"Engagement is not approval."

"There are very few countries in this world that have the standards of Canada, the rights of Canada, the conviction of Canada, the constant reinforcement of those rights, so that all Canadians can live their lives as they choose."

"If you would have asked us a year ago how we would have pegged the chances [of Canada making a Candu sale in Turkey], that would have been very low. Now there are good chances."

"Our first and foremost job is protecting, not just protecting LGBTQI rights and two-spirited rights in Canada, but promoting those rights and ensuring that all Canadians can live their full selves in Canada."

"So first and foremost that's our responsibility."

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, welcomes Prime Minister Mark Carney during an official ceremony in Ankara, Turkey's capital, on Thursday. (Adem Altan/AFP/Getty Images)

 

Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney is nothing short of a preening hypocrite, to declare that Canada, under the administrative mishandling of its values, culture, priorities and dedication to multiculturalism remains a haven for all of its citizens under the Liberal-progressives that embrace Critical Race Theory in tandem with DEI. The Canada that existed before 2015 was indeed a country to be proud of, one where equality and mutual respect reflected the social order and government position. That Canada has been eviscerated.

 

The current Canada has embarked on friendly trade missions to Qatar and Turkey, both of which nations are in the willing thrall of the Muslim Brotherhood whose mission is one of stealth conquest of the West. Qatar's vast oil wealth has been generating the kind of goodwill that only money can buy, through 'investments' in academia in North America, in conjunction with the infiltration of members of the Islamic Republican Guard Corps as residents of Canada, where it is able to influence future generations of Canadians of the justice in supporting Palestinian victims of Israeli oppressive 'occupation'. 

 

Both Qatar and Turkey openly shelter and pamper leaders of the Hamas terrorist group whose mission is the destruction of the Jewish state, an outcome that would fit comfortably into the plans of both Islamist nations. And these are the 'allies' toward which Mark Carney, on Canada's behalf, turn to. Turkey, where Recep Tayyip Erdogan has ruled for 18 years as an Ottoman-empire caliph, where political dissenters are imprisoned and independent journalists arrested. In no Muslim country are LGBTQI communities permitted; Carney's daughter would be imprisoned and possibly gang-raped in a squalid lifetime cell.

Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and Turkish President Recep Erdogan shake hands during a news conference at the presidential palace in Ankara, Turkey, on Thursday, when both countries signed a new trade and defence partnership. (Murat Cetinmuhurdar/Presidential Press Office/Reuters)

 

And there stands Prime Minister Carney, bursting with pride that he is succeeding in selling a Candu nuclear reactor to Turkey for, of course, industrial-civilian use. Not so long ago that would register as enabling nuclear proliferation. All the more perplexing when a country like Canada that positions itself as an exemplar of peace, security and good governance is exporting a potential doomsday weapon in a region of the world that is perpetually unsettled and in conflict, one where the Islamic Republic of Iran threatens to use a nuclear bomb if it considers itself under attack.

 

Chief executive of AtinsRealis, Ian Edwards, stated his company is prepared to conduct a feasibility study on "a potential new build of Candu reactors" at Sinop, a port city in Turkey. "We welcome this opportunity to deepen energy cooperation between Canada and Turkey while bringing Canadian nuclear technology and expertise to a growing international market". Turkey, where an ever-increasing dictatorship from a once-emerging democracy, whom Freedom House scores as 32/100 on its civil-liberties index: "not free".  The Turkish President and his party "have become increasingly authoritarian in recent years, consolidating significant power through constitutional changes and by imprisoning opponents and critics." 

 

Turkey has taken to shutting down a pro-opposition media outlet recently, raided LGBTQ groups, and convicted a standup comic of insulting President Erdogan. To the West, Turkey sitting at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, has always been viewed as a vital link between the two. Its long-lasting efforts to be accepted for membership in the European Union has always been deferred on the basis of its democratic deficit -- and that was long before the advent of Mr. Erdogan's 'Justice and Development Party'. 

 

But according to Mr. Carney, a 'strategic partnership' between Canada and Turkey represents a bonus for both; it would, to Mr. Erdogan; such recognition providing legitimacy where it is not due. As for Canada, under this Liberal government, it should blush with shame over such blatant sanctimony spouted by its prime minister. "Part of the way we discharge that [our independence and sovereignty] is to be a truly sovereign nation. Part of the way we become a truly sovereign nation and reinforce our sovereignty is to have a broad range of partnerships around the world", claims Mark Carney, broadly smiling.  

"Turkey is a formal partner of Canada in NATO and one of the most important geostrategic countries, not just in this region, but in this world."

"So we need to engage, and we do engage."

"[If Canada doesn't engage, it can't] be in the room [to raise Canadian perspectives on international challenges [citing geopolitical matters in regions near Turkey including Iran, Ukraine, Syria, the Middle East and the prospect of] continued stabilization [in relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan]."

Mark Carney 

"I commend Mr. Carney for how much energy he's putting into diversifying Canada's trade, but he's not getting the balance right."

"[The Prime Minister] is decidedly on the side of pursuing commercial goals with downplaying other questions of human rights and democracy and the rule of law."

"[The Carney visit to Turkey comes at a difficult time for human-rights campaigners in Turkey who are] by necessity very brave and some of them are in jail and have been incarcerated in the last few weeks and I think it's incumbent on any Canadian prime minister to do more."

Roland Paris, professor of international affairs, University of Ottawa 

In Istanbul on Friday, the prime minister held meetings with Turkish companies that included Sabanci Holding, an industrial and financial conglomerate; with Calik holding, a company that operates in the energy, mining, construction, textile and financial sectors; Baykar, manufacturer of military drones -- and arms manufacturer Aselsan. That will most certainly advantage their Canadian counterparts in those very same industries. 

 

PM Mark Carney and wife Diana Fox suitably garbed, visiting the Kariye mosque in Istanbul, Turkey on 24 October, 2026.  LA PRESSE CANADIENNE/Adrian Wyld

 

"People were traumatized by what happened last weekend when they sometimes found themselves on their own, sometimes for two or three hours or the whole day, facing the rioters."

"Shopkeepers, restaurant owners and individuals got scared and are looking to defend themselves."

"They're not seeking to take justice into their own hands."

"[However, the increase in sales of non-lethal protective gear is] unprecedented."

Yves Gollety, proprietor, l'Armurerie de la Bourse, Central Paris

 

"It's not just Paris. It's many cities across France."

"There will be large-scale operations everywhere. [At least 75 percent of the police force will be mobilized, with postponements of days off, as required]."

Thierry Clair, national secretary, Unsa Police union 

People enter a ransacked Franprix store as clashes erupted at Place de la République. Photograph: Matthieu Rondel/AFP/Getty Images

 

The shopkeeper of a costume jewelry store in Les Halles, a sprawling commercial district in Paris, went shopping a few days back, for self-protection weaponry; a truncheon, a plastic handgun propelling small canisters of a substance like tear gas, and all together found himself 600 euros out-of-pocket. Although his store was spared by the rioters who had ransacked other stores nearby his own last weekend, he finds it necessary to be prepared for such exigencies as may reoccur.

 

"I never thought it would come to this. I'm doing this, but I don't feel reassured", he said in an interview, taking care to ensure his name would not be used. He didn't stop just with procuring those weapons, but went on to hire private security guards complete with trained canines. He is boarding up his storefront windows. And then, when he feels somewhat prepared, he will reopen his business. And he is not alone in feeling the necessity to protect himself and his property, feeling he can no longer be reliant on police alone in the face of violent mob action.

 

Last Saturday's protests across France came complete with violence and vandalism, with roving bands of rioters attacking hundreds of shops, smashing windows and making off with merchandise. Observers note that most of these looters are people of colour, individuals who may be first- or second-generation immigrants to France. Palestinian flags have become a common sight among the protests, whereas the flag of the Republic is less seen among the protesters who initially came out to inform French officialdom that students are fed up with underfunded education.

 

An optician’s on rue Beaubourg in central Paris on Monday. The graffiti says: ‘Burn the prisons.’ Photograph: Angelique Chrisafis/The Guardian

 

Residents, shopkeepers and authorities have been on edge in fearful anticipation, with another planned weekend of protests, where students, teachers, unions -- and others whose purpose is not as well defined plan to roil the country with more of the protests that come complete with threats and violence. The owner of l'Armurerie de la Boure, Yves Gollety, is also chair of the organization representing weapons sellers in France. It is not only his store but others like his own where customers are usually hunters, seeing self-defence weapons sales rise ten times normal in Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Bordeaux.

 

Sales of hunting rifles are stagnant, while demand for pepper sprays, tear gas-like canisters, pistols that fire rubber bullets and other non-lethal gear have exploded. Although other shops in the area where Yves Gollety's is located were attacked and looted last weekend, his was not. His plans were to open his shop again on Saturday, if for no other reason than to protect it from the potential of swarms of rioters looting it as they did those of his neighbours.

 

Masked protesters confront French riot Police   CNN

 

Business owners were informed by the Prefecture of Police to hire more private security agents in anticipation of what Saturday and coming Saturdays may bring. The co-founder of the Crypto hardware wallet maker Ledger wrote on X that if the state can no longer protect the people, the French should stop paying taxes. Authorities have promised to roll out the military to back up police tasked with upholding law and order, planning prevention of last weekend's riots on repeat. 

 

In an effort to reassure markets whom the violence has unnerved, a 20 percent-greater police presence was expected, according to the Interior Ministry, in response to the chaos that erupted through cost-of-living protests that deteriorated into the looting of 3,000 stores that merited 2,700 arrests. Special-intervention forces ordinarily deployed for risky missions such as counter-terrorism will be present should they be required, according to French Interior Minister Laurent Nunez.

 

Forensic investigators search for evidence after a shooting in Trappes, outside Paris, Friday, Oct. 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Emma Da Silva)

 

Sensitive buildings will be guarded with soldiers and helicopters, water cannons and armoured vehicles popularly called Centaurs, will be present to ensure a level of public order. On Friday an escalation in the violence occurred when a Black mixed-martial-arts figure was shot and killed in an act termed 'racist' and a 'terrorist attack' by French authorities. The government, added Minister Nunez, would be 'uncompromising' in dealing with hooligans, with 70,000 security forces to be mobilized Saturday. 

"The suspect of the deadly shooting in Trappes (central France) claimed to have acted in response to the unrest during the October 17 demonstrations and the widespread looting and vandalism of shops."

"When he was arrested on Friday, October 23 in Coignières, after a deadly rampage lasting nearly 20 minutes, the man suspected of killing one person and injuring five others, including a 12-year-old girl, with an automatic weapon, stated in substance that he had "avenged the shopkeepers" by targeting "Black people and Arabs." 

Le Monde  

"[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 

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.

 

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 

 

McGill University in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

 

"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  

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.

 

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.  

 

An anti-Israel protest outside Concordia University in Montreal on Oct. 7, 2024. Photo by John Mahoney/Montreal Gazette/Postmedia

 

 

"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 

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. 

 

Musk said any limits on speed or usage of the Starshield system that Ukraine’s military relies on are “decided by the US military and ultimately POTUS"  NurPhoto via Getty Images

 

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. 

 

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.

 

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  

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

"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 

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  

Toronto Scoop