Afternoon front page: CBC journalist disciplined over post on anti-Israel protest; synagogue attacker sued military over COVID vaccine mandate; and more

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The CBC has not commented on its action but an activist group told National Post that it complained to the broadcaster about Neil Herland’s post showing anti-Israel protesters outside a Yom Kippur event in Toronto.

Sean Ward was involuntarily discharged from the Canadian Forces after defying the military’s vaccine mandate during the pandemic, court documents say. He was seeking $1.5 million in general damages plus additional compensation. Meanwhile, a GoFundMe campaign for Const. Jeff Smith, who was badly injured while stopping the Belleville synagogue attack, has reached at least $716,000.

“Most Canadians probably think that a university education prepares citizens to become valuable, contributing and law-abiding members of society. Not so, according to the (handbook’s) manifesto. Students, it says, are essentially ‘cash cows,’ educated with the purpose of driving the economy, and they are informed that the university’s ‘primary function’ is ‘to serve the extracative settler colonial project of so-called Canada,’” writes Newman.

Worldwide, Canadians are often described as “nice” or “polite.” But author Kumaran Nadesan believes that Canada’s cultural commitment to politeness is holding the country back. “Politeness can look a lot like apathy. Yes, we have a beautiful country. We also have people with incredible talent, abundant natural resources, and critical minerals that the world needs. But we aren’t doing as much as we could be with what we have,” he argues.

Tristin Hopper writes that Prime Minister Mark Carney’s time in power has brought with it numerous policies typically only discussed in conservative circles. As a result, he is “facing the kind of activist pushback that was largely unknown to his immediate predecessor, Justin Trudeau.” Among his list of left-wing enemies are: David Suzuki and the climate movement, health care absolutists, organized labour, migrant activists and anti-militarists.

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