress and remove online speech in coordination with big tech companies.

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Mohammed felt he was being controlled by magic …

A man has been found guilty of attempting to murder two elderly worshippers by setting them alight after they left mosques in London and Birmingham.

Mohammed Abbkr, 29, prayed with the congregation before waiting for victims Hashi Odowa, 82, and Mohammed Rayaz, 70, outside.

He followed both men before spraying them with petrol from a water bottle and using a lighter to set them on fire.

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