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The notorious lunatic who attacked people with a golf club at a local Canadian Tire store and even told her brother that she wanted to join ISIS has been found guilty on terror charges:

A Toronto-area woman who admitted to attacking workers at a Canadian Tire store with a golf club and butcher knife in an effort to help ISIL has been found guilty of several terror charges.

Jurors deliberated for just over an hour on Thursday before delivering the verdict in the case of Rehab Dughmosh, who was arrested in July 2017 after the attack at a location at a mall in east Toronto.

Dughmosh initially faced a total of 21 charges, but in the end she faced four, including two counts of assault with a weapon and one of carrying a weapon — all in the name of ISIL.

She was also charged with leaving Canada for the purpose of committing a criminal offence in connection with an attempted trip to Syria in April 2016.

I'm sure Justin will put a cheque in the mail.


Also - oh, this guy will definitely be on Justin's Christmas card list:

A Toronto man captured in Syria while fighting for Islamic State is believed to be the masked host — and apparent gunman — in a notorious ISIL execution video as well as the narrator of the terror group’s claim of responsibility for 2015’s deadly Paris attacks, according to a leading researcher of foreign fighters.

On Sunday, a man identifying himself as Mohammad Abdullah Mohammad, a Canadian from Toronto, was captured during a firefight with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a U.S.-supported coalition of militias led by the Kurdish YPG.

An initial brief video released by the SDF shows him being questioned in Arabic, which he spoke and understood fluently.

On Wednesday, the SDF released a longer video, almost 12 minutes long, of him speaking in fluent English about his time with the Islamic State, also known as ISIL and ISIS.

In it, he says he came from Canada in 2013 and fought with ISIL, first as it expanded and then retreated under international counterattack.

“I was captured by them (Kurdish forces) after attacking one of their points and entering into a gun battle with them,” the prisoner says, with a large bandage on his forehead.

“After they called me to surrender, I surrendered myself.”

He said there are still thousands of ISIL soldiers in the shrinking ISIL-held territory in eastern Syria and many are trying to flee to Turkey by using smugglers.

He said increasing airstrikes and drone attacks are taking a toll.

“The soldiers are not fighting open so much, but rather are restricting themselves to small groups and are resorting to tunnels and trenches and so on.”

These video appearances are being examined and compared to previous video and audio recordings distributed by ISIL. The prisoner’s voice sounds similar and he shares some physical resemblance to the ISIL propagandist, from what can be seen behind the mask.

He has immigration minister status written all over him.


Speaking of whom:

The Opposition Conservatives are asking Parliament to examine Canada's security screening process following two CBC investigations that pointed to flaws in system.

"Recently, there have been a number of concerning incidents that have shown clear gaps in our immigration screening system," Conservative MP Michelle Rempel, the immigration, refugees, and citizenship critic, said in a statement.

"That is why today I am calling for the citizenship and immigration committee, and the public safety and national security committee, to immediately undertake a joint study into how our security screening process can be strengthened.

"Canadians must have confidence that their safety is being protected."

The party said a formal request will be filed when the House of Commons returns.

Why would Ahmed Hussen proceed with such an inquiry?


Also:

But what happens if the number of immigrants should exceed the capacity of the country’s ability to absorb them? It isn’t orderly immigration that sets many Canadians’ teeth on edge; it is mass immigration promoted as a good in and of itself without regard to our actual present and future needs or interests. Hundreds of thousands of immigrants now arrive here each year. In Vancouver alone they require 300 housing units every week. This can only drive up housing costs and add to the crowding in our hospitals. It can also reshape the cultural ecology of old neighbourhoods, which residents seem generally fine with when it happens more naturally over time, but find very jarring when it happens with unsettling rapidity.

Why is there no bodyguard for Asia Bibi?:

Aasia Bibi, a Pakistani Christian acquitted of blasphemy, still lives the life of a prisoner, nearly three months after her release from death row, awaiting a final ruling on her fate.

She spends her days in seclusion for fear of being targeted by angry mobs clamouring for her death. In her hideout, she longs for her children who were taken to Canada for their safety.

Pakistani security forces guarding the 54-year-old Bibi prevent her from opening a window in her hiding place, let alone go outside, a friend said.

Of course it isn't clear. The police are hoping that Canadians - who have a phenomenally short memory - will forget that people were even shot to death by Faisal Hussain:

Loparco concluded that “Hussain died at his own hand when he decided to shoot himself …” rather than surrender; that the wound would have “immediately incapacitated” him; and the fact that he was still able to run away from the officers after they shot at him means they didn’t inflict it.

Quite why this took 178 days isn’t clear, though almost two months for the CFS to do its work didn’t help. Loparco wasn’t taking questions Wednesday, as indeed he didn’t deign to return calls or emails throughout.

The SIU has a vital role: Without it, police would investigate situations, including ones where people are killed, where their own are involved. The SIU is the guarantee to citizens that these probes are genuine and thorough, and that police are held to account.

But while the SIU is investigating, police are constrained in what they can tell the public, and in this case, as a result of the recently unsealed search warrant detailing the heavy weaponry found at Hussain’s apartment and his interest in 9/11 conspiracy theories, among other things, there are a great many unanswered questions about Hussain of significant public interest.

Forces may use SIU involvement as a handy shield to avoid disclosure to the public. But the irony is that the unit itself is now as unaccountable, and as opaque, as police forces themselves were in the bad old days.

Was Karen Wang just your typical ethnocentric, arrogant Liberal candidate or did she throw a fight?:

The Liberals hemmed and hawed about running a candidate in the Feb. 25 byelection there, conscious that if they did so, they might inadvertently win and put paid to the political career of Jagmeet Singh, the federal NDP leader who is seeking a seat in Parliament.

Singh has found the learning curve in federal politics particularly steep, making numerous missteps in the full glare of the national media.

This past weekend, he failed to answer a question on a topic that had been all over the news. He claimed he hadn’t heard the question, but he left the impression that it is only the hard questions that he mis-hears.

Singh remains Justin Trudeau’s preferred opponent in October’s federal election and there was the very real prospect that, if defeated, he might be replaced by someone more seasoned. ...

Wang’s candidacy put Singh’s political future very much in doubt, given the seat was won by NDP MP Kennedy Stewart by just 600 votes over his Liberal rival in 2015.

It went unsaid by everyone that a Chinese-Canadian candidate might have extra cachet in a riding where nearly 40 per cent of voters are of Chinese descent.

At least, it went unsaid until Wang said it. Not only did she point out on a Chinese social media platform that she was “the only Chinese candidate,” she identified Singh as being “of Indian descent.” ...

Wang issued her own statement, apologizing to Singh, and saying her choice of words about his cultural background “was not well-considered and did not reflect my intent.”

Her resignation has left Singh alone on the left of the political spectrum in Burnaby South, facing Conservative Jay Shin and People’s Party candidate Laura Lynn Tyler Thompson. His victory would seem assured, if the Liberals don’t replace Wang. And yet they seem in no hurry to do so. When asked if there would be another Liberal candidate, Liberal communications director Braeden Caley said: “We’ll have more to discuss on that in due course.” ...

So back to Occam’s razor. Was this just a case of a reckless candidate gambling that if she played dog-whistle politics, it wouldn’t be heard beyond the Chinese community?

Or was the plan all along to throw the fight?

Nine times out of 10, it would be the former but the outcome of this electoral rumpus is extremely convenient for Trudeau. He has polished his own halo as the great unifier who will forge consensus and bridge divides.

And he has all but insured that an NDP leader yet to find his feet on the national stage staggers on to fight the general election.

Hhhmmm ...




If Quebec doesn't like pipelines, it probably doesn't want Albertan oil or equalisation payments, either. It is time to indulge Quebec in that regard:

Nearly two-thirds of Canadians believe that the lack of pipeline space to move oil constitutes a crisis in Canada, according to new polling from the Angus Reid Institute.

The research comes as Alberta is on the cusp of a provincial election and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s governing Liberals will face the electorate in October. There’s little doubt that, whether pipeline capacity constitutes an objective crisis or not, it’s top of mind for voters in many parts of the country, and especially in Alberta. On Monday, Brian Jean, the former leader of Alberta’s Wildrose party, who’s since been replaced by Jason Kenney, who formed a new party out of Alberta’s conservatives, wrote that “Canada is broken.  ...

But the poll also finds that there are strong regional disparities and that, in other regions, issues such as cost of living is top-of-mind, and not pipeline capacity. Still, even in Quebec, 40 per cent of respondents said new oil pipeline capacity is a crisis, and in B.C., 53 per cent agreed.

The perception that it’s a crisis is starkest in Alberta, where 87 per cent of respondents agreed and in Saskatchewan, where 74 per cent of respondents agreed. And while pipeline politics have dominated the news, Canadians mostly support both Trans Mountain — an expansion project between Edmonton and Burnaby, B.C. — and Energy East, the now defunct line from Hardisty, Alta., to Saint John, N.B. Fifty-three per cent of respondents support both, while just 19 per cent oppose both; 17 per cent are unsure.

“The outlier on this issue is Quebec,” the report says. “Support leans heavily in the direction of building both pipelines in every region outside of that province.”

No, Canadians' eyes aren't opened about the realities of communist China and its human rights abuses and as soon as Justin caves into his Chinese overlords, they will go back to buying cheap Chinese crap and teaching English in that smog-ridden land-mass:

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s famous line about admiring China for its “basic dictatorship” has taken on renewed meaning in recent days.

Now that Canada is learning exactly what that basic dictatorship can do to us, they’re not liking what they’re seeing.

Canadians saw the following and didn't give a sh--:

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These are just things that happen to other people in other countries that Canadians don't care about.




How could this go wrong?:

A Waterloo nurse has just been ordered reinstated at the nursing home where she’d been stealing patients’ pain medications to feed her drug addiction. Not only did he overturn her firing, but the labour arbitrator also agreed Sunnyside Home Long Term Care Facility must compensate the thieving nurse for “injury to dignity, feelings and self-respect.”

Where was Obama when terrorists raided the American embassy in Benghazi?:

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered former National Security Advisor Susan Rice and former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes to answer written questions about the State Department's response to the deadly 2012 terror attack in Benghazi, Libya.

No, the blood is on the hands of a single lunatic, you money-grabbing cult:

When the church cut the $57 million facility’s ribbon in 2016, Scientology leader David Miscavige called the building – officially known as Advanced Organization and Saint Hill Australia, New Zealand and Oceania – an “arboreal palace nestled at the rim of a eucalyptus wonderland.” Reportedly the largest Scientology facility outside the United States, the site is launchpad for the controversial organization’s operations across Asia and the Pacific.

That bucolic peace was shattered around 12:30 p.m. on Jan 3. On the driveway snaking into the facility, a church member, 24-year-old Chih-Jen Yeh, was fatally stabbed in the neck with a large kitchen knife by a 16-year-old boy Yeh was escorting off the property, according to New South Wales Police. A 30-year-old man was also injured in the attack. Both the victim and alleged attacker were Taiwanese nationals, police said.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, the 16-year-old – who has not been publicly identified – was at the center because his mother was going through a “purification ceremony.” But little else has been released about a possible motive, wrapping the vicious crime in mystery.

But not for Scientology’s leadership, who now claim the attack is tied directly to the church’s critics.

Anti-Scientology blog The Underground Bunker recently posted a letter dated Jan. 11 from church spokesperson Karin Pouw to Paul Buccieri, the president of A+E Networks Group. The text, which has a subject line, “Re: Blood on your hands,” lays blame for the attack on actress and former Scientologist Leah Remini’s Emmy Award-winning program on the church, “Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.”

 
Also:

An investigation by Quebec's labour standards board has concluded the Church of Scientology of Quebec owes 62 employees of the Quebec City branch more than $750,000 in unpaid wages and vacation pay.

The board, known by its French acronym CNESST, has filed documents in Quebec Superior Court, asking the court to order the organization to pay the wages owed, plus interest and indemnities, for a total of more than $900,000.

And now, so free, so beautiful, this cow in the snow:

In the fall, reports began circulating about a mystery cow that had somehow found her way into way into the park. “Almost got run over by a cow last night on moose meadow,” read a November post in the Anchorage Fat Bike Facebook group. “As in, cattle, not a bear or a moose. … Am I crazy or has anyone else had a sighting in the area?” As it turned out, other cyclists had spotted Betsy wandering the trails, leading Koloski to theorize that snow-making operations at the ski hill had prompted her to migrate to a different part of the park.