Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Cassidy McMackon
Publication Date: November 17, 2025 - 06:40
Toronto City Hall to raise Palestinian flag in commemoration of its Independence Day
November 17, 2025
The City of Toronto is expected to join several other cities across Canada in raising the Palestinian flag this morning at city hall.
The city is set to raise the Palestinian flag at 10 a.m. in commemoration of the 37th anniversary of the Palestinian Declaration of Independence after a petition from the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians.
Zachareah Quraishi of Airdrie, Alta., was released from the Canadian Armed Forces reserves on July 10, last summer. Within 12 days, he’d bought a plane ticket to Israel, rented a car, and obtained a large kitchen knife.
Israeli authorities say that within hours, the 21-year-old attempted a terror attack on Netiv Ha’asara, a gated village of 900 close to the northern border of the Gaza Strip, on July 22.
Video shows guards firing as he came at them; his body falling just at the edge of the frame. According to Israeli authorities, the guards told him several times to stand down, but they...
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A human rights complaint has been settled between the TD Bank TD-T and a Muslim-Indigenous man who claimed he was racially profiled while trying to open a bank account at a Surrey, B.C., branch.Sharif Mohammed Bhamji, a member of the Heiltsuk Nation, said he hopes his case serves as example to others who have experienced similar injustices and encourages them to speak out.
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In this episode of “NP Talks,” the National Post’s Jesse Kline sits down with Michael Kovrig for a wide-ranging discussion on the threat posed by the Communist Party of China. Watch the full video directly above.
Kovrig is a senior advisor
at the International Crisis Group and a former Canadian diplomat, but he is best known to Canadians as one of the “two Michaels” who were detained by Chinese authorities in 2018, in response to the arrest...
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