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NP View: Globalizing the ‘intifada’ means war on Canada
Activists in Canada and elsewhere who want to "globalize the intifada" are effectively calling for the murder of Jews. There should be no doubt this is what the phrase means for many of those who would put it into action. To naively — or cynically — argue otherwise is to wilfully ignore reality and risk Canadian lives. Read More
Anthony Housefather: The Combatting Hate Act actually protects communities of faith
An important underlying purpose of the Combatting Hate Act is protecting communities of faith. Nobody should be intimidated or obstructed when they want to go pray. The act gives police clear tools to intervene when intimidation or obstruction of a community space occurs. It is an important signal that Parliament expects police and prosecutors to act to protect communities of faith. Read More
Janet Ecker: What can a non-Jew do to stop the hate?
For students of history, watching coverage of the tragic shooting of Jewish Australians on Bondi Beach this past weekend was a reminder of how it all started in Nazi Germany before the Second World War. Read More
NP View: America is still our best bet
Canada has been blessed by geography. Given the chance, any nation would choose the Americans as neighbours. The benefits of living next to (and being closely allied with) the greatest military and economic power in history has enriched Canada for generations, something the Mark Carney government should keep in mind as it navigates some of the more challenging aspects of having a great power for a neighbour. Read More
Bryan Brulotte: Carney’s deputy minister shuffle could show that he’s serious
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Friday decision to reshuffle the senior ranks of the federal public service is both welcome and overdue. For too long, Ottawa’s machinery of government has operated on inertia rather than intention, insulated from accountability and resistant to course correction. A prime minister serious about governing cannot allow that to continue. In that sense, these changes were a necessary first step. Read More
Brad Bradford: Toronto transit violence is rising — Mayor Chow can’t pretend otherwise
The most basic job of government, at all levels, is to keep citizens safe. That is twice as true when it comes to government-operated transit systems. Unfortunately, the latest national investigation into transit violence paints a troubling picture that reflects what riders in Toronto and across the country experience every single day. According to new data released in a CBC feature story, the number of reported assaults on Toronto-area transit has risen by 160 per cent since 2015. Overall, violent incidents are up 127 per cent. Read More
Counterpoint: Canada has a duty to make up for the historical dispossession of Indigenous people
If Canadians want to understand why our country faces persistent tensions on questions of Indigenous rights and belonging, we must move beyond the oversimplified narrative espoused by Tom Flanagan and Mark Milke in the National Post that everyone is a settler and therefore no one has obligations to First Nations. Read More
Raheel Raza: Join spiritually-awakened Muslims in the fight against antisemitism
The world is still reeling from the heart-rending massacre of Jews attending a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, where on Dec. 14 at least 15 people were murdered and 40 were hospitalized. The youngest fatal victim was a 10-year-old girl. Read More
Tony Abbott: Bondi massacre is what happens when assimilation fails
It’s Australia’s great shame that the worst atrocity to befall Jewish people since the October 7 massacre should have taken place here. Australia now joins all the other Western countries that are obviously plagued by militant Islam, notwithstanding the heroics of a Muslim bystander, who wrestled a gun off one of the attackers. Read More
Mohamed Fahmy: I’ve seen the Muslim Brotherhood’s violent ideology first hand. Canada must designate it a terrorist entity
As an Egyptian-Canadian journalist of the Muslim faith and human rights defender, I strongly urge the Canadian government to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. Read More
Counterpoint: B.C.’s reconciliation work is necessary and hardly extreme
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Brendan O’Neill: Islamic extremism is a threat. Islamophobia is a racket
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese spoke a total of 5,022 words in the day after the slaughter of Jews at Bondi Beach. And not one of those words was “Islam.” Or “Muslim.” Or even “Islamic extremism.” Read More
Opinion: Toronto is the natural home for the Defence, Security and Resilience Bank
With global security and our world order increasingly at risk, financing has become a critical enabler of defence, resilience and economic security. Read More
Barry Cooper: The Sydney attack was about spiritual — not political — terrorism
From the October 7 massacre by Hamas to the slaughter at Bondi Beach in Sydney on Sunday, Islamists would have the world believe that the cause of all the mayhem is the existence of Israel. For Islamists and their apologists, the problem is simple: are you with the oppressor or the oppressed? Read More
Terry Barnes: Anthony Albanese’s deadly political calculation
Australian Opposition Leader Sussan Ley is not the most astute of politicians. But in the immediate aftermath of Sunday’s two-man jihad massacre at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach, she made a cutting observation. Read More
Dramatic dashcam footage shows Jewish couple’s attempt to stop Bondi Beach attacker
A Jewish couple in their 60s tried to stop one of the alleged Bondi Beach attackers by grabbing his gun, dramatic dashcam footage shows. Read More