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‘ YOU’RE NOT KILLING HIM’
As the thunder of gunfire erupted outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue on Sunday evening, Sharlene Weitzman, one of roughly two dozen congregants inside, thought first of protecting her son, Finn Luke Weitzman, who had accompanied her to mark the start...
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‘YOU ARE GOING TO DIE FOR THE JEWS’
The suspect in the synagogue attack in Belleville, Ont., shouted “You are going to die for the Jews” before an exchange of gunfire with police, according to a video played at a police news conference Thursday. Belleville Police Chief Murray Rodd said...
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‘I am witnessing real-life miracles,’ officer’s wife says
The wife of the police officer who was shot while stopping a gunman outside a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., has released an emotional thank you to supporters and “every scared soul” who was inside the building that night. In a message on Facebook,...
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IN ISRAEL, BELLEVILLE ATTACK LED THE NIGHTLY NEWSCAST
The following is adapted from a speech delivered by Ben Mulroney to the Jewish Federation of British Columbia in Victoria on Sept. 17. I’ve got a list as long as my arm of numbers detailing the rise of Jew-hate in Canada. But you don’t need the...
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COP FOILS YOM KIPPUR ATTACK
It would appear as though the antisemites have finally succeeded at preventing Jewish-Canadians from gathering to worship in peace, after shots were fired outside an Ontario synagogue during Yom Kippur services on Sunday evening. I’d say this should...
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The very big task facing PIERRE POILIEVRE
As the moon circles Earth, its gravitational pull moves the oceans back and forth, creating the cycle of high and low tides. A similar law of physics applies to Canadian politics. As U.S. President Donald Trump spins himself in and out of the news...
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Oh, look: Nicotine is back
After decades of decline, nicotine consumption in Canada is on the rise. People are smoking fewer traditional cigarettes, but alternative products such as vapes, e-cigarettes and most recently — and dramatically — nicotine pouches are taking...
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EU MAKES US AN OFFER
The European Union on Wednesday offered Canada a unique place among its bloc of 27 nations: associate member. It’s new, novel and not the panacea that Mark Carney might sell it as, according to a British academic who has spent years studying Brexit,...
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Brits mull faux fur hats over Canadian bearskin
A cross-party group of U.K. MPs has urged the country’s Ministry of Defence to end the use of real Canadian bearskin for hats worn by the guards who stand outside Buckingham Palace. In a letter to Defence Minister Luke Pollard, 18 MPs and one peer...
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B.C.’s drug experiment didn’t change OD deaths: study
British Columbia’s contentious experiment decriminalizing fentanyl, cocaine and other hard drugs was hailed by provincial health leaders as a “vital” means of keeping people from dying from drug overdoses. It appears it didn’t. New research found no...
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She won a Canadian innovation award at 16. She’s chosen the U.S. for university, and maybe her whole career.
Naila Moloo, 19, won the 2022 Canadian Youth Innovation Award at the age of 16 for creating a flexible solar panel prototype when she was a Grade 11 student at Elmwood School in Ottawa. She plans to become an entrepreneur, pursuing her own AI-startup,...
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THE UNTOLD STORY OF CANADA’S RESPONSE, HOUR BY HOUR
This is an excerpt from Ash and Honor: The Untold 368 Minutes of 9/11, by American author Jeffrey Robinson. The book tells the story of the official response to 9/11 by North American authorities. This excerpt, drawn from multiple chapters, focuses on...
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Why American NHL stars are leaving
Hockey has entered into the Canada-U.S. trade war again. Not over tariffs on hockey sticks or President Donald Trump’s AI-generated meme of himself knocking down Prime Minister Mark Carney on the ice, but as part of the conversation surrounding the...
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‘This won’t be easy, and I won’t pretend otherwise,’ PM says
U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to remove Canadian-origin products from a U.S. federal government procurement program on Tuesday, his first response since Canada hit the U.S. with retaliatory tariffs. “I am hereby directing the GSA (U.S....
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Canadian planes, the loonie locked in Trump’s sights
Several U.S. states will feel the impact of Canada’s retaliatory tariffs, including Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas and Maine, but Michigan could take the hardest hit, analysts say. The mitten-shaped state is most exposed because...
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NEPAL ‘MIRACLE’: PAIR OF TRAPPED WORKERS PULLED FROM TUNNEL.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL • Two hydropower workers were pulled alive on Friday from a tunnel buried by debris in Nepal, a rare ray of hope on the 10th day of rescue efforts after catastrophic Himalayan flooding. Rescuers cheered as one man was pulled through a...
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A system bordering on ludicrous
Helping migrants come to Canada for the purpose of making asylum claims is little different from running a tour operation in the area around the border, says Canada’s immigration board. It’s yet another entry on the long list of ways in which people...
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PM’s recruitment of Barton will please China’s Xi Jinping
There has been no greater gift to the Liberal party’s powerful pro-Beijing comprador caste than U.S. President Donald Trump’s exasperating bellicosity and exhausting trade-relations vandalism. Even after nearly a decade of scandals involving China’s...
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Talks can resume when ‘throwing shade’ ends: PM
The conflict between the Canadian and U.S. government has evolved from a trade war into a war of words. After days of strident comments and insults directed at Canada from multiple U.S. government officials, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Americans...
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We may have to accept the sting of a deal with bullies
It’ll be over by Christmas. It wasn’t true in 1914, but the trade war with the United States had better be resolved by the end of this year. If it isn’t, President Donald Trump has pledged to raise tariffs on Canadian autos to 50 per cent on New...
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HOW TO TRUMP-PROOF CANADA’S ECONOMY
Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is under attack, bombarded by U.S. tariffs and a trade partner that moves goalposts on a whim. The federal government’s initial response was to offer short-term support for companies and workers hit by this...
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Lake Ontario America ‘effective immediately’
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order in the Oval Office to rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” immediately. “That’s going to take place right now as I sign the order,” he said during a livestream from the White House...
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ANNUAL CUSMA REVIEW LIKELY ‘NOT ANY TIME SOON’
Canada’s former chief trade negotiator Steve Verheul doesn’t expect formal negotiations on the review of the Canada-United States-Mexico-Agreement between Canada and the U.S. to happen any time soon, following the collapse of trade talks between the...
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Did Howard Lutnick kill the deal?
OT TAWA • Prime Minister Mark Carney told Canadians that he ended trade talks with the Americans because the gap between the two countries was simply “too wide in recent days” to strike a deal. In reality, however, sources say, it was really just one...
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THE CANADA-U.S. TRADE WAR
U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose a 50 per cent tariff on Canadian autos, trucks and auto parts, while Prime Minister Mark Carney said it would require a change in “attitude” from the U.S. to restart negotiations after trade talks...
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Tobi Lütke will not comply: Shopify CEO vs. Laurentian elite
Canada has a particularly robust immune system, but rather than rejecting what is harmful, the country's Laurentian standard-bearers swoop in to attack anything that could be positive, particularly if it is not aligned with a mushy left-wing world view...
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Leafs star Tavares to appear in court to fight $8M tax bill
Toronto Maple Leafs star centre John Tavares is set to take the witness stand in a Toronto courtroom Tuesday, in a trial over the taxation of his signing bonus for leaving the New York Islanders to join his hometown team in 2018. At stake for Tavares...
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The slow, heartbreaking death of a Ukraine city
The streets are all-but deserted, but the mood of Ukraine's embattled city of Kramatorsk is emblazoned in foot-high letters across the walls of its ravaged buildings. “This house is like my life: Russia ruined it too.” You can hear the war constantly...
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ANAND'S `MISINFORMED' CONDEMNATION OF ISRAEL
The recent statement by Global Affairs Canada condemning “the ongoing violence in the West Bank” and exhorting against “the expansion of Israeli settlements” invites some analysis and clarification inasmuch as it appears to be both misinformed and...
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`A bad deal for Canada from the start'
We learned this week the outcome of Canada’s gunpoint renegotiation with the United States over revenue from the new Gordie Howe International Bridge, an impressive $6.4-billion cross-border span that Canada paid for and is now finally able to open for...
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William Shatner is 95 years old. And this. Dramatic. Montrealer. Will. Not. Go. Quietly.
Even as he faces his own final frontier, 95-yearold William Shatner is in constant motion, burnishing his legacy as one of Canada's most versatile, consequential — and busiest — entertainers. An actor, author, singer, astronaut and icon, Shatner has...
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SCENES FROM A TORONTO IN DECLINE
What if Canada's largest city started shrinking, and it wasn't all that huge an issue, even with a municipal election just months away? This is the odd situation in which Toronto, forever caught between aspiring to and boasting of “world class” status,...
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One law for First Nations, another for everyone else
There are two kinds of lobster trappers in St. Mary's Bay, Nova Scotia: the non-Indigenous ones who have to abide by federal law, and the Indigenous ones who apparently don't. The Liberal approach to governing the fishery has bred tension and violence...
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THE TERRIFYING RISE OF THE BISHNOI GANG IN CANADA
On May 4, a gunman strolled casually into a business complex in Surrey, B.C., in broad daylight and shot Gurvikramjeet Singh Warring, an Indian immigrant who was renting an office space there. Warring, as the CBC's Fifth Estate would later report,...
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Carney no match for Bond villain Trump T
here was a cinematic quality to the Wall Street Journal's profile of Prime Minister Mark Carney this week, entitled, “The Canadian Who Steered Europe Away from the U.S.” It's almost as if the authors had an eye on the movie version. President Donald...
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PM backs U.S. strikes on Iran, Trump warns more to come
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Washington responded “as appropriate” to Tehran's attacks in the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. President Donald Trump, meanwhile, declared that the ceasefire with Iran's “cuckoo” leaders is “over” and threatened further...
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Sisters symbols of freedom in brutal, emboldened Iran
Mandana and Mahsa Sotoudeh are free now. That's the good news. It's bittersweet, all the same. Last Wednesday morning, without any explanation, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' intelligence forces released 38-year-old Mandana and her...
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Hamas lays bare PM's big mistake on recognizing `Palestine.'
The obvious problem with rewarding terrorists is that they tend to take advantage. So it is with Hamas. Almost a year ago, Mark Carney signalled his intention to recognize the state of “Palestine” and since then Hamas has: grown stronger; rearmed;...
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SIBLING RIVALRY
The United States of America turns 250 today, and Canadians can celebrate a long, remarkable alliance while chafing at our growing conflicts. Our anti-American streak is only getting stronger, with a new poll revealing we have a far more negative view...
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KYIV SHAKEN BY WORST DAY OF WAR YET
When 17-year-old Karolina Shevchuk's phone warned a Russian missile was headed toward her district of Kyiv, she decided against seeking shelter, choosing instead to stay in her apartment. It was only when she went outside to look for her cat and a...
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Iranian embassy a dangerous proposition
The suggestion last week by Prime Minister Mark Carney that Canada should consider reopening an embassy in the Islamic Republic of Iran for the sake of “engagement” could lead to dangerous results. Reopening embassies are not one-way streets. If Iran...
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How this man became Canada's favourite arrogant American
When Jesse Marsch was the head coach of one of the biggest football clubs in northern England, supporters there were quick to give him a nickname: Ted Lasso. It was not intended as a compliment. Leeds United fans were not comparing Marsch to the...
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DOMINION of FREEDOM
While Canadians are a patriotic lot, one in four are not overly confident in the country's long-term future, according to a new Postmedia-Leger poll. The survey found that 15 per cent of Canadians do not think Canada “with its current borders and...
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PM ghosts Israeli ambassador over `Nakba' exhibit concerns
The National Post has learned that Prime Minister Mark Carney has not responded to a letter sent more than a week ago by Israel's ambassador to Canada, outlining his concerns about the Canadian Museum for Human Rights' “Nakba” exhibit, which is slated...
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Canada lives to play another day at World Cup, despite 2-1 loss
Canada, in white, pushed hard till the end, but fell 2-1 to Switzerland in their World Cup showdown in Vancouver Wednesday. Still, Canada finished second in its group and advances to the knockout round.
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A GUNMAN'S LONG TRAIL OF ROILING RESENTMENTS
On Monday, in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood, 25-year-old Seth Hatfield of Lethbridge, Alta., is alleged to have carried out a shooting that resulted in the deaths of an officer and a civilian before he was fatally shot by police. Initial...
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`SHOOTING IN ALL DIRECTIONS': MELÉE CLAIMS POLICE, CIVILIAN
Adramatic shootout between police and an armed man in a busy Montreal neighbourhood left three people dead Monday morning, including a police officer, a civilian and the alleged shooter himself. A second officer was shot but expected to survive....
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Stronach, 93, convicted
Frank Stronach, the auto parts billionaire accused of preying on young women at the Toronto nightclub he owned in the 1980s and pressuring them into his condo for sex against their will, is guilty of one count of sexual assault and one of indecent...
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Recent Charter rulings are eroding democracy
The 1982 enactment of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms was seen as a pivotal moment in our nation's history. Yet, even at the time of its adoption, some voices in the legal profession and legal academy argued it would weaken Canada's tradition of...
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SpaceX IPO sends Ontario teachers' pension soaring
In one of the more notable ironies of SpaceX's multitrillion-dollar initial public offering, one of Canada's greatest beneficiaries of the launch is a demographic ideologically opposed to a lot of what CEO Elon Musk stands for. A major early investor...
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`Tide is turning,' Carney tells Zelenskyy at G7
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a fresh round of sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that a Ukrainian victory in the four-year conflict is not in doubt. “The tide is turning as expected in this...
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In Canadian first, Yukon creates race-based parking
As part of their stated commitment to “decolonization and Indigenization” in health care, the Yukon is debuting Indigenous-only parking spaces at all three of its hospitals. In a social media post last week, Yukon Hospitals announced that the...
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`THEY'RE ABSOLUTELY FRINGE'
At the height of protests in Iran this Januar y, Mona Ghassani, the president of the Iranian Canadian Congress (ICC), was invited to speak on CBC. Amid news reports estimating government forces had killed upwards of 20,000 civilians, Ghassani told...
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OFFICER SLAIN IN RAID TIED TO CONSULATE SHOOTING
A Toronto police officer was killed early Thursday morning during a raid on an apartment building tied to an investigation into the American consulate shooting. “It is with deep and profound sorrow that I must confirm the death of Police Constable Marc...
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From an MBA to killer to freedom
The schizophrenic woman who committed a notorious killing of an innocent stranger in a downtown Toronto Shoppers Drug Mart more than 10 years ago has been granted an absolute discharge, freeing her entirely from the restrictions of the justice...
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