[OT] Toronto police bring coffee and doughnuts to pro-Palestinian protesters

[Rhino]

Toronto police have managed a new low. A pro-Palestinian protest
yesterday blocked traffic on a bridge crossing the 401 (the most
major highway in southern Ontario) on Saturday so the police rushed in
- with coffee and doughnuts for the protesters!

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/police-chief-apologizes-promises-thorough-review-of-protest-response?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAQw5itwsfA4cGXARjV4Omo78fjuY0BKhAIACoHCAowlYn0CjCyjLwC&utm_content=rundown&gaa_at=la&gaa_n=AZsHK_kjXphVWDWuduZQ2J2wAo5PGniKDYij-8r1leIn9rUe5tNoaC9H9U1sNcIIWEdqDypDU2qe6Q%3D%3D&gaa_ts=659b8021&gaa_sig=wPoXsZnMweMPdqCqQQd0Jo25l3z-Gk9YPZ3reeH_SC0ZA79qchkaoG-0PlWhplUGZ3LSQ7hEQeyzpTYH7CvRZw%3D%3D

The fact that they were blocking Avenue Road (yeah, that's a real
street in Toronto and quite a major one), which is illegal, did NOT
inspire any arrests.

Meanwhile, the pro-Palestinian that threatened to put a man "six feet
under" in front of police officers at a mall has still not been found,
let alone arrested. Something tells me the police are not looking very
hard!! They seem to have taken sides with the pro-Palestinians.

So much for neutral policing where people are arrested regardless of their
ethnicity when they commit a crime.

--
Rhino

[The Horny Goat]

On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 23:26:16 -0500, Rhino
<no_offlin...@example.com> wrote:

>Meanwhile, the pro-Palestinian that threatened to put a man "six feet
>under" in front of police officers at a mall has still not been found,
>let alone arrested. Something tells me the police are not looking very
>hard!! They seem to have taken sides with the pro-Palestinians.
>
>So much for neutral policing where people are arrested regardless of their
>ethnicity when they commit a crime.

Wonder if that would happen in Montreal which has a far bigger (or at
least did have prior to Bill 22) than Toronto.

Very likely Jews figured prominently in the "401 Refugees" during the
1980s and 90s following Bill 22 - which radically changed the balance
in Quebec as the French language was made the sole "official language"
of Quebec while making it abundantly clear that the then PQ government
of Quebec liked Anglos as much as our friend Kendi likes whites.

[Rhino]

On Mon, 08 Jan 2024 08:47:19 -0800
The Horny Goat <lcr...@home.ca> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Jan 2024 23:26:16 -0500, Rhino
> <no_offlin...@example.com> wrote:
>
> >Meanwhile, the pro-Palestinian that threatened to put a man "six feet
> >under" in front of police officers at a mall has still not been
> >found, let alone arrested. Something tells me the police are not
> >looking very hard!! They seem to have taken sides with the
> >pro-Palestinians.
> >
> >So much for neutral policing where people are arrested regardless of
> >their ethnicity when they commit a crime.
>
> Wonder if that would happen in Montreal which has a far bigger (or at
> least did have prior to Bill 22)

I assume you meant to say "Jewish population" (or equivalent here....

> than Toronto.
>
Montreal also had a distinct anti-Semitic character
despite the Jewish population. I remember seeing Ringo Starr
reminiscing about a Beatles show in Montreal where they were greeted
with anti-Semitic signs. Apparently, certain Montrealers believed Starr
was Jewish - he's not - and wanted to express their objections.

> Very likely Jews figured prominently in the "401 Refugees" during the
> 1980s and 90s following Bill 22 - which radically changed the balance
> in Quebec as the French language was made the sole "official language"
> of Quebec while making it abundantly clear that the then PQ government
> of Quebec liked Anglos as much as our friend Kendi likes whites.

I really have no idea if Jews formed a major percentage of the people
who cleared out of Montreal after Bill 22. I used to know some Jews
from Montreal but have lost touch with them so I don't have any
immediate way to find out. I don't think StatsCan ever tabulated that
either. In any case, there is still a Jewish community in Montreal,
which is presumably why the pro-Palestinians there have vandalized at
least one synagogue and one Jewish day school in recent weeks.

--
Rhino

[The Horny Goat]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 14:10:50 -0500, Rhino
<no_offlin...@example.com> wrote:

>> Wonder if that would happen in Montreal which has a far bigger (or at
>> least did have prior to Bill 22)
>
>I assume you meant to say "Jewish population" (or equivalent here....
>
>> than Toronto.
>>

Up until WW2 it WAS bigger than Toronto but yes I meant "Jewish
population"

>Montreal also had a distinct anti-Semitic character
>despite the Jewish population. I remember seeing Ringo Starr
>reminiscing about a Beatles show in Montreal where they were greeted
>with anti-Semitic signs. Apparently, certain Montrealers believed Starr
>was Jewish - he's not - and wanted to express their objections.

Never heard that story before but yes I've read Mordecai Richler :)

>
>> Very likely Jews figured prominently in the "401 Refugees" during the
>> 1980s and 90s following Bill 22 - which radically changed the balance
>> in Quebec as the French language was made the sole "official language"
>> of Quebec while making it abundantly clear that the then PQ government
>> of Quebec liked Anglos as much as our friend Kendi likes whites.
>
>I really have no idea if Jews formed a major percentage of the people
>who cleared out of Montreal after Bill 22. I used to know some Jews
>from Montreal but have lost touch with them so I don't have any
>immediate way to find out. I don't think StatsCan ever tabulated that
>either. In any case, there is still a Jewish community in Montreal,
>which is presumably why the pro-Palestinians there have vandalized at
>least one synagogue and one Jewish day school in recent weeks.

Nor sure what I was thinking at the time but yes I was going mostly on
conjecture and yes I have heard of several synagogue and schul attacks
in Quebec.

For our American friends there is a very distinctive Anglo-Montrealer
accent (obviously the French Canadian accent is also quite different)
that makes it easy to distinguish an Anglo-Montrealer from a pur laine
Anglo from Toronto (or Vancouver - the Vancouver and Toronto accents
are fairly close) Though Montreal and Toronto are closer to each other
than say Chicago and NYC.

[The Horny Goat]

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto-police-chief-apologizes-after-officer-delivers-coffee-to-anti-israel-protesters

Incidentally, the latest and greatest is that the Toronto Police have
apologized for the Palestinian coffee incident - the main issue is
that they took so long to do the obvious thing.

Somehow I don't think Tim Horton's is going to be using this picture
in their advertising...