B.C. Coastal First Nations issue open letter to Carney opposing suggested pipeline
The move comes as Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushes for a new private-sector pipeline that would send crude oil to the northern B.C. coast for export to Asia.
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Ever since then, Hamas has controlled Gaza and used it as its base for terrorist operations and missile attacks on Israel. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Simply put, Hamas doesn't want a viable Palestinian state living in peace beside a secure Israel. It wants Israel cleansed of Jews — Judenfrei — as the Nazis called it — which is in its founding charter. Carney's choice to preside over the creation of a Palestinian state — Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas — is a discredited, 89-year-old antisemite and periodic Holocaust denier whose authority is limited to the West Bank and not Hamas-controlled Gaza. Polls show Abbas is deeply unpopular among Palestinians, who regard his Fatah party, which has received billions of dollars in foreign aid, as corrupt. 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