The Cradle is reporting that "The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on 21 March that it had documented the killing of 72 people across Syria over the past 24 hours in a series of bloody assassinations targeting both civilians and military personnel."
"The SOHR said that 58 were killed in the countryside regions of Tartous and Latakia, noting that the assassinations were carried out by “armed groups affiliated with the General Security and Syrian military factions.”
"The SOHR previously revealed that it had obtained four videotapes documenting the summary execution of young, unarmed Alawite men by Syrian security forces in the village of Al-Shir in the Latakia countryside on 7 March."
"The Observatory previously reported that more than 1,500 Alawite civilians were killed in the massacres on the Syrian coast over the course of several days starting on 7 March. Sunni gunmen affiliated with Syria's security forces went door to door in towns and villages, killing Alawite men and, at times, even women and children while looting and burning homes."
"Syria's security forces are dominated by members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the former al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, as well as the Turkish-backed mercenaries from the Syrian National Army (SNA). The Salafi ideology of HTS and the SNA views Alawites, the religious minority group from which former president Bashar al-Assad stems, as apostates who deserved to be killed for their religion."
Sky News is reporting that "Israel's government voted in favour of Mr Netanyahu's proposal to sack Ronen Bar - despite thousands protesting against it and criticizing the prime minister's handling of the hostage crisis."
"The prime minister's office had said Mr Bar's dismissal was effective from 10 April, but that it could come earlier if a replacement was found. It would be the first time a head of Shin Bet has been sacked in Israel's history. Israel's attorney general has ruled that the cabinet has no legal basis to dismiss Mr Bar."
"The cabinet vote came as thousands protested outside Mr Netanyahu's residence in Jerusalem on Thursday over his handling of the hostage situation and his plans to fire Mr Bar. There were also protests calling for the release of hostages near his residence on Friday."
"'Instead of firing the head of the Shin Bet, just to avoid an investigation, I think that the prime minister should be involved in rescuing the last hostages there are left in Gaza to die,' said Michal Halperin, a protester."
"The prime minister is facing mounting pressure at home after resuming airstrikes in Gaza earlier this week, bringing an end to a fragile ceasefire with Hamas which had brought relative peace to the region for almost two months."
The Guardian is reporting that "Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in a Saturday speech that the decision to fire the country’s domestic security chief Ronen Bar was made before the announcement that Bar was investigating the prime ministry for alleged ties to the Qatari government."
I just had a really nice conversation at my doorstop with an older woman from France who was with the Jehovah's Witnesses. Normally those conversations are short and cordial but they don't tend to go very well. When you get older you get bolder.
Usually I just say sorry. You're going around telling all the good people out there not to vote in elections. I don't believe that's God's work. Then they say oh but we believe in God's government when Jesus' returns. Yeah I know. So do I. I just believe it's our duty to resist evil while we're here before that happens. We normally just agree to disagree.
Today I answer the door and I see her with a pamphlet that looks like it an invitation to attend their annual communion service which they just hold once a year and I say Jehovah's Witness? She hesitates to answer my question and keeps speaking. I say wait a sec. You sound French but you don't sound like you're from Quebec. Are you from France?
She smiled and said yes. Then we talked quite a bit about France and Quebec. She and her husband came to Quebec from France in 1967 during Expo when she was 22. I mentioned how we learn French in school but it was the French from France. Quebec French is very different. It's like Shakespearean English. She laughed and said when she first went to Quebec she couldn't understand anyone. They said do you speak French or not and she said well up until now I thought I did.
I really like Quebec and I really like France. They're different but similar. I said as a chef all our cooking terms were in French but my pronunciation of languages isn't very good.
My son in law taught me a new saying to use on one of the Colombians at the gym. He laughed and said he understood you but you have a gringo accent. I suck. Same with any language. My kids are really good at languages. I'm not. Speaking other langues is a sign of being educated.
I'd kind of like to go for coffee with them and hang out. Talk about France and Quebec. Maybe work on my French. That's one of the reasons my French sucks is because I never get a chance to practice it. Pierre Poilievre's French is pretty good. I guess that's because he's grandfather is from France.
Anyways, we're taking for quite a while and she mentions her faith and I say I'm Mormon. Well was. I'm not active. She didn't freak out. She was very respectful. She kept talking and sharing pamphlets. Her husband came to see what was taking her so long. I asked her when she became a Jehovah's Witness and she said she was raised Catholic.
She said back in France you used to see nuns and priests walking around all the time but you don't see that here and you don't see that so much any more in France. I said I saw that in Ireland back in the /80's. I like Catholics because they are sincere and aren't all in your face about their religion.
She was talking about some of the cultural differences when she first came to Canada. She said she asked a lady at the store for a baguette but the lady didn't understand her. So I reached into my kitchen and pulled one out and she smiled and said yes.
Anyways, it was a really positive conversation. I really liked the cultural history but I also admired her passion for her beliefs. I used to be like that. I still am very sincere about my religious beliefs but I usually keep them to myself.
I make the occasional blog post about religion but it's not something I'd talk to a coworker about. I was raised in the United Church. When I was 13 I had an awakening and made my confirmation. At that time I wanted to become a minister but I didn't want to make my living from the collection plate. That money was for the poor.
When I was in High school I went through a searching period. I had a list of questions fundamental Christianity couldn't answer so I started studying other religious to see if I could find answers to my questions. Turns outh one of my friends from school was a Mormon so I started asking her about her beliefs.
She said she wasn't that into it but there were missionaries from the church I could speak with so I did. I remember the first meeting I had with the missionaries. It was really positive so I started talking the discussion. A set of lessons the missionaries gave about the church's beliefs.
I remember one discussion they started off by saying today we're going to talk about where we came from, why we're here and where we're going after this life is over. I stopped him a said wait, people have fought wars over those questions for thousands of years. You're going answer all that in one short discussion? Yes they said. Well lets hear it I replied.
They pulled out a puzzle and taught the lesson. I said well, that answers all my questions. It makes sense and it's fair. I wish it was true. It'd be nice. I studying with the missionaries for about two years before I was baptized.
When I said I was getting baptized my father gave me an anti Mormon book to read and sat me down with his minister who grilled me over my decision. I finally just looked him in the eye and bore my testimony and that pretty much ended it.
Then my father said can we come to your baptism? I'm like hold up. It's not like a wedding. There isn't a part where they say if anyone objects to this decision speak now or forever hold your peace. He said no we just want to come so they did.
Turns out he was happy about it and just wanted to make sure I understood what I was getting into. My parents never joined the church but they paid for my mission. They were good people.
When I told my father I wanted to serve a mission he said I figured you would. I knew if you made that decision you'd go all the way. So I'm looking at the pamphlet the French lady left and it says Which of these big questions concerns you the most? What is the meaning of life? Is God to blame for suffering? What happens when you die?
I have answers to all of those questions. None of them concern me. They sure did when I didn't know. I still believe how we behave is more important than what we say we believe. As you sow, so shall ye reap. Actions speak louder than words.
I'm more concerned about the prophecy that says the Constitution will hang by a thread because that's now. That's going to take all the religions to pull together to defend it.
I'm more concerned with freedom than I am with religion. Religion is so easily distorted. Freedom is so easily taken away. Yet we're told those who never fought for freedom shall never know the taste of it. Be steadfast. Peace.
Carney wants too much immigration while Poilievre wants mass deportations. Both positions are extreme. Extremism is unstable.
When we saw the ICE crackdown on illegal immigrants in the US I said that was extreme. Hunting down illegals working on farms and in construction is just going to increase human trafficking, raise the price of fruit and the cost of construction.
Now when we see how a Canadian woman from Vancouver was kidnapped by ICE when she applied for a visa at the border we can all see how crazy and extreme this has become.
She was applying for a work visa at the border. All they had to do was say no and send her on her way. Even if they said no to the work visa she still has a right to travel as a tourist. Instead they kidnapped her and shuffled her between completely inappropriate detention centres. ICE detention centres.
During Covid there were many conspiracy theories talking about how the government was building secret prisons. We thought they were crazy. So let's look at how much money it costs to build all these prisons and how much manpower it costs to hunt down illegals working to provide for their families.
It starts off these prisons are for illegal immigrants. Then they start putting Canadians and Americans in them as well. This is why I said I was against the formation of ICE in Canada. Forming a government gestapo to hunt people down is very easily abused. First they hunt down illegal migrants, then they hunt down your legally obtained firearms.
Then they do whatever they want. None of us thought this was possible in North America but we are witnessing it. The Constitution hangs by a thread just as prophesied. Donald Trump has become an enemy of the Constitution.
This is why I am concerned about Pierre Poilievre's position on immigration. We don't need to go from one extreme to the other. Fascism and Communism are both bad. I am completely opposed to hunting down illegal migrants in Canada. If an illegal migrants has committed a serious crime, then deport them but hunting down illegals who are working, that's just too invasive.
Conservatives support small government not big in your face gestapo hunting people down. It's a waste of money and a violation of the freedom from unnecessary searches and seizures the Charter of Rights protects.
Under Joe Biden and Kamala Harris we saw one extreme. Mass illegal migration without criminal record checks demanding to be fed and housed. Then we go to the completely other extreme and become Fascists. Both are unacceptable.
Maxime Bernier is even worse. He claims Pierre Poilievre isn't a Conservative he's a globalist. Actually, Conservative means moderate. Maxime Bernier is far right. Fascists and Communists are the same. Maxime Bernier's position on immigration is even more extreme. Canada and America were built by hard working migrants. The key word is hard working.
That's what the statue of liberty represents. Now all of a sudden racism is in and that is not acceptable. The Constitution and the Charter of Rights protects the rights of minorities.
Trump revoking protections for Cubans, Haitians and other migrants
The BBC is reporting that "US President Donald Trump's administration has said it will revoke the temporary legal status of more than half a million migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela." So now Trump is making legal migrants illegal so he can hunt them down and thrown them into mega prisons. That is insane. I do not support it and I don't support where it leads.
A few years ago I was messaging an American in California I served a mission with. She was complaining about how migrants stole her husband's job. She said her husband worked as a computer programmer and had been out of work for a year.
I said illegal migrants picking fruit or working in construction did not steal her husbands computer programming job. If her husband had been out of work for a year it was because he didn't want to work. We need to own that and stop kicking the cat by blaming migrants for all our problems. Immigration represents grown. Stopping immigration represents stagnation. We don't have to go from one extreme to the other extreme. There is a better place in between.
OK so CBC claims that Ryan Wedding served a sentence in Texas for a drug related offense. They claim that while in prison he married a BC woman of Iranian descent who is now his ex and has since remarried. CBC didn't name her but said she was charged in two BC Kidnappings to to drugs.
"The latter case saw reputed drug trafficker Sulaiman Safi kidnapped from a Vancouver restaurant in October 2011 and held at gunpoint over missing cash."
In the trial Sulaiman Safi claimed that"He racked the gun and pulled the gun to my forehead and he said `This is not a joke, stop f–king around, these guys want their money now or you are going to die today.”
OK so he said they want their money. "They led him out of the building and were dropping him off in Richmond when police – who had been tipped off – moved in arrested Robert Carr, Thomas Crawford, Edmond Gammel, David Tarrant and Veronica Moncur. Mirhadi and the accused Demple Brar turned themselves in later. All have pleaded not guilty."
I hear Trump is proceeding with the tariffs against Canada because we beat them in hockey. I guess that means the FBI is going to target the Canadian hockey team next and claim they all work for Hezbollahso they can't compete.
The Borderland Beat is confirming that "in 2011 Wedding married Nazfar Mirhadi, an Iranian-born woman while he was incarcerated at Reeves County Detention Center in west Texas."
This is like claiming Rob Shannon was the one in charge of the cross border drug ring he and Jody York were busted in. Rob wasn't in charge. He was working for Hal Porteous who was a member of the Hells Angels at the time but has been since forced to retire. Jody York was also IS who worked for the HAs.
To claim that Ryan Wedding was in charge of the drug network is a lie just like claiming Rob Shannon was. What makes it worse is that they are charging him with murders he didn't commit and didn't order. I think their witness was going to come clean. That's why the CIA killed him in Colombia.
March 5th CTV reported that "The number of tow truck-related shootings that Toronto police have responded to in 2025 now stands at 13 after another two incidents over the past 24 hours."
Vandelheuvel said gun violence is not representative of the “mainstream towing industry” and is “not something that makes any sense.”
On average a tow can cost a customer roughly from $500 to $1,000, he said, which he said he “doesn’t believe for a second” justifies people shooting at others.
“Somewhere there’s something else in this that we’re not seeing on the ground level,” Vandelheuvel said, pointing to “something that is bringing in funds that doesn’t make sense at the base level.”
ABC is reporting that "Early Friday morning, Trump posted on his social media platform: "People that get caught sabotaging Teslas will stand a very good chance of going to jail for up to twenty years, and that includes funders. WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!!!"
"I look forward to watching the sick terrorist thugs get 20 year jail sentences for what they are doing to Elon Musk and Tesla," Trump said in a posting. "Perhaps they would serve them in the prisons of El Salvador, which have become so recently famous for such lovely conditions."
Funny he should mention that. The New York Times is reporting that "President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador had previously offered to imprison convicted criminals from the United States in his country’s notorious prison facilities, for a fee."
"President Trump escalated his threats against people who vandalize Tesla cars, musing in a social media post on Friday that those convicted of damaging or destroying the vehicles — including U.S. citizens — could be sent to notorious prison complexes in El Salvador."
The Guardian is reporting that "The Trump administration has flown 238 Venezuelans to an El Salvador prison." So Trump sent Venezuelan immigrants to a mega prison for gang members in El Salvador and now the wants to send US citizens there too.
It's a big money maker for the new president of El Salvador. Trump's paying him $6 million to hold the migrants for a year in inhuman conditions. Again this crosses over the line and becomes mentally deranged. Sending American prisoners there would be an obscene violation of the Constitution. A document Donald Trump clearly has no regard for.
Deporting illegal migrants is one thing but shipping them off to a foreign prison that is not their country of origin in deplorable conditions is a gross violation of human rights. This isn't being a tough guy. This is being a maniac set out to destroy the Constitution. Speaking of which, how about Trumps third term?
Last month a couple of Liberals said to me Trump's going to go for a third term. No way I said. That's crazy. It's against the constitution. Well guess what. The other day on X someone sent out a poll that showed up in my feed "Would you Support Trump for a third term in Office." That is treason. All these maniacs pretending to support the Constitution don't. That is a cult.
I was going to speak on the Tesla vandalization before all this happened. I do not support it. Violence is not the Answer. This is no different than the ANTIFA riots. Canada was not born in the rocket's red glare. Canada was forged though a persistent devotion to law and order. The Bill of Rights became the Charter of Rights. Trump floats sending Americans to foreign prisons. Civil rights groups say that would be illegal.
The Convoy was the perfect example of peaceful activism. Some called for violence but I rejected those calls. That's exactly what they want you to do to justify taking away your right to lawful assembly. The convoy was completely successful. It raised public awareness and Justin Trudeau's popularity dropped below 16% forcing him to resign.
The prophetic words of Five Times August song This Just in case true. Things don't happen at the snap of a finger. Good things take time. The race goes not to the swift nor the fight to the string but to he who endures. All these erratic maneuvers in the whirlwind of insanity are unhealthy.
The US Constitution states "No state shall deny any person within it's jurisdiction, equal protection of the law." It doesn't say citizen is says person. The intent of the Constitution was to protect civil liberty by law for every person because we are all endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights.
In the Canadian Bill of Rights John G. Diefenbaker stated that "I am Canadian, a free Canadian, free to speak without fear, free to worship God in my own way, free to stand for what I think right, free to oppose what I believe wrong, free to choose those who govern my country. This heritage of freedom I pledge to uphold for myself and all mankind." So mote it be.
CBC is reporting that "The defence lawyer for an alleged accomplice of Canadian fugitive Ryan Wedding has cast doubt on the viability of the case against his client after the reported assassination of a key witness."
The CI started working with American law enforcement back in 2023. October 17 2024 the RCMP sent out a press release about the investigation. So this didn't happen overnight and Hezbollah had nothing to do with it.
Ryan Wedding is not a patch holder. What criminal org?
"The Crown, who opposes Gurpreet Singh's bail, alleges he has connections to enforcers or hitmen, is involved in a scheme to ship high-end cars through Montreal to Dubai and has connections to organized crime in Dubai, including the violent Kinahan gang and routinely travels there."
Oh yeah blame it on the Irish. The Irish don't control the Montreal port. The Hells Angels do. Can't say them because the Five Eyes are in business with them. Ryan is a scapegoat.
