Policing issues in the United Kingdom’s third-largest urban area wouldn’t normally interest Canadians. But Craig Guildford, chief constable of the West Midlands Police (Birmingham being the biggest city under his watch) is currently in very hot water of a sort that some Canadian police chiefs should be, perhaps, as well. A Nov. 6 Europa League soccer match between storied Birmingham club Aston Villa and storied Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv, which was contested in front of roughly 43,000 empty seats, has become emblematic of Jews in the U.K. essentially being punished for their own persecution. And it happens here too. Read More

It is unfortunate that Chrystia Freeland decided to accept an economic-development position from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy with a quintessentially flaky Trudeauvian flourish: Instead of resigning her seat in the House of Commons immediately after taking on a role in a foreign government, as anyone halfway sane would have advised her to, she first said nothing about it, and then 12 hours later said she would step down “in the coming weeks.” So the MP for University—Rosedale is now at least nominally in a position of stewardship over the economic redevelopment of a war-ravaged country halfway around the world with roughly the same population as Canada’s. Read More