KINSELLACAST 412： Wakey wakey with Sa'd, Belanger, Lilley - and Charles Asher Small on intellectualized hate, plus Solomon Burke, The Help, Rickshaw Billie, Dari Bay and more
00:09:25.840Gender studies. I was raised by a feminist. My mother organized in 1975 the year of why not, the year of the woman. And my mother schooled my father and I on women's rights and feminism. So I'd come out of a home that we were taught, my father and I, to respect women.0.99
00:10:43.500So Hamas, who wants to destroy democracy, massacre Jews, subjugate women, kill gay people.0.99
00:10:50.980They were correct in their resistance by using violence.0.98
00:10:55.160And that the violence was justified by all means to end the occupation from the river to the sea.
00:11:01.440And they were using the most sophisticated analysis, these masters of their disciplines.
00:11:07.720And the professors of gender studies were arguing that the resistance will continue when it's justified.
00:11:13.500and the violence will only end when the occupying, occupiers end.
00:11:19.260And they went on to say, not only should Israel be destroyed,
00:11:22.880but anybody who supports the occupation,0.99
00:11:27.720anybody who supports the racist, Zionist, genocidal, apartheid society,
00:11:34.620needs to be resisted by any means also.
00:11:38.760In other words, these professors and their doctoral students
00:11:42.720were arguing that Jewish faculty, Jewish students, Jewish staff members at Columbia University
00:11:51.640were fair game, were fair game using this intellectual worldview.
00:11:59.960And we all know October the 7th happened and October the 8th at the best universities
00:12:05.760where young people are learning to be citizens.
00:12:10.080The encampments, the faculty, the student groups came out en masse
00:12:14.420in support of this anti-democratic, violent, cult of death,0.99
00:12:21.120reactionary social movement that is out to murder Jews.0.99
00:12:26.260And this is because we accepted Mr. Professor Saeed's zeitgeist.0.96
00:12:32.420This is now filtered down into a very important, if not the most dominant way, education is conducted at the best universities in the Western world.
00:36:58.600was controlled by anglophone interest in Montreal.
00:37:02.280And so, you know, the history of the Montreal Canadiens
00:37:04.680is very much linked to the coming of age
00:37:09.420of the Quebec population and in some cases
00:37:11.860to lead to, you know, the rise of Quebec nationalism
00:37:16.160as opposed to French-Canadian nationalism.
00:37:19.540There's a distinction that's important
00:37:21.300because it eventually led to the separatist movement and the referendum that we've known.
00:37:27.800Which brings me back to the Nordics, Warren, because I am absolutely convinced that one of the main reasons
00:37:34.260that the yes side lost in 1995 is the fact that Jacques Parizeau and the PQ government at the time
00:37:43.440did not see it important to keep the Quebec Nordics in Quebec City.
00:37:49.640That's fascinating. This was the team that was wearing the fleur de lis on its jersey across North America. And if you look at the results, the francophone writings were the yes side, underperformed, were all around Quebec City.
00:38:07.820There's about a dozen riding around Quebec City where the yes side was way below amongst francophone holders than anywhere else in the province.
00:38:17.140And if you remember, the margin was very thin, it was less than 50,000.
00:38:21.120And I'm convinced that if Quebec Nordic had stayed, the morality that set in Quebec City would not have played a role in the referendum.
00:42:17.360We removed some of the tariffs that Trudeau had put in place.
00:42:21.560There were a couple of moves like that where we were kind of showing the Trump administration that we were willing to play ball with their demands.
00:42:31.980But that all shifted towards the end of the year.
00:42:34.480And if you recall in the polls in November, December 2025, the conservatives were kind of on the rise.
00:42:41.740They were in some cases, in fact, they were leading in the polls.
00:42:46.180But that all shifted when Trump went back on the offensive, first on Greenland, but also about Canada's sovereignty in the 51st state.
00:48:24.540supporting certain candidates who they feel align
00:48:28.980with their vision of the city, including Mayor Chow,
00:48:31.900and equally going after candidates who they deem to be antithetical to their values
00:48:42.800and running effectively negative campaigns against those targets.
00:48:52.180And they had a strong measure of success in the past election, in certain by-elections as well.
00:49:00.520You know, and it's not a nefarious thing to politically organize.
00:49:09.820You know, what does raise concerns is, in my view, some of the activists who are aligned with Progress Toronto or who receive their support or endorsement.
00:49:28.700um you know tell us tell us about those tell us about yeah the iranian canadian congress for
00:49:34.540example so the executive director of progress toronto and her brother who also has a role
00:49:43.300with progress toronto um have both held um leadership positions with the iranian canadian
00:49:50.760congress um i think that's what they're called um and their logo was most recently seen on a
00:49:58.420flyer um for a demonstration uh against the well how do we put this it's like i'm triple
00:50:09.000negatives here i suppose when it comes down to it it was in favor of the islamic republic regime
00:50:15.420it was there the poster had to boil down to their poster had a picture of ayatollah khamenei on
00:50:22.000on it and hands off iran like that's dangerous that olivia chow's people are associated with
00:50:31.220propping up or supporting or seeming to lend support to um a regime that subjugates women
00:50:40.420and gays and jews and many other people isn't it and you know the tactics that i've seen
00:50:46.860personally, firsthand from people affiliated with Progress Toronto, kind of align with
00:50:53.900the censorious, trying to shut down other voices while simultaneously insisting that
00:51:38.920It's not that you have people who are like-minded organizing politically.
00:51:44.200That is not a bad thing in and of itself.
00:51:47.740What I find concerning are the tactics that are used, resorting to smear campaigns, redefining words,
00:51:58.880and what seems to be a level of influence at City Hall
00:52:03.000that isn't always captured in sort of the official records or documents,
00:52:10.060but is more of a backdoor influence style.
00:52:13.380Well, it certainly looks like they have some influence,
00:52:15.620so you and I will be keeping an eye on that in the coming weeks
00:52:19.920as the Ontario municipal campaigns unfold.
00:52:23.680Final question, just putting on your legal hat.
00:52:27.000So the police did something fairly extraordinary, I think, this week, releasing a photograph of a young person who they are seeking in connection to two shootings of synagogues in Toronto, or GTA.
00:52:47.440And so they put that out with the permission of a judge, which I think is viable until Monday.
00:53:13.500The youth criminal justice regime includes many protections for youth who are accused of being offenders or convicted of offenses.
00:53:29.260And so it's not the first time I've seen this.
00:53:31.600I think somewhat recently there was a shooting that involved minors and those suspects, you know, were their photos were put out and then they were captured and then the photos were removed.
00:53:46.520So we'll see, you know, if this helps identify the people involved in these synagogue shootings.
00:53:58.000But it signals that this is a matter to be taken very seriously and that traditional protections that might otherwise apply, you know, are superseded by the interest in catching whoever is involved.
00:54:15.920so i think that's maybe a takeaway yeah i think so and uh we'll we'll see if the police are
00:54:23.500successful but it looks like they're just a final final question it looks to me like
00:54:29.860uh they are ramping up um their investigations and and arrests with respect to anti-semitic
00:54:39.980crime jew hatred um is that your impression as well this seems to be getting more active
00:54:45.920There has been something of a shift, I would say, in police response.
00:54:54.400Likely, this is the result of public pressure.
00:54:58.520How much of this is window dressing versus how much of it is an actual renewed commitment to enforcing the law, that remains to be seen.
00:55:10.800You know, I think that there's a lot of negative attention that Toronto police have received over the past few years, particularly the impression of policing with discrepancies and a two-tier, multi-tier approach to keeping the streets safe or not keeping the streets safe.
00:55:35.200So, you know, I acknowledge that there has been a shift. How sincere or how effective will it be? And that's only partially in the police's hands, because once they lay charges, it goes to a prosecutor and maybe eventually to a judge.
00:55:53.940So they're only one component of the system.
00:55:57.540But they do seem to be at least visibly making certain changes.
00:56:04.740I think as well of this new unit with the big guns walking around.
00:56:10.500Like to me, I've been critical of that new strategy.
00:56:15.560I don't know that that's going to enhance public safety, but it's definitely visible.