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Man carrying concealed knife arrested on Canada's Parliament Hill

Published November 18, 2015Associated Press


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TORONTO – A man carrying a concealed knife on Canada's Parliament Hill has been arrested, Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Wednesday.
Media relations officer Cpl. Valerie Thibodeau said Yasin Ali, 56, was detained by the Parliamentary Protective Service on Tuesday evening outside Centre Block, the main building on Parliament Hill that houses the Senate and the House of Commons.


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After a brief court appearance Wednesday on a charge of carrying a concealed weapon, Ali was returned to jail.
Defense lawyer Peter Azzi said Ali is due back in court on Friday and will be psychologically assessed by a doctor.
Security on the Hill has been tightened since Oct. 22, 2014, when a gun-toting Michael Zehaf Bibeau managed to enter Centre Block after gunning down a soldier standing guard at the nearby National War Memorial.
Zehaf Bibeau died in a hail of bullets outside the Library of Parliament.

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Canadian Libs to announce Tuesday how they will bring in 25,000 Syrians in next 6 weeks

Posted by Ann Corcoran on November 22, 2015
The boy wonder, Justin Trudeau, promised 25,000 Syrian refugees would be admitted by year-end. If they take the ones picked by the UNHCR they will be virtually all Sunni Muslim. Photo: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...-minister-post


Sigh…. Really feeling sorry for Canada.
From The Spectator:
OTTAWA — How the Liberal government intends to bring thousands of Syrian refugees to Canada by year’s end will become clear Tuesday with the rollout of the plan for the largest rapid resettlement program in the country’s history.
Federal ministers would not divulge any elements of the proposal Friday or comment on a document obtained by The Canadian Press that suggests the cost of the program could hit $1.2 billion, far more than the $250 million the Liberals budgeted in their platform to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees.
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After Seven Years, Free Yoga Classes At University Of Ottawa Cancelled For Being “Cultural Appropriation”…
No yoga pants, no justice.
Via Ottawa Sun:

Student leaders have pulled the mat out from 60 University of Ottawa students, ending a free on-campus yoga class over fears the teachings could be seen as a form of “cultural appropriation.”
Jennifer Scharf, who has been offering free weekly yoga instruction to students since 2008, says she was shocked when told in September the program would be suspended, and saddened when she learned of the reasoning.
Staff at the Centre for Students with Disabilities believe that “while yoga is a really great idea and accessible and great for students … there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice,” according to an email from the centre.
The centre is operated by the university’s Student Federation, which first approached Scharf seven years ago about offering yoga instruction to students both with and without disabilities.
The centre goes on to say, “Yoga has been under a lot of controversy lately due to how it is being practiced,” and which cultures those practices “are being taken from.”
The centre official argues since many of those cultures “have experienced oppression, cultural genocide and diasporas due to colonialism and western supremacy … we need to be mindful of this and how we express ourselves while practising yoga.”
The concept of cultural appropriation is normally applied when a dominant culture borrows symbols of a marginalized culture for dubious reasons — such as the fad of hipsters donning indigenous headdresses as a fashion statement, without any regard to cultural significance or stereotype.
But Scharf, a yoga teacher with the downtown Rama Lotus Centre, said the concept does not apply in this case, arguing the complaint that killed the program came instead from a “social justice warrior” with “fainting heart ideologies” in search of a cause celebre.
“People are just looking for a reason to be offended by anything they can find,” said Scharf.
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Canada’s Syrian Refugee Policy Limited To Women, Children And Families Only…
Seems legit until you factor in the rise of women being used as suicide bombers.
Via CBC:

The federal government’s much-anticipated Syrian refugee plan will limit those accepted into Canada to women, children and families only, CBC News has learned.
Sources tell CBC News that to deal with some ongoing concerns around security, unaccompanied men seeking asylum will not be part of the program.
The details of the plan will be announced Tuesday, but already Canadian officials have been working on the ground to process people.
Keep reading…

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How Do You Stop ISIS from Coming Across Northern Border?

By Rod Kackley November 21, 2015
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How Do You Stop ISIS from Coming Across Northern Border?


Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was mocked for suggesting a wall be built along the border between America and Canada during his short-lived Republican presidential primary campaign. But Homeland Security officials take the idea of terrorists moving into the U.S. from Canada very seriously.
An October 2015 Senate Homeland Security Committee report showed because there are so few Border Patrol agents on the northern border, drug smugglers are able to easily move their products north and south across the border.
Not only is it the longest border in the world, it is one of the busiest. Approximately 300,000 people and $910 million in trade cross the northern border every day, representing the largest bilateral flows of goods and people in the world.
Imagine what could be hidden in that traffic.
Even more worrisome, a 2010 Government Accountability Office (GAO) report has shown only 69 miles along more than 5,500 miles of the entire northern border between the U.S. and Canada achieved “an acceptable level of security.”
And if criminals can pretty much move illegal contraband with impunity from Canada to America, wouldn’t it make sense that if ISIS wanted to move its savages into the U.S., they would do it the same way?
It might be no tougher to move terrorists from Syria into Canada than it would be to move them throughout Europe. And, despite its peaceful reputation, Canada has served as a breeding ground for terrorism.
Case in point: the 2014 shooting at Parliament Hill in Ottawa. A homegrown terrorist from Quebec killed a soldier at Canada’s National War Memorial before trying to shoot his way into the Canadian parliament.
The Canadian government for several years has reported an increase in the number of its citizens who are being radicalized and are then traveling overseas to support and be trained by the Islamic State.
Paradoxically, the new Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has been sounding like he might move away from the counter-terrorism commitments of his predecessor, Stephen Harper.
Trudeau has also reiterated his desire to move 25,000 Syrian refugees into Canada despite the revelation that one of the Paris ISIS agents might have been smuggled into France under cover of the wave of refugees washing through Europe.
Combine all of that with the Nov. 13 ISIS attacks in Paris and it is easy to see why America’s federal, state and local law enforcement are scrambling to reexamine border security and the vetting of the constant daily stream of immigrants entering the U.S.
However, this concern isn’t anything new to Rep. John Katko, a Republican from New York state. Months ago, Katko began sounding the alarm over lax security along America’s northern border with Canada as he introduced the Northern Border Security Review Act.
It would force a new GAO review of the U.S./Canadian border.
“I served as a federal prosecutor on our border both at home in New York and in El Paso, Texas. I’ve seen first-hand the issues that our nation faces countering violent drug trafficking, organized crime, and potential terrorist acts,” Katko said.
Still, Katko wasn’t telling his colleagues in the House or the White House anything they didn’t know or at least should have known.
The Obama administration has been aware since 2010 that the threat of terrorists getting into the U.S. from Canada is much worse than the risk of people with ideological mayhem on their minds coming in through Mexico.
“While great attention is justifiably given to the challenges of securing our southern border, ensuring the safety of our vast northern border is also critical to our national security,” said Katko.
Even though the need is immediate, Katko said before border security can be improved, a new study is needed. That is why he sponsored the Northern Border Security Review Act to push the federal government to tighten America’s northern border. His proposal won bipartisan House approval in October.
The comprehensive federal examination required by Katko’s bill would specifically look into issues with recruiting and retaining border security officials to cover the northern border, including at more remote areas of the border.
He said it would also determine tools border security officials need to effectively combat drug and human trafficking at the northern border, identify technology that could expand the reach of border agents, and find vulnerabilities in cooperation between Canadian, state, county, local, and tribal law enforcement.
Companion legislation passed the Senate Homeland Security committee in July. It is awaiting a floor vote. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.) is one of its co-sponsors.
“When I brought DHS Deputy Secretary Mayorkas to Pembina (N.D.) in April, we heard about the difficulty recruiting officials to work in remote areas of the border and an increase in crime across the border. My bipartisan bill would help address these challenges, and it’s very encouraging that it passed unanimously through the Senate committee just a week after being introduced. Hopefully by soon passing it in the full Senate, we can make sure security is as strong as possible at all of our borders.”
Shawn Moran, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, told the Washington Post his rank-and-file have always thought the Obama administration should be focused more on the northern border.
Moran said the border review legislation can’t move fast enough for the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to keep the worst of humanity away from the U.S.
“Illegal immigration is like water,” he said. “It’s going to take the path of least resistance.”

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Thornhill High School Evacuated Following Bomb Threat
Westmount collegiate in Thornhill, Ontario was evacuated Monday morning, November 23, as a precaution following a possible threat. The neighborouhods surrounding the school are known as predominantly Jewish.
Police condoned off the school complex and conducted a thorough search inside its premises. Police and CTV helicopters were hovering the sky and two fire trucks were deployed in the area.
Update: Around noon after almost three hours, the Police determined that the school is safe, wrapped up its operations and the students started returning to the school.
In recent years several incidents of spray-painted anti-Semitic graffiti were reported in Vaughan. On October 31, 2015, unknown individual(s) spray-painted on Saturday () the word “Jews” on a sign placed by the Parks and Forestry Department of the City of Vaughan, Ontario at Concord/ Thornhill Regional Park located at 299 Racco Parkway.

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Canada: Military thrown out of barracks to make room for Syrian refugees

Posted by Ann Corcoran on November 24, 2015
The new hard Left Canadian government is hell-bent on bringing in 25,000 Syrians in a little over a month. Apparently unable to find housing for them, they will be housed in military barracks across Canada.
From CTV News:
Canadian military moving out of barracks so Syrians can move in!

Soldiers and military personnel at a Kingston, Ont. base are being asked to clear their barracks to make room for an early wave of Syrian refugees arriving in just over a week, CTV News has learned.
Multiple residences at CFB Kingston are being cleared for Nov. 30 to house the refugees, according to an internal memo obtained by CTV News.
The orders will also affect some officer cadets attending the Royal Military College, many of whom are nearing exams.
Where will the military be resettled? CTV News continues….
A true Red Diaper Doper Baby, even has a commie logo
When boys run countries….

And while the memo warns of the fast-approaching deadline, it does not indicate where military personnel will be resettled.
However, it does say a place will be found for the personnel.
The notice comes just two days after Minister of Immigration and Refugees John McCallum reaffirmed the government’s plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of 2015.
There is more, read it all! The story mentions “health” concerns, so it appears they are a little worried about containing some potentially contagious diseases. Lucky Canadian citizens!
Note in the story that the UN is picking their refugees, so the vast majority will be Sunni Muslims.

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Comment: Canada is embracing gay Muslims

• Barry Dennison, PinkNews
• 30^th August 2013, 5:50 PM

Ramadan involves fasting for 30 days, as instructed in the Quran (Photo: Troy Jackson) Journalist Barry Dennison explores how a group of gay Muslims practice their faith during Ramadan in Canada.

After seeing numerous internet pictures of gay men being hung by the neck in Iran, it raised questions: How is Islam practiced in western society? Does the Canadian Government truly give everyone equal opportunity to believe as they choose?


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Yet it appears the first breach of human rights law doesn’t come from government, instead Mosques refuse to accept homosexuals, as well as deny women the right to pray beside men.
This is an “accepted” discrimination (transferred from other countries) that won’t change for the majority of believers of Islam in Canada, Britain, Australia and the US.
So, I was heartened to learn of a Canadian gay Muslim who organised a group called, “Salaam” that hosts a “Jum’ah” (noon prayers) and an Itfar (a community gathering in the evening) during Ramadan, and who welcomed others in to observe their services.
As a journalist, I wanted to go see for myself why this religion was so important to those who have faced such discrimination.

My first question upon meeting immigration lawyer, El Farouk Khaki, was to ask: “Why does this religion mean so much to you after being viciously shunned by Mosques?”

Mr Khaki’s viewpoint saw passed this ill-treatment from others and explained the single most important thing is to have “… a relationship with Allah, one that will be defined by me and Allah. Not by other men.”
Ramadan involves fasting for 30 days, as instructed in the Quran, the Muslim holy book. The purpose of fasting is reportedly “to learn what poor people experience” and believers are encouraged to help disadvantaged people in their own communities.
As I discover, an Iftar can be a small intimate gathering of around 2-4 in a home, a park or larger community gatherings as this one in a Toronto community centre, “The 519” (gay Toronto’s ‘command central’ to various gay/lesbian social groups).
The estimated 250 attendees was comprised of other non-Muslim people as politicians and journalists, Arab and South Asian youth groups, NGO staff who help refugees settle, to lobbyists who travel to refugee camps helping gays immigrate to safety. Others were Canadian and American women groups, even a gay Iman from Washington DC.
The gathering was timed for just before the sun sets, prayers started for a short time, then attendees are served with “dates” as this fruit is the first item a Muslim eats when ending a fast.
Calling their prayer meeting to order with a large voiced guttural sound that one might expect from an Aboriginal tribal ritual or as in this Arab custom, an “Adhan” … I knew this was going to be something different from my Christian background.
This Muslim service is uniquely Arabic and old world in its own right, as the ceremony involved the group bowing in unison from a stand up, then from a kneeling position, whilst a member of a group says prayers aloud, reportedly quotes from the Quran in Arabic.
Watching this group of people, I felt honoured to witness gay men and women kneeling to pray together. I sensed their dignity as well as a tremendous respect for the rituals they learned in earlier years from family and home countries.
As the evening’s Itfar progressed, a representative from Canada’s first peoples, Aboriginal/Native Indian and a member from the Sikh religion were invited to speak. Also among this group of Muslims was a man wearing a “yarmulke”, the small cloth skull-caps Jewish men wear.
“We are reaching out to others.” explained El-Farouk Khaki, who added: “We all believe in the same one God.”
Wow, Jews and Muslims praying together! Surprise!
Soon each of the 30 tables were invited one by one to line up for a meal catered by a women of East African decent.
Waiting for my table’s turn to go get some food, I chatted with a refugee from Iran – a country where families offer up their own children (seen to be gay/effeminate) to the government for death by hanging. Alternatively, gay men in Iran are forced to have gender confirmation treatment, as young as 16-years-old.
“Iran is a great place for strong men, not for small frail people like me. I have been in Canada for 6 weeks, arriving only with a citizenship from a refugee camp in Turkey.”, said the refugee, proudly showing me his new Canadian passport.
Speaking of his experience in a Turkish refugee camp, he said: “Many other refugees went to Finland and Norway. But I was happy the United Nations Refugee Agency chose Canada for me because there is so much tension in Europe between Muslims and westerners.”

This man’s commentary over the course of the evening was priceless to my limited experience at Iftars.


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As tables of anxious hungry people were called to line up for this delicious food we could smell wafting in the air, hearing this new fellow Canadian’s experience made me happy to learn the Canadian Government is willing to help “accused homosexuals” in countries as Uganda, Iraq, Iran where killing homosexuals is a cruel sport.
Learning that Canada will reportedly help gay Muslims reach freedom from oppressive regimes is awesome, especially complete with citizenship, short-term accommodation, $2,500 for living expenses, with time to learn English and get a job.
This makes me proud of Canada. Yes dammit’, this liberal is gratefully conceding that Prime Minister Steven Harper and his Immigration Minister, John Baird, has shown compassion for fellow human beings, including homosexuals.
Not something anyone expected from a Conservative Government, but certainly welcomed.
With more prayers after dinner, the service was led by a female, Dr Amina Wadud of California, concluded: “My work has always been on gender issues. It was only a couple of years ago did I pray to find it in myself to love and accept those with a different sexual orientation and gender identity.”
“Now I do so with an open heart.”
Soon lemon marangue desserts and coffee arrived which was as tasty as your Grandma used to make at our own church’s turkey suppers! Local entertainers, dancers and singers presented their talent and supported with cheers from the crowd.
All in all, I came away from this Muslim event thinking well of my fellow (wo)man and my country, calm in the knowledge that there are Muslims here who do exercise their “right to assembly” to carry on with the religious ceremonies they value, and to share the lessons of their religion with like-minded people.
Clearly, these Muslim folks just want to live peacefully, with the simple message for us all to have an open mind and heart – to stop treating each other as “the other”.
Now, that is one one bottom line we all can agree on as humans no matter where we call ‘home’!
Barry Dennison is a 25-year veteran journalist who specialises in legal affairs and human rights law.

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Recently revealed that a large percentage of the "Refugees" will be gay, lesbian, and lord knows what other "Sexual preference"