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There’s a scene in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies that applies, and doesn’t, to the madness that now grips the civilized world. In Golding’s famous book, a plane full of boys crashes on a deserted island during a nuclear war. The pilot dies; the boys survive. The boys soon

The terror groups, and their supporters, are busy. In the neighborhoods lived in by those they hate, they have firebombed mailboxes and public buildings. They have attacked banks and the residences of politicians. They have attacked government buildings, and businesses where people go to shop. They have issued statements about

The anti-Israel side is getting more aggressive, experts and police agencies warn. And, now, some groups are openly embracing terror groups and their tactics – and becoming far more radical. This week, Western democracies were provided with more evidence. On Monday, Chicago’s O’Hare airport was shut down by anti-Israel and

It’s easy to get depressed these days. Whether you are Jewish or not, we live in a depressing, difficult time. Tuesday night‘s outrage was yet more of the same: foul-mouthed Hamasniks blocking a major road and railway crossing in Toronto’s West end – pushing at police officers and likening them

Traffic into Chicago’s O’Hare airport, one the world’s busiest: blocked. Traffic along the busy I-880 mega-highway in Oakland, California: blocked. Traffic on San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge: blocked. Traffic on the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge over the Hudson River: blocked. And, here in Canada – traffic in Vancouver, leading to a critical

Is this, at long last, the result of multiculturalism? As Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, our ally, what was happening in Canada? In Toronto, the pro-Hamas cabal were firing off smoke grenades downtown.  Near Union Station, they celebrated Iran’s act of war. “Israel has just launched

You can’t assume anything in politics. That’s a Tip O’Neill truism. He had lots of them. Thomas P. O’Neill was a Democrat, and the Speaker of the House of Representatives for a decade in the Reagan and Bush years. He was the guy who came up with “all politics is

ST. ELIZABETH PARISH, JAMAICA – Jamaica wasn’t really the best place to see the eclipse on Monday. For one thing, it’s way too far from what the scientists were calling “the totality,” which has an unsettling end-times feel to it (we’ll get back to that in an minute).  For another thing,

Politicians can’t direct police. They can’t direct prosecutors. But can they do indirectly what they can’t do directly? They shouldn’t. And, in the case of two politicians who are members of the Toronto Police Services Board, they can try. And they did. In recent days, Toronto police have been attacked,

Canada’s state-funded national broadcaster has a secretive committee to oversee the network’s reporting on Israel – presumably to provide balance. But Jews who work at the CBC say the network’s coverage isn’t balanced. At all. Said one: “It’s depressing, I am afraid to speak up because I hear stories about

Who are you going to call? It’s not a Ghostbusters reference – although, the mission is similar: to defeat evil. If you’re Jewish – or if you’re a supporter of Israel and the Jewish community – and you’re being harassed or attacked or vilified or threatened? Then you should call

Bubble zones: they work. Bubble zones – or “buffer zones,” “safe access zones” or access zones” – first started to show up in the early 1990s.  Back then, women seeking legal abortions, or just seeking advice, were routinely being harassed and threatened at clinics and hospitals that provide those services. Going

Grassroots. Gotcha. The anti-Israel, pro-Hamas propagandists would like you do believe that theirs is a spontaneous, organic, community-based effort, one that is entirely funded by regular folks, presumably through bake sales. Oh, and this: they want to reassure you that their advocacy isn’t against Jews.  It’s against “Zionists.” (Who Dr.

A rain tax. Seriously, they want to tax the rain. Before we get started on the latest insanity to, um, seep out of Toronto’s municipal government, let’s give credit where credit is due, shall we? For sheer gall, for its bottomless brazen brassiness, you can’t beat this one: a tax