National Identity
Mississauga’s mayor is avoiding requests from the Jewish community to condemn and prevent a Remembrance Day-style vigil for the recently eliminated Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, scheduled to take place in the city in two weeks.
A group called “Canadian Defenders 4 Human Rights” has taken ownership of the planned vigil set for Nov 26, 40 days after the elimination of the leader of the listed terrorist entity that rules Gaza, Hamas.
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Read MoreA new report by Daily Bread and North York Harvest reveals that four out of five new clients who visited a Toronto food bank over the last year have been living in Canada for less than five years, with over one-third not having Canadian citizenship.
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Read MoreThe Department of Immigration in a “Welcome To Canada” guide advised foreigners to be prepared to book Airbnb rentals or resort to homeless shelters on arrival here. “Search online,” said the guide published in Arabic, Dari, Haitian Creole and Spanish.
“Before deciding where to live in Canada, learn about the types of housing,” said the guide Welcome To Canada: Housing In Canada. “There are different types of housing.”
“Housing costs in Canada are high, especially in large cities, and it can be challenging to find an affordable rental apartment or housing that meets your needs,” said the guide. “Before dec
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Read MoreFor its Remembrance Day gathering Monday, an Ottawa school chose to play a Palestinian protest tune, sung in Arabic, that has become associated with the Gaza war. It was the only song played as students watched a slide presentation honoring Canada’s wartime sacrifice at Sir Robert Borden School.
The song was Haza Salam by Mahim Ahmed. The title is usually translated as “This is Peace” and it was reportedly released in the months after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, according to the National Post.
The school’s choice of music offended many studen
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Read More“If we don’t get no justice, then you don’t get no peace.”
So chanted, squawked, and bellowed protesters called to “emergency action” by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) to “shut down” an event Tuesday honouring former prime minister Stephen Harper with the Defender of Israel Award under the Abraham Global Peace Initiative (AGPI.)
This display came on the heels of the sickening revelation by Global News that two Iraqi Ottawa teens stand accused in an ISIS plot to bomb a pro-Israel rally on Parliament Hill. The father of one advocated getting rid of all Israelis on Facebook after the October 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 Israelis by Hamas terrorists.
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Read MoreChief Electoral Officer Stéphane Perrault will testify on why he attended a secret meeting with New Democrats and Liberals to discuss rewriting the Elections Act. Perrault’s office said he considered it routine though it included a proposal guaranteeing pension eligibility for 28 New Democrat and Liberal MPs. “Elections Canada was asked to attend a meeting in Ottawa to provide its technical expertise,” said Matthew McKenna, spokesperson for Elections Canada. “The Chief Electoral Officer answered questions,” he added. Perrault will now testify at the House affairs committee on who said what, Spokesperson McKenna told Blacklock’s. “He looks forward
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Read MoreA total 200,000 fewer foreign students were let into Canada this fall compared to last year, says the Department of Immigration. Managers would not say how many existing foreign study permit holders remain in the country including dropouts and refugee claimants.
“From January to September of this year we had 200,000 fewer international students coming to Canada compared to 2023,” Bronwyn May, director general at the immigration department, testified at the Commons immigration committee. “This decrease will help stabilize volumes and ensure students who do come to Canada receive the support that they need to succeed.”
“How many international students are in our country right now on a valid student visa?” asked Conservative MP Arpan Khanna (Oxford, Ont.). “I don’t have those figures,” replied May.
MP Khanna said Canadians were concerned about the impact of unchecked permits. “We’ve see
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Read MoreCalgary mayor Jyoti Gondek started her Remembrance Day speech on Monday by calling Canadians “settlers” on Indigenous lands. The Mayor, who last year survived a recall petition, began her speech by saying hello in a number of Indigenous languages.
“These are greetings of Indigenous languages of the traditional Treaty 7 people, who stewarded these lands for generations before many of us came to settle here,” she said.
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Read MoreDr. Hanan Hamdan, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) representative for Egypt, said this weekend the burden of more than 1.2 million refugees from the brutal civil war in Sudan is “unsustainable.”
“We are calling on the international community to urgently support Egypt in this humanitarian effort,” Hamdan said.
“It is imperative that the responsibility for providing humanitarian and development aid is shared globally. The burden on Egypt is unsustainable and requires immediate and substantial international assistance to ensure the protecti
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Read MoreOpposition Conservatives remain incensed after a controversial new directive banned military prayer during public ceremonies.
Guy Bélisle, Chaplain General for the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), signed a controversial directive last October 11, mandating that any “spiritual reflection” must be “inclusive in nature, and respectful of the religious and spiritual diversity of Canada.”
Conservative MPs said Friday they would fight the Trudeau government over its “damaging woke agenda.”
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