Reports reveal the CBC’s anti-Israel bias, and Canada’s revolving-door policing continues: Roundup

What followed was astonishing. Officers prompted Google’s AI tools to generate “intelligence” suggesting an inversion of the truth—local residents would be endangered by Israeli fans. That invented material then became part of the official justification for banning Maccabi supporters from attending the match. When MPs asked during the recent public inquiry why none of the true justifications had been disclosed, the response was almost comically bureaucratic. The police had not lied, they insisted. Parliament simply had not asked the exact right questions. The inquiry exposed dishonesty, cowardice, and an instinctive hostility to Israel that distorted professional judgment. It ended with the “retirement” of the chief constable. The process was ugly, but at least the truth surfaced. Now contrast that with Canada. Two months before the incident in the U.K., a Davis Cup Tennis match between Canada and Israel was held in Halifax in an empty stadium. No spectators were allowed. Tennis Canada cited safety concerns raised by Halifax Regional Police, the RCMP, and CSIS, all of whom denied being consulted. The justifications shifted. Statements contradicted one another. Israeli and Canadian fans alike were barred, and the players competed in a hollowed-out arena. And then the story vanished. There was no inquiry. No parliamentary grilling. No forced disclosure. No accountability for whoever made the call or for how it was justified. That is the deeper fault line here. Britain’s process was embarrassing, but it existed. It surfaced facts that powerful institutions would have preferred to keep buried. Even when it’s messy, Canadians deserve to know the truth. What happened, and why? When will we close Canada’s revolving door for criminals? The voices in Canada who have been calling for legislative criminal justice changes are large and growing. Federal leader of the Opposition Pierre Poilievre has perhaps been the loudest, longest, and most prominent, but premiers, chiefs of police, victims’ rights groups, and, increasingly, average citizens have been demanding change for some time now. After the last federal election, it seemed like the federal Liberals may have been shamed into reversing their own legislation that created this problem, but despite proposing legislative changes last fall, the revolving door for criminals remains wide open. Take just two recent examples of the most dangerous and heinous crimes in our society. The first is the recent terrorism case in Toronto, where a group of men who, like the Australian perpetrators at Bondi Beach, had connections to ISIS, were targeting Jewish women with a violent kidnapping plot. Not only was one of the violent extremists already on probation (and fecklessly “barred from possessing firearms”), but one of the accused, currently facing serious terrorism-related charges, was released on bail. The case briefly shocked the public, then faded, absorbed into the familiar background noise of Canadian crime stories. The next example comes from Lethbridge. A man with a long criminal history was arrested on charges of sexual violence that included allegations of gang rape involving a 14-year-old girl. Not only was the man granted bail, but he was re-arrested “after approximately half an hour” for breaching the conditions of his release. The original argument for Canada’s permissive bail regime was rooted in theory. Pretrial detention should be exceptional. The risk can be managed, and rights must be protected. But when theory repeatedly collides with reality, and theory keeps being shown to fail, the experiment should be stopped. How many more victims will be sacrificed at the altar of a system that refuses to learn from its own outcomes? For years, Canadians have been told to worry about declining trust in institutions. But trust is not only eroded by rhetoric or skepticism. It is eroded by experience. When institutions consistently fail to correct obvious errors, when warnings are acknowledged and ignored, they create their own legitimacy crisis.