TRUMP ANNOUNCES GAZA BREAKTHROUGH - that was CNN. TRUMP CLAIMS HAMAS HAS AGREED TO DISARMAMENT DEAL IN GAZA - that one, the New York Times. TRUMP SAYS HAMAS AGREED TO NEXT PHASE OF GAZA PEACE DEAL - CBS News. TRUMP ANNOUNCES HAMAS DISARMAMENT DEAL - NBC News. So went Friday’s front pages, or the tops of major news websites. The best reaction, however, came on formerly pro-Trump news platforms in Israel: nothing. TV7 Israel News, I24 News, Israel Hayom: no triumphant proclamat

The funeral was twenty years ago tomorrow. PUBLICATION: National Post DATE: 2006.07.27 PAGE: A16 COLUMN: Warren Kinsella SOURCE: National Post Close encounters with the ultimate tragedy One hundred lifetimes ago, I was a student at Carleton University's School of Journalism, slouched at the back of a classroom, listening to a professor named Brian Nolan talking about death. As journalists, he said, we would be obliged -- more than we knew, more than we liked -- to write about

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Canada is the worst. And, within Canada, Toronto is the worst. Statista describes itself as a global data and business intelligence platform. Based in Germany, it is an award-winning company that aggregates data and statistics from thousands of sources, and it annually produces more than a million statistical analyses on 80,000 different topics. For 2025, Statista reported, the worst country in the world for violent antisemitic attacks was Canada. Canada had 6,800 such attack

Did he lie? Politicians fib all the time, unfortunately. Some of them, like Donald Trump, lie a lot and get away with it. They’re mostly forgiven. But some lies, some falsehoods, some untruths - some misstatements, to use the Nixonesque phrasing - aren’t forgivable. They’re lies about big and important things. Voters remember those. So, did Mark Carney lie about the Gordie Howe International Bridge fiasco? Sure looks like it. Sure seems that way. When the sordid details seep

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People asking me about pre-playoffs mayoral polling. Here's some useful facts, Toronto folks. • In 2014, John Tory was way behind Olivia Chow in July - nine points, in a Forum poll. Chow still lost. • In 2010, in the same time period, George Smitherman was ahead of Rob Ford. Ford won, Smitherman lost. • In 2003, around now, David Miller was in fourth place. He won the election. • It’s the pre-season. The playoffs are coming. The numbers are going to change. • But one thing th

So, Justin Trudeau. See that? Say his name, and lots of people get upset. Happens every time. I saw the former Prime Minister this week in Ottawa - or at least I think I did. I was passing through the capital and decided to stop in at my favourite Chinese place for lunch. Place was packed. Long wait. No time to wait. So I decided to make use of the washroom before hitting the road again. As I did so, I passed a table where a fellow - who looked very much like Justin Trudeau

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