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RIP, it looks like the perp was arrested, we will know more with time.


At least two people have been stabbed to death in the Canadian city of Quebec by a man armed with a sword and dressed in medieval clothing, police say.
Five other people were wounded. A man in his mid-20s was arrested shortly before 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT), officers said.
Police have advised residents to stay inside with doors locked as an investigation is under way.
The attack took place in the historic Old Quebec neighbourhood.
First reports of the incident near Parliament Hill came through shortly before 22:30 local time.
After his arrest near the Espace 400e business park, the man was taken to hospital. The five wounded are also being treated in hospital.
Reporters at the scene have tweeted photos of a police command post outside Quebec's Parliament Building.
 
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Why does fall 2020 seem to be a repeat of Fall 2015 but only difference is I think people have somewhat gotten use to the fact of living like this 2015 attacks had wall to wall coverage in the media now here and there
 
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Leftist separatism was big in the 60s and 70s. PLO, IRA, Basque separatism, Vietcong.

Today's dynamic is different. Right wing nationalism veering towards fascism is in vogue today a la the 1930s and 1940s.

Good ole Cold War days the War on Terror and Clash of Civilization is super ghey
 

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Honestly the govt has been really pathetic on this handling and response.

Opposition would have not fared much better, but they are right to bring up these points....and ask these basic questions.

Then we have continued screw ups of whole different type by the govt on the issue:

 

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A brief explanation on why the current Govt is incredibly stupid with use of basic terms and concepts (to sound better politically to people that don't really "get" these things):


Trudeau: "We (govt) took on debt so Canadians don't have to" .....really says it all.
 

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Awh gee, I'm not surprised whos complaining yet again heh...

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(i'm j/k I like these folks too....but some of them have turned a bit weird and complainey over time too heh)
 

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The body of Karima Baloch, a Pakistani human rights activist, has been found in Toronto, Canada, where she had been living for five years in exile.

Ms Baloch, 37, a campaigner from the restive region of Balochistan in western Pakistan, was a vocal critic of the Pakistani military and state.

Toronto police issued an appeal after she went missing on Sunday and later confirmed that her body had been found.

Police said there were "not believed to be any suspicious circumstances".

In 2016, Ms Baloch was named in the BBC's annual list of 100 inspirational and influential women for her work as a campaigner. She left Pakistan in 2015, after terrorism charges were levelled against her.

She continued to campaign in exile for the rights of people in Balochistan, both on social media and in person. And the threats followed her, according to Lateef Johar Baloch, a close friend and fellow activist who also lives in Toronto.

He told the BBC that Ms Baloch had recently received anonymous threats warning someone would send her a "Christmas gift" and "teach her a lesson".

Ms Baloch's sister told the BBC Urdu service on Tuesday that her death was "not only a tragedy for the family, but also for the Baloch national movement".

"She didn't go abroad because she wanted to, but because... open activism in Pakistan had become impossible," Mahganj Baloch said.
Balochistan province has been host to a long-running separatist insurgency. Ms Baloch was a well-known activist in the region; she was the first female head of the Baloch Students' Organisation (BSO) - a banned activist group.

Her first public exposure as an activist was in 2005, in Balochistan's Turbat area, where she attended a protest over missing persons carrying the picture of one of her missing relatives.

Activists in Balochistan say thousands of campaigners have gone missing in recent years. The Pakistani military denies accusations that it's brutally suppressing the region's aspirations for autonomy.

Several members of Ms Baloch's extended family had been linked to the Baloch resistance movement over the years, and two of her uncles - a brother of her mother and a brother of her father - had gone missing. Their dead bodies were later found.

She joined the BSO in 2006, serving in several different positions in the following years. The group was officially banned by the government in 2013, but its existence continued and Ms Baloch became chairperson in 2015.

Only a few months later, she went into exile after terrorism charges were filed against her. In Toronto, she married a fellow activist, Hamal Baloch, and remained active both on social media and in human rights activities in Canada and Europe.

Reacting to the news of Ms Baloch's death, the Balochistan National Movement (BNM) announced a 40-day mourning period.

Earlier this year, another former Baloch resident living in exile, journalist Sajid Hussain Baloch, went missing and was later found dead. Mr Baloch, who was related to Ms Baloch, was living in Sweden. Swedish police ruled out any "visible wrongdoing" and the cause of death was ruled to be drowning.
 

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This thread is about a woman, her identity, her movement she was part of (it was a call for rights, not separatism) and her story as it relates to the Canadian section of it. At most w.r.t Pakistan, there is scope to talk about (on topic) why the govt banned her organisations and forced her into exile since that led to her coming to Canada.

Any off-topic chit chat about anything else, please start a new thread or use an existing one, with due deference paid to the forum rules.

This includes (but not limited to) derailing chat of the following nature:

- An expression of personal desire to call for violation of Canadian law and sovereignty over its residents that it has jurisdiction over.

- That theme in general internationally

- Misconstrued misapplied cherrypicked examples to assert it as some form of valid precedence,

- All derailment regarding further off topic examples of separatist/terrorist/militant movements vis-a-vis peaceful activist ones

Any more derailments/trolling etc in this one will lead to warnings and thread bans.

This will also serve as general warning for this subforum's threads in general, there will not be a post like this one next time to the same members involved.
 

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Thread unlocked.

Some replies of more general nature on the matter have been moved here if further discussion on that is warranted by members:

 
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A scallop trawler from Nova Scotia was hit by fire, then lost power and began taking on water in stormy seas. Rescue teams from Canada and the United States mounted a joint operation to save the crew.

OTTAWA — The situation looked dire for the crew of the Atlantic Destiny. A fire first knocked out power onboard the scallop trawler and then it began taking on water. More than 130 miles away from its home port in Nova Scotia, the 144-foot-long ship was hopelessly bobbing up and down on waves 40 to 80 feet high.

But while the Atlantic Destiny ultimately sank, a joint rescue effort by Canada and the United States meant that all its 32 crew members had been rescued before it went down.
“The weather was probably some of the worst weather I have actually executed a hoist operation in,” said Cmdr. David McCown, a pilot on a United States Coast Guard helicopter that rescued 13 of the ship’s crew.

The rescue effort began when the Atlantic Destiny sent out a distress call on Tuesday because of the fire. Ships from the United States and Canadian Coast Guards were dispatched; the Royal Canadian Air Force sent two rescue helicopters and an airplane from Nova Scotia, while another pair of helicopters and a plane took off from a U.S. Coast Guard base in Cape Cod.
Cmdr. Aaron O’Brien, the lead officer of a Canadian Coast Guard ship, the Cape Roger, traveled overnight to reach the sinking trawler. He charged ahead for about 11 hours, buffeted by side winds of up to 90 miles an hour, navigating against the wind through rough seas that he would normally cross at a near walking pace. There was no time to waste.

“In a case like that, every moment counts,” Commander O’Brien said. “So we were hammer down as much as possible.”

The Canadian Air Force arrived first and completed the dangerous task of dropping two search and rescue technicians onto the sinking fishing ship. While one prepared the crew for evacuation, the other worked to slow down the ship’s intake of water.

An image released by the Canadian Armed Forces showing an aerial view of the ship during the rescue operation.

An image released by the Canadian Armed Forces showing an aerial view of the ship during the rescue operation. Credit...The Canadian Armed Forces


The rescue began by lifting crew members put in a rescue basket into a helicopter, a maneuver that had to be coordinated with the huge ocean swells. Commander McCown said that the pilots and their crews used night vision goggles to keep an eye on the waves, sometimes the height of an apartment building, throughout the process.

Because the fishing ship’s crew had been able to stay onboard and out of the frigid water, Commander McCown said that they were mostly in good shape, if very shaken.

When his helicopter reached its weight limit with 13 members of the sinking ship’s crew, it immediately made the long flight back to Nova Scotia. When it landed, he estimated that there was only enough fuel left for another 40 minutes of flight.

Two other helicopters rescued 15 more.

One helicopter stayed behind, while the two search and rescue technicians from the Canadian military and four Atlantic Destiny crew members remained on the sinking ship in an effort to rescue it by pumping water out.

But early Wednesday morning, they too decided it was time to leave.

Capt. Malcolm Grieve of the Canadian Air Force began trying to retrieve the remaining six in an effort that proved tricky. When his helicopter lowered a steel cable to start the process, the cable wrapped around a railing on the ship and had to be immediately cut loose. As a result, all his crew could do was lower some rescue boats and first aid supplies and wait for the Cape Roger to arrive after its all-night journey.

It appeared around 7:30 in the morning.

The last people on board, including the captain, climbed down a rope ladder into an inflatable boat sent from the Coast Guard ship at about 8 in the morning. Two and half hours later, the Atlantic Destiny sank.

“It was a total relief off my shoulders,” Commander O’Brien said of the successful rescue. “I’m just thankful that we could help someone in distress and that we could be there really at the right place at the right time.”
 

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Canada is just smaller cuter usa brother, they can put better facade due smaller population and present themself like some moralupper grlumd nation via various social experiments but basically same imperialistic western hegemonic country were "vokeness" took better roots.
Their general Michael Rose during "peace keeping" mission was acused for rape of prisoned bosniac women amd activelly propagated serb side but of course it was never investigated and questioned properly.
No suprise for said destiny of this family.
 

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