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Liberal poster boy Justin Trudeau has granted Canadian citizenship to Zakaria Amara, a terrorist sentenced to life in prison for plotting to cut former Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s head off. Amara, a Jordanian national and key member of the notorious “Toronto 18” terror group that also plotted to raid the Canadian House of Commons, was convicted in 2009 and lost his Canadian citizenship in 2015 due to a law that strips convicted terrorists of their citizenship.

Germany’s Social Democrats narrowed the gap with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc to the closest in more than four years, reinforcing a poll bounce after they chose outsider Martin Schulz to challenge Europe’s longest-serving leader. As Bild reports, the 6-point surge in opposition support was the biggest ever recorded for the party... and may explain why German sovereign risk spiked to its highest since Brexit.

A document from the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) indicates that Donald Trump took steps last week to outmaneuver nonprofit organizations, leaving them unable to officially campaign against him over the next few years of his Presidency.

Following last night's deadly shooting at a Quebec City mosque which killed six people and wounded eight, two suspects were under arrest and according to press reports have been identified: one is a French-Canadian and the other was of Moroccan heritage. One suspect was identified as Alexandre Bissonnette, a French-Canadian, the other as Mohamed Khadir, who is of Moroccan heritage although his nationality was not immediately known.

Submitted by Stefan Frank via The Gatestone Institute,