One of Those Who Considers Himself the Most Intelligent Mind in the Room

"I believe you are mischaracterizing this work. As an academic of nearly 40 years, I see no evidence of plagiarism in the thesis you cited nor any unusual academic practices."

"Mark's thesis was evaluated and approved by a faculty committee that saw his work for what it is; an impressive and thoroughly researched analysis that set him apart from his peers."

Margaret Meyer, Official Fellow of Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford University

 

"Oxford's guidelines are not atypical from other universities."

"When you have something lifted verbatim from a source, in there without quotation marks or citation ... that constitutes plagiarism."

Oxford graduate professor

 

"He's just directly repeating without quotations. That's what we call plagiarism."

"[Some of Liberal Leader Mark Carney's thesis questions might be considered by some as more of a] grey area, [but it would still constitute plagiarism according to Oxford standards."

"It seems like it's [examples of plagiarism] all over the dissertation."

Geoffrey Sigalet, assistant professor, member UBC president's advisory committee on student discipline

 

Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that elite economist and now leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, Mark Carney, who has taken on the as-yet-unelected mantle of Canadian Prime Minister's 1995 doctoral thesis in economics from Oxford University, titled 'The Dynamic Advantage of Competition' is fairly well shot through with examples of plagiarism, an absolute sin in academic circles, as it is in journalism and other recorded-word disciplines. A total corruption of what is felt to be authentic, original observations based on study and analysis.

 

According to the learned judgement of three university academics there are ten distinct instances of apparent plagiarism in that doctoral thesis. Full quotes, paraphrases, or slightly modified quotes from four different writers previously published were used by this aspiring economist completely lacking acknowledgement or proper attribution. In the investigation leading to an expose published just recently, Oxford University administrators failed to respond to a request for comment. 

His election adversary, Pierre Poilievre, leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, did respond by commenting on X:  

Mark Carney loves to brag about his experience. Here it is: 

• - Plagiarism 
• - Tax evasion 
• - Creative accounting -
•  Abusing tenants 
• - Union busting 
• - Moving his headquarters out of Canada to the U.S. 
• - Denying insurance claims to coal miners dying of black lung 
• - Taking massive loans from Chinese state-owned banks 
• - Advisor to Justin Trudeau on the economy

 

Examples abound of Mr. Carney's laissez-faire attitude toward straightforward truth where he has been caught out on a number of occasions dissembling and playing with verifiable facts in an effort to shield himself from the responsibility incumbent on one who expects to be believed by a wide segment of the population when he declares himself fit and prepared to lead a nation. So perhaps it isn't quite surprising that his lax demeanor reflecting a propensity to lift other peoples' ideas and present them as his own has become habitual with the man.

 

There is the direct example of his lifting and adopting ideas and promises made by the Leader of the Official Opposition in Parliament during the current federal election campaign. Barely changing the wording of campaign pledges originating with Pierre Poilievre, to present them as his very own inspirations to better the lives of Canadians. Making other statements to appeal to the electorate that clearly belie his oft-stated beliefs and priorities which clash directly with those statements geared to impress voters in a positive manner.

 

In Mr. Carney's thesis he refers extensively to a 1990 book by Michael Porter, The Competitive Advantage of Nations, where he duplicated parts of Porter's work, presenting sentences with minor tweaks, as his very own brainchilds. Writing in his thesis virtually exactly what he had taken out of Porter's book, adding "an" to a sentence and "even", without quotation marks to alert the reader, without the addition of a footnote to reference someone else's work being quoted.

 

All perfectly acceptable, according to his thesis supervisor at Oxford who stated that "it is typical that overlapping language appears" when sources are "frequently referenced in an academic text. For example, over the course of this more than 300-page thesis, the Michael Porter book ... is cited dozens of times. Within his thesis, Mark acknowledged, cited, scrutinized and expanded on this piece", she elaborated, noting that his PHD thesis is "twice as long" as her own. Statements that should raise some eyebrows.

In some instances Mr. Carney duplicates another author's sentences using minor alterations, replacing "for example", with "e.g.", or changing one or a few words, for "be" to "become", or "likelihood" to "probability". Proper citation was not added to indicate he had lifted an author's words, nor were quotation marks added. Shifty practices which anyone who considers themselves as highly intelligent as Carney does, would acknowledge them to be.

 

Canada is due to go to the polls on April 28   GETTY

"[Plagiarism is regarded by Oxford University] as a serious matter."

"Cases will be investigated and penalties may range from deduction of marks to expulsion from the University, depending on the seriousness of the occurrence."

"[Oxford University defines plagiarism as [p]resenting work or ideas from another source as your own ... by incorporating it into your work without full acknowledgement."

Oxford University Website 

On its website, Oxford University says it regards plagiarism “as a serious matter.” Photo by Oli Scarff/Getty Images

101: Making Friends and Influencing People

"As you all know, it's a big issue and it's only going to get bigger over the coming decades."

"It's cold as s--- here. Nobody told me."

"[Danish leaders have] spent decades mistreating the Greenlandic people, treating them like second-class citizens and allowing infrastructure on the island to fall into disrepair."

"Denmark has not kept pace and devoted the resources necessary to keep this base, to keep our troops, and in my view, to keep the people of Greenland safe from a lot of very aggressive incursions from Russia, from China and other nations."

"I think that they [Greenlanders] ultimately will partner with the United States. We can make them much more secure. We could do a lot more protection. And I think they'd fare a lot better economically as well."

U.S. Vice-President JD Vance

JD Vance in Greenland BBC

"[The United States] needs Greenland for international security."

"Greenland's very important for the peace of the world. And I think Denmark understands, and I think the European Union understands it. And if they don't we're going to have to explain it to them."

"We’ll get Greenland. Yeah, 100%." 

U.S. President Donald J. Trump 

"It is a time when we as a population are under pressure."

"We must stick together. Together we are stronger."

"[The U.S. visit signaled a] lack of respect."

Greenland's PM-designate Jens-Frederik Nielson

 

"[Donald Trump Jr's visit in January first sparked concerns] that’s when we realized that his words are no longer just words, he actually means what he says."

"We’re afraid of being colonized again. We’ve been a colony for the past 300 years under Denmark, it still feels like it. Now another colonizer is interested in us."

"[Greenland needs to be] open-minded [and consider strengthening relations with the US to secure a sustainable independence strategy]."

"Trump is only going to be president for the next four years so we also need to think about what’s going to happen in 10 years, 15 years."

Qupanuk Olsen, Greenland politician, pro-independence party Naleraq

U.S. Vice-President J.D. Vance was in Greenland on Friday, slamming Denmark for not doing a good job in keeping its semi-autonomous territory safe. But as Greenland content creator Qupanuk Olsen explains, many Greenlanders did not roll out the red carpet for Vance.   CBC

 

It's hard to say whether President Trump's representatives in his White House Cabinet really expected to be welcomed with huge enthusiasm by Greenlanders in their shared trip to Greenland on Friday. Originally the trip was to have lasted longer, and be more expansive, but in the face of obvious push-back by offended Greenlanders who consider their semi-autonomous government under Denmark's protection the arbiter of who should embark on a state visit to their island, and that by special invitation, an invitation that hadn't been extended. 

 

As far as Greenlanders were concerned, the visit by US. Vice-President Vance, his wife and other senior American officials took it upon themselves as an act of hubris to visit unannounced and uninvited; their home, as it were, invaded by strangers. Strangers, no less, with designs on their homeland that are extraordinarily offensive; offering to buy a home that is definitely not for sale. In the end, the visitors confined their trip to visiting the American military outpost at Pituffik on the northwest coast of Greenland. In the process, evading the risk of violating diplomacy through an uninvited delegation.

 

With U.S. President Donald Trump threatening to take over Greenland, the country’s prime minister has called a visit by a U.S. delegation a provocation and highly aggressive. The Americans on the trip include national security adviser Mike Waltz and Usha Vance, the vice-president’s wife.  CBC

Nonetheless both Greenlanders and Danes were offended that the trip took place at all, but even more so that the original itinerary had been planned without customary diplomatic consultation beforehand. Addressing American troops at the U.S. Space Force Pituffik outpost informing them that the Trump administration is very interested in "Arctic security", Vice-President Vance advanced the Trump agenda. His entourage that included national security adviser Mike Waltz, Energy Secretary Chris Wright, and Senator Mike Lee of Utah then received briefings from military officials present at the base.

 

"As you all know, it's a big issue and it's only going to get bigger over the coming decades", Mr. Vance advised  his listeners, as the first U.S. vice-president to ever visit Greenland. In the process of President Trump expressing his intention to 'buy' Greenland from Denmark, relations between the two nations have become extremely strained, with the U.S. President repeatedly suggesting the U.S. should control the mineral-rich territory of Denmark. It is highly unlikely that any two such allies, both NATO members, have ever collided over an issue where one coveted the territory of the other. 

Pituffik Space Base is pictured as Vance visits, on Friday in Greenland. (Jim Watson/The Associated Press)

President Trump alluded to rising Chinese and Russian interest in the Arctic, where sea lanes have begun to open in the North West Passage as a result of climate change melting sea ice. Access to the Passage -- part of Canadian territory -- will be yet another issue of aggravated presumption between the U.S. and Canada where at present, diplomacy argues that before embarking through the Passage, permission must be sought from Canada. Which feeds once again into President Trump's argument about U.S. 'security' in his wish to control Canada through annexing it into the U.S.

 

Canada, its government and its population are no more anxious to accommodate the American President's desires of territorial expansion than is Denmark/Greenland. The Pituffik Space Base owned and operated by the United States with Denmark's permission, is situated remotely, 1,100 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle. Residents of Nuuk, Greenland's capital, about 1,500 kilometres south of Pituffik, voiced their concern with the U.S. delegation's visit underscoring their misgivings about the most powerful nation on earth coveting their Arctic island.

 

Denmark's Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen expressed his exasperation following the Vance trip to Greenland, stating that although Denmark can deal with criticism, there is a collegial, diplomatic way of speaking to a friendly democratic ally. Through a video he posted on social media, he declared he had a message "for our American friends." 

"Much is being said these days. Many accusations and many allegations have been made."

"And of course, we are open to criticism. But let me be completely honest, we do not appreciate the tone in which it's being delivered."

"This is not how you speak to your close allies."

Larrs Lokke Rasmussen

 

A Meeting of Like Minds

"I heard the surname, and I was like, 'Is this my family'?"

"I was shocked, and I was ashamed. Who wants to have a man like that as your grandfather? It was just tragic."
"[After reading the book [Commandant of Auschwitz], I felt so indebted by what my grandfather had done, I had this desire to do something."

"It's a meticulous record. He caused so much pain. It just broke my heart."

"People need to understand how inhumane, how horrible, how cold-hearted this was."

"The truth is painful, but silence is more dangerous." 

"What we're trying to do is move Holocaust remembrance from the head to the heart."

Kai Hoss, grandson of Rudolf Hoss, commandant of Auschwitz

Rudolf Höss with his wife and children in an undated photo. (Courtesy of Kai Höss)

"I realize how important it was for my grandparents to share not only the story, but also why it's important."

"[My grandfather used to tell me:] The Holocaust was the worst in people. But it was also the best in people."

"We need to be not only educating people but galvanizing them through these lessons. That's how we  honour the victims and the survivors; that's how we keep them alive."

Mike Igel, grandson of three Holocaust survivors

Mike Igel, interim chief executive officer and board chair emeritus of the Florida Holocaust Museum spoke of plans to meet with Rudolf Hoss's grandson: "He and I are running in the same lane. We're using these lessons and experiences as the fuel to combat antisemitism -- the very thing that led to all of this." Mr. Igel's family was on the receiving end of Mr. Hoss's family's involvement in murdering Europe's Jews.

 

"We are still combating on a daily basis", said 44-year-old Mike Igel whose father's parents were able to survive the Holocaust when non-Jewish Polish farmers, Michel and Katarzyna Gerula, hid four Igel family members, along with three members of another family, in their barn. The Gerulas had three young children of their own at the time. 

Eventually betrayed by a neighbour, the two Gerulas were executed by the Nazis when they were taken into custody, tortured for weeks, all the while refusing to reveal where the Jews under their care were hiding. They are recognized as "Righteous Among the Nation", at Yad Vashem, where their courage and memory is kept alive.

 

As for Kai Hoss, he is a non-denominational pastor in Stuttgart, Germany where he leads services for local English speakers and American service members stationed in the vicinity. He tells his story of stumbling upon the name of his grandfather in his history book when he was in fifth grade. His mother confirmed to him when he was 16 that the infamous Rudolf Hoss who was responsible for the operations in Auschwitz was his grandfather.

 

Kai Höss with his wife, Rahma, and their four children. (Courtesy of Kai Höss)

 

Decades on, he began to deliberately meet with Jews to speak of his family history. "It became clearer and clearer who they are and what my grandfather had done. I had several wonderful experiences where I met these people, and they're very gracious. There is a spirit of forgiveness and kindness", he said. He began speaking against antisemitism at schools, synagogues, churches and other venues.

 

More recently a meeting has been planned between himself and the grandson of Holocaust survivors, Mike Igel; a planned conversation relating to their family and historical legacies linked to their shared advocacy. The meeting, the Florida Holocaust Museum which described the talk as exploring "history's impact and the power of our choices" where they will speak together at Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida.

 

According to the Anti-Defamation League, a sharp rise has been reported in antisemitic incidents since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, responsible for the ongoing war in Gaza to this date. An over 200 percent increase soared in antisemitic incidents in the United States the first year following October 7. A global survey by the ADL found that close to half of all people worldwide have antisemitic beliefs. 

Mike Igel at the Florida Holocaust Museum in front of a railroad boxcar — the same type used by Nazis to transport Jews to death camps. (The Florida Holocaust Museum)

 

Beijing's Designs...

"China is always willing to work together with the Canadian side, by following the principle of mutual respect, seeking common ground while reserving differences."

"But China also opposes any country using China as a bargaining chip when it deals with other countries." 

"But of course, to reach such an agreement [free trade deal], both sides need to work in the same direction toward the same goal."

"When I was having conversations with Canadian friends from all walks of life, all sectors here in Canada, I heard a strong voice that China and Canada should strengthen co-operation."

"But unfortunately, at the same time, oftentimes we see some disrespect and smearing and attacking of China's core interests."

"China firmly supports Canada’s sovereignty and territorial integrity just as China supports that of all the other countries, but of course we hope this kind of respect is mutual."

China's Ambassador to Canada, Wang Di

"I hope that companies between our two countries can enjoy a transparent, open and non-discriminatory business environment," says China's Ambassador to Canada Di Wang. Photo by Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press/

China's core interests are wound up in its approach to world dominance in trade and achieving the status of a world power equal to that of the United States of America. Everything that Beijing does is calibrated to achieve those ends. And China is relentless in its self-actualizing mission of achieving its divinely inspired destiny as a super-hegemon. Its links throughout the world -- in North America, Europe, Australia, Africa, the Middle East are geared to creating a type of dependence beginning with trade and ending with dominating world markets in chemicals and organic matter critical to new-age technology.

 

China first ingratiates itself internationally, then demands respect and collaboration as it paternally guides countries which have been infiltrated by expatriate mainland Chinese through cultural indoctrination to instill admiration for the Peoples Republic of China. Its intelligence agents are everywhere, its social media sites dominate markets, its modern version of the Yellow Silk Road -- Belt and Road Initiative through investment and critical domestic infrastructure loans throughout the world have created dependencies inimical to the countries involved, becoming indebted beyond their ability to persevere.

 

And nothing seems to stop China's subterfuges and self-entitlements in maneuvering its operatives subtly into local culture and positions of social and academic, scientific and political advantage to Beijing, where infiltrated operatives deliver what they glean to their sponsors. Trade secrets, scientific advances, political positions, military situations, are all grist for the Beijing mill of conquest and control. As for respecting other countries' borders, Chinese interest in the Arctic to challenge Canada's North West Passage in the interests of vast mineral resources' acquisition is another story.

 

The government of Canada is warned by China's ambassador against using it as "bargaining chip" in its trade negotiations with the United States, even while holding out the carrot of pursuing a bilateral free trade agreement as long as Canada remove barriers to Chinese investment.Those barriers are there for a specific reason, that Canada has no interest in having its natural resources under the control of a foreign government which has on many occasions displayed its acquisition agenda to the detriment of Canada's national interests. 

Diplomatic relations between Ottawa and Beijing which is at present Canada's second-largest trading partner have cooled considerably beginning when Huawei Technologies Co. executive Meng Wanzhou had been detained in 2018 at the request of the U.S. through an extradition warrant at Vancouver's International Airport which led to China arresting two Canadian businessmen then in China, as retaliatory hostages in claims of espionage charged against the two. More recently four Canadians were sentenced to death on charges of drug smuggling in China. The dual-citizens were executed over their presumed 'drug crimes'.

 

In August, Canada announced its intention to match the U.S. higher tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, aluminum and steel, prompting China to enact retaliatory measures against Canadian canola, pork and seafood, impacting Western Canada. Chinese investment in critical mineral projects have been curbed in Canada, Huawei has been banned from fifth-generation wireless networks, and TikTok's parent, ByteDance Ltd. was ordered to close its Canadian subsidiary.

 

China, however, is consumed with its energy needs to power its growing technology functionality and Canada is more than willing to sell energy to China in the form of oil exports and liquefied natural gas.  As for claims by security intelligence officials in Canada that China, along with countries that include India and Russia, may attempt interference in the federal election now  underway in Canada, Mr. Wang characterized them as "completely unjustified, groundless accusations", despite ample evidence in the not-so-distant past that Beijing has done just that.

"At the core of the Chinese strategy is asymmetric interdependence that allows for its weaponization of trading relations … on other countries that cannot easily pivot away from a reliance on Chinese sources."

"By pre-emptively diversifying exports of easily substitutable products that are vulnerable to asymmetrical transactions, we could reduce the leverage that adversaries might otherwise seek to exploit."

University of Toronto political scientist Lynette Ong

China's Ambassador-designate to Canada Wang Di presents his credentials to Governor General Mary Simon during ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 26, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Gazans Waking to Hamas Terrorism Backlash

"Our children have been killed. Our houses have been destroyed."

"[I joined the protest in Beit Lahiya] against the war, against Hamas, and the [Palestinian political] factions, against Israel and against the world's silence."

Abed Radwan

 

"[The protest began as an antiwar protest and swelled to over 2,000 with people chanting against Hamas]."

"It's the only party we can affect."

"Protests won't stop the [Israeli] occupation, but it can affect Hamas."

Ammar Hassan

 

"Our main goal is to bring the hostages home."

"If Hamas continues to refuse a deal, it will pay an increasingly heavy price".

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz 

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Beit Lahia, with many chanting anti-Hamas slogans  AFP

 

Out of a population estimated to be a million and a half people, thousands of Palestinians in northern Gaza marched in another day of antiwar protests. Their demonstrations represent a rare display of public rage against their governing body, Hamas, that very political group whose charter calls for the elimination of the State of Israel, and of whom the vast preponderance of Gazans approved. An approval of both the terrorist group's violence against Jews, and their goal of destroying Israel. 

 

Presumably, the expectation among the population was that Hamas would go about their business of killing Jews and destroying the state expeditiously. Their shared aspiration unimaginably not drawing the civilian population of Gaza into the fray. A delusional fantasy given that in previous encounters between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces, Hamas deliberately placed its civilian population in harm's way for the distinct public relations purpose of portraying Israel as a heartless killer of Palestinians.

 

During the horrendous savagery of the October 7, 2023 invasion of southern Israel, Palestinian civilians saw fit to join the thousands of Hamas operatives in their sadistic rape-and-murder spree. When Israeli hostages were  taken into Gaza, the civilian Palestinian population gave ample displays of Jew-hate as they celebrated the capture of an array of Jewish citizens from children to the elderly, wounded and dead, catatonic raped women, by ululating their pleasure and actively taunting and beating hostages and dead bodies.

Tuesday's protest was the largest anti-Hamas demonstration since war began following the 7 October attacks   AFP

So have Palestinians in Gaza discovered their mislaid humanity? Coming out in modest droves to rally against Hamas? The protests organized through social media platforms saw Hamas security forces responding to disperse the gatherings with forceful interventions to little avail. Had Palestinians responded by denying that Hamas terrorism reflected their values before the Israel Defense Forces invaded Gaza with the intention of destroying Hamas and rescuing the hostages, it might have seemed credible that they were intent on divorcing themselves from the violent terrorism they now are disowning.

 

It has taken 17 months of conflict between Israel and Hamas to impress upon Palestinians that violence begets violence and they could just as easily be on the receiving end as casualties as were the Jews, minus the ghoulish savagery of perpetrators intoxicated with hatred. In the town of Beit Lahiya some 3,000 people demonstrated, many chanting "the people want the fall of Hamas". What took so long?

 

Israeli hostages released by Hamas in Rafah and Nuseirat as part of ceasefire deal – video

Dozens of men in a Gaza City neighbourhood chanted "Out, out, out! Hamas get out!" In Jabaliya a similar protest took place. Speaking on condition of anonymity in fear of retribution, a protester explained the demonstration occurred because "everyone failed us". They chanted against Israel, Hamas, the Palestinian Authority and Arab mediators. Despite no Hamas security at the protest, scuffles broke out between supporters and opponents of the protesting group.

 

Hamas is adamant, it will release the remaining captives only in exchange for Palestinian prisoners, a lasting ceasefire and a complete and unconditional Israeli withdrawal from Gaza. It could have had all that with the exception of the Palestinian prisoners' release up until October 6, 2023. Had they only put down their arms, declared their intention to destroy Israel null and void  and begun instead to govern the Gaza Strip responsibly.

 

People hold hands at a memorial event marking the one-year anniversary of the Hamas attack in southern Israel, in Tel Aviv, Oct. 7, 2024. Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images

 

Canadian pediatricians 'Full Steam Ahead' with Gender-Affirming Model of Care

"Parents and young people deserve a balanced view of the care options ahead of them as they make these difficult decisions."

"This short paper is extremely biased, [leaves out] inconvenient truths [and presents gender-affirming care as the only option]."

Pam Buffone, founder, Canadian Gender Report 

"At the end of the day, if you tell parents if they're supportive it reduces suicide attempts from 57 percent to four percent, that's just putting a tonne of pressure on parents with data that are likely to be highly inaccurate."

"[The new paper is] essentially advocating for socially transitioning children."

Dr. Darrell Palmer, Calgary pediatrician

 

"Jackson [12-year-old fictional character, assigned female at birth, identifying as a boy, using he/him pronouns and engaging in stereotypically masculine activities since age 9] notes chest tissue development and recent monthly vaginal bleeding that are causing significant distress and gender dysphoria, impacting his mental health."

"Recognizing that the local wait time to access a specialized gender-care clinic is over six months, you explore options for menstrual suppression [including hormone blockers] and discuss other forms of care to support his mental and social transition [binding, packing, etc.]."

Advice for pediatricians in new instructional paper 

In the U.K., England's National Health Service has decided to ban puberty blockers for youth outside clinical research, citing a lack of evidence that they help youth with gender dysphoria. Canadian doctors who spoke to CBC news disagree, saying access to the drugs is an important part of gender-affirming care. (Jo Panuwat D/Shutterstock)

 

A  newly published paper in a brief in the Canadian Paediatric Society's flagship journal advises that parents failing to unquestionably affirm their child's expressed gender, can be responsible for harming their child. Pediatricians are advised through the paper to offer parents of gender-uncertain children advice on social transitions along with the benefits of an affirming environment to "support menstrual suppression" using medications such as hormone blockers for a gender dysphoric 12-year-old "if appropriate and desired by the patient".

 

"Gender-affirming practices for the general paediatrician" has rung alarms among those in the profession for whom an urgent reappraisal of the gender-affirming model of care for minors is top of mind, informed by new science questioning its safety and efficacy, alongside a "meteoric rise" in youngsters presenting with gender distress leading to a dramatic shift in the sex ratio, most from natal boys to natal girls. 

The senior authors of the new paper, through their spokespeople at BC Children's Hospital and Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, were unavailable for an interview, while BC Children's stated that "research conducted over many decades supports the safety and accessibility of gender-affirming care in this province", that the authors had reviewed the research and conclusions led by distinguished British pediatrician Hilary Cass, whose  Cass Review  concluded the evidence base for gender-affirming care for minors to be "remarkably weak", and many unknowns remain relating to the impact of social transitioning, in particular among very young children.

 

Protesters hold signs up in Ottawa on Feb. 5, in response to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s recent proposed youth transgender policies including a ban on puberty blockers for youth under 16. (Patrick Doyle/The Canadian Press)

According to the new Canadian paper, gender identity in a very young child is a "fait accompli". The paper presents information on suicide in a misleading manner in citing data from a 13-year-old study of 84 Ontario trans youth that reported strong parental support reduces suicide attempts significantly, according to some pediatricians. Based on the health records of over 2,000 young people who sought care at a gender service over a 20-year time span, a recent Finnish study found while gender dysphoric youth have higher rates of suicide than peers without gender dysphoria (0.5 percent versus 0.3 percent), there was no statistical significance once researchers took a history of psychiatric treatment into account.

 

As a result of the conclusions of the Cass Report in Britain, the United Kingdom permanently banned the routine use of puberty blockers in minors under 16. In contrast, the Canadian authors of the new paper recommended pediatricians "provide advice on social transition: For many TGD (transgender and gender diverse) children and youth there may only be an interest in/need to discuss social transition, which might include using an affirmed name and pronouns and exploring clothing and hairstyles that align with their experienced gender".

 

No clear evidence that socially transitioning children has "positive or negative mental health outcomes", under the Cass review. Cass wrote: sex of rearing "seems to have some influence on eventual gender outcome, and it is possible that social transition in childhood may change the trajectory of gender identity development for children with early gender incongruence. For this reason, a more cautious approach needs to be taken for children than for adolescents."

"In the end, I'd like to think that what we all want is what's best for our kids."

"And I think that's true of my colleagues who are involved in gender-affirming care as well."

"I think it comes down to it being very difficult for physicians to admit when they get things wrong."

Dr. J. Edward Les, Calgary pediatrician

Dr. Les, a senior fellow with the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy, finds the latest advice for Canadian pediatricians is "blithely ignoring" the work of Cass and other investigations by "neutral doctors", including two recent reviews led by McMaster University researchers. 

In Canada, some specialists have begun to call on doctors to “slow down” and take a more nuanced approach that’s less quick to begin medical transition in children. Photo by Getty Images

Not The Expansionism of Divine Destiny

"So you have to ask yourself: How are we going to solve that problem, solve our own national security?"

"If that means that we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do, because he doesn't care about what the Europeans scream at us."

U.S. Vice-President JD Vance

 

"The U.S. has a vested security interest in the Arctic region and it should not be a surprise the National Security Adviser and Secretary of Energy are visiting a U.S. Space Base to get first-hand briefings from our service members on the ground."

Brian Hughes, spokesman, National Security Council

 

"[The visit of] the wife of the United States vice-president and the United States president's highest security adviser cannot be seen only as a private visit."

"We can already see now,  how big a mess it's caused."

"[If allied countries] do not speak out loudly about how the USA is treating Greenland, the situation will escalate day by day, and the American aggression will increase."

"[Greenland's allies should show support]; the only purpose [of a trip by Waltz is] a demonstration of power to us, and the signal is not to be misunderstood."

"We have been treated unacceptably."

Greenlandic Prime Minister Mute Bourup Egede

Demonstrators protested at the United States consulate in Nuuk, Greenland, earlier this month. Credit...Christian Klindt Soelbeck/Ritzau Scanpix Foto, via Associated Press

Second lady Usha Vance, it appears, is preparing to travel to the autonomous Danish territory of Greenland even as her husband, the American vice-president, ratchets up U.S. security and "territorial" interests in the Arctic island the new Trump administration has well-ventilated designs on acquiring. The prime minister of Greenland has responded by warning of "American aggression", lamenting a "mess" the upcoming visit has caused, even as JD Vance accused Denmark of "not doing its job" and "not being a good ally".

 

Presumably, a "good ally" would fall into U.S. arms, swooning of its aspiration to become part of the United States. Denmark, for which Greenland has historically been a protectorate, even though Greenlanders themselves have an understandable preference for total sovereignty -- separation and independence from Denmark -- or any other country with designs on the largest island on Earth which the indigenous population considers their very own ancestral gift to themselves, anxious to be shed of the avarice of other countries.

 

The Trump administration may have inadvertently overlooked that Denmark, completely resistant to American overtures to 'sell' Greenland, is, of course, a member of NATO, as is the United States. Member-nations all submit to the leading tenet of membership, that all members are obligated to ensure the security of other members. 

 

Greenlandic news outlet Sermitsiaq posted photos of two U.S. Hercules workhorse military aircraft on the tarmac in Nuuk, the capital, disgorging four bulletproof vehicles awaiting the arrival of the American elite scheduled to visit, and not by invitation. National security adviser Mike Waltz and Energy Secretary Chris Wright are scheduled to travel to Greenland, along with "the wife of the United States vice-president". 

 

During his first term in office, President Trump had mused over buying Greenland, despite Denmark responding that it wasn't for sale. Since his return to the White House, Mr. Tramp repeatedly states that the U.S. will control Greenland, insisting that it is a requirement for strategic national security purposes, and certainly not because America is fulfilling her divine destiny by expansionism. 

A Greenlandic member of parliament told POLITICO a protest was planned for Vance’s arrival. | Ritzau Scanpix/AFP via Getty Images

"When foreign dignitaries travel to our country on what are called private visits, it rightly causes concern."

"There is no reason to panic. But there is good reason to stand together and to demand respect."

"I do. And I will continue to do so."

Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Demokraatit, next Greenlandic leader

 

"A lot people from Greenland [would] like to see something happen with respect to their being properly protected and properly taken care of."

"They're calling us. We're not calling them."

"People from Greenland are asking us to go there. [And] some officials [were among those doing so."

U.S. President Donald J. Trump

Al-Quds Day in Canada ... The Islamist Colonization of the West

"If you are on a student visa, and you're in America, and you're an aspiring young terrorist who wants to prey upon your Jewish classmates, you're going home."

"Were going to arrest your tail and we're going to send you home where you belong."

"I appreciate free speech, I used to defend it in court, but this is far beyond the pale of that; you are threatening your classmates and spewing antisemitism and spewing all this hatred."

"It's enough."

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson

Pro-Palestinian protesters mark Al-Quds Day in downtown Toronto. Andrew Francis Wallace / Toronto Star

So far, few influential elected lawmakers in Canada have advocated against the presence of Hamas-supporting international students spewing their very special brand of viral Jew-hate throughout the country in organized and well-attended 'protests' against the State of Israel's very existence, and by default the existence of Jews anywhere in the world, much less within Israel. Wild displays of clearly illegal support of proscribed terrorist groups whose sole purpose is the destruction of the State of Israel and Jews go unfettered by agencies of the law, taking their cue from municipal government.

 

Municipal government in turn take their cue from provincial governments which look to the federal government -- in this instance, for the past 17 months since the Hamas terrorist group invaded southern Israel on October 7, 2023 with up to six thousand terrorist operatives programmed to commit mass rape, terror, destruction of farming villages, wholesale slaughter of residents of the farming communities, hunting down and murdering young Israelis attending a music festival, and finally taking infants, their parents, the elderly and frail, men and women and soldiers hostage into Gaza.

 

A protester waves an Iranian flag, Yemeni flag and a Palestinian flag as people attend the annual al-Quds Day, in London, Britain, March 23, 2025   (photo credit: REUTERS/JAIMI JOY)

There is no question regarding the reality of the sadistic savagery that was unleashed upon Israeli civilians; the marauders themselves proudly took videos of the carnage they produced and posted them to social media. Investigations not only by Israel but by an agency of the UN, and by major American news outlets verified the staggering brutality that took place on that infamous day. Yet throughout the world wherever Palestinians and other Islamists have ventured as immigrants, refugees and migrants, the horrible event and the scope of its death toll have been celebrated as a victory.

 

The instigator and major supporter of the terrorist groups poised to attack Israel, the Islamic Republic of Iran and its partner Qatar, have funded the constant threatening, illegal and occasionally outright criminal actions of these groups that infiltrated democratic bastions of the West, but it is the very democratic government authorities of those countries in their lack of action to put a hold to the frenzied antisemitism that have by default supported the very antisemitism they swear they are determined to counter, that have failed.

 

Sign likening Israel's military to Nazis held by a protester at the 2025 Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto, on March 23, was ordered removed by Toronto police. (Ellin Bessner photo)

The annual Iran-sponsored Al-Quds Day, a celebration of hatred for Jews and Israel has once again taken place across the world. Calls to shut down these displays of blatant racist hatred continue to fall on deaf ears where authority figures shrink before the potential of being labelled "Islamophobic". Allowing the continuing displays of hate to continue to fester has the predictable effect of encouraging its perpetrators to become ever bolder when their ever-greater impositions on general society go unremarked and unaddressed.

 

That the organizers openly state: "Palestine resists; Zionism ceases to exist", blatantly calling for Israel's eradication, an act of hatred inciting violence against an identified target which is a criminal offence in Canada, and no consequences ensue, it is clear that the hounds of Hell have been unleashed without the least bit of interest from elected officialdom. Jihad appears alive and well in Canada. A Canada that barely blinks an eye when large groups of Muslims shut down access to public roadways as organized mass prayer sessions block highways and a police presence supports the display of Islamist conquest.

 

Canada has bent a knee to the spectre of unlawful and criminal acts dedicated to the support of terrorism threatening not only the Jewish state but Jewish Canadians as well as Jews globally in the stated purpose of eliminating Jewish existence entirely. Canadian Jews are left waiting for an authority figure that will act decisively to return the country to its true values in rejection of the death fantasy of jihad and conquest. On the cusp of a general election there is a choice to be made; re-elect the same government that has stood by placidly to allow this disintegration of civilizational mores to occur, or make a clean sweep and bring to office a man and a political party whose convictions are directly adverse to the current governing body.  

The Palestine Youth Movement held a downtown rally from Yonge and Dundas Sts. to the Israeli Consulate on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, before shutting down the intersection to traffic. Photo by Caryma Sa'd /Special to the Toronto Sun