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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

By: Stewart Phillip, Terry Teegee and Shana Thomas   Read More

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

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With global security and our world order increasingly at risk, financing has become a critical enabler of defence, resilience and economic security. Read More

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

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

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