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[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

A 108-year-old Catholic church was deliberately burned down in Saint-Simon, New Brunswick.

I’m grateful no one was injured, but this arsonist must face the full force of the law.

More than 100 churches have been burned and vandalized across Canada in the last five years. We must put an end to these evil hate-motivated attacks on our places of worship: https://t.co/uiPAed5dWH

[Stockwell Day @Stockwell_Day]

Canada is now the world leader in allowing violent illegal immigrants in, and refusing to send them out. Liberal judges fortify this dark policy of cultural suicide. More EU govts are waking up out of their woke coma. Why won’t the Liberals?

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

Regrettably, an exchange on social media between two former CBC journalists, Keith Boag and Travis Dhanraj, was inflicted upon me today and it perfectly captures the invasive rot afflicting and spreading forth from the CBC's newsroom and college campuses into the collective consciousness of our society.

For reference, Mr. Dhanraj was given the high jump from the CBC last year when he attempted to gently nudge that organization in the direction of diversity of opinion. Mr. Boag, on the other hand, was a CBC lifer, retiring after 35 years of blissful ignorance to any opinion outside the CBC's ideological monoculture. The exchange comes within the context of a recent revelation (by Warren Kinsella) that the CBC’s senior director of journalistic standards was demanding avoidance of the t-word in describing the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Mr. Boag seems to be defending this position by categorizing 9/11 as a run-of-the-mill "attack on civilians for political purposes,” giving several other examples to imply there is no clear distinction between any instance of civilians being killed in pursuit of some political purpose. By implication, Osama bin Laden and Nelson Mandela (an implication Boag made explicitly in a subsequent exchange with Ezra Levant) are morally equivalent; they are either both terrorists or neither are. It is not a serious position. It is moral illiteracy formatted into the CBC's perverse style guide. Sadly, the idea is not original, or unique. In fact, it is the pervasive view on campuses and among large swathes of the Canadian media landscape. It is also very dangerous, and it needs to be answered.

Mr. Boag's position is bunk. If the “political purpose” in question is to kill and terrorize civilians in the service of global jihad or the extermination of a people, it belongs in a distinct category. That was 9/11. That was October 7. That was the Holocaust. These acts were genocidally motivated and carried out by groups that would never accept any peaceful resolution.

On the other hand, using decisive force to destroy war criminals who will never make peace, belongs in a completely different category. It is not terrorism. Israel’s campaign to destroy Hamas is a righteous cause. Israel is not only within its rights, but morally obligated to uproot the terrorist apparatus that hides behind its own population. And Israel should be lauded for the strategically disadvantageous lengths it has gone to limit Palestinian casualties, even while Hamas has tried to maximize them. Accusing Israel of genocide is either credulous stupidity or intellectually flaccid anti-Semitism attempting to disguise itself in a threadbare cloak of righteousness.

The atomic bomb was developed by the Allies and used to save lives and compel a surrender that would not otherwise have come. One may argue, and I would agree, that a demonstration on a remote island, a sort of nuclear warning shot, might have been preferable. Likewise, using another of Boag's examples, one could argue the ANC should have continued with their Gandhi-inspired peaceful protest movement even after the Sharpeville massacre. The fact is, no act of violence toward civilians, whether in pursuit of a greater good or not, should be whitewashed. But nor should they all be grouped lazily together, as Boag attempts to do, as if genocide and global domination were indistinguishable from self-defense or peace-through-strength. As if they can all be neatly filed away as “political reasons.”

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States did not proceed to conquer the world, though it could have with a four-year monopoly on nuclear weapons. It used it geostrategic leverage to rebuild Europe and Japan, establish the United Nations — which, believe it or not, was once a righteous and laudable organization — and strive for peace. Had the Nazis or Imperial Japan developed nuclear weapons first, no sane person believes they would have pursued the same strategy.

I should not unfairly single out Mr. Boag, as his perspective is plagiarized from an intellectually and historically illiterate world view that has been building up steam for 30 years. It is a view that dispenses with the indispensable distinction between good and evil. It is not moral seriousness. It is relativism, and it is contemptible. This mass amnesia about who the forces of good in the world are, and who the forces of evil are, is a serious problem. That this worldview has captured the CBC and so many North American campuses is not surprising, but it is a genuine cause for concern. The West has ceded too much of, and must reclaim, the moral high ground.

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

The memo was leaked. People noticed. The backlash was immediate and widespread — in Canada and in the United States.
CBC later adjusted the guidance for 9/11 specifically. That does not erase what the original directive said, or what it revealed about how they think.
https://t.co/gHUzAGtD9w

[Jonathan Kay @jonkay]

LOL

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

Two weeks before the 25th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack in American history, CBC has instructed its journalists not to refer to 9/11 as a terrorist attack.

Nearly 3,000 innocent people were murdered that day, including 24 Canadians, in an act of monstrous evil.

Canadians stood shoulder to shoulder with our American friends, neighbours, and allies in the aftermath. Nearly 7,000 stranded passengers found safe harbour in Gander. More than 40,000 Canadians would go on to serve in Afghanistan alongside our allies in the fight against terrorism.

To call 9/11 anything other than a terrorist attack is an appalling distortion of history. It dishonours the victims and their families, the survivors, and the first responders who suffered from the horrors of that day.

CBC must immediately apologize and retract this directive.

[Warren Kinsella @kinsellawarren]

The memo didn’t just avoid the word “terrorism.” It rewrote the event itself: “The hijackings led to passenger jet crashes.”
No mention that those hijackings were a coordinated mass-murder plot that killed nearly 3,000 people, including two dozen Canadians.
That is not journalism. That is sanitizing history.
https://t.co/gHUzAGtD9w

[Travis Dhanraj @Travisdhanraj]

#BREAKING: @CBCNews backs down, changing its 9/11 language guidance after days of public outrage.

https://t.co/cVXj0naY71

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

This direction from CBC is dangerous revisionism.

Canada’s Afghanistan mission was a direct response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

What an outrageous dishonour to that effort.

[Ben Mulroney @BenMulroney]

In light of the CBC News’ grotesque rewriting of history, which insults the memories of all who died that day and all who sacrificed in Canada’s longest war since Korea, I expect a full throated condemnation by our Prime Minister, as as well as an expectation that he treat CBC News leadership with the same level of contempt and issue the same threats of committee hearings that he levelled at the former CEO of Air Canada, following his unilingual misstep after the accident at LaGuardia that killed two Air Canada pilots.
@CBCNews @cbc @MarkJCarney

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

On Tuesday, August 5, we posted about the Edmonton Police asking people to report “non-criminal actions” so that Edmonton Police can use their limited resources to investigate speech that is legal and protected by section 2(b) of the Charter: “verbal insults, name-calling, offensive jokes, slurs and insulting language.”

The Edmonton Police have now removed “verbal insults, name-calling, offensive jokes, and insulting language” from their website.

Unfortunately, Edmonton Police continue using their limited resources to accept reports about non-criminal “offensive symbols and racial comments or slurs”:
https://t.co/bJR4LNSRi7.

In the United Kingdom, what began as police tracking “Non-Crime Hate Incidents” resulted in citizens being charged and jailed over expressing political opinions on social media. Police should not be asking Canadians to report non-criminal behaviour to police websites.

[Larry Alex Taunton @LarryTaunton]

I’ve spoken at Oxford University and also moderated a high level academic discussion there. But I’ve only encountered the likes of this Muslim b1tch in the Middle East.

After this threat, Aisha Khan Aziz should be in jail.

[Kellie-Jay Keen @ThePosieParker]

I love the fact that the opposition tried to defend free speech whilst attempting to stop Fox showing a picture of, what they wrongly assumed was, Muhammed.

Nothing says rational and reasonable like nearly having a coronary over a picture.

hahahahahahahahahaha

[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement @ICEgov]

Kaitlyn, it’s time to go home, eh? 🍁

[Brent H. Cameron 🇨🇦🇬🇱 @BrentHCameron]

The man who founded Toronto, who introduced trial by jury, land reform, civil government in Upper Canada AND tried to outlaw slavery in 1793 is portrayed as a bug-eyed proto-Wehrmacht sociopath. It's shit history.

[Chris Parry @DrChrisParry]

I am going to push back on you:

Here are the top 5 threats that as a rear admiral I briefed NATO and our @UKLabour government in 2006 and in public, for which we had to make adequate provision:

1, Uncontrolled migration from North Africa and the Middle East.
2. Returning belligerent Russia.
3. Rapidly rising China.
4. 20, 000 geographically dispersed jihadists (became Islamic State).
5. Collapse of the free world middle class in the face of globalisation and technology.

It pissed off the politicians and got me a career-ending interview with my boss.

[Alex Fairfax @Alex_Fairfax06]

“What’s my approval rating?”

- It’s bad Mr Prime Minister. It’s -43. It’s…it’s in the mud.

“Could it get lower?”

- I mean anything COULD happen but realistically-

“Kill the ponies.”

- Wha-

“The ponies. The cute little ponies. Kill them.”

- Sir, they’re endangered

“Fuck ‘em. Make the call.”

[NyanChuu🔮🇯🇵🍭 @tanpukunokami]

I can’t stop crying.

Now a temple in Hokkaido has burned down.

Seriously, who did this?

I can’t forgive it.

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[Syd Steyerhart @SydSteyerhart]

The goal is to make Emily Wilson's feminist translation of the Odyssey the only translation available to anyone. It's already universal across university curriculums and it's the only one you are likely to ever see in bookstores again.

The evil intent is palpable.