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Friday, August 15, 2025

Montreal anti-Israel activist calls for Hamas to repeat Oct. 7 attack at rally

By
Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire
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Source: Wikipedia

Mahmoud Khalil, an activist with the Palestinian Youth Movement, called for the designated terror group Hamas to repeat the Oct. 7 terror attacks, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took hundreds hostage. 

The rally was billed as a celebration of a cease-fire being declared between Hamas and Israel earlier that day.

Video circulating online shared of Khalil at a ceasefire celebration protest in Montreal shows the man leading chants in Arabic honouring the eliminated terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar and calling for Hamas to “repeat the strike,” a reference to the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack, which started the 2023 Israel-Hamas war.

“We have heard the sound of sirens. Rest in Peace, O Sinwar,” Khalil said in a video reposted by X user “Leviathan.”

“O resistance repeat the strike,” he said. “Kidnap the soldiers and free the prisoners.”

Montreal police did not comment before the deadline provided.

Khalil has been in the news before for his anti-Israel remarks at protests throughout Canada. He was featured in a National Post article for pledging his allegiance to Mohammad Deif, known as one of the Oct. 7 attack’s Hamas masterminds.

A year after the Oct. 7 attack, Khalil led a large group of protesters in cheering on Hamas’ attacks against Israelis and declaring himself as part of their “resistance.”


Khalil graduated from Concordia University with a mechanical engineering course in 2022 but has become a staple in Montreal’s anti-Israel scene since then.

He used to post regularly on his now-deleted Instagram page 

X user “Leviathan” has also identified Khalil as an individual who called for Hamas and Islamic Jihad to be removed from the terrorist watch list and for plugging his phone into a speaker system in Toronto to play a speech from Hamas spokesperson Abu Obaidu.

Hamas’ guiding charter has the “vanquishing” of their “enemy,” the Jews, written into the terrorist organization’s constitution.

Also, Wednesday at the rally billed as a celebration of a ceasefire declared between Hamas and Israel earlier that day, protesters were recorded calling all the Jews in Israel “settlers” who had to go home.

A video captured by Rebel News reporter Alexandra Lavoie shows protesters at the rally calling for the eradication of Israel via chants of “from the river to the sea,” a reference to the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Montreal Mayor Valérie Planteid did not respond to True North’s requests to comment.

Carney’s involvement with Stripe triggers the ire of small businesses 

By
Quinn Patrick, True North Wire
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Source: Facebook

A small business advocacy group has called out Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney for his involvement with a payment processor known for allegedly predatory practices.

The company in question is Stripe, an Irish-American multinational corporation that provides financial and software services for payment processing. It’s also the world’s largest privately-owned fintech company valued at over $70 billion last year.

The Canadian Federation of Independent Businesses already had issues with the company for evading Canadian laws to pass on credit card savings to small businesses using its service, something the Government of Canada requires merchant processors to do. 

“As the Liberal leadership race begins, I note an outstanding issue for small business owners with one of the leading potential candidates,” wrote Dan Kelly, president of the CFIB in a post to X on Tuesday. 

“Unless something has changed in the last few days, Mr. Carney serves on the board of @stripe – a multinational firm that processes credit card transactions. Currently, Stripe stands in open defiance of Government of Canada rules requiring card processors to pass on recent Visa/Mastercard savings to small businesses.”

Carney, who previously served as the governor to both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, joined Stripe’s board of directors in 2021 and held the position until entering the Liberal leadership race on Thursday. 

His campaign did not respond to True North’s request for comment.  

Carney simultaneously resigned as chair of the board of Bloomberg LP, a financial data and media company run by billionaire Michael Bloomberg as well as serving on the advisory board for investment firm PIMCO.

Additionally, Carney held the position of UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and co-chair of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero but stepped down from those positions as well.

“All of those roles, I resigned today,” Carney told reporters on Thursday during his campaign launch announcement. “Just to be clear, I resigned all my roles, cut all my ties. I am all in.”

Because Carney is a candidate running without a seat in the House of Commons, he is not subjected to the same conflict-of-interest rules as those who are elected.

While he still faces some outstanding conflict-of-interest issues, Carney said he would fully comply with the rules required of cabinet ministers and MPs should he become the next Liberal leader. 

For the time being, Carney said that he is a “citizen that is running for a position,” but “will absolutely proactively engage and follow” all rules once leader.

The details of Carney’s finances for serving in those various corporate roles will not be made public as they are private companies. 

However, as Kelly pointed out in his statement the federal government pledged to take action with such exploitative practices engaged in by companies like Stripe as part of its Fall Economic Statement. 

“Some small businesses are unable to benefit from savings due to the unreasonably high merchant fees charged by certain payment processors. Specifically, some payment processors are charging flat-fees that do not pass on the savings from our deals to small businesses,” it reads. 

“To ensure small businesses benefit from lower credit card fees, the 2024 Fall Economic Statement announces the government is considering legislative measures to compel payment processors to fully pass credit card transaction fee savings on to small businesses.”

The Department of Finance did not respond to True North’s request for comment and Carney has made no mention of whether he would follow through with Ottawa’s pledge if elected as prime minister. 

“Stripe has decided to keep the government negotiated savings for itself, rather than passing them on to small business owners,” said Kelly. “This issue needs to be resolved.”

Those are no small savings either considering Stripe processed $1 trillion in payments in 2023, a 25% increase from the year before when it processed $817 billion.

Off the Record | Will Canada survive the Trump tariffs?

By
Isaac Lamoureux
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Source: Facebook

It’s only a matter of days before President Donald Trump is inaugurated and the threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian products is becoming more real. Meanwhile, the Trudeau government is in the midst of a leadership change and Alberta isn’t buying into Prime Minister Trudeau’s “Team Canada approach.” Does Canada even have a plan? How will we respond?

Plus, former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney threw his hat in the ring to replace Trudeau as Liberal leader. This is the same guy who told a crowd at the World Economic Forum that he identifies as a European.

And Conservative Party of British Columbia Leader John Rustad announced his party has discovered alleged voting irregularities in one of the 2024 provincial election’s closest ridings – Surrey-Guildford. The BC NDP won the riding by a margin of just 22 votes after a judicial recount.

These stories and more on Off the Record with Isaac Lamoureux, Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Noah Jarvis!

Freeland to launch Liberal leadership bid with “counterpunch” to Trump tariffs

By
Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire
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Source: Facebook

Former deputy prime minister and finance minister Chrystia Freeland has officially announced that she will launch her campaign to become Canada’s next Prime Minister on the eve of the inauguration of President Donald Trump.

Freeland scrubbed her Instagram page on Friday, leaving only two posts, one in English and one in French, announcing that she would be running for Liberal party leadership.

“I’m running to fight for Canada,” reads the post shared to multiple social media sites.

Just hours before, Freeland shared an OP-ed she wrote, published in the Toronto Star, focusing heavily on the US-Canada relationship and the history of Canada fighting for its sovereignty.

“At a time when President Donald Trump is threatening our country, it’s time to stand up for Canada. We are a country by choice,” she said in the opinion piece. “Canada exists because generations of Canadians have chosen to stand for Canada, to build Canada and to fight for Canada.”

She spoke about the Confederation of Canada beginning as a response to threats of U.S. expansion fueled by the idea of manifest destiny. She related the history of fighting for sovereignty to the response she would take to address Trump’s recent threats to use economic coercion and merge Canada and the U.S.

Trump initially threatened 25% tariffs on Canadian imports until it secured its borders against illegal immigration and drug smuggling. Still, his rhetoric evolved after weeks of calling Canada the 51st state to include threats of economic force to annex Canada.

“President Donald Trump thinks tariff is the most beautiful word in the dictionary. He has spoken about redrawing borders — and has threatened economic coercion to do so,” she said in the Toronto Star Op-Ed.

“While it may be tempting to turn the other cheek, we must take President Trump at his word. Hope is not a strategy, and capitulation is not an option,” she said. “Now is the time for us to be strong, united and smart.”

She vowed to match Trump’s tariffs “dollar for dollar.”

“If you hit us, we will hit back. We will not escalate, but we will never back down,” she said. “ If President Trump imposes 25% tariffs, our counterpunch must be dollar-for-dollar — and it must be precisely and painfully targeted.”

She noted that Florida orange growers, Michigan dishwasher manufacturers and Wisconsin dairy farmers should “brace” for a response, noting that Canada is America’s largest export market.

“(Canada’s market) is bigger than China, Japan, the U.K., and France combined,” she said. “If pushed, our response will be the single largest trade blow the U.S. economy has ever endured.”

She said that using a dollar-for-dollar retaliation, a Liberal government could generate up to $150 billion, which Freeland said could be used for handouts to Canadians and businesses to “weather this essential fight.”

Despite being an opponent of natural liquid gas pipelines such as the Energy East pipeline, which would have enabled Canada to export LNG across seas, Freeland vowed to “support the security of Asian allies” by providing them with LNG.

According to the Canada Energy Regulator, Canada exported 50% of its total natural gas production in 2021, though 100% of those exports went to the U.S. alone.

Freeland also vowed to reinforce the Canada-U.S. border and ramp up defence in Canada’s Arctic, addressing two concerns of the incoming U.S. administration.

Freeland’s main competition in the Liberal leadership race is former Bank of Canada governor and godfather to one of her children, Mark Carney.

Carney launched his campaign to become Canada’s next prime minister Thursday.

Others confirmed in the leadership race are government house leader Karina Gould, Liberal MP Chandra Arya, and former Liberal MP Frank Baylis.

The liberal leadership race is set to conclude by Mar. 9.

Taxpayer advocate says Chrystia Freeland must prove opposition to carbon tax

By
Noah Jarvis
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Source: X

Former Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland is planning on scrapping the federal consumer carbon tax if she is elected as the Liberal party’s leader and prime minister.

However, an advocate on behalf of Canadian taxpayers says that Freeland must prove her opposition to the carbon tax and avoid conceiving of similar programs that would merely replace the federal carbon pricing scheme.

On Thursday, CTV News reported that a close confidante of the Freeland campaign said she would run for the leadership of the Liberal party on an anti-carbon tax platform, promising to replace the tax with a program developed in collaboration with the provinces.

“She is ready to make difficult decisions to meet our emissions targets and make sure big polluters pay for their outsized emissions. But she will not fight Canadians on a policy, they have been clear, they do not support,” the source said.

“That’s why Chrystia Freeland will replace the consumer carbon price with a system that will work within our federation and will be developed collaboratively with provinces and territories.”

During her time working as minister of finance for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Freeland helped the government pursue its pollution pricing policy, drafting budgets with annual carbon tax hikes and defending the carbon tax in question period. 

“I am really proud to be a member of a government that has made climate action a priority. Ours is the only major party that continues to advocate for a price on pollution, the most economically rational way to fight climate change,” said Freeland in the House of Commons this past fall.

Federal Director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation Franco Terrazzano told True North that Freeland’s commitment to scrap the consumer carbon tax is not enough, and that she must prove to Canadians that she truly opposes the measure.

“Taxpayers have trust issues, so all Liberal leadership candidates, including Freeland, must prove they are against carbon taxes by calling on the government to scrap the carbon tax immediately,” said Terrazzano.

“The Conservatives are running on a promise to ‘Axe the Tax.’ If Liberal front-runners now say they don’t support the carbon tax, then the government should scrap the carbon tax now, not after the government hikes the tax again on April 1.”

Terrazzano said that he is encouraged to see pro-carbon tax politicians withdraw their support from the taxation scheme.

“Politicians are backing away from the carbon tax because ordinary Canadians have fought it aggressively for years,” said Terrazzano. 

“The people deserve credit for the collapse of the carbon tax. Politicians know Canadians don’t support the carbon tax and they can’t run on carbon taxes if they want to keep their cushy political jobs.

However, he says there is more work to be done in scraping the federal carbon tax.

“It’s good to see politicians talking about opposing carbon taxes, but taxpayers will be watching to make sure a new carbon tax isn’t hidden behind a new name.”

The Toronto Star has reported that leadership candidate Mark Carney has been telling Liberal MPs in private that he would repeal the consumer carbon tax while keeping the carbon tax on industry.

Durham MP Jamil Jivani to attend Trump’s inauguration

By
Clayton DeMaine, True North Wire
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Source: X

Conservative MP Jamil Jivani will be travelling to Washington, D.C., to attend President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration and begin setting the groundwork for a potential Conservative government’s relationship with the U.S.

Jivani won a landslide victory in a GTA by-election in March last year and was named as a likely future cabinet minister by Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre if they form government.

In an email statement shared with True North, Jivani said the inauguration of Vice President JD Vance would be a “special moment” for him as the two have been “good friends” for almost 15 years as they were friends in law school.

Vance publicly supported Jivani’s call to protect Christians in Canada on X last month.

Jivani said he even performed the Bible reading at Vance’s wedding in 2014 and when the now-Conservative MP was battling non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2018, Vance checked on Jivani’s family.

“But I am not there just to congratulate my friend. I am also there to begin the steps in what will be a long and laborious process to build and strengthen relationships between Canada and the United States,” he said in the email. 

He blamed the strained US-Canada relationship on the failures of the Liberal government which has been in power for nearly a decade.

“The tumultuous time that Canada’s economy is in right now is the direct result of a toxic dynamic between the Trudeau Liberals and the first Trump administration, going back to the United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement and CUSMA trade negotiations in 2017 and 2018,” Jivani said.

Poilievre has similarly criticized the Liberal government under Trudeau for its failures during the USMCA trade agreement. In November, he said he would never have signed the deal as it left Canada open to 10% tariffs under specific conditions,s including national security.

Jivani said in the email that while in the U.S. he will help strengthen the U.S.-Canada relationship by talking to every policy-maker, business leader and government official he is able to speak with.

“The damage that Liberals are doing to Canada means it will not be a simple task to improve Canada-US relations. Positive change is unlikely to happen overnight,” Jivani said. “But those who can do so must play their part in laying a foundation for the two independent countries with distinct histories and traditions to respect each other and work together.”

He said he’s immensely grateful for Canada and will share his appreciation for Canada “every chance” he gets.

“I am a proud Canadian. I know that my life would not be possible anywhere else in the world,” he said. “Where else could the son of a single mother grow up to overcome illiteracy, become a lawyer, survive stage IV cancer, and now be elected as an MP in the House of Commons?”

Jivani isn’t the only Canadian politician to attend Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced her plan to attend Trump’s inauguration in person last month. A spokesperson for the premier told True North that she will be attending events at the Canadian embassy and the inauguration while there.

The spokesperson for Smith said that after the inauguration, Smith hopes to meet with energy groups, congresspeople and various officials.

The Candice Malcolm Show | The World is Laughing at Canada

By
Candice Malcolm
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Source: Facebook

Canada is divided. Trudeau and the feds have treated Alberta like a punching bag for a decade – killing pipelines, blocking development, and trying to “phase out” the oil sands. But now that they’re facing a tariff threat from Trump, Trudeau and company expect Alberta to fall in line and sacrifice their own economy for the greater good.

Danielle Smith is saying “no way.” And good for her – she has every right to defend her province, and in doing so helping to protect our entire economy.

On today’s episode of the Candice Malcolm Show, Candice walks us through the latest news, including reaction to Danielle Smith, how dysfunctional Canada has become under Trudeau, how the press is turning on Trudeau and how Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland are both running far, far away from the Liberal economic record.

Plus, Candice takes a look at how American media personalities are reacting to Poilievre and Trudeau, and how Canada has become a punch line and a “woke joke” to many around the world.

The Daily Brief | Carney launches leadership campaign, bans independent media

By
Cosmin Dzsurdzsa
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Source: Facebook

Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney officially launched his campaign in Edmonton, Alberta where he banned independent media from covering the event.

Plus, the Liberal government is officially taking applications for $3,000 tax-free payments per adult from the 4,782 Palestinian refugees who have been fast-tracked onto a temporary resident pathway.

And, the Leaders’ Debates Commission has now raised the bar for who can participate in the next federal leadership debate, which will likely only affect Maxime Bernier and the People’s Party.

Tune into The Daily Brief with Cosmin Dzsurdzsa and Clayton DeMaine!

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