The back-to-back assassinations of Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran were acts of either strategic folly or willful pyromania. While Israel has claimed responsibility for the former and remained cryptic about the latter, there is little doubt that it orchestrated both — and even some of its allies believe that, this time, the Israelis went too far.
We’re already in a regional war. Only a Gaza ceasefire can end it
Score a significant victory against apartheid, genocide and Canada’s most significant contribution to Palestinian dispossession. The powerful Jewish National Fund of Canada has reportedly had its charitable status revoked.
Under pressure from Independent Jewish Voices (IJV) and others the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) instigated an audit of the JNF in 2018. JNF Canada was eventually forced to differentiate itself from its parent organization in Israel and to stop “co-mingling” its funds with that organization. JNF Canada was also instructed to stop assisting projects in the illegally occupied West Bank and initiatives supporting the Israeli military. But, apparently it failed to fulfill the Revenue Agency’s requests and now the CRA has rescinded its ability to grant donors tax credits.
Canada set to revoke Jewish National Fund’s charitable status
An honourable way out of complicity in genocide does not exist. Certainly, governments may be able to rely on the fact that Israel has, so far, failed to provide credible evidence to justify its allegations that UNRWA staff members were involved in the 7 October incursion into Israel. But genocide is a war crime, and starvation as a weapon of genocide is not only dishonourable, but intentional.
Source: Gaza Aid and the West: An Honorable Way out of Complicity in Genocide Does not Exist
Trucks get in but the IDF is stopping them. Israel hasn’t provided sufficient entry points near the areas most needed. So to self-congratulations is stands out and shines a spotlight on their real intent to continue to weaponize starvation.
“The work that UNWRA does cannot be overstated,” said Canadian lawmaker Salma Zahid. “It will save lives as we have seen the visuals of children dying of hunger in Gaza. The need for immediate aid is non-negotiable.”
Source: Canada, Sweden Restore UNRWA Funds as Report Accuses Israel of Torturing Agency Staff
One such event might be questionable but several starts to be as suspicious as Russian Oligarchs accidentally falling out of hospital windows. PM Modi has a noted history when it comes to the blood spilled by Hindu Nationalists.
Of late, that lack of conspicuousness has been challenged. On September 18, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed that there were “credible allegations” that agents in the pay of the Indian government had murdered Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a vocal supporter for an independent Sikh homeland known as Khalistan and deemed by Indian authorities since 2020 to be a terrorist. He was alone in his truck when he was shot to death on June 18 outside the Surrey temple, Guru Nanak Gurdwara.
The Indian response was predictably sharp, with New Delhi also expelling a “senior Canadian diplomat,” asking the individual to leave within five days. Prior to that, the Canadian high commissioner to India, Cameron MacKay, was summoned for a bit of an ear-bashing, while the Indian Ministry of External Affairs expressed the “Government of India’s growing concern at the interference of Canadian diplomats in our internal matters and their involvement in anti-India activities.”
TORONTO (AP) — Canada said it was expelling a top Indian diplomat Monday as it investigates what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called credible allegations that India’s government may have had links to the assassination in Canada of a Sikh activist.
Source: Canada Expels Top Indian Diplomat As It Probes Sikh Activist’s Killing | HuffPost Latest News
“I’m completely in favor of a Bay of Pigs operation to liberate that country,” Carlson said. “Why should we stand back and let our biggest trading partner, the country with which we share the longest border — a great country — why should we let it become Cuba?”
(Canada is not a communist country nor does it have any chance of being one.)
“Like, why don’t we liberate it? We’re spending all this money to liberate Ukraine from the Russians, why are we not sending an armed force north to liberate Canada from Trudeau, and I mean it?” Carlson chimed.
Source: Tucker Carlson Proposes The US Invade Canada To Liberate Them | Crooks and Liars
Australia’s elites not only believe but speak much the same as do Newzealanders with one exception they have no treaty with their Indigenous peoples, no Bill of Rights and believe neither is needed.
Even though most Canadians would prefer an elected head of state, Charles III is the country’s new king. But enduring monarchism does suit Canadian elites, whose worldview is sustained by the idea of inherited privilege and power embodied by the crown.
Vancouver, British Columbia: Canada’s government has announced it will allow the province of British Columbia to try a three-year experiment in decriminalising possession of small amounts of drugs, hoping it will ease the fear of arrest by those who need help and stem a record number of overdose deaths.
Source: Canadian province to decriminalise cocaine, opioids and ecstasy
Canadian Diplomat acts like drug dealers do legal or not they Lie
It is unclear to me why Wettlaufer thinks she can get away with a lie so easily disproved. Perhaps she is unused to having journalists question Canada’s self-image as a benign force promoting human rights, instead of what it is: one settler colony built on genocide, standing shoulder to shoulder with another.
Source: Canadian diplomat gets caught lying about Israel arms sales | The Electronic Intifada
This article might focus on Canada but it has wider relevance to the mega growth of private security globally. Had Trump been able to deploy the private army in the US on Jan 6th the world would be a significantly different place today. Do we think for a moment Morrison’s LNP wouldn’t be by his side today?
The foreign military pullout and Taliban capture of Kabul has decimated the large PSC industry in Afghanistan. Most Afghans are likely happy to see the end of private mercenary forces and hired guns dominating their country. In Canada, however, the negative features of PSC deployment in the country have gone largely unreported by the media. The CBC — among other news outlets — owes Canadians a discussion about the role private security forces played in Afghanistan.
Source: Canadian Private Security Companies Have Wreaked Havoc in Afghanistan
Conservatives in Australia refuse to even address issues of this nature in Australia. Why was a population of 700k reduced to half in less than 200 years? Instead crying that any attempt to investigate these matters is necessary to do so is regaled as a form of “Black Racism”, an effort to “Cancel and tarnish White Culture”, and some form of “Race Replacement”. Andrew Bolt, who is obsessed with matters of race rales against any critical assessment let alone discussed in our classrooms. British Colonialism arrived on these shores with a mindset well and truly established and practiced in other settler colonies and it certainly wasn’t one with human rights in mind.
“The Final Solution” is a term coined by the Nazi party, describing their plan for the genocide and murder of Jews during the second World War. It represented a policy of deliberate and systematic genocide which culminated in the Holocaust. The type of genocidal actions witnessed during World War 2, and in many other parts of the world, is something that also occurred in North America prior to the Second World War. Some Scholars have estimated that prior to the ‘discovery’ of the Americas by Europeans, the pre-contact era population could have been as high as 100 million people. We are taught in high school that the mass disappearance and depopulation of the indigenous was due to disease brought over by the Europeans, but recent history involving the Canadian residential school system may be a catalyst for many to question this narrative. There were most certainly other factors.
“The United States is not in a place where we would feel comfortable reopening those borders,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
Amid Trump Failure to Get Pandemic Under Control, Canada Extends Border Closure With US | Common Dreams News
Canada and NZ show us what Australia isn’t. So what’s the difference the Government and who in particular Abbott, Morrison and Dutton crafted a viscious difference based on irrational FEAR for little more than 30 pieces of political gold (ODT)
The family are now permanent residents in Canada, welcomed under a Canadian government sponsorship system which is increasingly becoming the final life raft for the refugees left in the limbo of Australia’s infamous offshore processing system.
The two Canadians were arrested shortly after Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou was detained
During interrogation the pair will be put under immense pressure, a former ambassador to China says
China experts are concerned the pair are being used as political hostages
Last year, the Canadian government set an ambitious target of admitting 1 million total immigrants from 2018-2020. The target for next year is 330,000 immigrants, of which about 190,000 will be economic migrants. The remainder will enter under the family reunification category and the refugee, humanitarian and protected category.
via Why Canada’s immigration system has been a success, and what Australia can learn from it
Not quite. Our neighbor to the north, Canada, has a population slightly more than one-tenth that of the United States – and an economy slightly less than one-tenth the size. Like the United States, Canada carefully screens applicants for admission as refugees and has had great success in integrating them into Canadian society. Canada is now taking in 27,000 refugees a year. To match Canada, the United States would have to accept about 250,000 refugees a year.
It is big corporations, not small independent producers, who will reap the benefits of cannabis legalization in Canada – but what will that mean for musicians and artists?
via Goodbye counterculture: what will happen when weed goes corporate? | World news | The Guardian
In 2014 the federal judge referred to accuser as ‘the accused’ throughout trial but now says he didn’t understand sexual assault law
A PROPOSED free mobility labour zone between Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada has strong support, according to a poll.
Palestine solidarity activists have proven they can exert pressure on Canadian politicians.
Source: Has Canada’s love affair with Israel reached its climax? | The Electronic Intifada
http://www.democracynow.org/2015/6/3/cultural_genocide_landmark_report_decries_canadas
Andrew Bolt would have us believe Australia,NZ,Canada and USA all former British colonies treated their Indigenous populations entirely differently. That Church policies differed from country to country and that the notion of Christian kindness was applied differently in each location. If one assumes that then it follows the notion of an Anglosphere is as much a myth as British Colonial Rule. Cultural genocide was a fact then and Bolt in pursuit of Assimilation advocates it today.
In the same week that Tony Abbott declared the dumping of Australia’s carbon price as his greatest achievement for women for 2014, one of his greatest allies in climate denial – Canadian PM Stephen Harper – has made what appears to be an about face on pricing carbon, conceding in an interview that he would be open to the idea of such a policy mechanism for the whole of Canada.
Just last week, Harper – whose approach to climate and energy policy has largely mirrored that of the Australian PM – called the idea of imposing federal rules on Canada’s oil and gas industry “crazy.”
“Under the current circumstances of the oil and gas sector, it would be crazy, it would be crazy economic policy to do unilateral penalties on that sector. We’re clearly not going to do it,” Harper said in the House of Commons.
Days later, however, Harper told a CBC News correspondent that he’d be open to using a carbon-pricing system like that implemented in the state of Alberta for the entire continent.
In Alberta, energy heavy polluting companies are required to reduce their energy intensity, or improve their energy efficiency, annually. If they don’t, they must contribute to a technology fund at $15 a tonne for carbon emissions.
“I think it’s a model on which you could, on which you could go broader,” Harper said in Wednesday’s interview.
“It’s not a levy, it’s a price. And there’s a tech fund in which … [the] private sector makes investments.”
Harper also told the interviewer his government was doing its bit in the fight against global warming, and that Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions had dropped on his watch.
This change of attitude from Harper on carbon pricing reflects badly on Tony Abbott, who just six months stood beside his Canadian counterpart – literally and figuratively – in taking a hard line against climate measures they described as economically reckless.
As CBC News reported in June, “the Canadian and Australian prime ministers, who praised each other’s policies and called each other by their first names, met in Ottawa as Abbott stopped in on his way to Washington, DC.
And it quoted Harper, who said “no matter what they say, no country is going to take actions that are going to deliberately destroy jobs and growth in their country. We are just a little more frank about that.
“It’s not that we don’t seek to deal with climate change. But we seek to deal with it in a way that will protect and enhance our ability to create jobs and growth, not destroy jobs and growth in our countries. And frankly, every single country in the world, this is their position,” Harper said.
Abbott, meanwhile, has nominated the dumping of Australia’s world-leading carbon price as his top political achievement for the year – as Minister for Women.
“Well, you know, it is very important to do the right thing by families and households,” Abbott told Channel 9’s Today How on Monday morning.
“As many of us know, women are particularly focused on the household budget and the repeal of the carbon tax means a $550 a year benefit for the average family.”
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (CT&P) – A masked gunman killed a soldier standing guard at Canada’s war memorial Wednesday, then stormed Parliament in an attack that was stopped cold when he was shot to death by the ceremonial sergeant-at-arms. Canada’s prime minister called it the country’s second terrorist attack in three days.
Investigators offered little information about the gunman, identified as 32-year-old petty criminal Michael Zehaf-Bibeau. But Prime Minister Stephen Harper said: “In the days to come we will learn about the terrorist and any accomplices he may have had.”
In a televised address to the nation, Canada’s prime minister said Wednesday’s fatal shooting of a Canadian soldier in Ottawa and a hit-and-run that killed another earlier this week are grim reminders that Canada is not immune to terrorism.
Harper said the two separate attacks will strengthen Canada’s resolve to work to keep Canada safe and work with allies around the world to fight terrorist organizations.
“But let there be no misunderstanding, we will not be intimidated. Canada will never be intimidated,” said Harper.
After the nearly twenty-minute speech, Prime Minister Harper then proceeded to repeat himself word-for-word in French, so no one who lives in Quebec would get their feelings hurt. The repetition turned what would have been an uplifting address to the nation into an almost hour-long marathon of political correctness run amok.
“It’s another example of why the Canadians are so difficult to work with,” said Andrew McCabe, head of the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division. “Every time I call up my counterpart in Ottawa the son of a bitch has to repeat every thing he says to me over the phone in French. It’s absolutely ridiculous.”
Current head of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson agreed with McCabe, and told reporters that Zehaf-Bibeau could have been apprehended before he got to the parliament building if the cops that were chasing him just shot his ass instead of trying to address him in two different languages.
“We think our friends from north of the border could decrease their response time by half just by dropping this idiotic regulation that law enforcement personnel have to repeat themselves in French every time they address a suspect,” said Johnson.
“I mean how ridiculous is it that you say “HALT! Stop or I’ll shoot!”, then immediately have to say “HALTE! Arrete ou je tire!” said an exasperated Johnson.
“The next thing you know they’ll have to include Arabic so as not to offend the fucking terrorist they are trying to apprehend!”
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