Hello!! I'd Like You To Debase Yourself

"Hello!!"

"I'd like to come try the food but I'm mindful where I spent my money these days."

"I saw your restaurant on the boycott list but I wanted to confirm with you what your views are about the genocide in Palestine [as the boycott lists might be misinformed]."

"Look forward to hearing back."

"Thank you!" 

Enquiry on Instagram by prospective diner

 

"Are we serving politics with a side of pancakes now?"

"There's a boycott list that's been going around since October 7. I don't think I can do anything about it. I think no matter what you do, people will assume a lot of things about you and your policies and your politics."

"I've been very adamant about not discussing politics, I definitely don't want that to define us. I just thought it was interesting that we were receiving that line of questioning, and I was fairly certain that other fellow restaurateurs were not receiving the same line of questioning."

"I don't hide the fact that I'm Jewish, right? I don't think I should have to. Absolutely not. No. But I also don't think I need to discuss foreign policy in order to conduct business in Montreal, Quebec."

"We all just want to make great food, feed our families, go home."

Raegan Steinberg, chief, restaurateur, Montrealer 

Is this normal? Is this the new normal?, Chef Raegan Steinberg asks in a social media post. nationalpost.com 

 

A fourth generation Canadian, Raegan Steinberg was inspired by her father whose influence on her future profession led to her pursuing culinary training at the Art Institute of Vancouver, on her professional journey to becoming an acclaimed chef. When she returned to Montreal, she began her adventures in creative cuisine by taking employment at the well-known Joe Beef establishment. 

 

After receiving that enquiry through Instagram recently, she gave thought to why she was being queried in such a manner, and how she should proceed. Those thoughts prompted her to reach out to others in the profession in the city. She spoke in turn with a number of fellow Montreal restaurateurs and chefs, the majority of whom hadn't been tasked to respond to such questions as a preliminary to hosting a potential client who prior to committing themselves to a meal demanded to be informed of their possible relationship with Israel.

 

"Jewish restaurants were definitely a higher percentage of the few people that I spoke to", she explained in an interview, "but I think that some Jewish restaurants are more targeted than others". Possibly as a result of those that are targeted being known for their popularity reflecting the quality of their menu choices and expert food preparation. Ms. Steinberg is referred to as "a top chef" by Tastet, a Canadian restaurant guide.

 

fplmtl  Filipinos for Palestinian Liberation

 

🫒🇵🇸 Before you go out to eat in Montreal, make sure the owner doesn’t support a military regime responsible for the genocide of tens of thousands of Palestinians 😵‍💫 Many of these restaurants also claim to serve “Israeli” food and wine.

 

She is, as well, the operator of three popular restaurants in the Montreal area: Arthurs Nosh Bar in Saint-Henri, Dirty Greens and Arthurs Nosh Bar at Le Cathcart, as well as Romies located in Old Montreal.  Perhaps being associated with those well-known and successful  enterprises might lead those who look to punish entrepreneurs whose expert skills make them public figure of note in their professions, should they be rash enough to risk all by publicly stating an allegiance to Israel.

 

She and her partner opened Back of House Catering as a preliminary to opening their first Arthurs Nosh Bar in 2015 which became a Montreal brunch staple on Notre-Dame Street West. The restaurant named after her father as a tribute to him, offering Jewish cuisine seen through a Moroccan gustatory lens. 

 

That successful venture was followed by Dirty Greens at Le Cathcart where gourmet salads are featured. Raegan and partner Alexandre Cohen opened Romies in 2024, a contemporary American bistro, That was followed by Arthur's Dinette in the NDG neighbourhood in 2026.  Well and truly established. Truly successful ventures by food-adventurous and food-knowledgeable professionals whose services to the public rewarded them amply.

 

Chef Raegan Steinberg filming an Instagram reel in one of her Montreal restaurants. Photo by Instagram

 

"I don’t think there’s like a negative stain on us or anything like that."

"We’re very happy, you know. I just think it’s important for people to know what goes on behind the scenes sometimes."

Chef Raegan Steinberg  

While nothing could quite prepare them and other Jewish-owned businesses from the malevolently ignorant harassment and poisonous charges of 'genocide' that accompany Jews in Canada living out their lives in the years since Palestinian terrorists launched a horrific maelstrom of mass rape, savage murder and hostage-taking of Israeli children, teens, elderly, foreign farm workers and members of the IDF, kept in inhumane conditions in Gaza, tormented by their captors while awaiting eventual release from captivity. 

 

Arthurs Nosh Bar, Tripadvisor

 

The Wholesale Disarray of European Politics

"What connects them is less a common agenda than a growing sense that the future promises less than the present generation was led to expect."

"[A] misleading narrative of a pan-European revolt [has allowed scenes of unrest to be taken out of their national context and offered] as proof that a chaotic Europe is ungovernable."

Alberta Alemanno, professor of European Law, HEC Paris business school

"We're sick of putting up with empty promises."

"Today, young people everywhere are demanding the right to a future."

"We are demanding a break with this old world that has made life difficult, not only in France."

Lena Guerrier, French student activist 

Protesters take cover behind a plywood board as French riot police and gendarmes use a water canon amid clashes during an authorised demonstration in Paris, October 24, 2026. REUTERS/Hannah McKay

 

 In Paris, Milan and Madrid, and elsewhere student rioting has been convulsing nations throughout Europe. In the East, from Bangladesh to India, students have been demanding to be heard. Slow economic growth, higher costs of food, housing and fuel and decrepit schools have aroused the anger of students here, there and everywhere. It is not just recently that it has occurred to the youth in Europe and Asia that their parents' comfortable lifestyles in a bygone era inaccessible to them, holds out no future promise for them.

 

Centrist President Emmanuel Macron grapples with a fiery eruption of anger over budget cuts and the kind of political paralysis that has led to the appointment of seven prime ministers over a period less than a decade.  Spain's Pedro Sanchez as the furthest left European leaders yet, has announced a snap election in an effort to capitalize over housing costs protests, hoping to emerge with a majority government by smearing his conservative opposition favouring landlords while threatening to privatize pension.

 

And then there is the right-wing government of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, where Italy is confronting the ire of truckers facing steep energy price rises and the general public angered by the rising cost of living and other grievances. The autumn of discontent and protests throughout Europe go well behind ideological posturing, but rise on a scaffold of a universal problem that wars in Ukraine and Iran have exacerbated, with rising energy costs impacting the cost of all consumer commodities. 

 

Anti-riot police clashed with demonstrators in Milan last weekend.Piero Cruciatti/AFP/Getty Images

 

 A recent European survey saw 52 percent of  young adults between ages 16 and 26 living with the morose expectation that their futures will be nothing like what their parents had anticipated in their day. The unrest in Spain, Italy and France, the three major countries in the European Union, with leaders from the left, right and centre which along with Germany form the political and economic pillars of the European project does not bode well for the near future.

 

Enemies in the Kremlin portray the state of crisis and the chaos it has engendered in their own preferred observations, side-skipping the fallout of economic dysfunction, but representing evidence of the imminent collapse of Western liberalism. With a generous helping of unregulated, immigration. The political campaigns of hard-right and far-left parties inclusive of Alternative for Germany, National Rally and France Unbowed in France, and in Spain, Vox have been buoyed by the prospect of opportunities they see opening before them as opponents of the incumbents.  

 

Police stand guard as students protest against underresourced schools in Paris  Thibault Camus, AP

 

"The crisis brings joy to Moscow, Washington and others who fan the flames, but its origins are global and shared by liberal democracies", stated a former French ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud. No outreach by the government authorities of those countries has succeeded in convincing the protesters that their grievances are being heard, and steps will be taken to make some of the changes they demand. That argument falls on deaf ears of protesters who have faced police brutality in efforts to stem the violent tide of insurrection.

 

Hundreds of thousands of people throng the streets of France's cities, one weekend after another, and with the lawful action of the bulk of the protests, accompanying groups with grievances of another variety hoist flags of the Palestine Territories, smash shop windows, loot stores, set fire to vehicles and shops, indulging in criminal mayhem of a more worrying hostility backed by foreign interests and interference in European affairs. All manner of ideological politicians in Europe and abroad are fixated on images of burnt-out vehicles, shattered storefronts as they face deep scrutiny for their failure in containing the disorder.

 

Protesters set trash cans on fire during clashes with police following a demonstration over Spain's housing crisis at the beginning of October.  Emilio Morenatti/AP

 

 

Typically and with fairly good reason, some among the right-wing authorities have pointed to immigration and cultural disaffection with European values and opportunities for those who migrated with expectations their numbers in dissent would usher in a different kind of opposition demanding rights and entitlements not yet earned, have been responsible for the violence and looting. Voters due to go to the polls in Spain, France, Italy and Poland where hard-right parties challenge the centrist leaders of Europe will have their say at the ballot box.

 

While Italy's Meloni subscribes to the version of blame that casts a net over immigration, Macron in France denies any such ascription. While Meloni blames "second-generation Italians" for the vandalism seen in Milan, Macron denounces such rhetoric, insisting that all France's citizens must be viewed on an equal lens of fidelity to the nation, in a cross-section of society as a whole, realities in the banlieus and periodic riots of volatile violence aside.

 

Several European nations struggle with weak growth, stagnant wages and inequalities between the rich and poor steadily expanding in a continent where the world's biggest welfare spenders govern. Following years of global crises where the pandemic and Russia's war in Ukraine have strained resources and raised costs of energy and all consumer goods from food to household items that must be delivered by truck and rail, have skyrocketed in costs.

 

"We are not living through the end of the world but the end of a world -- their world", mocked Marine LePen from her nationalist anti-immigrant platform. "Look at what's happening in other European countries. You can see clearly that the youth are rising up all over.  t is a formidable moment, and I hope we actually listen to them", noted Olivier Faure, head, centre-left Socialist Party in France. 

 

A protester holding a banner reading "we are governed by clowns" lies on the ground during a protest against skyrocketing housing costs at Rossio Square in Lisbon on Thursday.

Patricia de Melo Moriera/AFP/Getty Images

 

Muslim Brotherhood Entryism in Canada

"[The TCMV] is a national, non-partisan charity empowering Canadian Muslims through civic engagement and education."

"[It does not] endorse parties, tell you how to vote, lobby politicians, or preach religion."

The Canadian Muslim Vote website

 

"[The Canadian Muslim Vote's mandate is to] empower Canadian Muslims through civic education, political engagement, and leadership, fostering an informed and active community that contributes to Canada's democracy."

"That means encouraging everyone, including our community, to get involved in Canada's democratic system."

"[TCMV does not target some 60 to 80 ridings for the purpose to mobilize Muslim voters, but it] encouraged all Canadians, including all Canadian Muslims, to get out and vote."

Jeff Saikaley, TCMV legal spokesperson

 

"Under the radar, Canada is being infiltrated."

"In the West -- in Canada, but in other Western democratic countries -- we don't really understand what the Muslim Brotherhood is."

"It sounds like a benevolent organization. It's a nice name, [but] we don't understand the ideology, the goals, the religious worldview of the Brotherhood, what the strategic and military or philosophical underpinnings are, and they have mastered us."

Charles Small, founder/director, ISGAP (Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy) "The ISGAP report is nothing more than recycled Islamophobic tropes dressed up as research."

"It is a biased, unsubstantiated hit piece that relies on discredited allegations that were themselves challenged by the Ontario Superior Court for their apparent bias."

"It amplifies narratives designed to fuel Islamophobia and sow division within Canadian society."

Muslim Association of Canada 

Recently releasing a 200-page study, ISGAP outlines an organized campaign of pro-Palestinian activism and anti-Islamophobia charges that -- the international Islamist group that is outlawed in Egypt, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, but has sprawling outreach globally -- the Muslim Brotherhood and other allied groups have been engaging in, fomenting antisemitism in Canada. Funded through sophisticated financial channels by Qatar, they have infiltrated and established positions of influence within many of Canada's largest and most academically trusted universities.

 

The University of Toronto, University of Waterloo and Toronto Metropolitan University are given special attention in the report where "consistent concerns are identified". Those concerns are inclusive of limited disclosures on sources of foreign funding, a reluctance to disclose intellectual property contracts, plus "use of campus environments as platforms for sustained mobilization, coalition building, and narrative development", among other allied issues.

 

Through Qatar's sovereign Qatar Investment Fund or Qatar National Research Fund, financing activities have backed Canadian university programs which frequently  have rules on limited disclosures. A number of research projects backed by Qatar in such strategic fields as smart grids, carbon systems and secure communications are listed. Details surrounding issues such as intellectual property rights, data access or contractual terms, fail to be disclosed at Toronto Metropolitan University, Waterloo and University of Toronto.

Anti-Israel Protest on the anniversary of 7 October 2023, Moment of silence during vigil held outside of Sidney Smith Hall. CELESTA MANIATOGIANNI/THE VARSITY University of Toronto

 

The influence that has permeated these universities has resulted in their campuses becoming hotbeds of pro-Palestine sentiments, university administrators frequently opting to silence critics and bypass pro-Israel events, according to the report. Responding to an investigative journalist's requests, a spokesperson for University of Toronto  confirmed 11 research grants totalling $1.75M in value from the Qatar National Research Fund. An amount, pointed out the university, minuscule in comparison to the billions it receives from fundraising sources. 

"The university is not subject to foreign influence via research awards, donations or partnerships."

"The university has robust policies that protect the academic integrity of the institution and safeguard research independence and autonomy, and all partnerships and funding agreements comply with these policies and with Canadian regulations."

"[Claims by the report that campus groups at University of Toronto and students support anti-Israel ideation are] without merit." 

University of Toronto spokesperson (name withheld)

An anti-Israel protest outside Concordia University in Montreal on Oct. 7, 2024. Photo by John Mahoney/Montreal Gazette/Postmedia

 

The ISGAP report outlines how groups such as the Muslim Association of Canada aid in advancing ideologies of interests sympathetic to the causes of the Muslim Brotherhood through affiliation with non-profits and other groups based in Canada. The Canada Revenue Agency preliminary audit of Muslim Association of Canada alleged that some of its activities "appear to be in furtherance of the Muslim Brotherhood organization"; that many activities of the charity failed the test of explicit charity designation.
 

 That the Muslim Association of Canada had widened its holdings of real estate property which totalled $12 million in 2006 to over $51 million nine years later, it was the Canada Revenue Agency's position that these property holdings investments were of a non-charitable purpose, in direct contradiction to their claims. "There appears to be a significant difference between what the MAC represents it stands for and the activities that it appears to conduct." To substantiate the CRA's observation of links to the Muslim Brotherhood, it pointed out that members of the Brotherhood on coming to Canada, become members of the Muslim Association of Canada

 

The ISGAP report concludes by calling for a number of policy changes; greater oversight of academic partnerships with foreign entities at universities, among them. Along with greater transparency for foreign funding to universities, and granting additional review powers for government agencies toward non-profits and charities. A universal unfamiliarity with the geopolitical aims of these foreign entities such as the Muslim Brotherhood invariably leads to a lack of critical sovereign awareness.

 

Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney poses for a photo at the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) Eid Festival in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 6, 2025.  Arab Weekly

  

"Recent Islamist terror attacks in Ottawa and Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu remind us of the mounting terrorist threats facing Canadians. But evidence gathered by Point de Bascule indicates that the main danger facing Canada may go beyond the violent jihadist threat — and be made worse — by a little-discussed associated phenomenon, the penetration of our institutions by Islamists."

"There are two consequences to this penetration. First, it reduces Canada's ability to respond to the violent Islamist threat, and second, it leads to the gradual introduction of sharia rules in Canada."

"By penetration, I refer to the presence of Islamists and their sympathizers within a range of institutions from political and government organizations to NGOs and corporate entities. Those involved could themselves range from non-violent fundamentalists attempting, whether clandestinely or otherwise, to sway policy from the inside, to those that are violently inclined."

"Particular concerns have been raised about sabotage risks that could be posed by penetration of security or emergency services, no small worry when one considers what the Muslim Brotherhood revealed in a document produced for evidentiary purposes in the most important anti-terrorism trial in the U.S. in 2008.

This is an excerpt from what is described as an internalization memorandum of the Muslim Brotherhood, and it comes from their own memorandum: "The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and "sabotaging" its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers."

Marc Lebuis, founding director, independent research organization Point de Bascule, 2015 testimony at the Standing Senate Committee on National Security and Defence  

"[The Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood] support violence and destabilization campaigns that harm their own regions, United States citizens, and United States interests.

"The military wing of the Lebanese chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood joined Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian factions to launch multiple rocket attacks against both civilian and military targets within Israel."

U.S. government 2025 terrorism designation for the Muslim Brotherhood  

 

My, Democratic America, How You Have Changed!

"[The DSA -- Democratic Socialists of America -- which once sought to promote socialism with elections has been subject to] 'entryism', the wilful effort by a small, disciplined cadre of radicals to infiltrate a more moderate organization and subvert it from within".

"[They dropped their long-established ban on totalitarians], opening the door to Communists, who now form a majority on its governing body." 

James Kirchik, The Atlantic

 

"[The] left wing of the Democratic Party flourished this summer as fed-up liberals in key races across the country have eschewed traditional, more moderate candidates in favour of hard-charging progressives."

Sarah Ferris CNN

Democratic Socialist of America website

 

The writing, it seems, is on the wall, that hard-left progressive Democrats will be taking their place as never before through the midterm elections, in state legislatures and in Congress. Though as yet a minority of party officeholders, with traditional liberals and Democratic moderates still in the majority, the entire party has now been smeared with hostility toward capitalism, Israel, Jews, and the United States itself -- at least under its current presidential office-holder. To his influence alone can be attributed the steep rise of unabashed socialists 'progressives' who reek of Marxist ideology.

 

Among whom can be counted the charming young Darializa Avila Chevalier, winner of the Democratic primary in New York's 13th congressional district, a companion-piece to New York City's Mayor Zohran Mamdani, himself an ice-breaker, a Muslim who makes no secret of his socialist influences, nor his grim hostility to Israel in a city where a mere few decades earlier death-cult Islamists did their best to bring the city to its knees in a ghastly performance of jihad kamikazi with martyrdom benefits. 

 

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani's message to residents on how to deal with an ICE encounter has both critics and supporters talking. Camara Porter/AdMedia / MEGA; BONNIE CASH/UPI/Newscom/The Mega Agency

 

Her past is redolent with regrettable online posts identifying her passion for Marxism, as when she found it intolerable that public libraries fail to distinguish themselves in the U.S. with a good measure of publicly available Leninist tracts. Her sympathies are just as out-front as are Mamdani's, as when the very day after the southern Israel attacks took place when Palestinian terrorists led by Hamas committed a vast sadistic atrocity of savage rape, mutilation and slaughter, presented the perfect occasion to flaunt her credentials by attending a rally on October 8, 2023 celebrating the attack.

 

Darializa Avila Chevalier, winner of New York's 13th congressional district Democratic primary  NYT

 

Her response to an interview was to object when asked to condemn the October 7 slaughter -- that she would not "let a question be used to distract us from the documented reality that over hundreds of thousands of people, Palestinians specifically, have been killed". Her preference locally is to defund police, do away with borders, and expressing her contempt for the United States. She is unsurprisingly a champion "about the achievements and challenges of Cuban socialism". She quite obviously has no problem with the DSA resolution to support the 'Palestinian cause'.

 

According to Gallup, their recent polling reveals that "Forty-three percent of Americans now have a positive view of socialism, marking the first time this figure has exceeded 39 percent in Gallup's trend since 2010". Capitalism was supported by 55 percent of the American public, and free enterprise at 77 percent. Among Democrats, 35 percent advocated in support of capitalism, the very essence of American economic enterprise that created its wealth and technological foundational advance, the envy of the world.

 

A Cato/YouGov survey in March of 2025 saw 34 percent of Americans finding favour among citizens under 30 of the communist ideal. Who woudda thought? Senator McCarthy must be spinning flip-flops in his grave. Similar to the Gallop poll, the survey saw 43 percent of the general public supporting socialism, although 14 percent only found the idea of communism commendable. Outside of Democrats, on the other hand, the great majority of Americans continue to favour capitalism and free enterprise.

 

Abdul El-Sayed

"I am not a socialist", claimed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed; a man who in 2019 called for the economy to be placed under more state control, while headlining a fundraiser for the Democratic Socialists of America, where he was photographed alongside Rashida Tlaib "in front of a Marxist-style pamphlet depicting a red DSA fist choking a snake labelled 'CAPITALISM'", as was described by Chuck Ross of The Washington Free Beacon.

 

True to his roots, to his championing of the DSA, Israel, El-Sayed claims, is as guilty as Hamas and guilty moreover, of 'apartheid' and 'genocide', mantra sentiments of the DSA for whom anyone who might express the opinion that Israel has a right to defend itself, earns instant expulsion from the party. 

 

Whither America?!!! Political forecasters see Democrats with a firm likelihood of taking the House of Representatives as well as the Senate in the midterm elections. In their bid to proceed with their agenda to reshape the United States of America in a more palatable version of their own verities and values. 

 

A Childhood of 'Instability and Dislocation'

"Absent the mitigating factors and the circumstances described in the Indigenous Background Report, I would regard this as an exemplary case for a sentence very significantly above the 5 - 7-year range."

"[Delaney had informed an undercover police officer in 2024 that] two men had recently died in her residence from fentanyl overdoses caused by the red fentanyl [she was selling], indicating that one of the deceased had been a good friend of hers."

"[Delaney's] moral culpability [taking into account these circumstances, is placed] well above that of the ordinary commercial fentanyl trafficker."

Justice Derek Jugnauth, October 15, 2026 

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Now 28 years of age, Metis woman Kendall Delaney was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty in the Court of King's Bench, Alberta, to trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl. Arrested in the spring of 2024, court heard that the young woman had been selling fentanyl laced with a benzodiazepine, which increases risk of fatal overdoses. An undercover police operation arranged by the Camrose Police Service and Vegreville RCMP succeeded in establishing evidence of her criminality.

 

According to the Crown, she was recommended for three years in prison as a "lenient" sentence representing "the minimum capable of adequately denouncing the conduct and deterring [Ms. Delaney] and others". On her own initiative, the defendant pleaded for house arrest and probation. She deferred her request for a conditional sentence and sought in its stead a prison term of about four to five years, when the judge stated his decision to increase prison time over what the Crown had recommended. 

 

On March 10, 2024, Ms. Delaney sold two ounces of methamphetamine for $380 at her home to an undercover police officer in the presence of her six-year-old son. She followed this up by selling the same undercover officer an ounce of methamphetamine and 3.5 grams of cocaine three days later, for $430. A short time later, the undercover officer again contacted Ms. Delaney and arranged to purchase 3.5 grams of fentanyl for $220. "The fentanyl was packaged in three separate bags containing red, blue and brown fentanyl. Analysis later determined that the red fentanyl contained bromazolam, a benzodiazepine." 

"During the discussions leading up to the sale, Ms. Delaney asked whether the officer wanted 'blue, red or brown' fentanyl, or a combination of the three."

"Ms. Delaney advised the officer that the red fentanyl was 'literally killing ppl it's so strong' and suggested that anyone receiving it should be warned about its potency."

"The officer replied that a mixture was acceptable."

Justice Derek Jugnauth  

Once again the undercover officer went to his fentanyl supplier. "During the conversation, Ms. Delaney stated that she was not doing well because two people had overdosed during the previous week. When the officer asked to purchase additional red fentanyl and one ounce of methamphetamine, Ms. Delaney advised that the red fentanyl had caused the overdoses and noted her supply was diminished but that she would see what she could do." The following day arrangements were made by the undercover officer to buy an additional three ounces of methamphetamine. 

 

Ms. Delaney was arrested when the RCMP stopped a car she was travelling in with the two undercover officers on their way to pick up more drugs. She had with her a bag of methamphetamine of an ounce and another bag of about 1.3 grams of cocaine, both of which she managed to conceal in her vagina. At the arrest scene police discovered more undeclared  cocaine and methamphetamine in her purse. "After initially denying she was concealing controlled substances in her body, and refusing medical treatment to extract those substances, Ms. Delaney eventually removed the concealed drugs on her own, which were then seized by police." 

"[Delaney's mother] first exposed her to crack cocaine [at age 19]. What followed was years-long addiction to crack cocaine and methamphetamine."

"[She has been given] significant weight [to her] acceptance of responsibility and expressions of remorse; her difficult personal history; and the factors identified in the Indigenous Background Report." 

"Her life has been marked by significant childhood adversity and the effects of intergenerational trauma."

"Those experiences do not excuse her conduct, but they provide important context for understanding how she came before the court." 

Final Court decision 

A Metis woman was sentenced to six years in prison at Edmonton's Court of King's Bench for trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl. Photo by Shaughn Butts/Postmedia