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Canada is a free and peaceful society, with a large and generally successful immigration program. Newcomers to Canada tend to learn the local language (English or French), integrate into the economy, adopt Canadian values, and develop a positive Canadian identity. Muslims are no exception, and most Muslim communities in Canada are better integrated than their European counterparts. That said, Canada has also earned the unsavory reputation of being a terrorist haven, thanks to decades of political inaction and a weak legal framework to stop terrorist activities. A succession of terrorist groups flocked to Canada in the decades prior to 9/11. Following the 2001 attacks, Canada finally enacted stricter anti-terrorism laws. Islamist, jihadist and other terrorist groups have, nevertheless, been able to hide amid Canada's immigrant communities – including its Muslim population of just over 1 million.1 Persistent and subversive Islamist groups have penetrated this community and established terrorist cells, fundraising operations, communal organizations, mosques, and schools across Canada. The Canadian government once again strengthened its response to these developments through legislation (including the 2015 Anti-Terrorism Act, known as Bill C51) which has provided new tools for the Canadian government to fight terrorism and the ideology responsible for it.
Exploiting the lack of anti-terrorism legislation that existed prior 2001, terrorist groups traditionally used Canada's immigrant communities as safe havens and, occasionally, as bases of operations. These groups included, among others, the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA),2 Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),3 and Sikh extremists.4 More recently, these organizations and groups have been joined and outpaced by radical Islamist elements of various political and ideological stripes.
Canada's Islamist terrorists fall into three broad camps: (1) Salafist, including the new and enthusiastic supporters of the Islamic State, (2) Shi'ite, and (3) Palestinian. Salafists in Canada belong primarily to al-Qaeda, the Islamic State, and Armed Islamic Group (GIA) – an Algerian group striving to turn Algeria into a theocratic Islamic state.
According to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), there are three primary ways in which terrorism threatens Canadian safety and security:5 1) terrorists continue to plot direct attacks against Canada and its allies, at home and abroad, with the intent of causing death, disruption and fear; 2) terrorists conduct activities in Canada to support terrorist activity globally, namely fundraising to support attacks and military groups; and 3) terrorists use social media to reach and radicalize individual Canadians, who are then convinced to travel abroad to join a terrorist army and commit attacks, or to receive training on terrorist methods.
Al-Qaeda has a persistent presence in Canada, and al-Qaeda extremists continue to pose a threat to Canada's national security. While Al-Qaeda has experienced international decline over the past five years, it continues to command the loyalty, and, according to CSIS, continues to constitute a serious threat to Canada's security.6
Al-Qaeda has a history of organizing and raising funds in Canada. One of the most prominent ties linking Canada to al-Qaeda has been the Khadr family. Ahmed Said Khadr, the patriarch of the family, moved to Montreal in 1975, and began raising extensive funds for al-Qaeda. At one point, he was the highest-ranking member of the group in Canada. He died in a 2003 confrontation with the Pakistani military,7 but his Islamist legacy lives on through his children. Two sons, Omar and Abdul Rahman, fought for the Taliban and were sent to Guantanamo. Omar infamously killed an American medic, Spt. 1st Class Christopher J. Speer, during a gun battle in Afghanistan in July 2002. He was then arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay. Abdul Rahman was released in 2002, and returned back to Canada.8
Omar Khadr pleaded guilty to murder in violation of the laws of war, attempted murder in violation of the laws of war, conspiracy, two counts of providing material support for terrorism, and spying in the United States.9 In exchange for his guilty plea, the military tribunal sentenced him to eight years in prison and promised to repatriate him to Canada after he had served the first year of his sentence at Guantanamo. The U.S. finally repatriated Omar Khadr to Canada on September 29, 2012.10 He was then released on bail from an Edmonton prison and put on "house arrest" in May 2015. Since this time, Khadr has had his bail conditions relaxed to include visiting his still-radicalized family members in Toronto, he become engaged to a Palestinian activist, and he filed a $20 million lawsuit against the Canadian government.11
The Khadr's may be Canada's most infamous al-Qaeda-linked operatives, but they are certainly not alone in Canada. Fateh Kamel headed another al-Qaeda-GIA cell in Canada. Kamel fought with mujahideen in Afghanistan in the 1980s12 and Bosnia n the 1990s. In 1996, he became a liaison between al-Qaeda and the GIA.13 He applied for a Canadian passport in 2005, and while his request was denied, citing national security threats, in response, Kamel sued.14 The Canadian federal judge initially declared the restriction unconstitutional, that decision was overturned upon appeal and Kamel was denied citizenship.15
Two Canadians also participated in the In Amenas hostage crisis in January 2013. An al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group took over 800 hostages at a gas facility in In Amenas, Algeria, and, ultimately, at least 38 civilians and 29 terrorists died during the siege.16 Two of the terrorists, Ali Medlej and Xristos Katsiroubas, were Canadian men and high school classmates from London South Collegiate Institute in London, Ontario. Both of these men were killed in the attack.17 Mauritanian authorities had previously arrested a third classmate, Aaron Yoon, who was convicted in July 2012 of having ties to al-Qaeda and of posing a danger to national security. He was sentenced to two years in prison,18 following which, Yoon was transferred back to London, Canada in July 2013.19
In recent years, al-Qaeda cells in Canada have graduated from planning attacks in Canada, to be carried out overseas, to planning attacks against Canada. In 2006, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) arrested eighteen men plotting to bomb the Toronto Stock Exchange, the Toronto offices of CSIS, and a nearby military base.20 They also intended to storm the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and Canadian Parliament, take hostages, and decapitate the leaders of each party, including the Prime Minister. They planned to demand that Canada withdraw her troops from Afghanistan.21
These terrorists' efforts were thwarted thanks to an undercover effort by the RCMP. Of the 18 men arrested, eleven have been convicted of terrorism offences and two have been sentenced to life in prison.22 The ring-leader, Zakaria Amara pled guilty, received a life sentence and was stripped of his Canadian citizenship under a new law brought in by the government of Canada's former Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Harper's successor, current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has pledge to reverse this law and overhaul the government's ability to strip citizenship from foreign-born dual citizens convicted on terrorism charges.
Another al-Qaeda connected plot was thwarted on April 22, 2013, after an eight-month investigation. The RCMP arrested Tunisian-born Chiheb Esseghaier and Raed Jaser, a Palestinian from the United Arab Emirates, for plotting to derail a VIA Rail passenger train near Toronto. Police claim that the pair received guidance from members of al-Qaeda living in Iran.23
A final example of an al-Qaeda connected terrorist cell was that headed up by Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh in Ottawa. The Iranian-born Kurdish refugee to Canada, considered the ringleader of an Ottawa al-Qaeda cell, pled guilty to a terror plot in 2014 and was sentenced to 24 years in a federal prison.24 Alizadeh admitted that he spent two months in an al-Qaeda terrorist training camp in Afghanistan in 2009, where he received training on using firearms and assembling improvised explosive devices, and smuggled 56 circuit boards, capable of triggering remote bombs, back to Canada.25
The Islamic State
The Islamic State has garnered appeal in Canada since its emergence in 2014. Dozens of Canadians have left their homes to fight in the Islamic State's caliphate in Iraq and Syria, and there have been at least two attacks, using lone wolf tactics, carried out by Canadian men who had sworn allegiance to the Islamic State.
The first attack was carried out by Canadian-born Martin Couture-Rouleau, who, on October 20, 2014, intentionally rammed his car into a pair of Canadian Forces soldiers in a shopping mall parking lot in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, killing one of them. Couture-Rouleau converted from Christianity to Islam in 2013, and began regularly posting pro-Islamic State and anti-Semitic messages on his Facebook page.26 Just two days later, a second Islamist attack took place on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Islamist terrorist Michael Zehaf-Bibeau shot and killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo, who was standing ceremonially on guard at the Canadian War Memorial. After the shooting, Zehaf-Bibeau reportedly raises his gun in the air and shouted "For Iraq." He then stormed the Centre Block building of the Canadian Parliament, shot a security guard and made his way towards the Library of Parliament before being fatally shot by parliamentary security guards. Both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Leader of Her Majesty's Royal Opposition Thomas Mulcair were in adjacent rooms when the terrorist was killed.27
On top of these attacks at home, a sizeable number of young Canadians have taken up arms to fight alongside Islamic State militants in Iraq, Syria and beyond. A 2016 report from the Canadian department of public safety highlighted that at least 180 individuals with a connection to Canada are currently overseas fighting alongside Islamist terrorist organizations, primarily the Islamic State.28 There are also at least 60 known returned foreign fighters in Canada, most of them living freely.29 According to Larry Brooks, a former CSIS counter-terrorism official, it's nearly impossible to prove to a Canadian judge, in a Canadian court, that an individual has participated in terrorist activities overseas.30
Canada remains an important source of financing and operational organizing for Hezbollah, and despite being banned in 2002 as a terrorist entity,31 the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shi'ite militia continues to raise funds, procure equipment, and hide wanted terrorists in Canada.
The case of Mohammad Hussein al Husseini, a Hezbollah operative deported from Canada in 1994, helped shine light on the organizations strong position in Canada. During interviews with CSIS, al Husseini provided insight into the network of members, supporters, and operatives and their activities in cities across Canada.32
Years later, Mohammad Hassan Dbouk began to run the Canadian portion of Hezbollah's funding and procurement network, under the command of Haj Hassan Hilu Laqis, then Hezbollah's chief military procurement officer.33 After seeking refugee status in Canada in 1998, Dbouk raised cash through credit card and banking scams, as well as cigarette smuggling, and used the proceeds to purchase high-tech military supplies used in Lebanon. Dbouk became an important asset for Hezbollah, and he was rejected five times for suicide missions because he was too valuable in Canada.34 CSIS agents began monitoring his activates, and Dbouk was indicted by a U.S. federal court in 2001.35
In June 2002, Israeli authorities arrested Fawzi Ayoub, a 39-year-old Lebanese-born Canadian, who used a fake American passport to enter Israel. Israel accused him of being a Hezbollah fighter and of training Palestinian militants in the West Bank in Hezbollah bomb-making techniques.36
Hezbollah was also known to hide terrorists wanted by other countries in Canada. Hani Abd al-Rahim al-Sayegh, a leader of Saudi Hezbollah involved in the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed nineteen American Air Force personnel, made a refugee claim in Canada using a false name and settled in Ottawa, where he was arrested a year later.37
Hezbollah was listed as a banned terrorist entity in Canada in 2002, following a federal court case brought forward by Jewish organization B'nai Brith.38 Although officially banned, Hezbollah continues its subversive reach into Canada. In 2011, the US Treasury Department identified the Lebanese Canadian Bank SAL, along with its subsidiaries, as a "financial institution of primary money laundering concern under Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act for the bank's role in facilitating the money laundering activities of an international narcotics trafficking and money laundering network.39 This bank's network facilitated the movement of illegal narcotics from Latin America to Europe and the Middle East, and laundered hundreds of millions monthly. This was done through bank accounts and other assets, including U.S. used car dealerships, according the U.S. Treasury.40 The U.S. government found that Hezbollah derived direct "financial support from the criminal activities of [this] network."41
The Lebanese Canadian Bank (LCB) was headquartered in Beirut, and had a representative office in Montreal, Quebec. Originally established in 1960, LCB operated as a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Canada in the Middle East from 1968 to 1988, before becoming a privately-owned bank. In 2009, LCB's total assets were worth more than $5 billion.42
The Iranian embassy in Ottawa also had a history of funding and aiding a controversial cultural center with ties to Hezbollah, and was increasingly considered an outpost for espionage and subversion by the Iranian regime. The Iran embassy regularly hosted and funded conferences for Iranian Canadians and invited guests only. These events sought to reach sympathetic members of the Muslim community – to recruit, persuade, and intimidate them to join the Islamic Republic's network.43 In 2012, the Canadian government posted a notice on the Iranian embassy door ordering all Iranian officials to leave the country within five days. The government also closed Canada's embassy in Tehran, recalling all Canadian diplomats, cutting diplomatic ties with Iran, and officially listing Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Canada went further by amending the State Immunity Act and adopting the Justice for the Victims of Terrorism Act, both of which allowed the families and victims of terrorism to take legal action and seek damages from the perpetrators of terrorism and those who support them, including the government of Iran. This effectively eliminated the legal distinction between terrorist groups and the states that bankroll them, extinguishing the sovereign immunity protection typically granted to governments. To assist victims in identifying and locating Iran's state assets, the government released a list of known Iranian state-owned property in Canada. In 2014, an Ontario judge ordered the seizure of more than $7 million in bank accounts and property belonging to Iran. The historic ruling validated the Harper government's legal changes. Currently over 90 Canadian victims of terrorism have launched claims in Ontario's Superior Court seeking compensation from Iran for its role in training, arming, and financing Islamic terror networks.44
Palestinian Islamists
Hamas, the most influential Palestinian Islamist group, has a history of using Canada as a fundraising base, even after the government designated it a terrorist organization in November 2002.45 A May 2000 Privy Council Office memo to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien identified the Jerusalem Fund for Human Services (Jerusalem Fund) as a fundraising entity for Hamas.46
The Canadian Coalition for Democracies alleges that the Jerusalem Fund responded to the flagging by merely changing its name to the International Relief Fund for the Afflicted and Needy (IRFAN) in 2001-2002. The Canadian Jewish News discovered that the Jerusalem Fund and IRFAN shared a mailing address in Mississauga, as well as a fax number.47
In 2004, IFRAN came under scrutiny from the Canada Revenue Agency and its auditors over fundraising links to Hamas, but was able to keep its charitable status by signing an agreement stating it would not fund any organization linked to Hamas.48 A later audit found that, between 2004 and 2009, IFRAN had "openly supported and provided funding to Hamas" while also engaging in "deceptive and misleading fundraising."49 A Charities Branch document highlights how IFRAN sent almost $15 million to Hamas and related agencies during this period, leading to the government's decision to strip IFRAN of its charity status in 2011, and, in 2014, to add IFRAN to Canada's official list of terrorist groups.50
Hamas also has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in Canada through the Texas-headquartered Holy Land Foundation (HLF).51 The U.S., which designated Hamas a terrorist organization in 1995, shut down HLF in 2008 and, in 2009, sentenced five of its leaders to prison terms ranging from 15 to 65 years.52
Additionally, Hamas is known to have recruited Canadians to commit attacks within Canada. In 2003, for instance, Israel arrested a Canadian man in Gaza who pled guilty to conspiracy and illegal military training for planning attacks against Jews in Canada and the U.S.53 Hamas denied recruiting him, claiming that they limit their attacks to Middle Eastern targets.54
The smaller Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) has also tried to penetrate Canada – albeit on a much more modest scale. The group is known to have long collected and laundered money in Canada, and even attempted to acquire a fraudulent visa so that its treasurer, Muhammed Tasir Hassan Al-Khatib, could visit Canada.55 Additional details of PIJ activity inside Canada remain spotty, but the country's intelligence service has warned that the group could expand its current, minimal activity in the years ahead; a confidential 2003 CSIS report notes that the discovery of a PIJ fundraising network in Florida "raises the possibility of PIJ elements crossing the border to develop a similar infrastructure in Canada."56 To date, however, here is no evidence that the PIJ has done so. Like Hamas, PIJ was designated a foreign terrorist organization by the Canadian government in November 2002, and its activities seem to have waned in Canada since this designation.57
Islamist community organizations
Though it is not the norm for the Canadian Muslim community, a number of Islamic community organizations that have been infiltrated with radical extremists. The most prominent example was the Canadian Islamic Congress (CIC), which called itself "Canada's largest national non-profit and wholly independent Islamic organization."58 After a number of controversies, the CIC finally closed its doors in 2014, and is now defunct. The CIC had a history of demonizing Israel, fabricating lies about opponents, and apologizing for hardline Islamist groups,59 including by inciting anti-Semitism and justifying violence committed by Islamist groups against Israel. The CIC's leadership has further validated terrorism by denouncing the Canadian government's decision to designate Hamas and Hezbollah as terrorist groups, calling it an "unconscionable act of hypocrisy and a mockery of justice."60
The Islamist Muslim Students' Association (MSA) has chapters at many Canadian universities. Muslim Brotherhood activists founded the MSA in 1963 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign61 to help Muslims "practice Islam as a complete way of life."62 Chapters of the MSA have raised funds for the Hamas-linked Holy Land Foundation,63 as well as the Benevolence International Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation (both of which were later outlawed by the U.S. government for their links to al-Qaeda).64
Radicalism can be found in Canadian places of worship as well, with some mosques and Islamic schools indoctrinating their parishioners and students. The Salaheddin Islamic Center and the Al-Rahman Islamic Centre, both in Toronto, are examples of this trend. The Khadr family frequented the former, and six of the terrorists in the cell that planned to storm parliament and decapitate the Prime Minister prayed at the latter.65 The Salaheddin Islamic Center's imam, Aly Hindy, refused to join 120 other Canadian imams in condemning the London Tube Bombings in 2004, and he later defended members of the Toronto 18 terror cell.66 He also directs his parishioners not to cooperate with Canadian authorities, and officiates at illegal polygamous weddings.67
Canada's 2011 census, the most recent data available from the Government of Canada, recorded 1.05 million Muslims in the country, equaling 3.2 percent of the total population.68 Sixty-eight percent of Canada's Muslims are immigrants, and more than 387,000 Muslims have entered Canada since 2001. A majority of Canada's Muslims live in the province of Ontario (581,950) and most of those are located in the city of Toronto (424,930). The province of Quebec hosts the second largest Muslim community (243,430), 221,040 of whom live in Montreal, and it is home to many immigrants from the former French colonies of Algeria and Lebanon. Sizeable Muslim populations also reside in the provinces of Alberta (113,445) and British Columbia (79,310).
Continued immigration and a high birth rate are rapidly increasing those numbers, making Islam Canada's fastest growing religion. Between 2001 and 2011, for example, Muslims grew from 2% of the population to 3.2%.69 The community is very ethnically diverse. It was recorded in 2001 that 36.7 percent were South Asian, 21.1 percent were Arab, 14.0 percent were West Asian, and 14.2 percent belonged to other groups.70 This Muslim population tends to underperform compared to the larger Canadian public on a number of measures. As of 2001, for example, the Muslim community suffered a 14.4 percent unemployment rate, almost double the national rate of 7.4 percent.71 An updated analysis based on the 2011 Statistics Canada National Household Survey similarly found that 13.9 percent of Muslims in Canada were unemployed, as compared to a 7.8 percent national unemployment rate in Canada.72
However, despite the disproportionately high unemployment rate, according to a 2007 Environics poll, 81 percent of Canadian Muslims "felt satisfied with the way things were going in their country."73 Unfortunately, the same Environics poll highlighted a troubling propensity for radicalism among respondents, with about 12 percent of Canadian Muslims polled saying that the terrorist plot to storm Parliament and behead the Prime Minister was justified.74
Perhaps that often-vocal minority explains why a 2010 Leger Marketing poll found that 55 percent of Canadians disagreed when asked whether "Muslims share our values."75 A subsequent 2009 Angus Reid Strategies poll uncovered similar opinions, with only 28 percent of Canadians polled viewing Islam favorably, compared with 72 percent approval for Christianity and 53 percent approval for Judaism.76
The updated 2016 Environics report on Muslims in Canada found similarly mixed results. On the one hand, it found that 83 percent of Muslims polled were "very proud to be Canadian," compared to 73 percent of non-Muslims in Canada. However, when it comes to social views, on issues such as acceptance of homosexuals in society, and the dominance of men in the household, for instance, Muslims and non-Muslims have very diverging opinions. While 80 percent of Canadians believe that homosexuality should be accepted by society, only 36 percent of Muslims agree with that statement.77
Nevertheless, Islamic law has made at least a limited mark in certain locales and sectors of Canadian society. When first passed, Ontario's Arbitration Act of 1991 permitted people to submit civil disputes to arbitration panels whose decisions, if the parties consented, could deviate from Canadian civil law as long as they did not breach the criminal code.78 Controversy erupted in 2003 when the Islamic Institute for Civil Justice broadcast its intention to establish panels that would use sharia. The fierceness of the debate prompted Ontario's government to ask Marion Boyd, a former attorney general of Ontario, to study the proposal for sharia-influenced arbitration panels. Although Boyd concluded that the Arbitration Act should remain in force so long as several new safeguards were added,79 Ontario's Premier, Dalton McGuinty, ultimately decided to scrap the arbitration panels altogether. In 2006, Ontario's legislature amended the Arbitration Act to require that arbitration be "conducted exclusively in accordance with the law of Ontario or another Canadian jurisdiction."80
This precedent-setting decision to prevent Sharia law in Canada was reached, in part, thanks to protests and coordinated efforts led by prominent moderate Muslim figures in Canada, including Tarek Fatah, founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress who called it "a Saudi-funded cancer spreading across the world," and Raheel Raza, a leading liberal Muslim activist, author and documentary filmmaker who created the film "Honor Diaries."81
Canada passed its first anti-terrorism legislation, the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act (Bill C-36), in the wake of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States. Before the Anti-Terrorism Act received the Royal Assent on December 18, 2001, the Canadian criminal code did not formally define "terrorist activity." The Anti-Terrorism Act rectified this deficiency, providing a definition of both "terrorist activity" and "terrorist group,"82 and authorizing the Governor in Council, on the recommendation of the Solicitor General, to designate an entity as a terrorist group.83
The Anti-Terrorism Act's prohibition of providing financial services to terrorist groups represented Canada's first measure aimed at curbing terrorist financing. Before the Act, people could legally raise money for terrorist groups in Canada and the government could only prosecute people for directly funding a terrorist attack. However, as a practical matter, because of the opaque manner in which terrorist groups use banks and financial markets, it had proven to be almost impossible to connect donors to attacks.84
The Anti-Terrorism Act equipped authorities with several new tools to fight terrorism, including investigative hearings, preventive arrests, and new rules concerning information disclosure and rescinding a group's charity status. The Act amended the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) Act to provide authorities with a scheme for monitoring suspicious financial transactions that could be tied to terrorism. The Act also established a mechanism for rescinding organizations' charitable status if there are reasonable grounds to believe that it has or will fund a terrorist group.85
However, in the wake of the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing, Liberals and Conservatives united to pass the Combating Terrorism Act. The bill revives the investigative hearing and preventive detention practices discontinued in 2007. Authorities may compel someone to submit to interrogation if he or she is suspected of having knowledge of a terrorist act, and they may imprison anyone who refuse to cooperate for up to twelve months. Authorities may also detain someone for up to three days and impose probationary conditions for up to a year on anyone suspected of engaging in terrorist activity.86
In the wake of the two Islamist terrorist attacks that resulted in the death of two members of the Canadian Forces in October, 2014 the Harper government introduced updates to the Anti-Terrorism Act in January 2015, through Bill C-51. The bill—an Act to enact the Security of Canada Information Sharing Act and the Secure Air Travel Act, to amend the Criminal Code, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and to make related and consequential amendments to other Acts—sought to broaden the mandate of CSIS and to allow various Canadian government agencies to share information more easily, with the goal of proactively thwarting attacks before they happen.87 While Bill C-51 sparked some controversy, it was passed and received royal assent in June 2015. During the 2015 Canadian election campaign, current Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged to amend the bill in order to strike a greater balance between promoting security and respecting civil liberties. Despite this pledge, the Trudeau government has not taken steps to amend the Act since forming government in late 2015.88
Prime Minister Trudeau, much like former U.S. President Barack Obama, is reluctant to discuss the threat posed by Islamists in Canada, and avoids using the term Islamist terrorism. In September 2016, Trudeau visited a gender-segregated mosque, the Ottawa Muslim Association, whose imam is a member of a group considered by some to be a terrorist organization. Trudeau met with Samy Metwally, who is a member of the International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS), which was founded by Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Muslim Brotherhood's leading ideological figure. In 2014, the United Arab Emirates listed IUMS on its list of designated terrorist organizations.89
Trudeau's candidate selection and subsequent members of the Liberal caucus also raise concerns about his apparent lack of concern toward individuals with connections with Islamists in Canada and abroad. Two members of his Liberal caucus, MPs Ali Ehassi and Majid Jowhari, are also Iranian nationals, and have been lobbying to re-open diplomatic ties with Iran. The two men hosted an invitation-only roundtable event in Toronto in November 2016 to discuss Canadian-Iranian relations. The event was criticized for being stacked with pro-regime voices and not discussing Iran's human rights violations.90
Possibly even more concerning is Mississauga Liberal MP Omar Alghabra, who Trudeau appointed as the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. The Saudi-born Syrian Alghabra is the former president of the Canadian Arab Federation, an organization that was defunded by the Canadian government in 2009 over its participating in a conference with Hamas and Hezbollah delegates and for comparing Israelis to Nazis. In 2014, a Federal Court ruling upheld the decision, citing evidence that included a sign threatening to murder a Jewish child, and because of a CAF-sponsored essay contest on the topic of "ethnic cleansing" in Israel. Alghabra once wrote an open letter calling Israel "a country that is conducting a brutal and the longest contemporary occupation in the world."91
While Canada has the unfortunate reputation, particularly in the United States, for not taking national security and terrorism seriously, this stereotype is not accurate. Canada has made significant stride and marked legal progress in investigating and combating terrorism, and the silent majority of Canadians support measures to boost immigration security and protect the safety of Canadians. While terrorism and the broader threat of Islamist infiltration remains a threat to Canada, Canadians and Canadian security officials remain vigilant against the various threats of Islamist organizations and terrorist groups.
[1] Statistics Canada, "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables," http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=0&PID=105399&PRID=0&PTYPE=105277&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2013&THEME=95&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=.[2] Andrew Millie and Dilip K. Das, Contemporary Issues in Law Enforcement and Policing (Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2008), 88.[3] Stewart Bell, Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around the World (Ontario: Wiley, 2005), 42.
[4] "In Depth: Air India, The Victims," CBC News, March 16, 2005, http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/airindia/victims.html.
[5] Canadian Security Intelligence Service, Public Report, 2013-2014, February 2015. https://www.csis.gc.ca/pblctns/nnlrprt/2013-2014/2013-2014_Public_Report_Inside_ENG.pdf.
[6] Ibid.
[7] "Khadr Family," Global Jihad, September 15, 2010, http://www.globaljihad.net/view_page.asp?id=902.
[8] Anti-Defamation League, "Canada And Terrorism," January 2004, http://www.adl.org/terror/tu/tu_0401_canada.asp.
[9] "Youngest Guantanamo Detainee Pleads Guilty," CNN, October 25, 2010, http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/10/25/khadr.plea/.
[10]Michelle Shephard, "Omar Khadr Repatriated to Canada," Toronto Star, September 29, 2012, http://www.thestar.com/news/2012/09/29/omar_khadr_repatriated_to_canada.html
[11] Colin Perkel, "Omar Khadr wins right to expand $20M suit vs. Canadian government," The Canadian Press. October 23, 2014. http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/omar-khadr-wins-right-to-to-expand-20m-suit-vs-canadian-government-1.2811226.[12] Stewart Bell, Cold Terror: How Canada Nurtures and Exports Terrorism Around the World (Ontario: Wiley, 2005), 140.[13] "Fateh Kamel," Global Jihad, September 15, 2010, http://www.globaljihad.net/view_page.asp?id=294.
[14] Stewart Bell, "Montreal man with terror-related convictions denied passport," National Post, September 15, 2011, http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/montreal-man-with-terror-related-convictions-denied-passport.
[15] "Court Restores Rule that Denied Terrorist a Passport," Toronto Star, January 29, 2009, http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2009/01/29/court_restores_rule_that_denied_terrorist_a_passport.html.
[16] Angelique Chrisafis, Julian Borger, Justin McCurry, and Terry Macalister, "In Amenas: Timeline of Four-Day Siege in Algeria," Guardian (London), January 25, 2013, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jan/25/in-amenas-timeline-siege-algeria.
[17] Tonda MacCharles, "'Clear leader of raid on Algerian plant was Ali Medlej, Canadian officials believe," Toronto Star, September 19, 2013, https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/09/19/clear_leader_of_raid_on_algerian_plant_was_ali_medlej_canadian_officials_believe.html.
[18] Tonda MacCharles, "Mauritania Jailed Canadian Aaron Yoon for Al Qaeda Ties, Says Amnesty," Toronto Star, April 5, 2013, http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2013/04/05/aaron_yoon_serving_twoyear_sentence_in_mauritania_for_al_qaeda_ties_amnesty_international.html.[19] "Aaron Yoon trying to readjust to life in London after time in Mauritanian prison," CTV London, September 18, 2013, http://london.ctvnews.ca/aaron-yoon-trying-to-readjust-to-life-in-london-after-time-in-mauritanian-prison-1.1460730.
[20] "Toronto 18 Bomb Plot Chief' Jailed," Al-Jazeera (Doha), September 28, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2010/01/201011935438946391.html
[21] "Another 'Toronto 18' Member Pleads Guilty," CBC News, September 28, 2010, http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2010/01/20/toronto-18-plea941.html.
[22] Christie Blatchford, "'Toronto 18' Case Our First Sign that 'Good Canadian Boys' are being Radicalized Too," National Post, April 2, 2013, http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/04/02/christie-blatchford-toronto-18-case-our-first-sign-that-good-canadian-boys-are-being-radicalized-too/.
[23] Megan O'Toole, Stewart Bell and Adrian Humphreys, "I Don't Want a Book Written By Humans: VIA Terror Plot Accused again Rejects Criminal Code," National Post, May 23, 2013, http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/05/23/i-dont-want-a-book-written-by-humans-via-terror-plot-accused-again-rejects-criminal-code/.
[24] Robert Bostelaar, "Hiva Alizadeh pleads guilty to terror plot," Ottawa Citizen, September 18, 2014, http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/hiva-alizadeh-pleads-guilty-to-terror-plot.
[25] "Hiva Alizadeh pleads guilty in Ottawa terrorism trial" CBC News, September 17, 2014, http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/ottawa/hiva-alizadeh-pleads-guilty-in-ottawa-terrorism-trial-1.2768944.
[26] Erika Tucker, "Who is Quebec terror-linked suspect Martin Rouleau?" Global News, November 30, 2014, http://globalnews.ca/news/1626457/who-is-quebec-terror-linked-suspect-martin-rouleau/.
[27] Evan Solomon, "Ottawa shooting: The face-to-face encounter that ended the attack on Parliament," CBC News, October 24, 2014, http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/ottawa-shooting-the-face-to-face-encounter-that-ended-the-attack-on-parliament-1.2812802.
[28] Department of Public Safety, Government of Canada. "2016 Public Report on the Terrorist Threat to Canada," August 25, 2016. https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/2016-pblc-rpr-trrrst-thrt/index-en.aspx.
[29] Ibid
[30] Stewart Bell, "About 180 'individuals with a nexus to Canada' suspected of participating in terrorist activities oversea," National Post, August 25, 2016, http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-a-target-of-direct-threats-from-isil-and-other-extremists-government-says-in-overdue-report
[31] Stewart Bell, "Canada pushed EU to add Hezbollah to list of banned terrorist organizations, officials says," July 24, 2013, http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada-pushed-eu-to-add-hezbollah-to-list-of-banned-terrorist-organizations-official-says
[32] Matthew Levitt, "Another path to Martydom," National Post, August 28, 2013, http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/matthew-levitt-another-path-to-martyrdom.
[33] Ibid.
[34] Ibid.
[35] Ibid.
[36] Anti-Defamation League, "Canada and Terrorism."
[37] Bell, Cold Terror, 107.
[38] "Group goes to court to get Hezbollah banned," CBC News, November 29, 2002, http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/group-goes-to-court-to-get-hezbollah-banne...
[39] U.S. Department of the Treasury, "Treasury Identifies Lebanese Canadian Bank Sal as a 'Primary Money Laundering Concern,'" February 10, 2011, https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/tg1057.aspx.
[40] Ibid.
[41] Ibid.
[42] Ibid.
[43] Michael Petrou, "Iran's long reach into Canada," Macleans, June 20, 2012, http://www.macleans.ca/authors/michael-petrou/irans-long-reach-into-canada/.
[44] Candice Malcolm "A hawk among doves," C2C Journal, March 1, 2016, http://www.c2cjournal.ca/2016/03/a-hawk-among-doves/.
[45] Department of Public Safety, Government of Canada, "Currently Listed Entities," October 20, 2010 http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/ns/le/cle-eng.aspx - Hamas.
[46] Paul Lungen, "Group Claims Hamas Raising Funds in Canada," Canadian Jewish News, November 22, 2004, http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5971&Itemid=86.
[47] Bell, Cold Terror, 107.
[48] Stewart Bell, "Muslim group appealing Ottawa's 'unreasonable' and 'unconstitutional' decision to list it as a terrorist entity," National Post, May 4, 2014, http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/muslim-non-profit-appealing-ottawas-unreasonable-and-unconstitutional-decision-to-list-it-as-a-terrorist-group.
[49] Ibid.
[50] Ibid.
[51] Anti-Defamation League, "Canada And Terrorism."
[52] Anti-Defamation League, "Backgrounder: The Holy Land Foundation for Relief And Development," May 28, 2009, http://www.adl.org/main_Terrorism/backgrounder_holyland.htm.
[53] "Canadian Pleads Guilty In Plot To Kill Jews," CBC News, November 24, 2004, http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2004/11/24/akkal-israel041124.html.
[54] Rami Amichai, "Israel Remands Canadian In Alleged Attack Plot," The Age (Melbourne), December 16, 2003, http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/15/1071336890251.html.
[55] Stewart Bell, "The Holy War Comes To Canada," National Post, October 23, 2003, http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=15775.
[56] Ibid.
[57] Department of Public Safety, Government of Canada, "Listed Terrorist Entities," https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/ntnl-scrt/cntr-trrrsm/lstd-ntts/index-en.aspx.
[58] Canadian Islamic Congress, "Facts About the CIC," September 10, 2010, http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/cicfacts.php.
[59] Wahida Valiante, "The New Syndrome - F.e.a.r. -- Fear Everything Anxiety Reaction," Friday Magazine 9, iss. 60 (2006), http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/opeds/article.php?id=2840; Canadian Islamic Congress, "Islamic Congress And Arab Federation Call On All Canadians To Condemn Continuing Israeli War Crimes In Gaza," January 21, 2008, http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/mc/media_communique.php?id=985.
[60] Canadian Islamic Congress, "Islamic Congress Urges Government to Take Hezbollah And Hamas Off Terrorist' List," August 22, 2006, http://www.canadianislamiccongress.com/mc/media_communique.php?id=814.
[61] The Investigative Project on Terrorism, "Muslim Student's Association," January 1, 2008, http://www.investigativeproject.org/profile/166.
[62] Muslim Student's Association, "Constitution/Bylaws," October 25, 2010, http://www.msanational.org/about/constitution.[63] Jonathan Dowd-Gailey, "Islamism's Campus Club: The Muslim Students' Association," Middle East Quarterly 11, no. 1 (2004), 63-72.
[64] Ibid.
[65] Anthony DePalma, "Six of 17 Arrested In Canada's Antiterror Sweep Have Ties To Mosque Near Toronto," New York Times, June 5, 2006.
[66] "Mohammed Adam, Fundamentalist And Proud Of It," Ottawa Citizen, August 13, 2005, http://www.truthandgrace.com/clericscarborough.htm.
[67] Noor Javed, "GTA's Secret World of Polygamy," Toronto Star, May 24, 2008, http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/429490.
[68] Statistics Canada, "2011 National Household Survey: Data tables," http://www12.statcan.gc.ca/nhs-enm/2011/dp-pd/dt-td/Rp-eng.cfm?LANG=E&APATH=3&DETAIL=0&DIM=0&FL=A&FREE=0&GC=0&GID=0&GK=0&GRP=0&PID=105399&PRID=0&PTYPE=105277&S=0&SHOWALL=0&SUB=0&Temporal=2013&THEME=95&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=..
[69] Statistics Canada, "2001 Census: Selected Religions, For Canada, Provinces And Territories," n.d., http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/highlight/Religion/Page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo=PR&View=1a&Code=01&Table=1&StartRec=1&Sort=2&B1=Canada&B2=1.
[70] Jennifer Selby, "Islam In Canada," EuroIslam.info, September 21, 2010, http://www.euro-islam.info/country-profiles/canada/.
[71] Statistics Canada, "2001 Census: Selected Cultural And Labour Force Characteristics (58), Selected Religions (35A), Age Groups (5A) And Sex (3) For Population 15 Years And Over, For Canada, Provinces, Territories And Census Metropolitan Areas," n.d., http://www12.statcan.ca/english/census01/products/standard/themes/RetrieveProductTable.cfm?Temporal=2001&PID=67773&APATH=3&GID=517770&METH=1&PTYPE=55496&THEME=56&FOCUS=0&AID=0&PLACENAME=0&PROVINCE=0&SEARCH=0&GC=0&GK=0&VID=0&VNAMEE=&VNAMEF=&FL=0&RL=0&FREE.[72] "Canadian Muslims face high unemployment," IQRA.ca March 31, 2015, http://iqra.ca/2015/canadian-muslims-face-high-unemployment/.
[73] "Canada's Muslims: An International Comparison," CBC News, February 13, 2007, http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/islam/muslim-survey.html.
[74] David B. Harris, "Is Canada Losing The Balance Between Liberty And Security?" in Alexander Moens and Martin Collacott, eds., Immigration Policy and the Terrorist Threat in Canada and the United States (Vancouver: Fraser Institute, 2008), 137.[75] Elizabeth Thompson, "Canadians Don't Believe That Muslims Share Their Values," National Post, September 10, 2010, http://www.nationalpost.com/Canadians+believe+Muslims+share+their+values+poll/3508281/story.html.
[76] John Geddes, "What Canadians Think Of Sikhs, Jews, Christians, Muslims," Maclean's, April 28, 2009, http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/04/28/what-canadians-think-of-sikhs-jews-christians-muslims/.
[77] Environics, "Survey of Muslims in Canada, 2016," http://www.environicsinstitute.org/uploads/institute-projects/survey%20of%20muslims%20in%20canada%202016%20-%20final%20report.pdf.
[78] Anthony Bradney, Law and Faith in a Skeptical Age (New York: Routledge, 2009), 49.
[79] Marion Boyd, "Dispute Resolution In Family Law: Protecting Choice, Promoting Inclusion," December 20, 2004, http://www.attorneygeneral.jus.gov.on.ca/english/about/pubs/boyd/.
[80] Arbitration Act, 1991, S.O. 1991, c. 17 (version in force between 22 June 2006 and 29 April 2007), http://www.canlii.org/en/on/laws/stat/so-1991-c-17/1917/so-1991-c-17.html - history.
[81] Dana Kennedy, "Canada's Growing Jihadi Cancer," Daily Beast, December 13, 2015, http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/14/canada-s-growing-jihadist-cancer.html
[82] Department of Justice, Government of Canada, "About the Anti-terrorism Act," http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ns-sn/act-loi.html.
[83] Ibid.
[84] Bell, Cold Terror, 97.
[85] Department of Justice, Government of Canada, "About the Anti-terrorism Act," http://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/cj-jp/ns-sn/act-loi.html.
[86] "Controversial Anti-terrorism Tools Revived as Bill Passes," CBC News, April 24, 2013, http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/controversial-anti-terrorism-tools-revived-as-bill-passes-1.1414767.
[87] Parliament of Canada, Statutes of Canada 2015, Chapter 20, Second Session, Forty-first Parliament, http://www.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&DocId=8056977&File=4.
[88] Chris Hall, "Trudeau tracker: Promised changes to anti-terrorism law C-51 still months away," CBC News, May 17, 2016, http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeau-tracker-anti-terrorism-bill-1.3586337.
[89] Anthony Furey, "Trudeau visits mosque with terror connections," Toronto Sun, September 12, 2016, http://www.torontosun.com/2016/09/12/trudeau-visits-mosque-with-terror-connections.
[90] Michael Petrou, "Liberal MPs defend invitation list for Stephane Dion roundtable on Iran," CBC News, November 4, 2016, http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/iran-canada-dion-engagement-1.3834592.
[91] Ari Yashar, "Is Trudeau's new Foreign Minister Secretary a Hamas backer?" Israel National News, April 12, 2016, http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/204406


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Many of you who use Google Chrome beta on your computers have had access to this feature for a while, but it has just now come to the stable version of Google Chrome. Instead of searching by hitting a mic button and speaking, Chrome now listens for the "OK Google" command, much like Google Now on your Android device.
This feature can be enabled on the regular Chrome browser for anyone in the US and will be available both on the Google and the "New Tab" pages. All you have to do is say "OK Google" and start searching with your voice. It's a pretty nifty addition, though I don't see myself searching with my voice on a computer anytime soon.
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Youth Basketball Warm Ups
Basketball Warm Ups – Pre Game
Is your team using this very important part of the game wisely?
Many youth basketball coaches take the Pre-Game warm up for granted, but there are many that make the most of it. The best basketball philosophy is to make the best out of every moment you have to ensure that you are getting your players ready to play – and the pre-game warm up is a great place to start! Here are many important Youth Basketball Warm Ups and Tips to help you succeed. Check out our new download basketball publication "Team Drills for Youth Basketball"
Typical Pre-Game Basketball Warm-ups – Good or Bad?
Although shooting free throws before a game is important, I would debate on whether having 12 players standing around waiting for their turn to shoot a free throw is the best way to warm up (see diagram below).
The point is this: Players have to pass, catch, run, shoot, dribble, jump, and play defense in the game – why aren't they warming up and getting ready to use these skills? In a real game, players shoot free throws when they are tired so why not practice free throws that way? If you are going to do this basic free throw warm up, why not have some of your players running sprints to the side before they shoot?
Typical "Free Throw" warm up!
Coaching Tip - Warm Up Suggestions
Coaches – Analyze your pre-game warm up to make sure that you are getting your players prepared for the game! Make the most of your pre-game warm so you players can be their best in the game! Use the best Basketball Warm Ups that are the most effective.
Check out some suggested warm up routines below.
Pre-Game Basketball Warm Ups / Drills with Handout
We have made a Handout available for coaches to better demonstrate the following suggestions for Warming Up and what it would look like on the court.
Pre-Game / Basketball Warm Up Drills – Handout
Suggestion #1 – (15 or more minutes to warm up)
A very good pre-game warm up routine when there is 15 minutes or more to warm up. The players rotate in the order they are numbered (1 goes to the 2 position, 2 to the 3, 4 to the 5, and so on). Notice how the player shooting the free throw rotates from a defensive drill (so they will be a little "winded" before they shoot). Add your own drills or create your own warm up, etc.
1. Two Player Passing:
* Works on passing and catching skills – changing from bounce passes to chest passes. Players should "look the ball into their hands.
Passing Drill (2-players / 1 Ball)
2. Free Throw Shooting / Boxing Out:
* Shoot some Free Throws, and have players Boxing out (not just standing there).
3. Ball Handling:
* Figure 8 Dribbling, Crossover Dribbling, Around the Waste, etc.
Crossover / Basic (stationary)
4. Zig-Zag Step Slide – Defense:
* Work on defensive slides using the proper stance, staying low and level (don't bounce up and down). Keep arms up and out.
5. Pull Back Crossover or the Nose Drill:
* Work on this very important ball handling skill – the Pull-Back Crossover is used to get out of "traps" and pressure defenses. The Nose Drill is one of the best Basketball Warm Ups and pre-game warm up drill that is widely used at all levels.
Pull Back Crossover Drill - Front View
Suggestion #2 – (8-10 minutes to warm up)
The "Baseline" Shooting Drill / Weave to Half Court then 2 on 1 Drill – One of the most popular warm up drills used by coaches to get their players ready for a game (especially when there is only 10 minutes or less to warm up). This drill mainly covers mostly shooting (game shots), it also covers other important skills such as passing, catching, hustle and conditioning, then move on to the Half Court Weave drill (which incorporates passing, catching, defense, and fast break skill work).
Weave to Half Court / 2 on 1 Drill
Suggestion #3 – (5-6 minutes or less to warm up)
The "Baseline" Shooting Drill – Would be my choice of warm up drill if we only had 5-6 minutes to warm up. Even though this drill mainly covers mostly shooting (game shots), it also covers other important skills such as passing, catching, hustle and conditioning. As long as your players hustle during this drill, they will get a good pre-game workout out of it.
Suggestion #4 – (change it up a little)
Half Court Lay ups with Boxing out is another favorite of mine. The younger players take a lot of lay ups in the game (and need to remember to box out), so why not practice full speed lay ups and boxing out during the pre-game. Have your assistant coach stand on the opposite block so the players have someone to box out. As long as your players go full speed and box out hard during this drill, they will get a good pre-game workout out of it.
Pre-Game – Basketball Warm Ups / Drills – Notes
a) Make sure that you know how much time you will have to warm up – then plan accordingly.
b) Plan for the unknown – Make sure that you have a warm up plan ready for 20 minute, 10 minute, and even 5 minute warm up times so your team will get the most out of any time frame you have to deal with.
c) Make sure all the players keep busy, and they all get equal time out of the warm up.
d) Design your own pre-game warm up to your teams needs.
Important Note on Stretching Out – Attending Tournaments
Stretching is very important prior to a game. Usually when your team is attending a tournament (where you play 2-3 games a day) there never seems to be enough time to stretch? One of the things that I do to ensure that the players will have time to stretch before the games is to have them in uniform and ready to go 30 minutes (sometimes 45 minutes) before the game. This way even though things get a little crazy at tournaments, the players will always be stretched and ready to play (sometimes tournament games will start earlier (or later) than expected).
More on Stretching (go to our Stretching Menu)
Half Time Pre-Game Warm Up
How is your team using this time?
Many coaches also take the Half time Pre-Game warm up for granted. Whether your team is winning or losing at half time, it's also best to keep the players warmed up. I have seen some coaches just toss some basketballs out there and just let the players have at it. The team looks undisciplined, unruly, and are all over the place. Kind of looks like this coach is saying we are going to win or lose anyway – so what's the big deal? I have seen a few players get hurt because it got out of control. I have seen starters never touch the ball before the second half because there are so many players fighting to get a ball, etc. My suggestion is to also have a structured half time pre-game warm up. Even if it's just to keep the players disciplined and focused on why they are there. Hopefully you have gained some insight on these Youth Basketball Warm Ups / Tips presented on this page.
Make the most out of anytime you have your players on the court! Make good use of the best Basketball Warm Ups to help your team succeed!
Check out our new download basketball publication "Team Drills for Youth Basketball" Lots of information on Team Drills that will increase the skills of your players, and help with Basketball Warm Ups. Lots of Diagrams and the Video Clips to help bring the information to life! Can't beat the price for this much information.
Basketball Warm Ups
2 Responses to Youth Basketball Warm Ups
Wow thank you for these tips,I am a basketball player for my high school and want to continue my career into the coaching fields and this gave me bits and pieces that seem way more important than they are,I definitely will apply these skills and assets to my game. Keep up the great work!!
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Rick Springfield threatened to kill a cop and his family during the singer's DUI arrest earlier this month!
Who knew Rick Springfield was such a dangerous criminal? Word has leaked that the Jessie's Girl singer threatened to kill a cop and the cop's family when he was being arrested for a DUI earlier this month.
Here's how it went down: Springfield was arrested for DUI on May 1 in Malibu while driving a $200,000 1963 Corvette Stingray. When the sheriff's deputy told him his car would be towed, Springfield completely lost it. Law enforcement sources told TMZ the singer began yelling Mel Gibson style, "If you tow my car I will [expletive] kill you and your family."
No mention of the incident appears in the arrest report, which merely states the singer was "belligerent" -- and sources say the deputy was pressured to leave it out by his captain. This sheriff's station just happens to be the same one that rewrote Mel Gibson's 2006 arrest report to leave out his anti-Semitic rants, which eventually leaked to the press anyway.
What does Springfield have to say about this? His people aren't denying it. His rep told TMZ, "Someone has leaked information illegally. It's a sad reflection on society today that people in law enforcement who we look up to, pander to the celebrity gossip channels."
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One of Audrey's specialties is her heart for her home. Over the past 6 months, she has given us many tutorials for projects that can bless our homes. To help us get started, she gave us this pretty comprehensive list of crafting supplies and sources - so helpful!
And here are just a few of her most popular projects:
Project B - a frugal remake of a wall-hanging.
Living Clay plaque - a meaningful poem that's pretty to display - would be a great Mother's Day present!
Photo Tile with video tutorial - one of the most popular posts on the whole blog! Another great gift idea!
tea parties and vintage aprons, she's given us several ideas for keeping the romance alive in marriage:
Romantic Dinner Date at Home - complete with an indoor tent for heightened mood-setting. :-)
Confessions of the Heart - an in-depth look at Audrey, full of truth and encouragement.
Cleaning Games and Rewards - really good ideas to boost the fun in your housekeeping.
Healthy Eating Printables - to get you and your kids on track for a balanced diet.
Last, but certainly not least, here are just a few of the awesome things Amber has shared with us in the last 6 months. Amber is our resident style expert and comedienne - girl has some of the funniest stories evvaahh!! We grill her weekly for the best fashion and physical defrumping tips - especially for moms of young kids like us. She started by helping us figure out our figures and what styles look best by body type.
Amber's got a great head of hair, but she's not gonna let it be boring, no sir! Check out these great hair tutorials she's done for us!
Sock Bun in 3 Minutes or Less - this is one of our most popular posts on the whole blog! Way to go Amber!!
Sideways Fishbone Braid - so cute! And a great spring look!
The Messy French Twist - using those fancy twisting pins. And a farewell to one of our dear friends - we miss you Sara!!
Braided Headband - isn't she just a cutie?
$1 Necklace Tutorial - grab some friends, some fabric, some cheap necklaces, and a hot glue gun, and you've got a party and some stylish jewelry!
DIY Leather Wrap Bracelet - for like $5, she made several bracelets that look just like some $400+ listed ones from a magazine!
Home Decor - variations on ideas from our good pal Pinterest. Like this letter wall (which I saw in Amber's house loooonngg before Pinterest came along).
Italian Cream Soda recipe? I love that Amber came up with this from a favorite from a local coffee shop. What a cheap and easy alternative!
And, possibly my two favorite posts from Amber....
Me Party - How to dress cute at home!! I love these easy tips for defrumping even when you're at home alone. It's all about the attitude, people!
Copycat Fashion - I love that she took ideas from the web and pulled together copycat outfits from her own closet. It's inspirational really. :-)
Did you see anything new in these two review posts? Maybe I just refreshed your memory on some of your favorites, too. Do you have a favorite that I've missed? What would you like to see from the gals at Defrump Me? We'd love to hear from you!!
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Diamonds with no inclusions are rare and as a result can command a rather high price tag.
For every diamond that is colorless and without inclusions there are millions upon millions of stones that have inclusions to lesser or greater degrees.
Inclusions can get in the way of a diamond's sparkle. For this reason a great deal effort has been dedicated to exploring ways that these diamonds can be made beautiful.
Not every diamond is a candidate for clarity enhancement. There are only certain conditions which can be addressed by enhancement techniques.
It is estimated that one out of every 500 diamonds in need of clarity enhancement can have the process applied to it.
The techniques developed are quite advanced and involve some pretty high tech machinery.
A vast amount of research and expense has gone into developing diamond clarity enhancement.
One of the methods used in clarity enhancement involves laser-drilling a microscopic hole in the diamond. The inclusion if not made of diamond itself is then cleared with sulphuric acid.
If required the hole is then filled with a patented substance that is extremely durable. Though the ingredients are not public knowledge you could compare the filler to something like molten glass.
It has a high refractive index, meaning that light passes through it in the same way that it passes through a diamond. The material is also used to fill tiny feather fractures in which case no drilling is required.
Clarity enhanced diamonds are much more affordable than naturally occurring diamonds, all other aspects being equal. For many people the trade-off is worth it.
Diamonds-USA offers a huge range of natural diamonds. They also stock clarity enhanced and color enhanced diamonds. All listings of their Clarity Enhanced diamonds show the letters C.E. making it very easy to see which diamonds have received some form of treatment.
You will quickly see that Clarity Enhanced Diamonds have prices far below natural diamonds of the same size and grading.
Here are a few points to keep in mind when buying Clarity Enhanced Diamonds
- Make your purchase only from outlets or online vendors who disclose in writing all treatments (including laser drilling) to diamonds and other gemstones in compliance with the FTC Guidelines and the AGTA Gemstone Enhancement Manual.
- Find out if the vendor deals with any lab created stones and if they are clearly labeled as such.
- Find out about any imported stones and whether they are labeled with country of origin.
- Read the written disclosures and disclaimers on sales invoices and laboratory/grading reports.
- Only buy clarity enhanced diamonds that have a lifetime guarantee on the enhancement such as is provided by Diamonds-USA


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I could go on and on how much inspiration NYC gives me.
Finally my last trip motivated me to create something that has been on my mind for a while… more art direction – animation – graphic design focused editorial.
Since I am a fashion illustrator and designer, I wanted to find the link between my passion for street style and multi media in one. There is so much digital content out there combining gifs, animation and fashion that I finally knew there was a time to incorporate it into my blog!
I hope you enjoy my animated editorial… While I think how to get back to NYC 😀
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Public school construction in California is supposed to be tightly monitored to make sure it meets earthquake safety standards.
"You're making sure that the contractor and project management is performing the job ? per the approved plans of Division of State Architecture," said inspector David Bridi.
Bridi also says inspectors help keep contractors honest because "contractors will try to use a substitute product or a lesser product. I'm saying 90 percent of the time, the contractor is trying to cut corners."
Inspectors are supposed to be the watchdogs of school construction projects. They're tested and licensed by the state. But is the state always doing its job?
One case to consider is that of Richard Vale.
"We couldn't trust anything that he did or said," said Los Angeles City inspector Doug Devine.
Devine reviewed Vale's work on a Los Angeles program that involved seismic anchors, which are metal rods that tie roofs and floors to walls and keep the building together in an earthquake.
But in more than two dozen projects, Devine found these makeshift seismic anchors. When the city tested those anchors, they failed.
So who had approved them?
"We found out that it was only the deputy inspector, Richard Vale, who was allowing these anchors to be put in," Devine said.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office charged Vale of filing false reports, and in 1997, Vale plead no contest to conspiracy to obstruct justice, a felony.
"I didn't want him out there ever inspecting anything in our city again," Devine said.
But that wasn't the end of Vale. Not only did he obtain a DSA inspector's license, but as recently as last year he worked on major school construction projects.
How could the DSA certify someone with Vale history?
"I'm simply not sure of the details of this particular case," said Howard Smith, acting state architect.
As it turns out, the DSA doesn't do criminal background checks.
"Our program, our process, our supporting regulations don't address that," Smith said. "I'm not saying it's not a good idea to look at that."
Reached by phone, Vale said "You're talking about trying to smear me and also one of the finest agencies in the state of California ... over something that was a long time ago, and was put to rest by a lot of people."
Vale isn't the only troubling case. In a review of the last three decades, California Watch found nearly 300 school inspectors with documented problems, ranging from absenteeism to failing to identify construction defects.
"Do I think it's an alarmist problem right now at this moment? No. I don't," Smith said.
But former state legislator Sally Lieber sees it differently.
"I don't agree that it's just a room for improvement situation," she said."All of the incentives are there to cut corners."
Lieber said that because inspectors are actually hired by the districts, they may face pressure to look the other way on projects to stay employed.
"The status quo gives the contractors and the local districts all the flexibility of the fox guarding the henhouse," Lieber said.
To learn more about seismic dangers and earthquake zones that are near Southland schools, click here.


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SF Sketchfest 2018 runs from January 11 to January 28, 2018 and we've got plenty of shows for you to see! You can purchase tickets for your favorite shows using the links below.
Thursday, January 11
8pm Judge John Hodgman
Friday, January 12
10:30pm Jordan, Jesse, Go! with Andy Richter
Sunday, January 14
1pm Shmanners
4pm We Got This with Mark and Hal
Wednesday, January 17
7:30pm The Greatest Generation & Friendly Fire Podcast Super Show
Friday, January 19
10:30pm Guy Branum's Talk Show the Game Show
Sunday, January 21
1pm One Bad Mother
New to Bullseye? Subscribe to our podcast in iTunes or with your favorite podcatcher to make sure you automatically get the newest episode every week.
Guy Branum is a comedian, writer, actor, podcaster, and now host of his own new TV show, Talk Show The Game Show. Before his career in media, he had his sights set on being a lawyer, completing a law degree and passing the bar exam before leaving that life behind. He realized he had an overwhelming passion for pop culture, and he began his career in stand-up. Eventually, he landed a writing and commentator position on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, and is now a writer on The Mindy Project. He is the host of Bullseye's sister show and Maximum Fun's own Pop Rocket podcast.
In this extended interview, Guy tells Jesse about his new show and some of the challenges that came with creating it. He shares what it was like growing up gay in a farming town outside of Sacramento, his journey of coming out to his family and friends, and why he uses the word "charming" so often.
You can watch Guys show every Wednesday at 10/9c on truTV.
Academic and writer Emily Lordi makes the case for why Donny Hathaway's live album deserves to be added to the canon of classic music. She tells us why this 1972 record, largely made up of covers of other people's songs, is so essential to understanding the black artistic experience at the time.
If you want to know more about this album, Emily's 33 ⅓ book on the album is out now.
In honor of the premier of Guy Branum's new truTV show, the gang is talking about game shows this week! Karen reminisces about the implicit corniness of 70's and 80's game shows, Wynter talks about the accessibility differences between quiz shows like Jeopardy and Are You Smarter than a 5th Grader, and Margaret tells us about the time she was on The Price is Right. Plus, we learn about Wynter's new obsession with ASMR-adjacent Youtube click-holes, and Guy tells us why he was stunned by the latest episodes of Feud, Girls, and the gang discuss the series finale of Big Little Lies. Finally, the gang tell us which tracks they can't stop listening to.
**There are many plot revealing spoilers in this episode, particularly about the series finale of Big Little Lies**
Rocketeers, don't forget to tune into Guy Branum's NEW tv program called Talk Show The Game Show every Wednesdy at 10/9c on truTV, with a premier date of April 5th!
Guy Branum, Karen Tongson, Wynter Mitchell, and Margaret Wappler
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Wynter Mitchell - That's What I Like - Bruno Mars
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Each week we'll add everyone's jams to this handy Spotify playlist.
You can let us know what you think of Pop Rocket and suggest topics in our Facebook group or via @PopRocket on Twitter.
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This week we have a bonus Pop Rocket episode for all of you Rocketeers!
Jesse Thorn, our boss and creator of Pop Rocket, interviewed Guy for Pop Rocket's sister show Bullseye with Jesse Thorn about his new truTV show Talk Show the Game Show. Although the Bullseye interview won't air for a couple of weeks, Jesse wanted to release this episode to you, our beloved listeners, as a thank you for your continued support.
As I'm sure you know by now, it is the MaxFun Drive, the 2 weeks out of the year where we ask you, our listeners, to give back in whatever way possible. You can go to the MaxFun website to donate at whatever level you can. You can also pick up some awesome thank you gifts, among which is the INCREDIBLE Pop Rocket enamel pin designed by Megan Lynn Kott. We really can't make this show without you and we so appreciate anything that you can give. Make sure to make some noise about your contribution to Maximum Fun by using the astag #MaxFunDrive.
You can let us know what you think of Pop Rocket and suggest topics in our Facebook group or via @PopRocket on Twitter.
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A bill to protect the right of law-abiding citizens to transport knives interstate, notwithstanding a patchwork of local and State prohibitions.
The bill's titles are written by its sponsor.
Sponsor and status
Michael Enzi
Sponsor. Senior Senator for Wyoming. Republican.
Last Updated: Feb 25, 2015
Length: 5 pages
- Introduced:
Feb 25, 2015
114th Congress, 2015–2017
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Died in a previous Congress
This bill was introduced on February 25, 2015, in a previous session of Congress, but was not enacted.
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Ordered Reported — May 20, 2015
Jan 16, 2014
Earlier Version — Introduced
This activity took place on a related bill, S. 1955 (113th).
Feb 25, 2015
Bills and resolutions are referred to committees which debate the bill before possibly sending it on to the whole chamber.
S. 567 (114th) was a bill in the United States Congress.
A bill must be passed by both the House and Senate in identical form and then be signed by the President to become law.
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Federal law imposes additional requirements on Pennsylvania employers, such as the federal Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules that took effect nationwide on August 23, 2004. Employers must comply with the requirements of federal and state law, which are not always the same. Where federal and state law differ, employers must follow the rule that provides the greater benefit to the employee.
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The Rise of the Internal Marketing Agency
There's a new phenomenon forming within the market where big brands are looking to form their very own internal marketing agencies.
There's a new phenomenon forming within the market where big brands are looking to form their very own internal marketing agencies.
It can't be denied that digital marketing is an extremely diverse and broad field these days, with specialist agencies popping up all the time to service this or that marketing niche. Maybe it's just SEO or social media they do, or perhaps they will simply offer services within a particular market sector such as travel. Then of course you have the big players who can cover just about every conceivable sector of not only digital marketing but also the traditional side of things too.
Then you have the flip side with brands and other companies looking to set up small teams in house to look after certain areas of their own marketing. More often than not, this may cover only a handful of divisions such as search or more general marketing, where they may even spend a lot of their time managing the external agencies they contract their work out to. Quite often these teams are small or disjointed and it's amazing the amount of times I speak to people at big companies where it's obvious one hand does not know what the other is doing.
Now not all firms operate this way of course. There are plenty I could mention that have large internal marketing teams. But similarly these are still often separate bodies where there may in fact be several directors all looking after very similar practices in house with similar goals.
Recently though I have seen a new phenomenon forming within the market. Big brands that are looking to form what in essence are their very own internal marketing agencies. Not simply a handful of departments that all loosely work together, but truly uniformed divisions that are set up to run just like the agency models but purely operating for the client.
Some of these are actually quite large operations with a couple I personally deal with that have in excess of 150 dedicated in-house professionals working across all marketing functions. They have departments such as SEO, social, analytics, PR, and every other functions of marketing with all content being produced in house by extensive teams of creatives too.
Not only are these companies finding this model to be more cost effective, but also the ROI is very good as they now have large full-time teams working across all disciplines of digital and traditional marketing with dedicated project managers ensuring that the teams are liaising together and working toward the same goals.
One of the interesting upsides to this new move to form large internal agencies is the fact that these brands are actively looking to hire people from the agency world because they want to replicate how they operate. This ranges for directors of departments through account managers and executives to all of the different creative disciplines such as UX and video too.
The fact that some of the brands are so huge with massive worldwide presences enables them to place people on different internal projects reporting to a range of different stakeholders within the business. This in essence means they do actually operate and function nearly identically to an external agency in how they interact with the business.
I think you will start to see this model rolled out across more end clients over the next couple of years where they have the spending power and pockets that are deep enough to accommodate this form of business practice. It's very interesting to see some of these internal agencies that are actually larger in staff numbers than their external counterparts and I have seen quite a few leading industry figures move into these companies to help them build further.
So keep an eye on some of those huge brands out there. Especially those within the financial sector that are moving heavily into marketing and have the capability to throw a lot of cash into those departments.


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Benefit's website states that: it's a roller for lashes! The eye-opening Hook 'n' Roll™ brush grabs, separates, lifts and curls…while the instant curve-setting formula holds for 12 hours.
So let's find out...
(I used the same technique both times with no eye liner so you can see the full effect - the lighting is bad at night but hopefully you can get the idea).
My usual mascara (Maybelline)
& after 12 hours...
Benefit roller lash with they're real on top.
As you can see the Roller lash did make my lashes look slightly longer and also lasted longer. However, I think I will still be looking for a cheaper dupe - as the difference isn't huge for the price you pay for Benefit products.
Would I buy a standard Benefit Roller Lash mascara at full price? Maybe. I'm still undecided. Have you tried this mascara yet?


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Newborn Session Information
When To Book
The best time to contact me is during your pregnancy so that you don't miss out. We will make a tentative booking based on your due date and stay in touch throughout the end of your pregnancy. I will wait to hear from you when you arrive home from hospital with your new baby in order to finalize on a date. We will aim to photograph your newborn baby around 5-10 days of age.
About Your Session
Sessions will always be scheduled 10 AM in order to utilize my natural light studio. The flow of the photo session is dictated by your baby. Plan on your session taking 2-4 hours allowing for plenty of time for feeding, cuddling, and of course, diaper changes. I have lots of props for you to choose from and I like to involve you in the styling of the session.
What to Wear
You just had a baby, relax! White ribbed tanks, jeans and bare feet all photograph beautifully in the studio. Keep in mind that my studio is kept quite warm during newborn photo sessions to keep your baby comfy and to help them regulate their body temperature. For newborn sessions, keep it very simple and in one key, light, dark, or mid-tones
Proofs & Ordering
Your pictures will be ready for viewing in an online private gallery here on my website within 10 days. I will send you an email with a password to your online proofing gallery. The gallery will display approximately 20 images, each personally and creatively edited by myself. A blog post for you to share with your family and friends will also be ready at this time. Your online gallery will remain active for 2 weeks.
You can order by sending me an email with your choice of package. Once full payment is received, your products will be ordered. Your prints, canvases and other products are all printed at a professional lab and are available for pick up within two to three weeks of your order being placed unless otherwise noted.
Any unordered images will be archived. Once the gallery has been archived, there will be a $25 fee to republish it for 7 days.


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DATE: December 20, 2016
Flynn Fidgeon, Public Information Officer
Phone: 772-564-5527
The School District of Indian River County's 2018 Teacher of the Year and 2017 School Related Employee of the Year were announced last night, December 19, at the conclusion of the annual Teacher and Employee of the Year Gala which was held in the Performing Arts Center at Vero Beach High School.
2018 Indian River County School District Teacher of the Year Katelyn Fiori, Vero Beach Elementary 4th Grade Teacher:
"I am inspired by the incredible opportunity I have to help children discover and delight in knowledge. All children are born with a natural, powerful curiosity, and I humbly appreciate my responsibility to help nurture that innate desire in my students," said Katelyn Fiori.
2017 Indian River County School District School-Related Employee of the Year Jennifer Riddick, Vero Beach Elementary Student Support Specialist:
"Jennifer has coined the phrase, "your vibe, attracts your tribe," which has become the statement on our school-wide staff shirts this year. She exemplifies leadership, builds relationships with our families and community, and encourages the best in all around her", Cynthia Emerson, Vero Beach Elementary Principal
Representatives from MIidFlorida Credit Union presented the 2018 Teacher of the Year, Katelyn Fiori, with a check for $5,000 and the 2017 School Related Employee of the Year, Jennifer Riddick, with a check for $2,500. Both winners will now enter competitions for Florida Teacher of the Year and Florida School Related Employee of the Year.


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Rihanna Did Not Want Her Song on Girls
So Icona Pop is famous now.
A buried tidbit in this Q&A with Girls music supervisor Manish Raval: Icona Pop's "I Love It" was only used in the cocaine episode because Rihanna wouldn't let the show use "Talk That Talk." So … Icona Pop owes a good chunk of their success to Rihanna, basically. Also of note: Miguel, Lily Allen, Beck, and Jenny Lewis all contributed new songs to season three. You only watch Girls for the music, right?