| From: Joachim K | 2/7/2025 6:04:48 AM | | | | | | Male Arrested Twice in Three Days for Impaired Driving Offences
06 February 2025
A 35-year-old male is facing impaired driving charges for the second time in three days.
On Monday, February 3, 2025, at approximately 8:50 a.m., members from East Division conducted a traffic stop near Grandview Street North and Beatrice Street East in Oshawa. After speaking with the driver, officers administered a roadside screening test, which registered a "fail." The driver was subsequently arrested, and further testing revealed a blood alcohol level exceeding the legal limit.
Further investigation revealed the driver was also driving while under suspension.
On Wednesday, February 5, 2025, at approximately 8:40 a.m., members from East Division conducted a traffic stop near Grandview Street North and Beatrice Street East in Oshawa after observing a male driver using his cellphone. Upon speaking with the driver, officers administered a roadside screening test, which registered a "fail." The driver was subsequently arrested and taken to the division for a breathalyzer which revealed a blood alcohol level exceeding the legal limit.
Sharifuddin ABASSI, age 35 of Oshawa is charged with the following Criminal, Highway Traffic Act and Liquor Licence Act offences; Impaired Operation – Blood Alcohol Concentration x2, Drive – Hand Held Communication Device, Fail to Produce Permit x2, Driving While Under Suspension x2, Fail to Have Insurance Card, Drive No Insurance and Having Care and Control of a Motor Vehicle Unsealed Container of Liquor.
He was held for a bail hearing.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Durham Regional Police at 905-579-1520.
Anonymous information can be sent to Durham Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or online at www.durhamregionalcrimestoppers.ca and tipsters may be eligible for a $2,000 cash reward.
The information in this media release contains facts and circumstances that have been obtained from a police investigation. These allegations have yet to be proven in court.
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| From: Joachim K | 2/7/2025 6:07:05 AM | | | | | | MPs reject Trump's idea of clearing out Gaza as Israeli minister points to Canada
By The Canadian Press
February 06, 2025
Minister of Foreign Affairs Melanie Joly attends a luncheon with the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montreal in Montreal on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
OTTAWA — Canadian politicians are pushing back on the idea of clearing Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip as an Israeli minister suggests some of them could be sent to Canada.
“We support Palestinians’ right to self-determination, including from being forcibly displaced from Gaza,” Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly wrote on the online platform X on Wednesday.
The previous day, U.S. President Donald Trump stunned leaders across the Middle East and beyond when he suggested that the territory be cleared out and made into a U.S.-owned resort destination.
Human Rights Watch and similar groups say Trump’s plan would amount to ethnic cleansing.
While White House aides and various analysts have suggested other ideas for American involvement, Trump doubled down on his proposal Thursday, saying “the Gaza Strip would be turned over to the United States by Israel at the conclusion of fighting,” by which point Palestinians “would have already been resettled.”
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz wrote Thursday on X that he’d instructed Israeli’s military to draft a plan to evacuate “any resident of Gaza who wishes to leave” to be resettled to willing countries abroad.
“Countries like Canada, which has a structured immigration program, have previously expressed willingness to take in residents from Gaza,” he wrote.
Ottawa’s only resettlement program for Gazans is limited to people with relatives in Canada, and only a small portion of the applications — currently capped at 5,000 — have resulted in Palestinians actually making it to Canada.
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada did not immediately respond when asked for the latest figures on Palestinian resettlement. In its last public disclosure release, issued in late May 2024, it said just 41 people had arrived as of May 20. CBC News reported last month that just 616 people had arrived under the temporary program.
Before Katz made his comments, Joly said Canada is still calling for a two-state solution — the creation of a Palestinian state that would exist in peace alongside Israel.
“Canada’s long-standing position on Gaza has not changed,” she wrote Wednesday on the platform X.
International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen, Justice Minister Arif Virani and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh were among a dozen MPs who also pushed back on Trump’s idea.
Hussen, Virani and seven other Liberal MPs released a statement calling Trump’s idea “preposterous and a complete violation of international law” and saying that “it amounts to ethnic cleansing.”
Singh said that Trump’s comments “destabilize” the Middle East and threaten the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. “Trump’s threats are utter madness. They violate every international law,” he wrote in a post on X.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs deferred comment to the Israeli embassy in Ottawa, which did not provide an immediate response.
The Gaza Strip was established as a Palestinian territory after Palestinians were displaced across the region during the creation of the State of Israel.
Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt already host millions of Palestinian refugees and say it would be inappropriate to remove more Palestinians from their homeland.
Israel rejects the United Nations' designation of Palestinians as refugees, saying this creates an illegitimate idea of them returning to land that is now Israel. Israeli officials also have argued that the Jewish people have ancestral ties to the land.
Mona Abuamara, the Palestinian ambassador in Ottawa, said that Israeli “terrorist settlers” in occupied Palestinian territories are the ones who should be moved to other countries. She said another alternative is to have Palestinians take back land that is now Israel.
“If you don’t want to move forward, we can happily go back,” she wrote on X.
In late 2023, amid reports that the Israeli government was looking to send Palestinians to countries like Canada, Immigration Minister Marc Miller dismissed talk of a “so-called ‘voluntary transfer’ of Gazans out of Gaza” to Canada.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 6, 2025.
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press |
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| From: Joachim K | 2/10/2025 1:02:04 AM | | | | | | Canadian Prime Minister Spends Christian Holiday at Muslim Resort
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family spent their Bahamas vacation on a private island belonging to the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, Trudeau's office confirmed Friday.
A spokesman for the prime minister said in a statement that Trudeau, his family and a few friends were invited to join the Aga Khan on Bell Island for the holidays.
"As you are aware, his Highness and the Prime Minister have been close family friends for many years. As is the usual course, the Prime Minister will be reimbursing the costs of his (and his family’s) flights to and from Nassau. No friends were on the Challenger," Cameron Ahmad wrote in an email.
The Aga Khan was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of Trudeau’s father, former prime minister Pierre Trudeau.
The Aga Khan is the hereditary leader to the world's 12 to 15 million Ismaili Muslim population, with a profile among his followers similar to that of a pope among Catholics.
He's also one of the world's wealthiest royals, according to a 2010 Forbes magazine list.
The Aga Khan founded one of the world's biggest international development organizations, the Aga Khan Development Network. The organization works in 30 countries around the world. The federal government provides tens of millions of dollars in funding to the Aga Khan Foundation of Canada every year.
In 2015, Global Affairs Canada provided more than $46 million in funding for projects in countries including Afghanistan, Egypt, Kenya, Pakistan and Tanzania. The projects cover maternal, newborn and child health funding, as well as strengthening basic education.
Khalil Shariff, executive director of the Aga Khan Foundation of Canada, is registered to lobby a variety of federal departments, including Global Affairs Canada and the Prime Minister's Office. Publicly available records show he's met with top officials at Global Affairs six times in the last year, including International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau and her chief of staff. His last recorded communication was last month, with Bibeau's chief of staff.
Shariff hasn't met with anyone from Trudeau's Prime Minister's Office, though the communication reports log one interaction with a Privy Council official, the deputy secretary to cabinet, nearly a year ago. The Privy Council is the arm of the civil service that supports the work of the PMO.
A spokeswoman for Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson said, in an email to CTV News, that the office knew nothing about Trudeau's vacation arrangements and wouldn't comment on them anyway due to "confidentiality considerations." Dawson is the watchdog for questions of conflict-of-interest gifts and sponsored travel.
"More information would be required in order to determine whether a trip taken by any public office holder or member would be subject to the gift rules ... or whether it would be considered sponsored travel," Jocelyne Brisebois wrote in an email to CTV News.
"If we had information that raised concerns in this regard, we would contact the public office holder or member in question. Commissioner Dawson has not received any complaints about this matter."
Postmedia first reported the vacation location.
In a December statement marking the Aga Khan's 80th birthday, Trudeau called him a friend and noted Canada gave him honorary citizenship in 2009.
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