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This week, we discuss how Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre continues to push back against radical trans ideology. Earlier this week, the Conservative Leader told reporters that “female spaces should be exclusively for females, not for biological males.” It’s about time the Conservatives finally take a stance on this important issue.
Plus, Jordan Peterson predicts the future of Canadian politics. He said if Poilievre forms government in the next election, he’ll only last a few years as he’ll get blamed for Justin Trudeau’s mismanagement of the country. As a result, someone like Mark Carney will lead the Liberals to victory in the following election. Do you agree with Peterson’s prediction?
And Canada’s healthcare is so bad at treating Canadians, people are actually considering doctor assisted suicide.
An Alberta town has passed a bylaw allowing only government flags and banning any non-standard crosswalks – removing the town’s current pride-coloured crosswalk.
The ballot question presented to Westlock’s residents had three parts.
“Only Federal, Provincial, and Municipal flags may be flown on flagpoles on Town of Westlock municipal property. All crosswalks in the Town of Westlock must be the standard white striped pattern between two parallel white lines. The existing rainbow coloured crosswalk in the Town of Westlock be removed.”
The final vote results, tallied Thursday night, were close, with 663 people voting yes and 639 people voting no.
Following a proposal from a local secondary school’s gay-straight alliance, Westlock councillors unanimously approved the town’s first rainbow crosswalk last May.
In September 2023, Westlock received a petition advocating for a Crosswalk and Flagpole Bylaw.
The petition was led by Westlock resident Stephanie Bakker and asked council to make a bylaw “ensuring that crosswalks and flags on public property remain neutral.”
According to Alberta’s Municipal Government Act, a petition must be signed by at least 10% of a municipality’s population to go before council. Westlock, a town about an hour north of Edmonton, has a population of approximately 5,000 people.
Bakker, alongside the Westlock Neutrality team, gathered over 700 signatures from locals, compelling the town council to initiate the formal proceedings to adopt the suggested bylaw.
The petition was formally verified Oct. 30, 2023. A bylaw reflecting the statements made in the petition was subsequently drafted and introduced to the council Nov. 27.
Council was required to give the bylaw first reading and either pass it or put it to a town-wide vote. Lawmakers did the latter, with the vote held Thursday.
One resident in support of Bakker, Benita Pedersen, said elected representatives should serve people fairly and impartially — which she believes has not happened.
“We’re having a vote on neutrality, and the irony is this council can’t even be neutral,” said Pedersen.
Westlock Mayor Jon Kramer said council has been fully supportive of the crosswalk following a campaign that calls on residents to vote no and “stand for inclusion.”
Kramer said that council members went out in the community, encouraging residents to vote against the bylaw.
The GoFundMe page to vote for an “inclusive” Westlock received 37 donations, accruing $2,890 of its $20,000 goal.
Funds from the page were to drive an information campaign through mailers, social media messaging, and signage in the community. The remaining funds were to “be donated directly to building Westlock’s first Inclusive playground.”
While Bakker went door-to-door to receive petition signatures, she also released a message online talking to Westlock’s residents about the petition and subsequent vote about a month prior to it being held.
“We’ve seen the rapid spread of the idea that some Canadians should receive preferential treatment. Equal under the law isn’t enough. Some apparently must be promoted above others. This is the idea of equity,” said Bakker.
Bakker explained that giving the government the power to choose which groups receive preferential treatment today is a recipe for disaster, as they are able to decide who is worthy and unworthy. She added that once this power is given to the government, it’s very hard to take it back.
She added that when going door to door with the petition, the comments received were primarily polite, whether residents were for or against the bylaw.
Instead of addressing the concerns of residents, Bakker said that the council and mayor called them a radical minority.
“Which is an interesting thing to say considering that several of these councillors were appointed to their positions with less votes than the petition itself received,” said Bakker.
Canada’s terrorist threat assessment agency is warning that the Israel-Hamas war could motivate extremists to attack crowd events and religious and community centres within Canada.
Following the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the Integrated Terrorist Assessment Centre issued a number of intelligence briefs that warned the government about potential attacks at cultural centres, protests, diplomatic posts “or other symbols of Israeli or Palestinian interests in Canada.”
The agency is made up of members of Canada’s security and intelligence community, designated to assess potential threats in Canada.
The agency suggested that such an attack would most likely be carried out by a “radicalized lone actor,” according to briefings obtained by Global News.
“It is possible that ideologically and religiously motivated violent extremists and lone actors may be triggered by events and mobilize to violence and conduct a mass casualty attack at large gatherings,” wrote the agency in a brief.
A youth was arrested last December by Ottawa police and charged with plotting a terrorist attack against the Jewish community. More charges were filed against the suspect last Thursday including conspiracy to commit murder at the direction of a terrorist group. The suspect cannot be named because he is a minor.
Additional charges were laid against him for knowingly facilitating terrorist activity “by making available and exchanging instructional material and propaganda.”
A second youth has also been charged with murder conspiracy for a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity and trying to acquire a prohibited firearm for terrorist purposes.
No further details of the alleged terror plot have been disclosed, however, police did confirm that the Jewish community was the target of the plot.
The court case received a publication ban but multiple sources told Global News that the group in question was ISIS.
Events like Santa Claus parades and Remembrance Day have been examined for potential threats by ITAC since the Oct. 7 attack.
The agency said attacks of that nature are becoming “increasingly likely” in Canada as a result of the growing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Antisemitic hate crimes have gone up by 182% since 2015, long before the attack last fall, and spiked by over 500% in 2022, according to the ITAC briefings.
ITAC noted that while protests around the conflict in the Middle East have remained largely peaceful thus far, “this does not preclude opportunistic threat actors from joining events and engaging in violent behaviour.”
“As the conflict intensifies, both religiously motivated violent extremism (RMVE) and ideologically motivated violent extremism (IMVE) adherents could see symbols of the Israeli government, including embassies and consulates, or Jewish community facilities as desirable targets,” it said.
“Individuals in Canada have previously expressed support for Hamas, and RMVE adherents abroad have called for lone-actor attacks targeting Jewish people as a means to support Palestinians.”
Eight “possible targets” of antisemitic attacks in Canada were listed in the briefings, however, the agency said that mosques and Islamic community centres were at risk also, along with Palestinian consulates and businesses as well.
“Rhetoric about Palestinians could inspire a lone wolf actor to conduct an attack targeting Palestinians or symbolic locations associated with the Palestinian Authority,” ITAC stated.
“Ongoing tensions will likely increase reports of hate crimes targeting Palestinians and other Muslim communities.”
The federal government offered $10 million to aid “at risk” groups so that they could install security equipment at their places of worship and community centres.
A True North exclusive reveals Independent MP Kevin Vuong, a Toronto MP who was booted by the Liberals during the last federal election, is considering a move to the Conservative bench.
Plus, decolonization activists at the University of Alberta discussed whether people have to “die off” so Canada can achieve equity.
And Prime Minister Trudeau blames social media drivers and conspiracy theorists for Canadians declining trust in traditional media.
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While most Canadians agree with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s gender policies, which aim to prohibit minors from accessing life-altering sex changes and hormone therapy such as puberty blockers, the CBC continues to demonstrate that they’re nothing more than radical trans activists.
On this episode of The Candice Malcolm Show, Candice debunks the CBC’s radical trans nonsense and shows how the state broadcaster aren’t serious journalists but instead activists with a twisted ideology that leads to more suffering.
It’s more apparent now than ever — we need to defund this poisonous organization once and for all.
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Source: London/Middlesex Superior Court of Justice - Court Exhibit
An Ontario judge has ruled that a man’s slaughter on a Muslim family in London was an act of terrorism, marking the first time a court has made a decision of this kind in a case of white nationalism.
Nathanial Veltman, 23, killed four people and injured a nine-year-old boy after running them over in a truck in June 2021. The family were dressed in traditional Pakistani attire at the time.
“I find that the offenders’ actions constitute terrorist activity,” said Justice Renee Pomerance during the sentencing hearing on Thursday in London.
The ruling won’t affect Veltman’s sentence for first-degree murder as it comes with an automatic 25 -year life-sentence without parole, but the ruling will still set a standard for Canadian terrorism laws in relation to white nationalism.
“The events of June 6, 2021, have caused many to question their safety when going about their business in London and beyond,” said Pomerance.
Veltman was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder last fall. He was sentenced to an additional concurrent life sentence for the attempted murder.
At the time of the attack, Veltman was armed and wearing body armour.
Following his arrest, he would confess to police that his attack was “politically motivated 100%.”
The jury was told about Veltman’s disdain for mass immigration and Muslims via his personal writings.
Justice Pomerance said that such crimes must be denounced using the strongest possible terms, due to the widespread fear that ensued following the attack.
“There is no place in Canadian society for the hatred and racism that spawned the offender’s actions,” she said.
Video evidence of the attack would reveal that Veltman made a U-turn after driving past the Afzaal family, before accelerating towards them at full speed.
The victims included parents Salman and Madiha Afzaal and their 15-year-old daughter Yumnah, as well as her paternal grandmother, Talat, aged 74.
A nine-year-old boy was also struck but survived.
Thursday’s ruling will provide police and prosecutors with a better understanding of when terrorism charges will be applicable in future cases involving white nationalism.
“It’s never fulsomely been dealt with before,” Leah West, a Carleton University professor told the Globe and Mail in an interview. West specializes in national security law.
“What does it mean to have an ideological motive such that it drives you to do this kind of violence? What evidence is necessary or sufficient to meet that criteria? We don’t have any law that explains that.”
Previous invocations of the Anti-Terrorism Act have only been in cases where suspects were accused of having ties to the Islamic State or well known terrorist groups like al-Qaeda.
Toronto Metropolitan University has unveiled its new “gender-neutral” mascot, Frankie the Falcon.
The decision, touted by the school formerly known as Ryerson University as a move towards inclusivity, has raised eyebrows as the university faces a class-action lawsuit by Jewish students over its alleged failure to address antisemitism on campus.
In an article published in the TMU magazine, the university claims it received 1,200 suggestions for a new mascot.
“In addition to being the only alliterative option, Frankie was a top choice for being gender-neutral. Its origins also resonated with the university’s values: to be frank is to be free, open-minded and bold,” wrote the magazine.
TMU’s move to embrace a gender-neutral mascot comes amidst a broader cultural shift towards so-called “woke” policies and initiatives.
Earlier this year, TMU was one of six Canadian universities embroiled in legal battles over allegations of antisemitism and the failure to provide a safe environment for Jewish students as pro-Hamas protests rock campuses.
The class-action lawsuit, led by the law firm Diamond and Diamond, underscores concerns about the university’s commitment to upholding the rights and safety of all members of its community.
“Our position is that these universities go out of their way to protect the civil rights of every other minority except Jews,” said Sandra Zisckind, managing partner at Diamond and Diamond.
In 2022, Toronto Metropolitan University abandoned its former name of Ryerson University citing the namesake, Egerton Ryerson’s legacy, which activists claimed was one of racism.
A joint investigation between Ontario Provincial Police and U.S. authorities has led to the largest gun bust in the province’s history.
Handguns and assault-style rifles were among the 274 illegal firearms seized as part of Project Saxom, according to CP24.
The operation was part of an OPP-led investigation in cooperation with Dual Approach, a U.S. Homeland Security Investigation probe launched out of their field office in Buffalo, NY.
U.S. investigators seized 168 guns heading for Ontario and the OPP seized an additional 106 guns that had already made it into the province.
Five separate criminal networks were ultimately identified by the investigation.
The investigation was launched in the U.S. last fall to impede a “transnational criminal organization” operating out of the U.S. and Canada, confirmed Homeland Security Special Agent Matthew Scarpino, who led the operation out of Buffalo.
“The criminal network sought to establish a firearm smuggling pipeline from the United States, specifically Florida, into Ontario, Canada utilizing international ports of entry in Buffalo, Niagara Region,” Scarpino told reporters during a press conference at OPP headquarters in Orillia, Ont. on Thursday.
Among the arrests made was a U.S.-Canadian dual citizen, who police allege trafficked firearms from Florida into Ontario.
The Canadian side of the investigation was launched several months earlier in 2023.
“The focus of Project Saxom was to infiltrate a group of individuals who were seeking to traffick firearms in the Greater Toronto Area,” said OPP Det.-Insp. Lee Fulford at Thursday’s press conference.
“Additional suspects belonging to several criminal networks were identified.”
OPP executed 17 search warrants throughout the GTA as well as the Niagara Region, resulting in seized drugs as well as weapons.
One suspect in the Project Saxom investigation remains at large, while 16 others have been arrested, facing a total of 279 charges combined.
Of the illegal firearms seized on the Ontario side of the border, 88 were handguns, including AR and AK pistols, Fulford announced, noting that some of the weapons had been converted to allow for automatic firing.
The majority of guns seized in Ontario originated in the U.S.
“What was alarming was the speed at which the firearms would be resold after entering the province,” said Fulford.
“Our investigation revealed that the firearm suppliers would obtain lists of available firearms for sale. Within days, or even sometimes hours, all of the illegal firearms would be sold.”
OPP confirmed that the seizure also included 1,700 rounds of ammunition, fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, magic mushrooms and large quantities of methamphetamine.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Justin Trudeau’s looming crackdown on online “hate speech” is a “woke authoritarian” tool used to censor opinions he doesn’t like.
“We will oppose Justin Trudeau’s latest attack on freedom of expression,” Poilievre said at a press conference Wednesday in response to a question from True North’s Andrew Lawton.
Poilievre posed a question of his own.
“What does Justin Trudeau mean when he says the words hate speech?” he said rhetorically. “He means speech he hates.”
“What does Justin Trudeau mean when he says the word hate speech? He means speech he hates.”
True North’s @AndrewLawton asks Pierre Poilievre whether the Conservatives will oppose the Trudeau government’s reintroduction of the online harms bill. pic.twitter.com/7PM9iJ5rzs
Poilievre proceeded to list numerous examples of things labelled as hate speech by Trudeau, including when former adviser Gerald Butts said that it was hate speech to criticize Trudeau for using the term “peoplekind,” labelling those who made fun of Trudeau as “nazis.”
Poilievre added that Trudeau said anyone who criticized him during the pandemic was engaging in hate speech. During the lockdowns, Trudeau said that protesters from the Freedom Convoy were “a small fringe minority” with “unacceptable views.”
Another example provided by Poilievre was that anybody who disagrees with Trudeau’s radical agenda when it comes to kids is considered hate speech.
“He attacked Muslim parents who were protesting against his agenda. Is he going to criminalize those Muslim parents for protecting their children in schools?” asked Poilievre.
Poilievre suggested that people should explore their own thoughts and determine what would be considered hate speech or deemed unacceptable views by Trudeau.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is asked why he believes an “online harms” bill is necessary and what he thinks of Pierre Poilievre’s characterization of the bill as banning speech that Trudeau hates. pic.twitter.com/iO4chuPEyZ
“I point out the irony that someone who spent the first half of his adult life as a practicing racist, who dressed up in hideous racist costumes so many times he says he can’t remember them all, should then be the arbiter on what constitutes hate,” said Poilievre.
“What he should actually do is look into his own heart and ask himself why he was such a hateful racist… And maybe in that way, rather than through coercion, he could help us all in the fight against real hate.”
Trudeau said why he felt the online harms bill was necessary when speaking at a news conference in Edmonton on Wednesday. He said that the bill would specifically cater towards protecting kids online.
“Mr. Poilievre hasn’t even seen the legislation we’re about to put forward next week. He’s already telling people exactly what it is and what it isn’t,” said Trudeau.
"This is yet another example of Pierre Poilievre being irresponsible and not serious and choosing to play politics instead of actually focusing on what matters which is how to keep our kids safe."
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attacks Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives for… pic.twitter.com/HyXrKuMyxt
He added that Poilievre was interested in hurling insults to distract from the fact that he has no plan for housing, childcare, fighting climate change, or creating good jobs for the future.
The Liberals initially committed to introducing legislation combatting hate speech and terrorist content during their election campaign in 2019.
In the wake of considerable pushback about their harmful Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) training in the past year, the Toronto District School Board has doubled down with a teaching manifesto to help its educators adopt anti-oppressive practices in their classrooms.
The 37-page manifesto, called Facilitating Critical Conversations, was released Wednesday to help teachers better discuss the ways “injustice affects our lives, explore the relationships between identity and power” and identify structures that “privilege some (is that even a proper phrase?) at the expense of others.”
Straight out of the Critical Race Theory (CRT) playbook, the manual was developed by four visible minority anti-racism and anti-oppression educators with the TDSB.
Three of the four proudly list hip hop music as a pedagogy they use in their curriculum.
Two of the four, Ramon San Vincente and Jay Williams, have blocked me on X (formerly Twitter), likely because of my stories about disgraced DEI trainer Kike Ojo-Thompson.
San Vincente, a principal in Etobicoke, came under fire last October following the atrocities of Oct. 7 for this anti-Israel post:
As an educator trying to support a safe learning environment I regularly talk to Ss about the difference between self-defense and assault/aggression. What is happening in Gaza right now is not self-defense. It is genocide. Full stop.
While the board in years gone by denied its association with the racist tenets of CRT and its use in the classroom, this manifesto makes it quite clear that CRT dogma is not only valued but expected to be taught.
CRT essentially operates from the premise that whites are oppressors and blacks the oppressed, leaving no room for self-determination or the idea that one can work to rise beyond one’s circumstances.
It perpetuates victimology and a culture of dependence, in a nutshell.
The new TDSB teaching resource is based on a series of core beliefs.
These include the idea that schooling in North America is designed for the benefit of the “dominant culture (white, middle-upper class, male, cisgender, heterosexual, Christian and able-bodied).
It says the needs of the “dominant culture” determine the “norm” in education.
I have to stop right here for a moment.
If the needs are to achieve, what exactly is wrong with that?
The ridiculous manual also claims that education is a “colonial structure” that must be “actively decolonized” because it centres “whiteness and eurocentricity.”
But the best core belief is the one about “white supremacy.” The manifesto claims it is a “structural reality” that impacts all students and must be dismantled in classrooms.
This is the same nonsense peddled by race hustler Ojo-Thompson in the very training sessions in early 2021 where she aggressively attacked beloved educator and principal Richard Bilkszto.
The treatment he received at those sessions, followed by a series of acts to cancel him by the anti-racism-obsessed educrats at the TDSB, ultimately led to his tragic suicide last July, his lawyer says.
Toronto school board education director Colleen Russell-Rawlins has yet to report on a review she initiated following his tragic suicide – perhaps because she hopes that everyone will forget and it will simply go away.
Frankly, if I were her, I wouldn’t be putting out racist, anti-white training materials such as this manifesto. It merely reminds everyone of how DEI destroyed Bilkszto’s life.
Several pages in this manifesto provide educators with tips on how to engage in those critical conversations about identity, power and oppression.
One suggestion is to enter the learning with “humility and vulnerability” and recognize the privileges teachers might have compared to their students, together with their biases.
The document also asks teachers to consider whether the learning climate in their classroom is “respectful” and “safe for students” – completely ironic considering the chaos and violence in many TDSB classrooms.
When a teacher gets prepared to engage in critical conversation, the manifesto recommends they connect to present-day contexts in ways that directly name “systems of oppression” – white supremacy, settler colonialism, Islamophobia, anti-Semitism and xenophobia.”
They should also take into consideration “learning styles and cultural backgrounds” of their students (this is in bold).
The final 13 pages of the manifesto provide a glossary of oppression terminology (as if the terms haven’t already been rammed down students’ throats) and references.
But wait – this is only Part 1. There’s a Part 2 coming.
If I were these educrats, I’d quit now before they appear complete fools.
The manifesto is racist, divisive and I’m willing to bet something most educators will ignore.
It is yet another document and yet more proof of the lengths the TDSB will go to dumb down the curriculum and substitute feelings (social-emotional learning) for achievement.
I’m quite frankly tired, and I believe most of the non-woke are too, of these ongoing attempts by those in the race hustler game to make all of us feel guilty for being white, achieving success and not playing the victim.
If Russell-Rawlins and her anti-racism cabal at the board spent less time appeasing those who are convinced they’re hard done by and more time pushing achievement and consequences for violent and intimidating behaviour one might have a school board that operates the way it’s supposed to operate.
These manifestos are simply a distraction and an excuse – a pathetic one at that – not to do the job Toronto’s educrats are supposed to do.
