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"As a group of Canadian business and community leaders who are not Jewish, we ask our colleagues to join us in condemning any act of antisemitism in this country."

"Hate and intolerance have no place in Canada's workplaces public spaces, anywhere."

"Canada is strongest when the law is applied fairly and consistently, every citizen is equally protected and mutual respect is upheld without exception." 

"Zero tolerance for hate. Antisemitism must be named clearly, condemned unequivocally, and met with decisive action."

Canada must adopt a consistent national approach to law enforcement prosecution and sentencing. It must ensure that terrorist organizations, their proxies and adherents do not operate here and are not funded by any sources public or private."

"Words from political leaders matter. This is not about restricting free speech. No Canadian should be threatened, harassed or attacked because of their faith. In Canada, we need to treat each other equally and with respect, regardless of one's religion, ethnicity or cultural heritage."

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Open Letter to Canadians and Government ... StoppingAntisemitism.com

Talia Ben Sasson, right, hugs Ayellet Tzur as they attend a rally in support of Israel in Montreal, Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. (Christinne Muschi/The Canadian Press)

 

Finally. After years of Canadian governments at all levels, from federal, to provincial to municipal tolerating the spectacle of massed protests against Israel, claiming it is engaged in genocide against Palestinians, calling for a global Intifada, chanting 'From the river to the sea Palestine will be free', chorusing 'Final Solution', tormenting and threatening Canadian Jews, while insisting on their right to ventilate through 'free speech', it has taken a group of non-Jewish Canadian corporate heads and their influential companies to counter the public Jew-hate-fest in demanding a cessation to the vile and viral antisemitism that has overtaken the country since the Palestinian terrorist attacks on southern Israel on 7 October, 2023.

 

Prominent Canadian business, political and educational leaders condemning antisemitism, speaking out for enforcement of anti-hate laws. These are requests made time and again by Canadian Jewish leaders in appealing to the federal government to take action against the constant agitation and slanderous charges made in public since Israel suffered its worst mass pogrom in memory. Where it has taken a carefully constructed and orchestrated public relations mission by fundamentalist Muslims and Palestinian-student-led groups to delegitimize Israel and threaten the security of Jewish Canadians to create a split in Canadian society of 'victim' and 'oppressor'.

 

Jews who have for years on end, decade after decade, been victimized by Palestinian-led deadly violence presented by their persecutors as 'oppressors', and themselves not as the vectors of hate and sadistic savagery in mass rape and murder, but the victims of a people asserting their historic place in the Middle East as ancestrally indigenous. While migrants from Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Iraq settling in historically Judean lands call themselves the original Palestinians, inheritors of Judea, Samaria and Gaza with a mission to slaughter Jews in pursuit of their aims of conquest of all that is not theirs.

 

demonstration outside the Israeli Consulate in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks became the first of many in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza over the next two years. (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press)

 

Under the Liberal governments of the past decade a vast influx of Muslim immigrants, refugees and migrants have swelled the Canadian population where they now represent two million in total as opposed to the Jewish Canadian population of 400,000. Where in political terms two million become more influential at the ballot box than a group many times smaller, despite that the latter has had a much longer presence in Canada, helping to make it the country it has become, integrating within the general population while to the former the laws of the country become subservient to that of Sharia. 

 

This is the Canada that prides itself on multiculturalism and equality under the law, guaranteed by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Yet although the Jewish Canadian community has been under unspeakable levels of duress and threats, existing laws, more than capable of addressing the situation fail to be invoked by any level of government, and police have acted to protect those emitting threats, while giving short shrift to the threatened, with rare exception. 

 

Following the publication of that letter in the select newspapers of the Postmedia Network, Prime Minister Mark Carney has suddenly come alive, responding to the direct action demanded by the corporate signees. This is the prime minister who equates his rejection of antisemitism equally with that of 'Islamophobia'. And while it is Islamists that have lit the explosive social disgrace of antisemitism in Canada, to name them as such represents a clear instance of nothing short of 'Islamophobia'. A cardinal sin that will not be committed by Mark Carney.  

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks against antisemitism during a visit with members of the Jewish community and law enforcement leaders at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto on Monday, June 1, 2026. Photo by Peter Power/Postmedia News

 

Incomparably Beautiful Naturally Scenic British Columbia and Atlanta's FIFA Islam Compliance

FIFA World Cup 2026™ Vancouver

"The unregulated drug supply in Vancouver is unpredictable and may be more dangerous than what visitors are used to in other countries or regions."

"Carry naloxone and know how to use it."

"Start low, go slow [use only] one substance at a time."

FIFA Vancouver website : Know Before You Go 

Vancouver is being ravaged by an opioid crisis that makes the United States' epidemic pale in comparison Credit: Simon Townsley

 

These tips to sport tourists arriving in Vancouver hosting its portion of the FIFA World Cup instructs visitors to the city on how best to use illicit drugs, and the wisdom of having naloxone in one's possession.  The website goes so far as to recommend that tourists submit their cellphone numbers to the Province of B.C. enabling receipt of public health alerts should a batch of illicit drugs be discovered of particular potency. How very considerate.

 

Of course, illicit drug use is particularly widespread in the province and the province responds to that reality by extending its concern to all drug users to be aware of best practices in pursuit of stemming the tide of drug overdoses, particularly with the use of fentanyl and street drugs laced with the artificial opioid. An alert just happened to coincide with the World Cup when Vancouver Police reported a cluster of overdoses in East Vancouver.

 

  Friendly injection /The Telegraph

The website does not confine itself to concerns over safe drug use, but adds tips on fraudulent game ticket avoidance, drawing police attention to use of drones, aside from the "information on safer substance use and laws", where the section informs visitors that the province is in the midst of a "toxic drug public health emergency" (aka "overdose crisis").

 

Even Vancouver Police get in on the action, since it's also a concern of theirs: "For questions about what drugs are allowed in Canada, see this list of controlled and illegal drugs", alongside a link to a Government of Canada database of illicit drugs.  Will seasoned drug users and sport aficionados really distract themselves with the nuisance call of educating themselves for the purpose of self-protection that will likely recall their mothers' cautions when they were impressionable kiddies?

 

Vancouver stands out as a host city to include illicit drug tips in its FIFA guide, when San Francisco and Baltimore, also experiencing fatal drug overdoses, tent cities and fentanyl addicts featuring their urban core, wouldn't think of it. Perhaps they're not as nice-addicted. Public health officials in New York City reported in February all-time highs of fatal overdoses. "From world-class entertainment to iconic landmarks and rich cultural experiences, this is more than a tournament, it's a once-in-a-lifetime celebration" New York's guide touts.

 

Vancouver's B.C. Place where seven 2026 FIFA matches are taking place, is a 15-minute stroll from the Downtown Eastside, the core of the city's drug addiction conundrum and there the third-of-million-estimated visitors will encounter the city's approved open-air drug use and squalid street disorder. Case in point -- when two U.S. visitors praised the sushi and the "beautiful, beautiful stadium", but what was even more memorable for them was the "drug zombies walking all over the place".

 

Perhaps, on the other hand, Vancouver isn't so remarkable in its focus, even as Toronto, the other host city in Canada, has its website appearing as a tourism brochure where illegal drugs are mentioned on a list of "prohibited items" allowed at sanctioned viewing sites. Neither is anything like Atlanta's venue, however, where well-organized Muslim groups have FIFA's permission to greet all incoming ticket-holders with publications on Islam. And where posters informing visitors where prayer rooms are located for their convenience at the venue. 

"I went to the Morocco vs. Haiti game in Atlanta yesterday. One thing immediately caught my attention. Right after scanning your ticket at the entrance to Mercedes-Benz Stadium, there were groups of people handing out "Muslim Hospitality" pamphlets. They showed where to pray and which food was halal. Then, just a few steps inside, there was a large sign with the same information."

" It didn't feel like simple visitor assistance. It felt like the promotion of a religion. The stadium doesn't hand every fan a printed map, stadium rules, or event information, those are all available online. Yet for Islam, there were printed pamphlets being handed to everyone and an entire team dedicated to distributing them."

"No other religion had volunteers handing out pamphlets at the entrance. There were no Christian hospitality teams, no Jewish hospitality teams, no Hindu or Buddhist pamphlets, only Islam."

"This is a soccer match, not a religious event. If someone wants to pray, there are churches, synagogues, temples, and mosques for that."

"The irony is even greater considering that, according to many Islamic scholars, professional soccer itself is considered haram, and FIFA generates revenue from sponsors such as Budweiser. Yet instead of addressing that contradiction, there is an organized effort to promote Islamic practices inside the stadium."

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Border-Crossing Drugs -- Transnational Criminal Operations

"There's a lot of frustration and it, in and of itself, lends itself to facile responses that look good, but in the end don't really do anything."

"Blowing up drug boats ... is a perfect example of a facile response that does absolutely nothing."

"We often think of [fentanyl] as just a border issue, and it's not just a border issue. These are transnational criminal operations."

Regina LaBelle, professor of addiction policy Georgetown University 

 

"The biggest concern we see is what's happening on our southern border being pushed up to our northern border."

"Over the last year, we've apprehended enough fentanyl that would kill 17 million Americans on our northern border." 

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said this week that more fentanyl is coming into the U.S. from Canada, which is not reflected in the latest data from U.S. border officials (Manuel Balce Ceneta/The Associated Press)

 

"I mean, it just really isn't happening."

"It's way too much trouble to ship [fentanyl] around and put it through Canada and then take it into the United States."

Mark Tyndall, public health scientist, professor of medicine University of British Columbia

 

"The flows that we know of across the U.S.-Canada border are token and trivial compared to the flows into the U.S., primarily across the southwest border or the flows into Canada of the precursors, not through the U.S."

"The fentanyl killing Canadians is mostly made in Canada with precursors that came from China."

"The U.S. supply chain is independent of the Canadian supply chain once the precursors leave China, but the manufacturing for U.S. markets mostly happens in Mexico." 

Jonathan Caulkins, drug policy researcher, Carnegie Mellon University

A bag filled with drug paraphernalia  (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

 

There has been a realization of a drop in overdose deaths in both Canada and the United States. Drug policy experts can only theorize what the cause might be. The recently identified decline may be attributable to supply shifts alongside public health measures, eliminating tariffs or border crackdowns as part of the cause. The fearful public menace of overdose deaths has strike across all measures of society in both countries; everyone knows someone who knows someone who died of a drug overdose caused by synthetic opioids like fentanyl.

 

While Canada has developed no system of gathering statistics, the worst-hit province of British Columbia can boast that one in five residents knew someone who died from an overdose, in 2023. In 2024, close to half of Americans knew of someone who died from an overdose. Those who study the societal impacts of the drug trade tend to differ in their understanding of the situation, its impact and its victims and the possible causes, from politicians who view the subject from the perspective of ... politics.

 

And while Homeland Security Secretary Mullin claims pressure on the southern border drives cartel actions northward, including toward Canada, citing a surge in fentanyl moving across the northern border, he is contradicted by his Canadian counterpart who states data "really haven't borne that [Mullin's contention] out". 

Kevin Brosseau, Canada's fentanyl czar, says his goal is to eliminate all fentanyl in the country. 'It's killing kids every day and destroying families,' he said. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

 

Canadian fentanyl czar Kevin Brousseau cited U.S. Customs and Border Protection figures indicating some three kilograms of fentanyl seized at the northern order since October 2025. Which makes quite a comparison with over 3,000 kilograms seized at the southern, Mexican border. Nor are epidemiologists other than skeptical of charges that fentanyl trafficking has been shifting north.  

"We're talking about an illicit supply market that is entirely in the hands of illicit production traffickers, criminal organizations, and there's no regulation."

"[Supply conditions] can change very quickly again."

"A little change or an added highly toxic component to the drugs distributed could drive that toward an uptick."

Regina LaBelle

 

"From all I can gather, it's a mix of things, but the most likely driver of the drop in overdose deaths, at least on the Canadian side, has been changes in the fentanyl or in the synthetic opioid supply."

"[That could be construed as lower purity or products mixed with less lethal substances]."

Benedikt Fischer, professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University  

Precursor chemicals, usually shipped in from China, are generally available widely, enabling local production of fentanyl. The potency of the opioid calculates to a tiny amount able to supply the U.S. market. According to Professor Caulkins, trafficking capacity  and the criminal organizations that are involved are logically the most effective target by law agencies. 

 

Sharp declines in overdose deaths seen in both Canada and the U.S., since late 2023 where in the U.S. deaths involving synthetic opioids fell from 74,702 in 2023 to 48,422 in 2024, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, while positive in outlook, remain a puzzle in understanding why. The Canadian Public Health Agency data reflect 7,146 opioid-related drug toxicity deaths in 2024, 17 percent fewer than 2023, followed by another 2025 decline to 5,630.

The factors that may be assigned to these drops in fatal overdose occurrences range widely; expanded naloxone access, supervised consumption sites, drug supply prevention efforts, and increased public awareness among them. A 2026 study in Science magazine revealing a shock to the fentanyl supply having occurred in 2023 attributed to Chinese regulatory changes affecting access to precursor chemicals, another possible reason. 

 

In late 2023, deaths suddenly decreased in both countries, making it unlikely to point to one of the countries' policy changes, as a causative. Making it more likely that it is the supply that likely had an effect on the death rate. If so, this is a condition that may not continue. Academics now appear to favour the opinion that the fentanyl crisis is not vulnerable to border crackdowns, but more likely reacting to illicit market shifts and the capacity of public health systems to react accordingly. 

"If vigilance at any border drops, traffickers could use it as a transshipment route."

"Things that disturb the ability of the two countries on either side of the border to partner effectively are counterproductive."

"[Canada and the U.S. should refrain from allowing trade tensions to impair working in tandem at the border]." 

Jonathan Caulkins, Carnegie Mellon University 

A man sits on a sidewalk along East Hastings Street in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

 

"Politically Motivated Violence in Australia Which Incorporates Terrorism, Acute Concern"

"[Iran had recruited the man through a] complex web of Iraqi-based militia groups."

"Valuing his high wealth and criminal connections, the IRGC protected him and supported his illegal enterprises."

"That changed dramatically after ASIO publicly named Iran’s involvement in the arsons."

"This person’s Iranian backers lost their enthusiasm and after further pressure from Australian and local law enforcement, they threw him in prison."

"[The investigation into the Sydney and Melbourne attacks was] one of the most difficult and detailed in recent ASIO history."

"[Iran continued to view Australia as a target and could] conduct or inspire acts of arson, vandalism or even assassinations on Australian soil."

"[Antisemitism was often seen through a narrow lens. But it could come from] diverse sources simultaneously, challenging traditional definitions, assumptions, and approaches."

Mike Burgess, director general, Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO)  

Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) Mike Burgess (L) speaking next to the Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police Reece Kershaw during a press conference in Canberra. (Handout / AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE / AFP)

 

Australia's chief of its spy agency, speaking on Wednesday revealed that an Australian citizen in Iran, a senior member of the Islamic Republic's Revolutionary Guard, had orchestrated a major antisemitic firebomb attack on a Sydney synagogue, during Mike Burgess's annual threat assessment. Of great concern was the fact that an Iranian group actively engaged in terrorism could orchestrate additional attacks, even an assassination, in Australia.

 

Following the mass murder of 15 people at Bondi Beach in December of 2024, in an antisemitic-inspired terror attack carried out by a father-and-son attack team, ASIO had faced public scrutiny with the revelation through a report by an independent inquiry into antisemitism that pointed out counterterrorism investigations had seen a reduction in funding. 

 

Speaking in Canberra, Mr. Burgess defended the agency he represented, pointing out that it faced "concurrent, cascading and compounding threats", as he revealed details of investigations conducted into two firebombing attacks with clear antisemitic motivations, traced to the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

 

In 2024, revealed this chief of the country's spy agency, an Australian citizen based in Iran had planned, recruited and ordered the firebombing of a Bondi restaurant -- Lewis' Continental Kitchen --which became the first major antisemitic attack to take place in Australia. "This person is a senior agent of the IRGC al-Quds Force, running its networks around the world". 

 

Mr. Burgess described state hackers penetrating a critical infrastructure network, outlining how a country -- obviously the Islamic Republic -- had attempted to coerce eight people, five of them Australians, to return to their birth country, in an effort to silence them. In the same token, he described the situation where foreign agents sought to recruit Australians to reveal to them official secrets relating to AUKUS, Australia's security partnership with Britain and the United States. 

"This person is a senior agent of the IRGC Qods Force, running its networks around the world.

"We know more about him than he realises, including the name of his superior in Iran and the department he works for. Department eleven-thousand, a covert unit within the IRGC Qods Force, is responsible for coordinating operations in the West."

"[Unable to name him due to investigation], But I want them to understand this: we know who you are, we know what you’ve done and we know who you work for." 

"Whether online or in the real world, when intolerance is tolerated, when violent language and violent acts are left unchecked, they become normalised, reinforcing the impression they are acceptable and compounding the likelihood of further violence."

ASIO director general Mike Burgess  

This handout photo taken and released by the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet on December 10, 2024, shows Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (2nd R) and Rabbi Shlomo Kohn (R) visiting the Adass Israel Synagogue in Melbourne on December 10, 2024, after it was set ablaze on December 6. (Handout / DEPARTMENT OF PRIME MINISTER AND CABINET / AFP)

"[Australian companies seen to have links to Israel were being targeted with] repeated acts of vandalism and arson by far-left activists."

"My point is that violent antisemitism is not a single, or simple, intelligence problem."

"[The firebombing of a synagogue] can simultaneously be criminal arson, foreign interference, the promotion of communal violence and politically motivated violence."

"And when Iran directs the arson, it’s an act of state-sponsored terrorism."

"Great power competition is driving an insatiable appetite for strategic advantage. As a result, espionage and foreign interference are at extreme levels, while preparation for sabotage is growing in scale and sophistication."

"At the same time, politically motivated violence – which incorporates terrorism – remains an acute concern."

Australian Security Intelligence Organization director general Mike Burgess 

 

 

Drone-Delivered Contraband Drugs to B.C. Prisons

"They were conducting some searching which is routine for us, and while searching, they found an inmate in possession of narcotics. The inmate became combative as soon as the officers tried to deal with the situation and basically, it turned into a fight."

"And in that fight the drugs went everywhere, basically went airborne, it's almost like throwing flour in the air and it's just floating in the air."

"It covered the officers physically and then they also inhaled it."

John Randle, president, Pacific region, Union of Canadian Correctional Officers  

Pacific Institution in Abbotsford, British Columbia is about 80 kilometres east of Vancouver. The institution has a capacity of 508 inmates. Correction Service of Canada's Regional Treatment Centre is part of the Pacific Institution; the first prison institution in North America to gain full accreditation as a hospital. And in British Columbia, provincial laws are such that drugs are permitted to be in the possession of hospitalized patients. Medical workers are prohibited from confiscating drugs from patients, in the province's 'experimental' treatment of those addicted to drugs.

 

On June 11, during the search of a cell at the Pacific Institution, five prison guards were taken to hospital after exposure to a cloud of toxic drugs thought to be fentanyl. An inmate attempted to destroy evidence by dispersing the contraband substance into the air. Three of the officers were taken to hospital by ambulance. One of the officers needed emergency chest compressions in the ambulance, and three others required treatment with the emergency medication naloxone to restore breathing. While two other officers who had arrived to give assistance were also treated as a precautionary measure. 

 

All three of the original officers involved in a routine search demonstrated overdosing symptoms of what the officers believed at the time to be fentanyl; one of them nearly passed out. The five prison officers had been exposed to a substance and treated at Abbotsford Regional Hospital, including the use of naloxone. Later laboratory tests determined that the substance was not fentanyl, but rather a mix of stimulants.  

"This is near the top end, or on the higher end, of worst-case scenarios."

"The abundance of dangerous drugs inside our institutions is putting officers' lives at risk."

"Our members were simply doing their jobs when they were exposed to one of the most lethal drugs on the streets."

"This should never happen." 

John Randle, UCCO Pacific region president 

As for the male inmate whose presence occasioned the search, he was being held in the reception unit, assigned to inmates while they are assessed to determine their security classification and prison placement. It can take weeks for the process to be completed. No word of what the inmate had been convicted of before his imprisonment. According to the union, the incident did not represent an isolated event; there is a crisis of illicit drugs in Canadian prisons, worsened by government cutbacks.

 

"At the very moment that illicit drugs are becoming more prevalent and violence is increasing, CSC (Correctional Service of Canada) is moving in the opposite direction", charged Frederick Lebeau, national president of the union, who also stated that prison intervention for drugs has been complicated by a CSC directive that interferes with disciplinary measures against inmates for institutional drug use in pursuit of a harm reduction model, set by the government of British Columbia.

 

CSC spokesperson Lucinda Fraser stated that the federal government had budgeted funding of $60.4 million over three years for the purpose of enhancing prison security technologies in support of the capacity to detect and disrupt drone-related delivery activities into the prison system by technological stealth. At the Mission Institution in B.C.’s Fraser Valley, RCMP discovered a package dropped onto the prison grounds disguised to look like a patch of loose grass. In the package, guards found 300 grams of contraband methamphetamine, razor blades, and an iPhone. 

"Last week, officers discovered another package of drugs at Mountain Institution in Agassiz, also in the Fraser Valley, but it’s happening so often that it’s no longer a surprise for guards who work there."

"It was worth probably almost $300,000. We’re hearing numbers like that — where the 300,000-plus-dollar packages, it’s now regular to have that reported."

"It’s not even a surprise to us anymore to hear that we’re seizing those kind of packages, which is crazy."

John Randle, UCCO Pacific region president 

The Pacific Institution federal penitentiary is seen in Abbotsford, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

 

"CSC is taking measures to address the concerns raised, particularly regarding contraband -- such as drugs -- being introduced into our institutions."

"To support our employees,we must do more than respond to incidents. We must invest in safer workplaces, modern tools, and strong mental health support services."

"We remain committed to ensuring that our staff have the tools and resources they need." 

Lucinda Fraser, spokesperson, Correctional Service of Canada

Gunning for Jews in Montreal

"This is gruesome."

"We don't yet know enough to suggest the motivation of the shooter, but I know that neighbourhood. I stayed in that hotel two weeks ago."

"That is a heavily Jewish neighbourhood of Montreal." 

Ben Mulroney, national radio host

 

"Police officers showed up at our entrance because, obviously out of precaution, they have to secure the entire perimeter. And they broke the front entrance of the store."

"They went through our entire store, they made everyone get down on the ground [and leave their baskets behind. Everyone in the store was ordered to go to the loading dock area in the back where there are no windows]."

"We gave them food. We gave them water. I mean, it's not a fun situation to be in, but you don't choose whether or not this situation happens to you."

Nicholas Erimos, spokesperson for Supermarche PA

 

"We preferred to enlarge all of the crime scenes to be sure that we had the situation completely controlled."

"The threat is controlled. So the community is safe."

SPVM Chief Fady Dagher

Monday's shooting left Montreal police officer Const. Mohamed Lamine Benredouane dead. Michel Mizrahi, a civilian, was also killed during the incident in the Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood. (Christopher Katsarov/The Canadian Press)

 

At around 3:15 p.m. the "armed threat alert" issued for the Cote-des-Neiges neighbourhood in Montreal was lifted, in recognition of  the fact finally, that "the immediate threat to the public is no longer present". Police were uncertain whether or not one individual only was involved and there had been a police search for the possibility of a second suspect in the event that had locked down the neighbourhood, residents being told to remain indoors and lock up their premises, until further notice.

 

It began on Monday morning, when gunshots were heard in the direction of the Hilton Hotel. Soon after the frightening incident was concluded, videos began appearing on social media, showing a shootout unfolding outside the Supermarche PA close t  the Decarie Expressway and Rue Jean-Talon. "There seemed to be someone shooting in all directions", the manager of a paint store on Decarie Blvd, Jean-Pierre Maca, said after hearing gunshots. "It was frightening."

 

Michel  Mizrahi was a victim in the Montreal shooting on June 22, 2026. The Quebec coroner identified the alleged shooter as Seth Scott Hatfield of Lethbridge, Alberta  as the shooter. Photo courtesy The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs

 

It is now known that the subsequent shootout between police and a long-gun-armed man on a rampage in that busy Montreal area -- largely known as a Jewish area of Montreal -- saw one responding police officer shot dead, as well as an Israeli rabbi who had been rushed to hospital for emergency surgery, but his severe injuries took his life, nonetheless. Another police officer was shot and badly wounded, but she will survive, to everyone's relief. While the third person to die on scene was the shooter himself.

 

It had taken little time after an emergency call went out to police, for police squads to swarm the area,  uncertain what it was they were dealing with, the extent of the attacks and how many might be involved. As they arrived, they cautioned people to conceal themselves for safety inside the supermarket, and keep the doors closed. The supermarket building is also home to condominiums, where bullets had struck some windows.

 

This image was obtained by Radio-Canada, showing the suspect who appears to be on the move and holding a weapon. (Name withheld)

 

One witness had heard over a dozen gunshots before he began recording the event where he watched a man shooting into ground-floor businesses close to the hotel. One video in circulation recorded multiple gunshots from a balcony in the condominium building across from the Supermarche PA on de Courtrai Ave, while other videos showed police entering the grocery store. Broken windows could be seen above the store where other businesses and condominiums were located in the building as well.

 

St.Joseph's Oratory nearby was closed amide the melee. For much of the afternoon, the main thoroughfare Decarie Expressway remained closed in both directions. Shortly after 11:30 am. near the intersection of Trans-Island Ave. and Courtrai Ave. one of the officers had been fatally shot. 

 

"My sincere condolences to the family friends and colleagues of the police officer killed on duty in Cote-des-Neiges", conveyed Montreal Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada. "My thoughts are with the families of those who have died, the injured, the police force, and all those affected by this  tragedy", wrote Quebec Premier Christine Frechette online. The horrendous event, a symptom of the nation's governments at all levels, failing to respond to the swelling tide of Jew-hate that have overcome the land, incited courtesy of Middle Eastern immigrants/refugees/migrants and their cultural/religious antipathies.

 

Montreal Police exit the scene of an active shooting situation with a stretcher in Montreal on Monday, June 22, 2026. Evan Buhler/Montreal Gazette

 

Canada's Redoubtable Prime Minister

"The 14-point text is unambiguous on the point the White House is most eager to fog. It commits the United States, "with regional partners," to develop a "plan with at least USD 300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of the Islamic Republic of Iran" -- $3 billion of which has, according to the unsurpassed journalist, Lee Smith, already been sent to Iran through by way of the United Arab Emirates. The president has called reports of that figure "fake news" and insisted nobody is putting up "ten cents." The clause nevertheless sits prominently in the document he signed."

"Only one question really matters: what does the agreement, if honored by Iran, deliver? It leaves enriched uranium inside Iran, concedes a right to enrichment that was recently a red line, permits the Iranian ballistic-missile program Trump now defends supposedly because other countries have missiles too, and pours reconstruction money into an economy whose ruling institution is the brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)."

"The regime in Tehran, which has waited out many American presidents and means to wait out another, is betting they are bluffing about everything except the check."

Pierre Rehov, Gatestone Institute 

A Fattah ballistic missile is displayed during the annual military parade in Tehran. (Photo by AFP via Getty Images)

 

Interesting how Canada-Israel relations have plunged into an icy bath in the past decade coinciding with Liberal governments lauding their 'progressive', DEI, Critical Race Theory values, and managing to impose them as credit-worthy virtues to abide by. In their playbook terrorists are 'militants', or 'gunmen' and a small nation that displays its sovereign right of response against existential threats represents an oppressive regime over-reacting to mere hyperbolic threats of violence however expressed in lavish bloodbaths.

 

Canada's previous and its current prime ministers take pride in their declared solidarity with the world's foremost victims whose claims to the historic patrimony of another people's ancestral land strikes a sympathetic chord with a government that hasn't hesitated to disown its own history while bemoaning itself as colonialist imperialists guilty of 'genocide' of Canada's aboriginals. The warm friendship and trust between Canada and the State of Israel exemplified most cordially by the preceding Conservative-led government is no more.

 

Canada's current prime minister, Mark Carney, finds much in common with the Palestinian Authority's autocratic, corrupt President Mahmoud Abbas, with the financially influential Emir of Qatar as exemplars of democracy, while giving a cold shoulder to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the sole democracy in the Middle East, a Jewish state that governs a diverse religious, ethnic, cultural population seen nowhere else in the geography. Mr. Carney maintains cordial relationships with all but Mr. Netanyahu.

 

In Mr. Carney's opinion, Israel is guilty of any number of offences, primary among them its military responses to violent mass atrocities committed against Jews, much less ongoing threats of annihilation by the Islamic Republic of Iran, whose proxy militias, trained, funded and armed by the al-Quds branch of the Islamic Republican Guard Corps attack Israel from the south, from the north through Hamas and Hezbollah, goading Israel to invade Gaza and Lebanon in defensive reaction to never-ending attacks. 

 

Montreal4Palestine says the effigies displayed during the demonstration were directed at political figures, Benjamin Netanyahu, Itamar Ben-Gvir and Donald Trump. Montreal police’s hate crimes unit is investigating the incident.

 

None of which gave Canada's prime minister pause in declaring support for Palestinian statehood, and issuing statements of condemnation against Israel for its military pursuit of terrorists in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as those in Lebanon. Praising Arab leadership for their peace overtures, imagined tolerance and democratic values, all absent but for a scant few Middle East countries, while slurring Israel for its presumed lack of those virtues seems to satisfy something deep within Mr. Carney's subconscious.

 

It looks suspiciously akin to antisemitism. Denouncing Israel for "illegal invasion" of Lebanon, with no nuanced acknowledgement that the government of Lebanon has failed to exert its sovereignty and responsibility to its population that suffers a malignant terror group in Hezbollah to place the country in a vulnerable position by constant rocket fire into northern Israel. Iran's regime, sworn to Israel's destruction, has traditionally occupied Lebanon through Hezbollah, yet no acknowledgement of that simple reality in understanding Israel's dilemma is forthcoming.

 

When Mr. Carney finally directly addressed the inflamed persecution of Canadian Jews by organized foreign interests which has seen years of 'pro-Palestinian' and 'anti-Israel' processions throughout Canadian streets, condemning Israel for 'genocide' against Palestinians, while threatening Jews in Canada with 'Final Solution', 'Globalize the Intifada', and 'From the river to the sea', codes well known to represent incitement to violence, he spoke of rabid antisemitism as an unforgivable social pathology.

 

One which he had every intention, finally of addressing, after appearing to nonchalantly fail to 'notice' the ubiquitous presence of Jew-hate emanating from a flood of new immigrants, refugees and migrants whose cultural traditions of that malady were carried with them into Canada to augment already-existing, but quiescent suspicion of Jews to bring the pathology to a crescendo of orchestrated taunts, threats and violence including vandalism, gunshots and incendiary devices thrown at synagogues, Jewish schools and private Jewish-owned businesses.

 

Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks against antisemitism in front of members of the Jewish community and law enforcement leaders at Holy Blossom Temple in Toronto on Monday, June 1, 2026. Photo by Peter Power/Postmedia

 

His grand solution, announced at a Toronto synagogue where he spoke comfortingly and comfortably about his intentions to finally put an end to the disorder, with the assignment of an advisory committee to study the issue of rampant antisemitism in Canada, was to appoint none other than Muslim and Arab known Jew-haters to the task of solving the problem that they themselves are responsible for. 

 

In the end, it is interesting how two governments, one the United States of America, the other Canada, neighbours in North America, have a president and a prime minister thought to be quite unalike one another in temperament, character and values. Yet there is more to meet the eye than a cursory review of the behaviour of each, and in the end, summing up their stated positions, their concerns and their democratic declarations, along with the outcomes of their intentions, it becomes clear they have much in common.