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From the most "transparent" government in the country's history:

As reported by Global News, “A Toronto-area organization that was suspended by charities regulators and fined $550,000 over concerns it may have funded armed militants in Pakistan has been awarded a federal summer jobs grant. 

Although the Islamic Society of North America-Canada is serving a one-year suspension imposed by the Canada Revenue Agency, it was approved for 2019 Canada Summer Jobs  funding.”

The Trudeau government is giving them $25,787.


CRA suspended the group because of concerns with money that was transferred to the Kashmir region. The result was that ISNA-Canada “may have, knowingly or unknowingly, provided the benefits of its status as a registered charity to support the efforts of a political party and its armed wing,” according to the report.

The money may have ended up in the hands of Hizbul Mujahideen, which is listed as a terrorist group by both India and the European Union.


Only two former charities in Canada are suspended. ISNA-Canada is one of them.

Yet, the Trudeau Liberals have no problem giving them thousands of taxpayer dollars.

Further:

Samer Majzoub initiated Petition e-411 in June, 2016, and gathered close to 70,000 signatures before it was presented in Parliament in early October. It passed, but not unanimously, the first time it was read, because some Conservative members shouted “Nay.” However, on October 26, 2017, with only 79 Members of Parliament present (out of a total of 338), the motion was unanimously adopted. 

Samer Majzoub is the long-time public face of the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC), which receives financial support from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Ever since its creation, MAC has presented itself as a disciple of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna, and its president, Wael Haddara, was one of the principal advisers to Muslim Brotherhood head and President of Egypt Morsi in 2012 to 2013. As documented by the website Point de Bascule, MAC openly defended Hamas (2004) and hosted a promoter of suicide attacks (2009). Between 2001 and 2010, MAC transferred $296,514 (Canadian dollars) to the charity IRFAN-Canada. In April, 2011, the Canada Revenue Agency revoked IRFAN’s charitable status for transferring $14.6 million to Hamas from 2005 to 2009 alone. 

On April 24, 2011, IRFAN itself was added to the list of banned terrorist organizations.

It is frightening that MAC and its leaders represent mainstream Islam in Canada. Samer Majzoub is the recipient of a 60th Jubilee medal celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s ascension to the throne and is frequently called upon by the media. Politicians make a point of attending the annual banquet of the Canadian Muslim Forum (CMF), of which he is president and which has been promoting action against Islamophobia since at least 2010. As president of CMF, he has condemned “bigotry” as a crime, and “hate speech” as not being “freedom of expression but evil.” Frighteningly, in celebrating the unanimous passage of Petition e-411, he wrote that the “next step is for the federal government to set up policies and orientations to address and deal profoundly at all levels, social, economical, and political, with Islamophobia symptoms that present themselves strongly in our society.”

And that next step seems to be Motion M-103, a private member’s motion tabled on December 1, 2016, fast on the heels of the Parliamentary endorsement of Petition e-411, by Liberal MP Iqra Khalid. ...

Iqra Khalid was born in Pakistan and was president of the Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) at York University in Toronto while she was a student there. Iqra Khalid’s father, Dr. Hafiz Khalid, is a long-time supporter of the Islamic Society of North America and a vocal supporter of Jamaat-e-Islami, an Islamist group in Pakistan. Both the MSA and ISNA are Muslim Brotherhood organizations. On February 8, 2017, Iqra Khalid tweeted that she was “delighted to reconnect with Muslim community leaders in Ottawa today” and included the hashtag #motion103. The community leaders she reconnected with included the executive director and other members of the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), an organization formerly known as CAIR-CAN, or the Canadian branch of the Council on American Islamic Relations. This Muslim Brotherhood group was found to be an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial in Texas, in which the HLF was found guilty of having funneled millions of dollars to Hamas. NCCM renamed itself in 2013, presumably because the CAIR brand had started to lose its shine. 

But unlike Petition e-411, Motion M-103 did not quietly slip under the radar. There was concerted opposition to it, MPs were visited by concerned constituents and received over 900,000 emails against it, anti-M-103 rallies were held and electronic petitions circulated (receiving over 150,000 signatures opposing it), and opinion columns were written (both for and against). The motion was debated on February 15, with several Conservative MPs speaking against it, and the vote was put off. The next day, the House debated a Conservative party counter-motion to M-103. It was similar to M-103, but did not use the word “Islamophobia” and instead condemned discrimination against “Muslims, Jews, Christians, Sikhs, Hindus, and other religious communities.” Virtually every non-Liberal Member of Parliament voted for the Conservative counter-motion, but all Liberals voted against it. 

The delayed vote for M-103 would normally have sent it to the bottom of the order paper (i.e., to the end of the queue) for a vote in April. Presumably in an attempt to pass M-103 before it got more publicity, the vote was advanced to March 23 (by trading places with another private member’s bill). It passed by a vote of 201 Yeas against 91 Nays. All of the Nays were cast by the Conservative party and the Bloc Québécois, the federal separatist party in a province less afraid than most in asserting its cultural identity. In contrast, every Liberal and New Democrat (NDP) and the lone Green Party member supported the motion. While Canadians were assured that M-103 is just a motion, not a bill, Liberal MP Raj Grewal suggested what the intent of the motion might be: “One of the most important things about the motion that Canadians should understand is that it encourages a committee to collect data and to present that data in a contextualized manner so we, as members of Parliament elected to this chamber, can study it and propose laws. ” 

On April 15, 2017, Iqra Khalid was awarded a special “thanks and appreciation” plaque at the annual Gala of the Palestine House marking Land Day (symbolizing the commitment to “liberate” Palestine). Could it have been for successfully getting Parliament to pass Motion M-103? Palestine House had for many years received federal money for services to the Palestinian community in Toronto, but was de-funded by the Conservative government in 2012 for its “pattern of support for extremism.”

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NDP ethics critic Charlie Angus and fellow Vancouver-area NDP MPs sent Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a letter on Thursday following a Global News investigation that revealed the law firm of Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido brokered a secretive and controversial real estate deal with an alleged organized crime kingpin.

It's clear that these unaccountable MPs are using their position to further whatever it is that they want.

Canada is a banana republic without the bananas.





Stone Age cultures never had spas. That might be why people don't want this cultural fantasy in their backyards.

Oh, and the crime:

Residents in southwest Scarborough say an Indigenous healing lodge planned for their neighbourhood is a bad fit for the area, and is being forced on their community without proper consultation.

"It's related to crime and I don't want the crime rate to go up in my community," Tak Wan, one of the residents who's opposing the project said Monday. "I don't feel it's safe for that kind of facility to be here."

Let's see how well the crumbled infrastructure of Canada's "universal" healthcare remains without plastic:

Syringes, IV tubing, saline bags, plastic-wrapped drugs, catheters — hospitals couldn’t function without plastics. While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pledge to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021 may have noble intentions, not all plastics are evil, experts say.

“It would be hard to overemphasize the importance of plastics in modern society,” Dr. Joe Schwarcz, director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society wrote recently in the Montreal Gazette. Medical equipment, cars, airplanes, computers and communication systems “all rely on a variety of plastics.”

“Just think what our world would be like if we didn’t have garbage bags,” he said in an interview.

 “It’s not a frivolous use — it’s absolutely necessary for sanitation.“

Railroaded Vice-admiral Mark Norman gets applauded:

Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, whose status has been up in the air since a breach-of-trust-case against him was dropped last month, was welcomed with a greeting of "mate" from the chief of the defence staff and applause from the crowd at a navy ceremony Wednesday.

Questions have swirled around the future of Norman, the former second-in-command of Canada's Armed Forces who has expressed a desire to return to duty after the criminal case against him was dropped.

Norman was on hand in uniform for the colourful change of command ceremony in Halifax, and defence chief Gen. Jonathan Vance mentioned him at the beginning of his remarks.

"Great to have you here mate," Vance said to warm applause. "The family's all together again. It feels good."

Also - a rejection of douchebaggery:

A controversial proposal to ask the Canadian military to fund Remembrance Day ceremonies in Victoria died at Thursday’s city council meeting.

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps and her fellow councillors declined to bring the amendment to a vote, while apologizing to the veterans who had gathered at the meeting to voice their outrage at the request.

Ben Isitt, the councillor who introduced the motion, was silent as Helps and the rest of council apologized while committing to cover policing costs for Remembrance Day and other special events in the capital.

“Councillors who voted in favour of asking Veterans Affairs to fund Remembrance Day changed their minds — so much so that it didn’t even make it to the floor this evening,” Helps said.

“My biggest hope this week is that … we would send a signal that we support the people who are serving in the Canadian Armed Forces and who have served.”

The proposal, which called on staff to request the Department of National Defence (DND) to pay for policing costs during Remembrance Day and other military commemorative events, was initially approved during a committee of the whole meeting last Thursday despite Helps and two other councillors voting against it.

It's like Stockholm syndrome but with more child rapists:

Accounts of the wrenching scene, given by both Rasho and the girls, point to a new challenge confronting members of the Yazidi community as they try to trace nearly 3,000 Yazidis who remain unaccounted for after the territorial defeat of the militants. Perhaps hundreds of them are children, who are still being hidden by ISIL families in camps or homes, Rasho said.

Snatched from their families at a young and vulnerable age, these children now must undergo the trauma of new separations and new adjustments, after spending some of the most formative years of their lives with the militants. The children were given new names, new families and a new faith. Many forgot their native Kurdish language and now speak only Arabic.

They barely remember the circumstances of their earlier lives, and many have embraced the ultra-extremist form of Islam at the heart of ISIL’s ideology.

If only Canada had taken more of these children in instead of having parkas tossed at them or just being ignored by a Liberal douchebag.

If only ...




It's like there is a pattern:

I was honest with Planned Parenthood workers about the age gaps between me and my partners—gaps that put my relationships in violation of my state’s statutory rape laws. No Planned Parenthood worker ever asked me if I felt safe in these relationships (the answer would have been no) or reported them as a mandatory reporter. Nor did any of the practitioners tell me about the risks of having multiple partners. In failing to do so, they shirked their responsibility to me, a woman in need.

Also - that poor little fellow never had a chance:

The baby cut out of his mom’s womb during an attack in Chicago died Friday after living for two months on life support.

“It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of baby Yovanny Jadiel Lopez. He passed away this Friday, June 14, 2019, from his severe brain injury,” a family spokesperson wrote in a statement on Facebook.

Can crimes be adorable?:

A woman in southern Alberta has been charged after she allegedly tried to mail a puppy and a kitten via Canada Post.