RISE UP OTTAWA!: COME TOGETHER TO LEARN, ENGAGE, AND CELEBRATE OUR JEWISH IDENTITY: Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022, Infinity Convention Centre, 1:30 pm sharp. — Over the past year, we’ve witnessed and experienced an unprecedented and terrifying rise in antisemitism. The fact that it’s happening in our schools cannot be ignored. Jewish children as young as 3 years old are being harassed, gaslighted, segregated, threatened, and attacked. Antisemitic beliefs have become a global pandemic in education. Everyone has the fundamental right to be safe, especially in school.
SHABBAT READING
Noah’s Original Identity: The First Winemaker: Dr. Rabbi Zev Farber, The Torah.com, Oct. 15, 2015 — Noah is best known as the man whom God saved from the flood by telling him to build an ark. Academics would point to the fact that in the ancient Near East, flood stories were common, and just as the Sumerians had Ziusudra and the Assyrians had Utnapishtim or Atrahasis, the Israelites had Noah.
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A TAD TOO SOON?
Texts Show Feds Were Discussing Invoking Emergencies Act One Week into Freedom Convoy: Christopher Nardi, Toronto Sun, Oct. 27, 2022 — The RCMP and the OPP were already discussing the fact the federal government had lost confidence in the Ottawa police force and the possibility it would invoke the Emergencies Act barely one week into the Freedom Convoy protests in Ottawa.
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What’s At Stake in the Emergencies Act Inquiry?: Cara Zwibel, Toronto Sun, Oct. 20, 2022
Emergencies Act Inquiry Shows Full Extent of Incompetence In Nation’s Capital: Brian Lilley, Toronto Sun, Oct. 18, 2022
Sagmeet Singh’s Disgraceful Promise to Delay Reckoning Over Emergencies Act: Ryan Alford, National Post, Apr. 25, 2022
Singh Betrays NDP with Pledge to Grant Trudeau Parliamentary Immunity: Rex Murphy, National Post, Oct. 27, 2022
Emergencies Act Inquiry Hears Contradictory Testimony on Need for the Sweeping Powers: Marieke Walsh and Janice Dickson, Globe and Mail, Oct. 27, 2022 — The commander responsible for the police operation that ultimately cleared Ottawa’s protracted convoy protests, told the Emergencies Act inquiry that he did not need the sweeping legislation and did not ask for the extra enforcement powers.
Doug Ford Supports Feds’ Use of Emergencies Act to End Freedom Convoy: Toronto Sun, Oct. 17, 2022 — Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he supports the measures taken by the federal government to end the so-called “Freedom Convoy” protests last winter.
FIRST READING: Ottawa Police used Rex Murphy Columns as Intelligence on Freedom Convoy: Tristin Hopper, National Post, Oct. 27, 2022 — As Freedom Convoy approached Ottawa, the Ottawa Police were apparently using Rex Murphy columns to guess the goals and motivations of the protest.
65 Witnesses Set to Testify at Inquiry Into Use of Emergencies Act: CBC News, Oct. 11, 2022 — The history-making inquiry into the federal government’s use of emergency powers to quell the convoy protest last winter is beginning to take shape ahead of its start later this week.
Ontario Police’s Intelligence Report Warned Convoy Had No End Date Before Protesters’ Arrival, Inquiry Hears: Marieke Walsh and Marsha McLeod, Globe and Mail, Oct. 19, 2022 — Ontario Provincial Police intelligence reports warned local police that the convoys en route to Ottawa were ideologically and financially invested and could “gridlock” areas around Parliament Hill for an extended period, according to intelligence reports and evidence presented to the Emergencies Act inquiry on Wednesday.
Additional readings;
A short primer on the Rouleau Commission, or the Public Order Emergency Commission: The Hills Times, Oct. 28, 2022 – On Feb. 14, 2022, the government invoked the Emergencies Act to end the three-week-long occupation of downtown Ottawa and protests at border crossings.
Doug Ford can likely invoke parliamentary privilege to avoid the Emergencies Act inquiry. Should he?: Mark Gollom, CBC, Oct. 28, 2022 — Doug Ford may be on solid legal footing as he seeks to invoke parliamentary privilege and avoid testifying at the Emergencies Act commission — but some experts question whether the Ontario premier is abusing the tactic.
Documents introduced at the Emergencies Act inquiry will tell ’quite the story,’ lawyer says: RCI, Oct. 13, 2022 — Eight months after anti-COVID-19 vaccine mandate protesters gridlocked parts of downtown Ottawa, a public inquiry will begin probing the federal government’s unprecedented use of emergency powers to clear the capital.
Public Order Emergency Commission – October 27, 2022: CPAC – Former Ottawa police chief Peter Sloly testifies at Public Order Emergency Commission
FREEDOM CONVOY LAWYER vs OTTAWA POLICE SUPERINTENDENT – Emergencies Act Commission Investigation: Top TV Canada, Oct. 27, 2022 –