Manitoba's Raging Wildfires

A wildfire burns near Sherridon on May 27. Several out-control blazes have forced the evacuation of thousands of people in northern Manitoba this week. (Government of Manitoba)

"We could see [the fire] very well throughout the night. The night before, the wind was in our favour ... but then we were told that the wind was going to change on Wednesday, and it did."

"We could see [the fire] perfectly. Red [skies] and lots of black smoke."

"Some of the residents, like my kids, live right off the perimeter, which is only one-and-a-half kilometres from the fire."

"[First responders] were going door to door, telling them to get out."

Rob Burroughs, resident of Flin Flon, Manitoba

 

"Pray for Flin Flon, pray for Pimicikamak, pray for Mathias Colomb, pray for Cross Lake, pray for everybody in Manitoba who's out of their homes right now."

"As we head into the weekend, pray for rain. We haven't seen rain in the forecast yet. That could really help — sustained rainfall, in particular."

"But in the absence of that, the past few days have been very challenging, and that may continue."

"We cannot thank other jurisdictions enough, [other provinces and territories — now also being bolstered by 100 more firefighters and 25 logistics managers from the U.S]."

"It really does just underline how serious this situation is." 

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew

 

"I hear … there's choppers now, that smoke has engulfed the airport." 

"We're getting desperate now. It's getting rougher. We're going to be heading for the lake … shortly if nothing turns out, if nothing puts the flame out."

Chief Gordie Bear, Pukatawagan Cree Nation 

Evacuees from Pukatawagan Cree Nation arrive at the Brandon Municipal Airport Thursday night. Thousands of residents were stranded in Pukatawagan, also known as Mathias Colomb, after the nearby fire shut down its airport at around 6:30 p.m. CT, the First Nation's chief said. (Chelsea Kemp/CBC)

 

Cars lined bumper to bumper with Flin Flon residents evacuating to Winnipeg for shelter from the wildfires threatening their homes were in for a long drive. From the highway, the frightening sight of the wildfires accompanied their journey as Winnipeg awaited the thousands of evacuees during Manitoba's province-wide state of emergency.

 

Flin Flon residents were informed they had to leave their homes and go south with their essentials, by Wednesday night. Even before the evacuation orders were disseminated, hospital patients had been sent out of the city where fires have forced 17,000 residents from their homes in remote communities and First Nations. Some 6,000 people were dispatched from Flin Flon alone. 

 

Advance emergency preparations had been made to house evacuees at a Winnipeg arena while others would be housed at larger facilities like recreation centres and soccer fields. According to Manitoba's premier, this is the province's largest exodus of this nature in living memory. The military has been called upon to assist evacuation flights to Winnipeg.  

 

A fire is currently closing in on the city boundaries of Flin Flon, a community of some 5,000 people  Government of Manitoba Handout

 

Nearby Creighton, Saskatchewan was involved in the Flin Flon fire on Monday when it crossed the boundary, then exploded in volume as crews struggled to contain it Tuesday. A drone in nearby flight kept water bombers grounded at a critical time in attempting to manage the runaway fire. Upward of 1,200 residents were informed they had to leave the town. Wildfire officials informed Creighton Mayor Bruce Fidler that flames could move in by Thursday, cutting off road access.

 

"We declared a state of emergency and put out a mandatory evacuation so that we can get as many people out of the area as possible, to be safe and before the roads become impassable", explained the Creighton mayor. Wildfires have forced thousands of residents from Manitoba to Alberta from their homes in the heated summer atmosphere prevailing. Advancing wildfires forced evacuation of residents from the town of Lynn Lake northwest of Winnipeg.

 

According to the Wednesday count, 22 active wildfires were ablaze in Manitoba where 102 fires this year have marked the province's growing vulnerability to more extreme weather conditions where the 20-year annual average has been 77. Firefighters from New Brunswick, Alberta, British Columbia and Prince Edward Island were relocated to give assistance in Manitoba. Three First Nations in northern Saskatchewan declared a joint state of emergency where thousands have been forced from their communities amidst escalating wildfires. 

 

Smoke rises from wildfires in Manitoba, Canada   Copernicus Sentinel-2/Reuters

 

They report that there are "critical shortages" of firefighting resources, personnel and air support, a joint statement by the Lac La Ronge Indian Band, Peter Ballantyne Cree Nation and Montreal Cree Nation and Montreal Lake Cree Nation advised. 1,300 residents of Swan Hills, north-central Alberta, were ordered on Monday to leave ahead of an advancing fire whipped by raging winds.  

 

Premier Wab Kinew updates on wildfires.

"Everyone who is working on your behalf is working together, and ... we are making important progress to move Manitobans to safety, to push back the wildfires and to ensure that people will be able to return to their homes and the lives that we're so proud of here in this province."

"I think the most important thing for Manitobans to understand is that we need to be calm. The situation can be very concerning, can be very emotional."

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew

 

(Photo Credit: Facebook.com/lacdubonnetemergencymanagement)

 

Anti-Military Protests Now Embrace the Anti-Israel, Pro-Palestinian Movement

"Freedom of expression has reasonable limits to protect citizens, property and businesses from disruptive or unlawful [events]."

"Identity-concealing clothing and masks [and] dumping paint on the roadway, [while demonstrators were also] observed filling disposable water bottles with paint, which they reportedly were to be used to target police officers [cannot be countenanced]."

"At this time, 12 people have been arrested for mischief and assaulting police. There have been no injuries reported."

"People are still being processed, and the incidents are being looked into. This will take some time. As of now, a woman is being charged with assaulting police and disguise with intent. She is being held in custody and will appear in court tomorrow."

Ottawa Police Service statement

 

"People are aware that the weapons companies that are arming the genocide are at the EY Centre, so there is definitely the motivation to come out and protest."

"[Some of the arms manufacturers exhibiting supply weapons to Israel for its Gaza operations]."

'Shut Down CANSEC' co-organizer, Brent Patterson

 

"We’re here because this is Canada’s biggest weapons fair and we know the companies in this building, the military representatives in this building are responsible for some of the worst war crimes on the planet." 

"We have a vision for Canada that is not based on dropping bombs around the world, that is not based on partnering with Israel and its attacks on Palestine."

"We’re demanding a foreign policy from Canada that, yes, is separate from the U.S., but is also separate from U.S. warmaking and from its allies’ wars."

Rachel Small, with World Beyond War

 

"These arrests had taken place after numerous hours of negotiations through our police liaison team with their representatives and with those individuals themselves to move back onto the sidewalk, as opposed to on the roadway."

"Our east investigation detectives are currently working on that file [assault on trade show attendee] right now."

Ottawa police Duty Insp. Scott Pettis 

A protester holds a baby doll covered in fake blood at an attendee arriving at the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries annual defence industry trade show CANSEC, in Ottawa, on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

After the Ottawa Police Service's liaison team "made numerous attempts to have the protesters co-operate", demonstrators were cleared outside the CANSEC military trade show in Ottawa. A dozen protesters were arrested and charged with "mischief and assaulting police". Outside Ottawa Police Service headquarters, another demonstrator was arrested later, for "causing a disturbance". 

Nice to see Ottawa Police in action, upholding lawful assembly, but moving in to remove those individuals whose actions went beyond mere civil disobedience. This event was treated somewhat differently than myriad similar protests that have taken place in Ottawa over the past 18 months, focused solely on castigating Israel as a war-mongering 'genocidal' state for responding to the Palestinian terrorist assault on southern Israel on 7 October 2023.

 

Those demonstrations, where protesters increasingly made it plain they were supporting the Hamas terror group, proscribed in Canada, but obviously supported and even venerated as a freedom group, bent on 'liberating' Palestinians from Israeli occupation, while denying the Palestinian groups like Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PLFP and Fatah are terrorist groups guilty of indiscriminate slaughter and grisly savagery in their hatred of Jews 'occupying' their very own ancestral lands the Palestinians identify as theirs alone. 

While there is a police presence at these demonstrations where masked and keffiyed participants scream invective at Jewish Canadians, shout 'globalize the Intifada', and 'From the river to the sea' with its implied message of destroying Israel and extinguishing Jewish lives in another 'Final Solution', there has been no restraining or protective police action, even when mobs of Muslims squat on the streets and intersections in mass prayer sessions.

 

Police closed Uplands Drive near Ottawa's EY Centre for more than two hours Wednesday as demonstrators protested the annual weapons fair. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

War protesters representing various anti-war groups are accustomed to protesting at events such as the annual conference of military and government personnel, diplomats and weapons-manufacturing representatives. Adding slanderous accusations against the Jewish State as a war-mongering country with an agenda to wipe out neighbouring Palestinians is a newish twist, as is the presence of masked, keffiyeh-clad anti-Israel groups intent on smearing Israel by attributing to it the kinds of lethal savagery that Palestinian terrorist groups have perfected against Israel, causing the state to respond to a declaration of war.

 

Canada's new government has pledged a commitment to rebuilding the wan and feeble Canadian military, at the ongoing demands of NATO and in particular of U.S. President Donald Trump, that it step up its military preparedness in an increasingly hostile world where China, Russia, North Korea and Iran present singly and as a conspiratorial quartet, threats against the democratic world order. Over12,000 people were expected to appear at the CANSEC conference with its 285 exhibitors highlighting the latest  technological advances in military hardware. 

A rally was previously held on May 1 at the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries offices calling for CANSEC to be cancelled. A conference attendee was assaulted in the area around the conference, coming away with minor injuries and treated on scene by paramedics. 

Speaking before the CANSEC audience of military contractors, Canada's Defence Minister David McGuinty informed gathered contractors that globally countries are swiftly adjusting to a fast-moving, global threat environment. He discussed the new government of Canada's plan to join ReArm Europe, a major European defence procurement pact to rearm and build up domestic defence industries. 

"The lessons that we're seeing that through the brutal war in Ukraine and the loss of countless lives unnecessarily by the illegal invasion of Russia ... show us that we need to be prepared for potential future threats."

"ReArm Europe is one of those ways of diversifying portfolios, and I think it'll probably be good for Canadian business."

Royal Canadian Airforce Commander Lt.-Gen.Eric Kenny

Police keep watch as protesters yell and gesture toward attendees arriving at the annual CANSEC trade show at Ottawa's EY Centre on Wednesday. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)

"You will have heard a debate in Germany -- and that's one of the issues the next government will address -- of reintroducing conscription. And all of that is because we see what's happening on the Russian side, how the Russians are re-arming, doubling their military forces and clearly preparing for a possible confrontation beyond Ukraine." 

"European leaders and German leaders take [this] very seriously. And this is why, if we want to underpin the defence plans we have with capability -- and that's really what it's all about -- and you make the calculation of what that will cost you will end up significantly higher than two percent [NATO goal] and this is what the discussion should be about."

"The German government has said time and again that any settlement regarding Ukraine, first and foremost, has to be in the hands of the Ukrainians."

"We will never accept any dictated arrangement. European leaders and the Ukrainian president have been very clear that we need a settlement that really ends this war and not something that is just a prelude to the next aggression." 

German Ambassador to Canada Tjorven Bellmann 

Russia may be using bots on the Telegram messaging app to enhance the lethality of Geran-2 drones, which have been attacking Ukraine in increasing numbers, according to a report by The Economist.

In the midst of desperately attempting to successfully counter Moscow's 'Special Military Operation', and pursuing the diplomatic circuit in Europe and North America, Ukraine also faces increasing concern over how it can secure badly neeeded U.S.-produced Patriot air defence systems. Stockpiles provided to Ukraine during the previous U.S. Biden administration are shrinking badly. That the new Trump government is disinterested in providing Ukraine with fresh arms has become increasingly obvious, with U.S. President Donald Trump's belligerence toward Ukraine, and friendly relations with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

 

Bombarding Ukraine with drones and cruise missiles, Ukraine fears the ballistic missiles Russia has been sending across the border. Patriot missiles are the sole formula for countering Russian ballistic missiles which travel several miles each second. In power plant strikes by Moscow in 2023 and 2024, ballistic missiles obliterated fifty percent of Ukraine's power capacity. Speed and size and difficulty in inerception make ballistic missiles extremely effective weapons in Russia's arsenal, aiming at pulverizing infrastructure.

 

Over the Memorial Day weekend Ukraine's air defence forces were unable to intercept any of the nine ballistic missiles Russia launched from Saturday night to early Sunday. According to Ukraine's air defence forces, two of the Russian missiles were directed at Kyiv, where two Patriot units are stationed. The launch sites are in place, but the Patriot missiles are missing in action. Along with the ballistic missiles, Russia fired over 900 drones and 65 cruise missiles, representing some of the largest strikes of the war as Russia ramps up its attacks.

 

Despite the fact that Russian ballistic missiles can now deviate from their trajectory, Patriot systems are successfully intercepting them. One of the latest indicators is 6 out of 9 missiles intercepted   Espreso

Withholding any promises of additional military aid to Ukraine, U.S. President Trump condemned Russia for the attacks launched aganst Ukraine on Sunday. When President Trump wrote that Russian President Putin "has gone absolutely CRAZY!", Putin's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, spoke of the comment as "connected to an emotional overload of everyone involved". If Ukraine desperately wants anything from the United States at this juncture, it is more Patriot missiles and launchers.

 

"Which, frankly, we don't have", responded Secretary of State Marco Rubio at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. Instead, according to Mr. Rubio, the United States is "encouraging" its allies in NATO to donate Patriot missiles and systems from their own stockpiles, adding that "not one of these countries want to give up their Patriot systems, either." The U.S. needs to keep a certain amount for its own defence, "in case of an attack from Iran or another adversary", confided an unidentified diplomat.

 

In strictly practical terms  under the new U.S. administration it is well understood by Ukrainian officials that the Trump administration would be prepared to sell them more Patriots, not as aid, but representing military sales. Washington, acording to a senior Ukrainian official is not expected to block the sale of future air defence systems, but the White House "will not give it away for free. They think like business people. If I give you something, you have to give me something in return. We have to adapt to this."

 

Russia, on the other hand, is not lacking support from its own allies, with North Korea supplying the Kremlin with some 250 ballistic missiles since last fall, acording to Ukraine's military intelligence. Russia used North Korean KN-23 missiles in six of nine ballistic attacks in May, including the massive Sunday attack on Ukraine. Germany was given permission by the Trump administration to re-export Patriot materials to Kyiv following the signing by Ukraine of a minerals deal with Washington.

 

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius informed reporters recently that his country would give Patriot missiles to Ukraine along with four IRIS-T systems, short-to-medium-range weapons, effective against cruise, but not ballistic missiles. Additionally, Berlin plans to send Ukraine its older PAC-2 Pariot missiles, not as effective as intercepting ballistic missiles, but useful, withal. Russian Iskander missiles were involved in dozens of civilians having beeen killed in attacks.

Ukraine cannot replace the Patriots for defending civilians against Russian ballistic attacks. Getty Images

"And this concerns questions like territorial integrity, security guarantees, the size and might of future armed forces in Ukraine, political sovereignty and choice of alliances."

"Putin could end this war today, if he wanted to, but we don't see any serious readiness on the Russian side to even engage in serious talks."

"All of what we see and the answers that the Russian president has given these past days and weeks is only more aggression and bloodshed and continuing the war."

"All of us want this war to end -- nobody more than the Ukrainians -- but it has to end in a way that brings true peace and not the next aggression."

German Ambassador to Canada Tjorven Bellmann

Predictive But Unheeded Canadian Labour Woes

"Not only has Canada experienced an unprecedented surge in immigration, but the composition of recent newcomers has been markedly different than in the past."

"[Since 2015 -- when the Liberal government of Justin Trudeau took office], the average nominal wage gap between temporary and Canadian-born workers has more than doubled."

"[By mid-2024, non-permanent residents were representing] almost two-thirds of population growth [in a] sharp divergence [from the norm]."

"[Dropping wages among] non-permanent workers [could be a sign that] the productive capacity of the Canadian economy grew less than it would have if recent newcomers had the same socioeconomic characteristics as in the past."

The Shift in Canadian Immigration Composition and its Effect on Wages .. Bank of Canada report

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As younger, lower-skilled immigrants enter Canada to shore up its lagging workforce, the share in the labour force of native-born Canadian workers has dropped almost by ten percent since 2006, according to a report issued by the Bank of Canada documenting the country's economy becoming increasingly reliant on migrant workers on low-wages. The bank's Economic Analysis Department published a discussion paper on May 9.

 

The analysis discovered that the average Canadian immigrant has become younger, lower-skilled and likelier to emanate from poor regions of the world: India, sub-Saharan Africa or the Middle East, comprising a situation driven largely by a temporary migration surge. Among Canada's surging ranks of temporary migrant workers wages have been "reduced significantly relative to Canadian-born workers" the paper states. 

 

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According to the authors' calculations, the average migrant worker in Canada is paid over one-fifth less than a Canadian-born worker in comparable working positions. Prior to 2014, the wage gap was 9.5 percent, rising to 22.6 percent by 2023. The paper, titled The Shift in Canadian Immigration Composition and its Effect on Wages, is regarded as one of the most definitive official documents yet produced with respect to the massive surge of migrant workers brought to Canada immediately following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Canada began to accept over a million newcomers annually, beginning in 2022, for the most part in "non-permanent" categories of immigrants in a spectrum from international students, among those admitted under the international mobility program, to temporary foreign workers. This massive intake of workers was not matched anywhere else in the world of advanced economies.

 

Population growth in Canada between 2019 and 2023 amounted to over six percent, triple the rate in the United States, and double that in Switzerland, the two developed economy countries analyzed for the paper with a demographic shift coming a distant close to Canada's. The situation is hardly reflective of the norm for Canada traditionally where immigration flows are "generally stable and predictable over history."

 

Canadian population growth until 2015 was almost entirely unaffected by "non-permanent residents". Immigration came through permanent channels; the "NPR" cohort vanishingly small to the extent that new temporary immigrants entering the country were generally negated by those leaving.  As well, temporary migrants were sourced from different regions. The region between 2006 and 2014 where the highest level of non-permanent immigration to Canada arrived from was Northern and Western Europe. Now, since 2024 India has replaced that traditional source.

 

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"An increasing number of NPRs have been migrating from lower-income regions" the report states. Canadian "net births" have been sharply reduced, even while an massive influx of migrant workers increased. Until the early 1990s, net births remained the primary driver of population growth. They became "negligible" by 2024, the paper notes. Canadian babies born in 2024 were equivalent to the number of Canadians who died. As well, the paper documents a marked decrease in the labour force of Canadian-born workers.

 

Alarmingly the post-pandemic surge in migrant workers matched a massive increase in youth unemployment, particularly among retail and food services -- sectors that relied traditionally on part-time entry-level workers, now relying on temporary work visas. Service jobs of a temporary nature were, in the past, employment opportunities for high-school and university students as a means to pay their tuition fees. Less attractive to Canadian-born students looking for summer employment was agricultural work, where migrant workers took up the slack.

 

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King's Trust Canada found in a November report that between 2015 and 2023 the rate of temporary foreign workers in Canadian restaurants had increased by a whopping 634 percent. The Bank of Canada report authors surmise that the  trend they analyzed could have an effect on the country's overall productivity -- how much the average Canadian worker is capable of producing. 

In recent years they note, Canadian productivity has gone into sharp decline with each passing year yielding a progressively lower rate of per-capita GDP than the year before. This trend is likely exacerbated, according to analysts, by Canada's surge in cheap, low-skilled temporary labour. Former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge in 2023 warned that a "large and rising inflow of workers with lower skills" was impacting in depressing wages and propping up "uncompetitive" businesses.

 

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Israel Alone

"[Some of Israel's closest allies want Israel to] stand down and accept that Hamas's army of mass murderers will survive."

"I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney and Prime Minister Starmer, when mass murderers, rapists, baby killers and kidnappers thank you, you're on the wrong side of justice."

"You're on the wrong side of humanity, and you're on the wrong side of history."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel's PM has accused the leaders of the UK, France and Canada of being on "the wrong side of history"  Reuters

No other nation on Earth, constantly threatened, attacked and forced to defend itself on an ongoing basis from forces intent on destroying it, faces the unrelenting 'advice' by other nations considered allies, on how it should comport itself as does Israel. In a region of the world where might is right, and inflamed tensions build inexorably to violence and where well funded, trained and armed militias that most countries designate as terrorist entities, attack, the only response that works when attacks take place is to respond in kind.

 

Israel, in responding to a mass barbaric attack led by Hamas and joined by other Palestinian terrorist groups like Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Fatah, as well as Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis, knows that it has an obligation to itself and its people, long targeted by death squads of the death-cult movement of Palestinian terrorism to finally vanquish and destroy the ability of these death-dealing groups to continue threatening and attacking the Jewish state. 

 

There is no country on the face of this Earth that would hesitate to counter-attack when thousands of terrorist operatives trained in terrorism tactics bring sadistic savagery to play in hunting down women for mass rape and mutilation, fire automatic weapons to kill any civilian child, woman or man, elderly or in uniform identified as an Israeli target, that would not invade the territory that had desecrated its state of security by mass bloodletting. 

 

Israeli soldier patrols near the Supernova music festival attack in Be'eri, Israel, on Oct. 12.   Aris Messinis / AFP via Getty Images

This is a conflict that terrorism initiated with a stated goal -- to annihilate Jewish lives and in the process destroy the state that protects and secures those lives. Israel's military responded in kind, but a measured kind as a civilized nation, seeking to avoid causing as many casualties among the civilian population ruled by the terrorists as can be possible when Hamas and its sister groups deploy a strategy of shielding themselves among the civilian population, within hospitals, schools and mosques for maximum shelter from the consequences of their actions.

 

During war, civilian populations inevitably suffer. They disproportionately pay the  cost of their governing representatives' decision to wage war on others. In the case of Palestinian terrorist groups there is another role within the conflict scenario; to encourage the civilian population to willingly become decoys, to offer their lives in protection of the lives of those who brought war to them. Collateral damage can be kept to a minimum relatively speaking, when a humane military warns civilians beforehand.

 

There is, however, no way during an active war situation, that civilian lives can be spared during the drive to destroy and eliminate the warring element of the population. Even so, Israel's Defense Forces have been the cause of fewer civilian deaths than in any other active war situation. And the situation is that Hamas holds Israeli  citizens as hostages when to return them could bring an end to the conflict. Even while the IDF in fighting mode seeks out Hamas leaders and their operatives, and Israel's 'allies' urge a ceasefire, Hamas and its terrorist colleagues continue to send rockets into Israel.

 

 

 

What country would unilaterally lay down its arms and allow terrorists to continue their agenda of destruction and death unimpeded because its critics are allied in offering advice that they themselves in similar conditions would never consider as a reaction to a war imposed upon them? Yet the allies do not desist, and Western legacy media, infused with a sense of national moral righteousness from afar, portray Israel as a human rights-abusing nation, never hesitating to use the public relations agenda of Hamas to portray Israel as actively pursuing a 'genocidal' course in its response to an actual genocidal intent.

 

The world has accustomed itself to denying Jews the right to self-defense because they prefer Jews as victims. As victims during the Holocaust when Nazi Germany with the aid and assistance of occupied Europe, just as content to be rid of their Jews as was Germany, and lending themselves to the enterprise with gusto, it was seen as revelatory and shocking when the death toll was counted and those still alive presented in their pathetic state of survival. Empathy to their plight was a natural human reaction.

 

Now it appears that another natural human reaction is taking place, when Jews  refuse to be perpetual victims, and inconveniently have a military and a nation whose purpose of existence is to ensure that Jews themselves endure and exist despite the best laid plans of Jew-haters intent on destroying their lives. The very idea of a competent and still humanitarian military with the capacity to lay low belligerents whose thirst for Jewish blood is unappeasable, fails to sit well with critics whose Jew-hate creeps through their civilizational facade. 

 

People in Tel Aviv light candles on Oct. 12 for those who were taken hostage and in memory of people killed.  Amir Levy / Getty Images file