Afternoon front page: Israeli hijacking tragedy averted; lawyer concerned synagogue attack could affect COVID vaccine lawsuit; and more

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“I grabbed the attacker, put him in a chokehold and pulled him out. I called the Israelis who were with us, jumped back in and pulled the controls,” says Yaniv Hayun, one of at least four Israelis who helped overpower the co-pilot, who, according to Israeli assessments, tried to crash the aircraft with 174 passengers on board on Wednesday.

Sean Ward, who was fatally shot by a police officer while attacking a Belleville, Ont., synagogue earlier this month, was one of 128 members and former members of the Canadian Forces who claimed their military careers were damaged or destroyed by a mandatory COVID-19 vaccination mandate. “The litigation did not originate with Mr. Ward, and its factual and legal foundation does not depend upon him,” his lawyer says.

In the decade leading up to 2024/25, inflation-adjusted federal Indigenous spending jumped from $10.3 billion to $40.8 billion, growing seven times faster than overall federal spending, says a new Fraser Institute study. Despite this, the small improvements to First Nations communities’ wellbeing are mostly due to an increase in the Canada Child Benefit, not federal Indigenous spending, the study argues.

Referring to Canadian lobbyists at a conference, Peter Navarro said, “Memo to Canada: You cannot do that. OK, the game is up, and if you interfere in our elections in Maine or Michigan, you will pay even more dearly.” By naming those two states which have close economic ties to Canada and important Senate races, he showed the administration’s apparent concern about the trade dispute’s political effects.

The NDP seems to be suggesting that an election win by interim leader Lorne Doerkson would be illegitimate due to a B.C. Conservative constitution mandate that the interim leader “may not be a Leadership Candidate” in any selection of a permanent leader, Tristin Hopper writes. But he argues that “if every rule is followed to the letter, the result could be that there is a B.C. Conservative leader who just happens to be different from the B.C. Conservative premier.”

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