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The Times of Israel reports: Some 20,00 people marched through Toronto on Sunday in an annual show of support for Israel that also raised over one million dollars for education and projects in the Jewish state.

On Tuesday morning, Toronto police chief Mark Saunders identified the man who attacked a Canadian Armed Forces recruiting center on Monday as Ayanle Hassan Ali, 27. According to Saunders, during the attack Ali shouted, “Allah told me to do this. Allah told me to come here and kill people.”

Using every weapon in his arsenal, Toronto Cardinal Thomas Collins (pictured) wrote a scathing letter against new legislation that will make doctor-assisted suicide legal across the country, and had it read aloud at every Catholic Mass in his archdiocese on

Pink Floyd front man and notorious anti-Israel activist Roger Waters published an open letter slamming a Jewish businessman for pulling financial support from a Canadian university over a mural that has sparked controversy for depicting what critics see as anti-Semitic

Austin Lewis, a 21-year-old disabled man who requires a wheelchair, was recently denied access to a publicly-subsidized housing apartment due to him not being a Muslim. Lewis sought an apartment in the Ahmadiyya Abode of Peace, a building in Toronto administered by a Muslim organization.

Canada’s most widely read newspaper, The Toronto Star, is lamenting the lack of racial crime statistics aggregated by various levels of government. Over two decades ago, the newspaper was instrumental in facilitating outrage from the left over a revelation that police in Toronto were collecting statistics about race and crime.

A couple of days ago, a petition to the mayor of Toronto, signed by over 40,000 people and boosted by CBC, tried to keep men’s rights activist and “neomasculinist” Roosh V out of Canada. Thankfully, it failed.

Reuters reports that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, using an undercover operative, have thwarted a plot by a Pakistani man to attack the U.S. Consulate and other buildings in the financial district of Toronto.

Toronto authorities are still stumped over a hole found near a Pan Am Games tennis venue. It was discovered on January 14 by CBC news.

On December 22, a mugger cornered Toronto restaurateur Arron Barberian and tried to steal his cash. Barberian responded by beating the suspect until he fled, chasing the would-be mugger as he was fleeing, and beating him some more.