Saturday, October 24, 2026

Misplaced Empathy for an Indigenous Psychopath

"[His] risk of violence is assessed as moderate to high in the short term. [He has a] need to dominate and control women."
[There is concern over his] problematic reactions to feelings of rejection, dismissal, and criticism."
"[Ewert's] attitude  towards women indicates that an undue risk to the community continues to exist."
Parole Board 
 
"You informed [the parole officer] that you find her very attractive and distracting. It appears that these comments were not made in the search of aid or for any therapeutic purpose. You made these comments in a flirtatious manner, while smiling, possibly to assert control."
"During the meeting with your [parole officer], another staff member noticed that you were visibly fixated on your [parole officer] in a preoccupying fashion. Your facial expressions were enough to alarm her to the point that she asked for additional supervision of the meeting."
"We are concerned with the rapidity of your behaviour and with your attitude as you have murdered and sexually assaulted two women whom you found attractive, in an impulsive manner. [Your behaviour] represents a risk for the security of our staff."
Quebec Court Incident Report 
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Jeffrey George Ewert began attending law classes at McGill University in August. Some students told CBC they were upset his violent criminal past was not disclosed. (Name withheld/Instagram)
 
Convicted murderer-rapist Jeffrey George Ewert despite his serious criminal convictions was paroled in recognition of his Indigenous heritage, where courts are enjoined to giving special consideration to Indigenous criminals, noting their purported vulnerability as members of an underprivileged class known to be disproportionately represented in Canada's penal system. This man, an unrepentant murderer and rapist made application to attend law school at McGill university, aided by a number of faculty with his application. 
 
When students at the university discovered the presence in their midst of a convicted murderer, they rallied to have him expelled. They obviously were unaware that the university administration, according to the lawyer representing Jeffrey Ewert, was "fully aware" of his past. At McGill Law, this man shared classrooms with female students who reported to news media that the man had raped and killed a young woman in 1984, and a month later, beat a 15-year-old girl into a vegetative state from which she has never fully recovered; left completely spastic, incapable of controlling her movements and unable to speak more than several words.  
 
Despite which, other students petitioned in support of Ewert. Denied day and full parole, Ewert had appealed to the Federal Court and won his case in 2024 when Justice Jocelyne Gagne determined that since Ewert had managed a 12-year, long-term relationship through his incarceration years which, when ended, failed to erupt in a violent psychotic reaction was proof enough for her that he no longer held any issues with women. His Indigenous heritage required to be taken into consideration, she insisted.
 
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On Friday afternoon, hours after this story was published, McGill's provost Angela Campbell sent an email to its community, attempting to reassure students. (Kolya Hubacek-Guilbault/CBC)
 
Now, in 2026, the man was permitted entry to the McGill law program, while continuing to express his untoward attraction toward women He had accounts on Threads and on Instagram which CBC investigated, reporting that "Ewert is actively communicating with women, commenting on images of women, many of which appear to be altered or created by AI." Writing in one instance: "hotties like you drive  us crazy." This is a man with a frighteningly horrible past with a lawyer who previously taught at McGill Law. 
 
Not only have a number of McGill professors gone out of their way to assist him in his application to McGill, but an outpouring of public support has resulted from people able to look beyond his history of violence against women. A retired lawyer in a LexisNexis publication wrote that Ewert's enrollment represented an opportunity for students to learn about the "difficult realities of rehabilitation". Law students and alumni -- some 100 people -- signed a petition imploring McGill to "rescind the restrictions placed" on Ewert to enable him to continue his legal education. 
"One-third of Canada's prison population is Indigenous, and Jeff's own incarceration is inextricable from the colonial institutions in which he was born."
"Few people in this country have been failed by as many institutions as he has, and McGill University now has a chance to set a precedent."
"Jeff's situation is where our collective commitments to reconciliation and rehabilitation are tested."
Petition arguing for reinstatement 
 
"[McGill has failed to] guide us through critical learning. [We are] shocked by the reactive manner [in which the university handled the matter]." 
"We also believe that a circle discussion led by an Elder would provide an important and culturally appropriate space for our students to process recent events."
"Should the student in question be welcomed back onto campus, we ask that they receive the academic support necessary to continue their studies."
McGill law students' association 
 
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Friday, October 23, 2026

The Meaning of Chutzpah -- At Risk of Charge of Guilt-By-Association

"I do not ask Milton voters to judge my son's case through me, or to judge me through my son."
"I ask them to judge me by my qualifications, my values, my experience, and what I can bring to our public schools."
Khdiga Metwally, school trustee candidate, Ontario  
How can one find fault with a candidate who is a university department chair, an author, speaker, human development instructor? Viewing this school trustee candidate's website anyone can read her priorities; they are what any parent of a young student would agree with and be impressed by. "A high-quality, well-rounded curriculum, strong academic achievement, practical life skills, and safe, inclusive schools free from hate, racism, discrimination and bullying."
 
She has hit all the right notes. Most particular in a prevailing atmosphere where some of those sought-after verities of a sound education; a respectful environment, an inclusive atmosphere in schools dedicated to promoting curiosity, a love of learning, and exposure to all the elements of knowledge, practical and wide-ranging, that make for a well-rounded education in a student whose aspirations to continue learning throughout their lifetime make for a good citizen.
 
These are elements that have of late been found lacking in many schools, with the advent in the past decade of a large contingent of anti-civility, pro-revolutionary, leftist Critical Race Theory, DEI contingents whose alliance with anti-Democratic, anti-Western foreign elements that have infiltrated society in the West, inveigling their way into academic circles, trade unions, school boards and other social-influential positions including government have wrought wholesale change in Canada.
 
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Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 20, before he was arrested and convicted for his part in planning a mass casualty event in New York City on behalf of ISIS. Photo by File
 
Khdiga Metwally, however, knows the solution to some of these social-disorder changes that have taken place in Canada, with her focus on the state of education in the country's schools, where current and future generations of students can be patterned to become responsible adults taking their due place in society. "Timely mental-health support is also essential", she writes. "Family experience" has guided her toward "the value of early understanding, compassionate support, and appropriate intervention".
 
Alas, none of that appears to have worked for her family and her student-son, now an adult convicted for plotting 9/11 type attacks on civilians in New York City in 2016, as a follower and champion of Islamic State. ISIS is listed as a terrorist group in Canada and the United States. For his troubles, Khdiga Metwally's son Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy was sentenced in 2018 to 40 years in prison. Since then, as an inmate in a US. prison who violently attacked two prison guards, leaving one blind in an eye, he has had an additional 50 years added to his now-life sentence.
 
From Metwally Campaign Webpage
 
So, no, Ms. Metwally, you are incorrect in asserting that you should be judged on what you describe as your professional experiences and merits alone. That judgement is superficial in comparison to the reality of raising a child who developed a mental condition, a reliance on drugs as an addict, and an affiliation with a proscribed  terrorist group whose infamous crimes shocked the world in their bold and dreadful efficiency reducing human life to a trifle to be summarily disposed of in the most ghastly atrocities. 
 
You were, after all, that child's guide and mentor. Which makes you extraordinarily unfit to make decisions for other people's children in education and social integration in a universal system of a social contract where civilized conduct is at all times a part of every aspect of our lives. 
 
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Dr. Khdiga R. Metwally and son Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, a convicted ISIS terrorist.
 

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Thursday, October 22, 2026

The Viral Vector of Antisemitism in Canada

"Under the radar, Canada is being infiltrated."
"The Muslim Brotherhood manipulates and uses these democratic principles [of Western democracy] and our cultural institutions in a way that allows them to enter into our society, to enter into higher education, to enter into the Muslim community, to create mosques and civic organizations that are radicalized."
"In the West -- in Canada but in other Western democratic countries -- we don't really understand what the Muslim Brotherhood is."
"It sounds like a benevolent organization. It's a nice name, [but] we don't understand the ideology, the goals, the religious worldview of the Brotherhood, what the strategic and military or philosophical  underpinnings are, and they have mastered us." 
Dr. Charles Asher Small, founder/director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) 
 
"The ISGAP report is nothing more than recycled Islamophobic tropes dressed up as research."
"It is a biased, unsubstantiated hit piece that relies on discredited allegations that were themselves challenged by the Ontario Superior Court for their apparent bias."
"It amplifies narratives designed to fuel Islamophobia and sow division within Canadian society."
Muslim Association of Canada 
 
"This report is a wake-up call for all Canadians. The Canadian government’s direct funding of organizations with documented links to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas is a betrayal of public trust and a threat to Canada’s national security."
"Our report exposes how federal agencies have become complicit in sustaining and legitimizing networks that promote antisemitic and anti-Israel ideologies under the guise of charity and social welfare."
"These entities are exploiting the very values of tolerance and pluralism that Canada holds dear, weaponizing public institutions against Jewish communities and undermining Canadian democracy itself."
Dr. Charles Small  
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SGAP Urges Canadian Government to Designate Muslim Brotherhood a Terrorist Organization
 
The newly released report by ISGAP holds that Canadian institutions have been infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood, a group founded in Egypt in the first quarter of the 20th century that has grown its tentacles worldwide as an inspiration in the world of fundamentalist Islam for global Islamic conquest. Its influence throughout the Islamic world is divided between Muslim-majority countries that have outlawed it in recognition of its goals to be achieved by any means of establishing a worldwide Caliphate ruled by Islamic Sharia law and those countries such as the Islamic Republic of Iran, Turkey, Qatar and Pakistan for whom that conquest goal is a shared aspiration.
 
The Brotherhood's entrenchment of its operatives throughout Canadian institutions, through non-profit organizations and universities, government agencies and trade unions poses a clear and present danger to the country. Its presence and influence in Western countries such as Spain, Italy, Ireland, the U.K., France and Belgium, to name but a handful, including the United States has succeeded in undermining culture, tradition, social mores and values to an extent that is truly alarming. And no group knows this as keenly as the diaspora Jews living in those countries which for the past three years have been subjected to Palestinian-focused threats, harassment, isolation, prejudice and violence.
Anti-Israel protesters at Toronto Metropolitan University on April 30, 2024.
 
The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism sets out its argument in a 200-page study that an organized campaign of pro-Palestinian activism and anti-Islamophobia rhetoric has succeeded in activating antisemitism throughout Canada. Groups associated with the Brotherhood have themselves been radicalized by them to carry on the scheme of painting Israel and Jews everywhere as the fulcrum of all that fails in the world; that conflict is the fault of the Jews -- ostensibly for having the unmitigated gall to rise to its own defence and responsive offence when savagely attacked by Islamist terrorists. 
 
Funding for Islamist groups under the aegis of the Muslim Brotherhood is supplied by Qatar, investing oil wealth in gifting millions to academic institutions whose administrations are eager to receive those funds and amenable to cooperating with faculty and study bodies reflective of the Brotherhood's interests. While Egypt, Syria, Bahrain, Jordan and Saudi Arabia have outlawed the Muslim Brotherhood, the West is slow in taking up the initiative in recognizing them for what they represent, a wholesale move to install a foundation throughout civilized society of core Islamic values.
 
It is a type of 'entryism' - the act of changing institutions; cultural, governmental, educational and others from within that the ISGAP report points out the Muslim Brotherhood is involved in. Canadian multiculturalism provides the perfect backdrop along with immigration laws that have been relaxed without due diligence to enable viral Islamist fundamentalism entry. Canadian government authorities are fully aware of the presence of members of the Islamic Republican Guard Corps living in Canada, proscribed in some European countries, and posing a direct threat to security, but fail to deport them.
 
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ISGAP-U.S. is calling on the U.S. to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization. (J. David Ake/Getty Images; Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)
 
Muslim advocacy groups and charities purporting to be innocent and well-meaning entities are involved in lobbying to achieve their interests to the detriment of Canada's and to raise 'charitable' funds that end  up funding Islamist terrorism. The Brotherhood is a true transnational threat to civilized society everywhere, from the West to the Middle East. Yet recognition of their malign presence and the security threat they represent seems beyond the notice of government in Canada. Groups such as the Canadian Muslim Public Affairs Council (CMPAC) and The Canadian-Muslim Vote (TCMV), represent mobilization organs for bloc voting in Canada, the ISGAP report points out. 
 
Khaled al-Qazzaz, CMPAC executive director, was formerly foreign affairs secretary for the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi in Egypt in 2011 after the violent disruptions of the Arab Spring brought down Egypt's long-time president, Hosni Mubarak, until a year later, Egypt's chief of the military, Abdel Fatah El-Sisi struck a coup, brought down the Brotherhood presidency, imprisoned Morsi and became Egypt's new president.  
 
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An anti-Israel protest outside Concordia University in Montreal on Oct. 7, 2024. Photo by John Mahoney/Montreal Gazette/Postmedia
 
 

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Wednesday, October 21, 2026

Ukraine: Engage in Self-Defense or Do Good Service to the World?

"Ukraine never wanted this war. It is crucial to call things what they are. To call the aggressor an aggressor and help Ukraine defend lives."
"When deliveries of missiles for Ukraine's air defence are blocked while Russia is granted  relief or delays in sanctions, this is, unfortunately, a denial of reality on the part of our partners."
"This [Starshield malfunction] is slowing down our front-line logistics and limiting the use of various types of drones and interceptors of jet-powered 'shahed' [drones]."
"Delays in certain types of vital supplies [at the U.S. Defense Department] are also occurring."
"There are political agreements that have not been implemented at the working level."
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy 
The US Department of War is delaying "lifesaving supplies" for Ukraine — Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Zelenskyy  UNN
 
Once again Ukrainian counteroffensive found itself in a bad place. Ukraine's reliance on the goodwill of the U.S. government under President Donald Trump has proven to be a rocky ride, one with all too many speedbumps that come complete with accusations and grudging accommodation with a side-helping of personal insults for the indomitable, dogged president of Ukraine who has become diplomatically adept at swallowing justified outrage and turning on the placatory mien of one who has little other choice. When this is all over and Ukraine is finally left in peace and security to continue its sovereign existence beside a brooding Russia, there should be a special medal of recognition bestowed on this man for perseverance.
 
Ukraine was faced with a true dilemma in its prosecution of existential defence against the violent predatory attacks from Moscow that continued -- against all international norms of warfare -- to target its cities, its civilian infrastructure, including schools, hospitals, places of worship, shopping centers, apartment complexes and energy depots with the distinct purpose of demoralizing a vulnerable civilian population -- when it suddenly found itself without the early warning system it so depended upon. 
 
The frequent, powerful Russian missile and drone attacks that threaten Ukraine's population with waves of ballistic missiles and swift attack drones slammed into Kiev and other cities while the Ukrainian military discovered that suddenly the U.S. military-grade satellite it has been reliant on to enable it to warn citizens of incoming strikes and for the military to take evasive action in shooting them down left them unable to respond in their self-defense with air raid sirens. 
 
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Starlink's Starshield, indispensable to Ukraine's armed forces in their counteroffensive and defense had somehow failed, leaving the military in confusion at the sudden outage. "This is comparable to a nuclear strike against us. All operations are on hold", stated a military official. The interrupted connectivity abruptly cut off once Ukrainian drones and vehicles started moving faster than 100 miles an hour, rendering them useless for intercepting incoming Russian fire; Ukrainian defences were entirely hobbled.
 
Mysteriously, no one involved in providing that essential component in Ukraine's defense could explain what had gone wrong. The White House denied speculation that it was the source of the cut-off; Starlink's Elon Musk did likewise, attributing any possible loss of connectivity to a potential decision made by the U.S. War Department. Which also linked to the hold-up of European-paid missile interceptors whose delivery had been delayed at critical times of need in Ukraine, to Pete Hegseth, U.S. Secretary of War failing to sign off on them. 
 
The United States was accused by President Zelenskyy of deliberately withholding vital intelligence by slowing the Starshield system speeds, so vital to the Ukrainian battlefield in launching counter-strikes. Washington denied any such orders on its part. Yet a direct link could be made from President Trump signing an agreement with Vladimir Putin for a diesel-supply agreement even as Mr. Trump angrily accused Mr. Zelenskyy for being a warmonger, by Ukraine forces attacking Russian oil refineries. 
 
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Servicemen of the 68th Oleksa Dovbush Separate Jaeger Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine set up Starlink satellite internet system, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the frontline town of Pokrovsk in Donetsk region, Ukraine April 10, 2025. REUTERS/Inna Varenytsia
 
On its part, Russia's most recent strikes against Ukrainian energy facilities and cross-country civilian infrastructure, depriving over 500,000 civilian households of energy in approaching winter weather went unremarked, while  the country rallied to emergency repairs of its battered energy grid. "Once again, there was no early warning from our partners", observed President Zelenskyy in mourning over more deaths of his countrymen, women and children.
 
At accusations by President Trump that Ukraine's strikes on Russian refineries were "seriously hurting" the global cost of diesel, accusing him of prolonging the war, Mr. Zelenskyy reminded his tormentor that it was not Ukraine that embarked on a war of aggressive territorial acquisition but it was President Vladimir Putin whose violently-expressed acquisitiveness and disregard for human life that was solely responsible. Ukraine, in case Mr. Trump had failed to notice, was doing what any other nation would do in such circumstances in defending itself. 
 
As for an order to slow speeds on the U.S. government-owned and controlled Starshield, President Trump gave that accusation short shrift, even though its developer Elon Musk whose SpaceX developed it, stated that only the White House could have made such a decision. Front-line units had reported that the Starshield equipment "stops functioning at speeds of 130 to 160 kilometres an  hour in various sectors of the front". And nor were the advanced U.S. Patriot interceptor systems being delivered to aid in Ukraine's air defense.
 
Finally the 'mishap' attributed to a malfunction, was overcome, and the Starshield once again activated to its full use, to the great relief of the Ukrainian military and its tenacious leader. Once again a vital component in Ukraine's defense restored, the Ukrainian military re-commenced with confidence its own counterattacks against Russian assets delivering to Russia's economy the same kind of pain that Russia does to that of Ukraine.
 
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a media conference at the EU summit in Brussels, Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, Geert Vanden Wiingaert, AP    
 
"We are thankful that intelligence works. I'm speaking about early warning, what is very important for our people, for children, adults, civilians, because we can hear when ballistic is coming."
"[It is] important that we keep the conversation going."
"If there are issues about Ukraine, our future, it can be acceptable only when we are at the table of negotiations. It's absolutely clear."
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
 
"If you tell me that Zelenskyy is again shooting at refineries, all he’s doing is making the world oil price higher…I think that’s a disgrace."
"[There are a lot of targets he could hit] But when you shoot at diesel refineries, when you make diesel oil, and we need that and the world needs that, then he’s not doing a good service for the world."
U.S. President Donald J. Trump  
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A policeman helps an elderly woman to walk out from a residential building damaged by a Russian airstrike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. Kateryna Klochko / AP


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Tuesday, October 20, 2026

Wikipedia: "Our Standards of Neutrality"

"Art workers across so-called-Canada demanding cultural institutions divest from settler colonialism and genocide."
"[Stop Art Washing] is hosting a Wikipedia 101 session [with] hands-on editing [on October 22 at an undisclosed location]."
"[The purpose of the event is] to populate Wikipedia entries honouring martyred Palestinian artists and exposing the Canadian, Zionist backers of genocide."
 "Against attempts to erase Palestinian martyrs and conceal the Imperialist perpetrators of Israel’s genocide, this Wiki Edit-a-Thon remedies the narrative, towards Palestinian liberation."
Stop Art Washing 
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Canadian group hosts Wikipedia “Edit-a-Thon” to honor Palestinian artists                     Roya News
 
Yet another anti-Zionist group in Canada to be heard from. Palestinians and their groupies just cannot think up schemes fast enough to satisfy their rapacious appetite for celebrating Palestinians' penchant for terrorism and their insalubrious joy at any opportunity to take credit for originating everything that the world ever depended upon to advance toward prosperity and comfort as authentic Palestinian initiatives. The one Palestinian initiative that few care to imitate or take possession of is their pathological drive to prove how courageous their death-cult is.
 
That even as they everlastingly boast of their victimhood to  elicit empathy from those who are quick to have their inner core of Jew-hate elevated to a 'just cause', they take pride in their devotion to the goal of killing Jews in Israel while in the West where they migrate to infiltrate socially, academically, as noble victims of Israeli colonialist-grabbing land claimed by Palestine as their own with no historical or ancestral attestation other than that which identifies it as the traditional heritage of Judea, they claim indigeneity is theirs, not that of Jews. 
 
What a novel idea, to use Wikipedia as a platform to celebrate the courage and honour inherent in suicide bombing by lone martyrs, or swarms of Palestinian terrorists streaming in their thousands into Israel from Gaza in an organized bedlam of savage bestiality to maim and to rape, burn entire families alive in their homes, raze farming villages, looting and shooting as they race toward the next unaware civilian enclave to destroy the lives of children, their mothers and grandparents. What courage that takes!
 
Instagram
 
 Now the advertising of a training session to prepare avid Jew-haters for the practical work of using and abusing Wikipedia's popular influence on the unwary and the trusting to present the nobility of mass murderers as victims of Islamophobic Jews whose mission in life is solely to destroy the presence of Palestinians in a fell swoop of genocide is underway. The plan to flood Wikipedia with these special entries to persuade the undecided that they too can aspire to raving lunacy on the platform is set to go.
 
Needless to say Wikipedia, considering itself a reliable purveyor of facts and statistics for the purpose of educating and informing, has policies in place for the platform not to be defiled as "a soapbox, a battleground, or a vehicle for propaganda". All content, it insists, must be composed and presented from a strictly neutral point of view; say for example, how the BBC and the CBC present news coverage of the Middle East; 'just the facts, Ma'am'... 
 
Coverage on Wikipedia of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the wake of the atrocities committed by Palestinian terrorists in southern Israel on 7 October 2023 "has surged significantly". Leading to "criticism from advocates on both sides for perceived bias". Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, was asked about an entry on the "Gaza genocide" described as an "ongoing, intentional and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel". 
 
His response was that "It needs to change. I think it's just terrible. It doesn't live up to our standards of neutrality, and I think it's very problematic." Earning the ire of the very 'unbiased' composers of the page in question. No fewer than 27 unbiased writers contributed to a Wikipedia page on the genocide case against Israel lodged by South Africa at the International Court of Justice. Researchers in their turn identified "patterns of anti-Israel bias among power-user editors". 
"Alarming patterns of bias [revealed] that can cascade through the digital information ecosystem, infecting everything from search engine results to academic citations to social media posts and even AI training data."
Research analysis  
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Monday, October 19, 2026

Navi Pillay, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

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Navi Pillay speaks during a news conference in Geneva on Sept. 16, 2025, during her time as chair of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. (Fabrince Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images)
 
"As I was sitting in Courtroom 600, I see that we are continuing the work that started here in Nuremberg, in such a way that we are delivering anew on the 'never again promise'."
"You interpret the law, you look at all the facts, so that it's impartial decision-making." 
Former UN human rights chief Navi Pillay
 
"Navi Pillay's commitment to justice and human dignity is a source of hope and inspiration to all who seek to bring about a more peaceful world."
"The system of international law is under tremendous pressure, and its institutions are under attack. We see a shift towards power politics at the expense of legal frameworks and global respect for law and justice."
"Whenever might overtakes right, it undermines stability, trust and peaceful co-existence." 
Nobel Committee
 
"In her first two years Pillay] turned a blind eye to most of the world's worst abusers, being completely silent on abuses in Cuba, North Korea, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Belarus, Syria, and 27 other countries rated 'Not Free' by Freedom House."
UN Watch
In Courtroom 600, at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, the post-WWII world powers of Britain, France, Russia and the United States oversaw the trials and prosecution that the Nuremberg Trials became famous for, holding to account the senior Nazi officials responsible for crimes against humanity, including the extermination of six million of Europe's Jewish population during the Holocaust years. Hitler's Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, Jew-baiter Julius Streicher, Austrian quisling and tyrant of the occupied Netherlands Seyss-Inquart, Kaltenbrunner, Frank, Jodl, Frick, Keitel, Sauckel, and Rosenberg were sent to the gallows.
 
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"The judges at their bench (left) in Room 600 at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, during proceedings against leading Nazi figures for war crimes at the International Military Tribunal (IMT), Germany, 1945. Left to right: Alexander F. Volchkov and Iona T. Nikitchenko of the USSR, Sir Norman Birkett and Sir Geoffrey Lawrence of Great Britain, Francis Biddle and John J. Parker of the USA, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres and Robert Falco of France." —Description from Getty Images
 
Seven of Hitler's trusted senior Nazis officials convicted of grave crimes against humanity were sentenced individually from life imprisonment to ten years in Germany's Spandau Prison, overseen by Britain, France, Russia and the United States. Between them, only Russia would have been satisfied to see them all hang; the other three opted for humane, albeit prison-secure conditions to be meted out to Deputy Fuhrer Rudolf Hess, Albert Speer, Baldur von Schirach, Walthur Funk, Karl Donitz, Constantin von Neurath, and Erich Raeder. 
 
Despite that these were all Protestants by religion, their wives worked tirelessly, appealing to any authorities who would listen to them, for their husbands' sentences to be adjusted in favour of their earlier release by asking for private audiences with the-then-Pope and the Archbishop of Canterbury, as well as with West Germany Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Pope Pius XII, sympathetic to their plight, agreed to meet them at Castel Gandolfo. So much for the international tribunal for inhumane crimes.
 
Navi Pillay's recognition as the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate in this context bespeaks a world of sanctimonious respect for human rights, yet one that fails spectacularly to distinguish the rights of victims as opposed to that of their victimizers. As a young lawyer Navi Pillay distinguished herself contesting apartheid. While on the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, rape and sexual violence was recognized with her assistance as constituting a form of genocide.
 
In 2008 as UN Commissioner for Human Rights, UN Watch accused Navay Pillay of double standards for completely ignoring many of the world's excessive human rights abusers while at the same time holding Israel to account for putative human rights crimes. She saw nothing amiss in issuing 21 statements identifying countries in the Middle East and North Africa, nine of which specifically targeted Israel. A letter was sent by 100 members of the U.S. Congress in 2014 addressed to Pillay that the Human Rights Council "cannot be taken seriously as a human rights organization" when it constantly criticizes Israel, at the same time ignoring Hamas terrorism.
 
Eleven years later, leading the Commission of Inquiry on Occupied Palestinian Territories, a report was issued denouncing Israel for committing 'genocide' in Gaza. "On 7 October 2023 Israel launched its military offensive in Gaza, which included airstrikes and ground operations." In point of fact it was not  until 27 October that Israel launched its ground invasion in search of Hamas terrorists who had led a broad invasion of southern Israel launching a systematic, planned assault of farming communities when mass rape, dismemberment, wholesale slaughter of 1,200 and kidnapping of over 200 took place on October 7.
 
No inconvenient mention of the atrocities committed by Palestinian terrorists in their thousands who poured across from Gaza into Israel on October 7 that predated Israel's incursion into Gaza to track down the terrorists sheltering behind Palestinian civilians whom Israel had warned to leave the areas it meant to bomb, having identified those areas as Hamas weapons depots, headquarters, communications centers and military operations bases, some located in schools and hospitals. 
B'nai Brith International responded to the Pillay report with incredulity at its stark bias: "B'nai Brith International is appalled and dismayed by the selection of Navi Pillay for the Nobel Peace Prize. This choice is not only unwarranted but offensive and damaging."
"It cheapens the world's leading prize for peacemaking and further reinforces a sense of isolation by Jews facing a surge in global antisemitism."  
This woman's history is replete with shameful alliances. When some 20 nations took to boycotting the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony in 2011 in recognition of Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo whom China had repeatedly jailed as a political and human right activist for campaigning for democracy, Navi Pillay saw fit to align herself with China, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Iraq. 
 
Prosecutor Robert Jackson over 80 years ago at Nuremberg identified the men on trial for "crimes against the peace of the world" who represented "sinister influences" as "living symbols of racial hatreds, of terrorism and violence". A truly apt description in 2026 of Palestinian terrorists such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Fatah, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Hezbollah, and the terrorist state of the Islamic Republic of Iran for whom the above are all proxies. 
 
This would be the very same Iran that has been elevated time and again at the United Nations to sit on its varying committees; the very exemplar of racial hatred, of terrorism and violence, the world's most terror-supporting state is treated with deference in the hallowed corridors of the United Nations, which Navi Pillay was a perfect fit for. Iran has sat on the UN's Economic and Social Council, as a member of the Committee for Programme and Coordination linked to programs related to human rights, women's rights, disarmament and terrorism prevention.
 
Both the United Nations and the Nobel Committee have surrendered their souls to the devil. 
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"Navi Pillay oversaw the communication of names of over 50 dissidents to China."
"[She was] complicit [in handing over the names of Uhyghr dissidents to China]." 
"They testified, under oath, to their family members being intimidated, arbitrarily detained, tortured, disappeared, and even killed in concentration camps."
"This is an absolutely travesty of 'peace'." 
Emma Reilly, human rights lawyer 


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Sunday, October 18, 2026

President Donald J. Trump's Wildly Popular Canada Tariffs

"A lot of the private conversation is trying to push to stop this war with Canada."
"A lot of them privately are putting pressure on this ... and are going to the Commerce Department, Treasury, White House and saying, 'Look you're really hurting Americans here. Knock it off'." 
"It does not seem like Trump seems to care ... whether tariffs are popular or not or whether people are being harmed or not." 
"You don't get very far in American politics by telling people, 'I've got your vote in the bag, and I don't care about you."
"What I would like voters ... to pull out of all this at the end of the day is to understand that tariffs are taxes."
"They're not taxes on foreigners; they're taxes on  your own people, your own industries, your own businesses, and that this is not the solution." 
Richard Stern, vice-president, Plymouth Institute for Free Enterprise, Advancing American Freedom
 
"Canada buys about ... 82 percent of everything North Dakota sells abroad."
"[And] 88 percent of everything Montana buys from abroad comes from Canada."
Kat Miller, policy analyst, Advancing American Freedom 
 
"Canada is not China. It is our neighbour, our friend, our closest ally, and our biggest trading partner."
"I have been strongly voting against the tariffs with Canada, but I've also been working behind the scenes."
Senator Susan Collins, Maine
President Trump
“They’ll end up being the 51st state, because that’s the only way it works,” Trump told the crowd. “We don’t need them, but they need us.”  NTV
 
Along the Canada-U.S. border the states neighbouring Canada are deeply unhappy about their president's tariff war with Canada, according to a new analysis by Advancing American Freedom. Canada, it points out, plays a vital economic role even in deeply red Republican states like Montana and North Dakota, and not only in Maine with its lumber trade, and Michigan's heavily integrated automotive manufacturing.
 
According to the AAF analytics, 62 and 55 percent of Maine and Vermont's international goods trade is accounted for by Canada. As for North Dakota and Montana, states that President Trump carried by 36 and 20 percentage points respectively in 2024, trade with Canada accounted for 77 percent in both of those Republican states. Mineral fuels account for 80 percent of North Dakota's exports to Canada, exempt from Canadian countertariffs. 
 
The disruption in trade between signal American states and Canada has had a deleterious impact not only in Canada, but in the United States as well, and a rising tide of anger over their imposition is impinging on the prospects of the upcoming midterm elections. In deep-red states the impact of the tariffs has made for some pressure points for the White House to consider; whether party loyalty will carry through to election day or whether those Republicans speaking out against the tariffs will express their frustration at the ballot box. 
 
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U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra said in a recent podcast appearance that American officials are 'closely watching' for election interference by Canadians. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press)
 
The Trump administration's representative in Canada, Ambassador Pete Hoekstra, as far from a diplomat as anyone can imagine, has issued a stark warning to Canada that the U.S. is 'watching closely' and Canada had better keep its 'nose out of' American politics. "We're monitoring it, we're evaluating it and if some of it becomes election interference then America will respond to it", warned Hoekstra darkly, accusing Canada of making trouble for the Trump administration.
 
Analysts have pointed out that this president works to bypass Congress; the tariffs have been imposed by presidential policy without Congressional involvement, leaving trade watchers skeptical that the disruptive disagreements between Republican senators and representatives uncomfortable with the tariff war and how it has impacted their states as well as voting patterns, will result in any notice by President Trump whose mercurial impulsiveness that fails to understand repercussions, no one can control. 
 
"In terms of trade policy, it's very executive-driven these days", points out trade policy analyst Alfred Carillo at the Cato Institute. "Even if Congress did [push back], it probably wouldn't have made a difference."  John Hopkins' Sands expressed his dismay with the apparent indifference to the electoral costs by President Trump who is immovable on his tariff file, indifferent to how his personal animosity to Canada may eventually play out.
 
The pure fact of the matter is that after several years of back-and-forth tariff threats that have proven to impact industry and consumers on both sides of the border, a majority of Americans are known, in a current atmosphere of a crisis of affordability to oppose the tariffs. At the same time it is believed by those who have a stake in this game of one-upshmanship, that Mr. Trump plans to continue his tariff agenda, whether or not it costs the GOP.
 
Voting outcomes on November 3 will demonstrate whether that opposition will ultimately transcribe to votes. 
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Canadian steelmakers offset some U.S. tariff pain with domestic demand
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"In a normal presidency, yes, because it means there's somebody who the president knows who can pick up the phone and have a conversation ... and say 'We really need to do this for my voters who are  your voters too."
"This president hasn't worked Capitol Hill that much ... [Trump] seems to write off the whole institution as irrelevant."
"His indifference to the fate of his party in Congress is ... pretty unusual."
Christopher Sands, director, Center for Canadian Studies, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington 
 
"I think it does matter. In fact, this has always been part of Canada's playbook, which is to lobby with state and local governments that are Republican that are trade dependent with Canada."
"Whether it's sufficient to ... nudge the president is another matter altogether."
"[It] doesn't necessarily mean that the president is gonna change his tune." 
Christopher Hernandez-Roy, acting director/senior fellow, Americas Program, CSIS, Washington 

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