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Justice Canada commits $752,000 to Atira, the non-profit in BC Housing’s conflict-of-interest audit

The Department of Justice Canada has committed $752,000 to Atira Women’s Resource Society, the Vancouver non-profit whose chief executive was married to the head of BC Housing when a 2023 forensic investigation found a conflict of interest, Rebel News can reveal.

The contribution appears in the federal government’s proactive disclosure of grants and contributions, published by Justice Canada under its Youth Justice Fund, dated July 15 and running to March 31, 2029. No other outlet has reported it.

The record, titled “Restorative Justice Pathways for Youth”, says the project “adapts Atira’s Early Resolution Program (ERP) into a dedicated youth-focused stream designed to serve Indigenous, Black, and racialized young women (ages 12-17) who are currently involved in the criminal justice system”.

Atira is not an ordinary recipient. On May 8, 2023, the B.C. government released an Ernst & Young forensic investigation of BC Housing, the provincial housing agency. The release states: “A new forensic investigation of BC Housing tabled in the legislature has found mismanagement related to a conflict of interest between the former CEO of BC Housing and his spouse, the CEO of Atira Women’s Resource Society.” The investigation “found no evidence of public funds being dispersed outside of their intended purpose”, but BC Housing responded by “restricting any new funding to AWRS and ADS until the operational review is complete”.

The Tyee reported that Atira’s BC Housing funding rose from $17 million in 2016 to $74 million in 2022, and that former BC Housing CEO Shayne Ramsay “has been married to Janice Abbott, Atira’s CEO, since 2010”. Abbott “resigned effective immediately” a week after the audit, the Globe and Mail reported.

Ottawa kept funding Atira. Women and Gender Equality Canada holds a $1.5 million agreement with Atira begun in July 2024, and Justice Canada agreed to a $250,000 contribution in December 2024. The Atira agreement is one of 16 Youth Justice Fund contributions dated July 15 in the disclosure, worth $8.9 million together.

The fund is the responsibility of Justice Minister Sean Fraser. The deputy minister, Marie-Josée Hogue, a former Quebec Court of Appeal judge, was appointed on February 2. The record does not say who signed the agreement. No political donations by Fraser or Hogue were found in a web search of the Elections Canada contributions database, and none is alleged.

British Columbia announced in 2023 that it was restricting new money to Atira. Ottawa has now committed another $752,000.

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NY’s Top Prosecutors Go Silent When Asked by a Reporter if They Ordered Lighter Charges for Illegal Aliens to Avoid Deportation

New York Attorney General Letitia James, Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz, and Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez went silent when a New York Post reporter asked them at a Thursday gun-seizure press conference whether they had ordered prosecutors to downgrade charges against illegal aliens so they could avoid deportation, as detailed in a recent House Judiciary Committee report.

The reporter specifically asked, “Did any of you order prosecutors to downgrade gun charges to keep illegal immigrants in the US, per the Judiciary Committee report?”

“This is a gun-safety question,” the Post reporter pressed. “Any response from any of you?”

James smiled and said nothing, Katz shrugged with her hands up, and staff quickly moved the event along after Katz muttered, “Our answer couldn’t help it.”

After the presser, the attorneys again refused to address the House investigation, with James smiling without a word and Katz deferring to a spokesperson, according to a report from the New York Post.

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EXPOSED: The Scale of Corruption In The Vaccine Industrial Complex

For decades, the public was told that pharmaceutical products undergo the gold standard of scientific scrutiny: randomized, inert-placebo-controlled clinical trials.

But as Bret Weinstein and Brownstone Institute’s Jeffrey Tucker expose, the reality behind vaccine approval is pure regulatory sleight of hand. New shots are routinely tested not against a true, inert saline control, but against earlier vaccine versions or active adjuvant concoctions, falsely labeling them as “placebos.”

Under this rigged framework, as long as a new shot causes no more immediate harm than the last hazardous formulation, regulators stamp it “safe.”

Combine this rigged safety baseline with statistical tricks that inflate tiny, meaningless results into “95% effectiveness,” and the entire corporate narrative falls apart.

The system was never designed to uncover true harm; it was designed to hide it in plain sight.

You will not believe how corrupt the FDA’s process for vaccine safety testing is.

“It’s just smoke and mirrors.”

Send this to someone who still believes Pharma’s “safe and effective” narrative.

New vaccines are never tested against a placebo.

Bret Weinstein: “That’s jaw-dropping in and of itself.”

But it gets worse.

“They test it against something that they claim is a placebo… the last version of the shot.”

“If the last version of the shot was demonstrated to be safe, and the new version of the shot doesn’t do any more harm than the last version, then it’s safe, right?”

Jeffrey Tucker: “If it’s slightly better, then you report the relative efficacy.”

“It’s a tenth of a percent, and that’s where you get your 95% effectiveness.”

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Activist Judge Boasberg Orders Trump DOJ and DHS to Hand Over Full List of States Targeted for Noncitizen Voter Removal and Ballot Segregation — Deadline is Noon Today

In a last-minute move to protect against illegal voting ahead of the midterms, Obama-appointed U.S. District Chief Judge James E. Boasberg has ordered the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to identify every state that has received federal demands to remove alleged non-citizens from the voter rolls, withhold mail ballots, or segregate those ballots rather than count them.

The order, issued after a Thursday hearing in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, requires the Trump administration to deliver the complete list to the plaintiffs by noon on Friday, October 30, MS NOW reported.

According to Roll Call, Boasberg ordered federal officials to disclose which states, beyond California and Washington, have received demands involving suspected noncitizen voters.

Boasberg, long criticized by President Trump and allies as a “Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge,” declined to immediately block further letters but signaled he will rule by Monday, November 2, one day before Election Day, on the Democrat request for a broader injunction.

The lawsuit was filed October 20 by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, the Nevada Democratic Party, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Governors Association.

Defendants include President Donald Trump, Attorney General Todd Blanche, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, and the respective departments.

Plaintiffs argue the letters violate the Constitution’s Elections Clause and the anti-commandeering doctrine by coercing states. The administration maintains the letters simply notify states of potential violations of federal law barring non-citizens from voting in federal elections and do not force action absent a court order. Boasberg noted the government could end the case by stating it will send no further such letters before the election.

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Ethics commissioner grilled over failure to sanction Liberal MP

A Liberal MP bought gifts from her own business with her constituency budget, was found to have broken the conflict of interest code, and faced no sanctions. Conservative MP Aaron Gunn wanted to know why.

On Thursday’s Rebel Roundup, Sheila Gunn Reid and Tamara Ugolini played a clip from a committee hearing where Gunn questioned Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein about Lori Idlout. Idlout was elected as an NDP MP for Nunavut and later crossed the floor to the Liberals. Sheila directed viewers to FireIdlout.com, which has a petition on the issue.

Gunn said the commissioner found Idlout violated section 8 of the code on five separate occasions, using her taxpayer-funded constituency budget to buy more than $2,000 in artwork and trinkets from her own business. He read a note from her compliance advisor from 2022, which said, “I also advised her she could not purchase gifts from the Indigenous art gallery she owns with her members office budget.”

“So why were there no sanctions and no consequences with this abuse of taxpayer money?” Gunn asked.

Von Finckenstein said the amount was minimal and that the profit to Idlout “would be minimal,” and said he cannot impose sanctions. “This would be the Speaker who would impose sanctions,” he said, adding that under the act he has discretion over whether to recommend any.

Gunn asked whether he would apply the same standard to the prime minister. “Can you guarantee that you would recommend sanctions in that case, or might he just get off with a stern warning?”

“How many times does someone have to violate it for there to be a sanction?” Gunn asked. Von Finckenstein replied that if Gunn kept posing new questions before he could finish answering, “we’re not having a discussion here.”

Tamara said it is hard for Canadians to watch MPs “flout the rules” over what she called a small sum, given “$2,000 is a whole heck ton of money to a lot of Canadians struggling under this Liberal government.” Sheila said she believes a food-bank user would not call $2,000 pocket change.

The hosts compared the case to former Conservative minister Bev Oda, whose $16 glass of orange juice cost her her political career.

“There seems to be no rhyme or reason in terms of who is sanctioned,” Tamara said. Conservatives, Sheila said, hold their own to a higher standard. “They will turn on their own if what they do becomes too unpalatable.”

In his September report, according to coverage by Turtle Island News, von Finckenstein found Idlout acted in good faith and repaid the House of Commons once the errors were raised with her.

He said she “did not realize that making purchases from two businesses would further her or her spouse’s private interests.”

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Netanyahu claims stolen election amid failure to secure victory

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party on Wednesday said that voter fraud perpetrated by Arab citizens prevented him from winning a clear victory in the country’s election.

In a statement from Likud reposted on social media by Netanyahu, the right-wing party railed against early results from Tuesday night’s elections, claiming “evidence of election theft in many Arab polling stations” and urging law enforcement agencies to “act harshly and swiftly.”

Those accusations have not been verified, nor did Likud provide any evidence to support its claims. According to local media, Israeli police have said there is no evidence to suggest Arab parties meddled in the election.

Results of Tuesday night’s election are not yet clear. With neither Netanyahu’s alliance nor challenger Gadi Eisenkot’s opposition coming close to the requisite 61-seat majority, a coalition government of some form is a real possibility. That all but guarantees a weekslong process of negotiations to shape a new Israeli government.

Record-high turnout from Arab voters in Israel reflected the degree of anger and frustration over Netanyahu’s policies toward the Palestinian population. Arab parties surpassed expectations, according to Israeli news, nearly doubling their total seats from 10 to 19 and handing them potential leverage over the future of the government. It’s unclear whether opponents of Netanyahu would go so far as to form a coalition with them to unseat the prime minister.

As the numbers rolled in Tuesday, Netanyahu made a series of social media posts aimed at stoking fear about Arab turnout. The embattled prime minister put out urgent pleas for right-wing supporters to go to the polls, invoking race-based messaging to galvanize voters by saying busloads of Arab voters were being ferried to polling stations while right-wing citizens slept and warning that without Likud voters, the Muslim Brotherhood could take control of the government.

While Tuesday’s election failed to deliver an anticipated decisive blow to Netanyahu, it underscored deep divisions within Israel over the longtime leader’s grip on power. It also could serve as a potential preview of what simmering frustrations with the joint U.S.-Israel war on Iran might look like for the Trump administration ahead of next week’s midterm elections.

Although Trump isn’t on the ballot, U.S. voters are expected to take their frustrations over the monthslong war and surging gas prices out on Republican candidates across the country.

As Netanyahu faced down an angry electorate this week, Trump handed him not one but two endorsements, suggesting that if his Israeli counterpart remained in office, they would “finish the job” against Iran together.

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California Sanctuary Cities Ignored 8,901 ICE Detainers and Released Violent Criminals, House Judiciary Report Finds

A new House Judiciary Committee report states that authorities in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego ignored a combined 8,901 ICE detainers, allowing criminal aliens with records that included homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, burglary, weapons offenses, and child abuse to be released back into communities.

The 22-page interim staff report, led by Chairman Jim Jordan and Rep. Tom McClintock, was released on Thursday.

According to the report, the Los Angeles Police Department honored just four of the 4,177 ICE detainers it received between January 2020 and June 2026, a compliance rate below 0.1 percent.

The San Francisco Sheriff’s Office rejected all 2,201 detainers it received between January 2020 and August 2026.

The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office declined 2,527 detainers between January 2023 and June 2026, including 894 in the last year.

The report details:

The effects of Los Angeles’s longstanding pro-criminal alien policies have been devastating. Herbert Nixon Flores, an illegal alien from El Salvador, “had been ordered removed and physically deported from the United States 10 times” since 1990. His criminal history “included carrying a concealed weapon, trespassing, burglary, disturbing the peace, possession and transportation of a controlled substance, impersonation, driving under the influence, driving without a license, driving with a suspended license, resisting arrest, vandalism, criminal threats and illegal entry.” On September 7, 2020, he was arrested “for a domestic violence with injury charge by [LAPD].” The next day, ICE lodged a detainer with LAPD, but local law enforcement released Nixon Flores onto California streets. Four months later, Nixon Flores murdered his ex-girlfriend in front of their young child. In other cases, LAPD’s compliance with sanctuary laws meant declining detainers for criminal aliens who were later arrested for committing serious crimes, including murder.

Other examples used included David Mora Rojas, a Mexican national who overstayed a visa and was arrested five days before the February 2022 Sacramento church shooting in which he killed his three daughters and another man before killing himself.

ICE had requested notification of his release, but he was freed on bail.

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Canadian Heritage’s latest disclosure lists $10.9 million in anti-racism program grants

Canadian Heritage’s newest quarterly disclosure lists 191 agreements worth $10.9 million under its Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Program, including a $215,000 agreement with the Quebec newspaper cooperative that publishes Le Soleil and Le Droit for a children’s news project against racism, a Rebel News review of the federal grants disclosure has found.

The agreements, with start dates between April 15 and October 24 and most of them from August on, sit in the proactive disclosure data on open.canada.ca as 53 “Projects” worth $8.1 million and 138 “Events” worth $2.8 million. The figures are multi-year agreement values, not payments, and the record says the start date “is based on the approval date.”

Rebel News reported on October 16 on a separate batch of 78 anti-hate projects worth $11 million that started in April.

The media recipient is the Coopérative nationale de l’information indépendante, the cooperative that owns six regional dailies, including Le Soleil and Le Droit, taken over in what Le Soleil has called “le sauvetage des six journaux en 2019”. Its 19-month agreement, from September 1 to March 31, 2028, is titled “Les As de l’info : informer et accompagner les enfants pour lutter contre le racisme”.

Les As de l’info describes itself as “A French-language news site that explains current events in simple terms for children aged 8 to 12.”

Other project titles include “Youth Belonging in Action,” $133,000 to Moms Against Racism (Canada) of Victoria, a group its founder Kerry Cavers has said she began as a Facebook group in 2020; “Regenerative Equity Governance in Practice,” $130,000 to the Future Arts Network Society of Vancouver; “Community Inclusion and Wellbeing Project,” $176,000 to the Moose Jaw & District Chamber of Commerce; and $139,000 to the Yukon Human Rights Commission for “Unmasking Systemic Barriers: An Intersectional Analysis of Race-Based”, a title the record cuts off.

In a briefing document prepared for its deputy minister’s June 1 appearance before the public accounts committee, the department said that, as announced in Budget 2025, it “will implement savings of $93.1 million by 2028-29”, with about 120 fewer indeterminate employees across the department.

The same document says the program as a whole approved $35.2 million in 2024-25. The program’s current anti-racism call for applications is open until November 12.

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