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There is no end to the corruption brought onto us by Trudeau. I hold him responsible for leading and fostering this horrible “ progressive” deceitful and amoral conduct, by legacy media and politicians. It’s shocking to read of it. Makes me Angry beyond belief. God help us all.

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“ Like I keep saying, October 7 matters. But the stories I ordinarily have my eye on are going nearly unreported by nearly everyone. “

Such a shame. Jews deserve so much better. Hamas supporters support terrorism full stop.

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“The bitter reality of it is that Canada has been doing its best to earn its international reputation as a global terror-financing and money-laundering shelter for a long, long time. There’s votes in it, and the Trudeau Liberals - sorry to sound partisan about this, but they are the government - have been providing courage and comfort and a safe haven to Israel’s most determined and bloodthirsty enemies for a while now. “

The most annoying thing is that Liberals come out calling you a “ right wing Conservative fan boy “ when you are anything but- just pointing out the many horrible things that this Gov’t is guilty of.

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I could tolerate any label the current batch of 'liberals' toss about as I really have little respect for the way they abuse the term and the party . I see nothing liberal about our reigning monarchy in Ottawa but when the paid mainstream media do it,it's an entirely different situation. That profession is going the way of the cooper and blacksmith and good riddance. They are helping Trudeau in his efforts to sow hate and division.

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"... Yes I’m a lousy photographer, yes that plant needs watering, yes we’re Roman Catholics of both the Mass-going and the phantom-limb type and the vaguely atheist variety. But this is what we do."

Terry, you're also Irish so all is forgiven. Go in Peace, dear and much appreciated spirit. 😇🙏

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Thanks for that.

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Insider tip. Place the candles right to left, but light the candles left to right. So the newest candle is lit first, signifying that the miracle of the light has lasted one more day. Thanks for helping to banish the darkness.

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Thanks for the tip!

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If there’s an intelligent alien life form watching us now, they must be seriously considering terminating us before we can spread.

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If there's an intelligent alien life form watching us now, they certainly cannot describe us in the same way.

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Oh man, this is the first sentence in the entire article and subsequent commentary which has made me laugh. That in itself is pathetic.

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Terry - speaking of candles in the darkness - your daughter is indeed amazing. Beautiful, regal and talented. That is very high calibre Klezmer. No schmaltz, pure classical tradition. Thanks for introducing me to the group.

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Winograd's crew are the best.

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"Maybe 40 years of Canadian law-enforcement incompetence and national-security unseriousness".

The institutions that underpin this country have exhibited simultaneous, gross failures. For law enforcement, the judiciary, public health, politicians, academia, media and bureaucrats, public confidence is at an all time low. Deservedly so and only the willfully blind could not have become jaded and cynical.

The ironic dilemma is that the currently dysfunctional fabric of this country is also essential to it's recovery. A viable path to that restoration is not evident to me. In fact, we continue to slide.

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The first steps on that path has already been taken. People are well aware where a lot of current woes originate and it's not as the media would have us believe , Big Bad Donald Trump, not fear of the flu we were gifted from the Chinese tyrant, not how we are going to get more gender bending 'life saving care 'in the military. When Mr. Sunny Ways makes his long awaited exit there will be a nation wide audible sigh and then maybe we can put things back together for another while.

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I sincerely wish I could be that optimistic. It took decades for the rot to thoroughly infect our institutions and the ideologically obsessed zealots who brought it will remain in place even after the next election. It will take a long time to reverse that course and only if we begin by taking back our educational system.

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You have forgotten the total corruption of our educational institutions, from schools to universities. Much has been at the explicit direction of the Trudeau government, but has been accepted with enthusiasm by most schools and universities. They have already destroyed our younger generations, and our culture is in tatters. God help us, because no Canadian institution today is capable of doing so.

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"Much has been at the explicit direction of the Trudeau government". I'm not so sure, especially when one reads of the same assinine goings-on in American schools and universities.

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Agreed. Trudeau is simply one of the useful idiots. The degradation of education began decades before he arrived.

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All the usual progressives seem to be saying, to borrow a phrase, "There are some very fine people on both sides of the Israel-Hamas conflict."

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"Many if not most of my Jewish friends are inconsolable and angry and lonely and estranged from the communities they’ve contributed to so brilliantly over the years."

So many Jews transitioned from being Jewish to being Social Justice Warrior progressives allying with "victims" of society from all imagined "victim" minority races, genders, and ideologies, while condemning their own people rebuilding a society in their country of origin. They sold out their own in favour of the fashionable victims of the day. But none of these recipients of Jewish support and love ever gave support and love back. Have these people never read history? How were the German, Polish, and Russian Jews rewarded for their contributions? BLM and the Black Muslims are enthusiastic antisemites, and American Arabs and Muslims have made their hate clear. Many American Jews have forgotten that kindness begins at home.

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“—But, ladies and gentlemen, had the youthful Moses listened to and accepted that view of life, had he bowed his head and bowed his will and bowed his spirit before that arrogant admonition he would never have brought the chosen people out of their house of bondage, nor followed the pillar of the cloud by day. He would never have spoken with the Eternal amid lightnings on Sinai’s mountaintop nor ever have come down with the light of inspiration shining in his countenance and bearing in his arms the tables of the law, graven in the language of the outlaw.”

those who know will know...

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Hi Terry:

Great column as usual. Also pleased to know your perfect daughter is a great musician. I've got lots of music in my family too.

Unlike your Jewish friends who are inconsolable and angry and lonely and estranged from the communities they’ve contributed to so brilliantly over the years, I've been well aware of what's been out there in plain sight with regard to what you so cleverly call "faculty room antisemitism." So the current antisemitism wave isn't much of a surprise, though of course it's still shocking. On a smaller scale, it's been happening, albeit on a smaller scale, since at least 2006 during the Hezbollah-Israel war (remember "we are all Hezbollah"), and then after every Hamas rocket barrage that prompts an Israeli reaction.

Anyway, keep up the excellent work.

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The music after... you didn’t mean for me to cry but I did.

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I kinda did too. Feeling pretty melancholy about it all.

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Thanks for the light Terry, ever may it shine.

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Go Maccabees the world over!

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"In Ottawa, thousands of Jewish Canadians rallied on Parliament Hill in support of the war while inside Parliament, Palestinian Canadians made a plea for help."

Must have been all that chanting of "From the river to the sea Israel will be free!", "Globalize the Jewish [insert Hebrew term for 'holy war' if such a term exists]!" and "Two, four, six, eight, we don't want no Palestinian state!" that Omar could hear through his live feed. Oh, wait...

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