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Ontario’s solicitor general wants the Toronto Police Service to urgently step up its enforcement of “hate, intimidation and harassment-motivated offences” plaguing the city. He is the York Centre Member of Provincial Parliament, the highest-ranking Jewish member of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government. While not mentioned by Kerzner, Jewish residents of two buildings in the Bathurst area had their mezuzahs — Hebrew prayer scrolls affixed to doorways — stolen or vandalized in December. Earlier in the month, about 200 anti-Israel protesters gathered outside Meridian Hall to oppose a debate featuring former Israeli officials. Groups that organized the protest called the Israelis “war criminals” and were upset that they were given a platform.
It has been curious to watch Prime Minister Mark Carney’s parade of year-end interviews while reading Paul Litt’s excellent 2011 biography of former prime minister John Turner: Elusive Destiny. To this point, Carney has lived a charmed life with all three audiences. Absent details or results, Canadians have been willing to give the prime minister the benefit of the doubt. John Turner in 1984, during his brief time as prime minister. Friesen asked Carney about affordability, and it was an example of the prime minister at his least convincing.
It's called "Cheryl's Bench: Empathy in Action" or just the Cheryl Folden Memorial Bench, and was spearheaded by Stuart Westie, a retired teacher who got to know Folden after speaking to her while she was living on the streets along his regular bike route. "I'm really tired of the attitude that we treat the homeless and addicted and abused people with," he said. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement Advertisement"They don't understand that these people didn't choose to be who they are." We should never look at people like that 'appear' to be, but why they are like that. "It's a monument right in the middle of town that says, 'Hey, look at who we are,'" he said.
A train derailment on Sunday near the Nicman area on the main line of the Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway disrupted traffic and paused services. In a statement Tuesday evening, Rio Tinto, the majority owner of IOC, said it is taking action to clear the tracks and resume rail traffic. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementThe company said a train carrying four excavators from Sept-Iles arrived on the site, with another train carrying three excavators on its way from Labrador City. The Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway is a private Canadian regional railway that connects Labrador City with Quebec. Tshiuetin Transportation Inc., which operates a passenger train service on the train line, also cancelled its runs for the time being.
LISTEN | Full interview with Norwegian Refugee Council's Shaina Low: As It Happens 6:27 Israel will ban dozens of aid groups from Gaza in the new yearShaina Low had hoped to see truckloads of aid flowing into Gaza in 2026. Israel says the rules are aimed at preventing Hamas and other militant groups from infiltrating the aid organizations. And not only are they a party to the conflict, but they've killed hundreds of aid workers in Gaza,” she said. The decision not to renew aid groups' licenses means offices in Israel and East Jerusalem will close, and organizations won't be able to send international staff or aid into Gaza. But several of the groups, including NCR, said they will continue to operate programs inside Gaza with local staff.
Personal trainers share best tips for keeping New Year’s resolutionsNewsDuration 2:02The ending of a year is a time when many come up with a list of goals and resolutions for the year ahead. But after the initial motivation dies down, how do you stay consistent? The CBC's Arlette Lazarenko spoke with personal trainers in St. John's on what they believe works after the January rush.
Russell was at a workshop — handgames and drumming for absolute beginners — hosted by the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in First Nation for Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in citizens living in Yukon’s capital. Russell is Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in from Dawson City, Yukon, but has lived in Whitehorse for more than 15 years. Roger Ellis is also a Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in citizen, and he was the teacher at the workshop. He’s been playing and teaching handgames and drumming for 45 years, having learned from players in Ross River and Pelly Crossing, Yukon. “I think it’s just such a blessing that we have the space to practise our culture again,” said Russell.
Gen. Mary Simon has announced 80 appointments to the Order of Canada — a list that includes Olympians, journalists, Indigenous leaders and doctors. Simon's office announced six new companions, the highest level of the Order of Canada; 15 officers; and 59 members, the introductory level in the order. Six appointments are a promotion within the Order of Canada and another is an honorary appointment. Nardwuar the Human Serviette says he dedicates his Order of Canada achievement to his late mother. "The motto of the Order of Canada is Desiderantes meliorem patriam, which is Latin for 'They desire a better country.'
Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementHe “suffered post-concussion difficulties, amnesia and cognitive and perceived neurological abnormalities,” as a result of the attack, Ngo said. The judge pointed to a hazardous occurrence investigation report prepared just days after the attack, while Christie was still in hospital. Veterans Affairs had discounted it for decades, believing wrongly that it was made two years after Christie’s assault. “After that, if I was ever late for something, she went into a panic.”Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementHis sons were “frightened to death” after the attack, Christie said. If another Mountie is injured while off duty, but acting as police officer, Christie hopes his example will help them get compensation.
“The chants on the streets and the feeling of lawlessness (are) leading Toronto to the abyss.”Pasternak deployed pattern language. We witnessed the opposite mechanism grind into tedious gear after the Bondi Beach massacre. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementOur “one-day-at-a-time” leaders remind Jewish Canadians of the real sympathy felt after the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023. Some leaders, after Bondi Beach, did warn of cascading events. Yet the fashionable script from leaders after Bondi Beach was uniform: “horrific,” “senseless,” “hateful,” “our hearts go out.” And on it went.
Now a new paper explores under what conditions vaccine certificates should, or shouldn’t ever, be considered again. justify the use of vaccine certificates,” Smith said. Their proposed framework could “quickly and clearly” sweep away arguments for using vaccine certificates, they said. By then, 82 per cent of those 12 and older in both provinces had already had one dose of a COVID vaccine. They don’t answer whether the COVID vaccine certificates, and the trade-offs with individual liberty, were justified.
Group of Haitian asylum seekers deported to U.S. after crossing into QuebecNewsDuration 2:09Some of the 19 Haitian asylum seekers who were arrested after crossing the U.S.-Canada border in the Montérégie region on Christmas Day have been sent back to the U.S., according to the Canada Border Services Agency.
Inside the Get Lit Romance Book ClubNewsDuration 3:18Meet the members of a book club in Athabasca, Alta., about 130 kilometres north of Edmonton, and hear how these avid readers in the town of 3,000 are keeping things steamy, spicy and fun.
OTTAWA — Federal officials say that Alberta separatists going around Ottawa and repeatedly meeting with U.S. officials to advance their cause is legal for Canadians, within certain limits, even though similar behaviour could be prohibited elsewhere. Nor do private citizens need to clear such foreign talks with the federal government, Babcock added. However, a spokesman for the federal Justice Department, Ian McLeod, said that, while private citizens are free to speak with foreign officials, these talks are nonetheless subject to criminal laws prohibiting espionage, sedition and the sharing of state secrets. The APP is the primary group pushing for an Alberta independence vote in 2026 and is set to start collecting signatures this week in support of its referendum question. Both Rath and Davies said they’ve made it clear to foreign contacts that they don’t have the authority to make agreements on behalf of Alberta or Canada.
