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Abu Mohammed al- Adnani, in a nine- minute audio recording released Monday, praised recent attacks in Australia, Belgium and France - where gunmen killed 12 people in an assault on the Paris office of Charlie Hebdo newspaper. He also praised the gunman who shot and killed an unarmed sentry at the War Memorial in Ottawa on Oct. 22 and then stormed the Parliament Hill's Centre Block before being killed by security forces, saying: " You all saw what one Muslim did in Canada and its infidel parliament." Michael Zehaf Bibeau's killing of Cpl. Nathan Cirillo came just two days after another attack by a man with known jihadist sympathies who ran down a soldier in Quebec, Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent. The attacks ignited a debate on homegrown terrorism in Canada. The Canadian government is expected to introduce legislation soon to crack down on suspected terrorists and those who openly encourage them. Al- Adnani, the spokesman for the Islamic State group, also made reference to the death last week of Saudi King Abdullah, saying Muslims " are happy for the death of the tyrant of the peninsula." Monday's recording did not mention the two Japanese hostages that his group threatened on Jan. 20 to behead unless Tokyo paid $ 200 million within 72 hours. That deadline has since passed without word on the hostages' fate. Canadian Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney responded Monday to the audio message. Echoing comments made earlier this month by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Blaney said the international jihadist movement had declared war on Canada and its allies. Blaney said that's why the government committed the Forces to the coalition against the Islamic State group. - The Associated Press with files from The Canadian Press MONTREAL - A journalist with Charlie Hebdo says the satirical weekly is getting much- needed financial support - but at a heavy price. " Charlie Hebdo was a poor newspaper ( in terms of money), a really poor newspaper," Zineb El- Rhazoui, 33, told a news conference Monday. " The last time I went to southern France to work on an election, the newspaper's credit card didn't work." Its new firm financial footing has come at the cost of a dozen colleagues killed in a terrorist attack at the publication's Paris office earlier this month. " Today, everyone wants to give us money, we have a lot of money, millions of euros," said El- Rhazoui, adding Charlie Hebdo 's editor even sought financial help from French President Fran�ois Hollande a few weeks before the attack. She said losing editor Stephane Charbonnier and the other employees was too high a cost. " We would have preferred to keep our friends and stay as poor as we were," added El- Rhazoui, who was in Montreal to take part in an evening fundraising event in support of Charlie Hebdo . She escaped the massacre because she was in her native Morocco when the Jan. 7 attack took place. She made it clear she has not given any consideration to quitting the newspaper. El- Rhazoui also came out strongly in favour of secularism, which was hotly debated in Quebec last year. The then- Parti Qu�b�cois government introduced a controversial charter in 2014 that would have prohibited state employees from wearing religious symbols in the workplace. It never became law because the PQ lost the election. " Secularism is the only way, as far as I know, to permit everyone to live in the same society," El- Rhazoui said. She said everyone in a country should be treated the same way. " If I start to accept that a girl in France from a certain background doesn't have the same rights, that it's shocking in her community if she wears certain clothing, if she had a glass of wine... ( then) civilization will be finished," El- Rhazoui said. Muslims who live in France and in western societies should accept secularism if they really want to integrate, she said. " Islam should accept a sense of humour and should bend to secularism because it's the only way which allows a society where there are people with different horizons to live together in peace." - The Canadian Press Charlie funds came at steep price By Peter Rakobowchuk Death of soldier praised by Islamic State Calls on Muslims to attack the West By Bassem Mroue RYAN REMIORZ / THE CANADIAN PRESS Zineb El- Rhazoui, a journalist with Charlie Hebdo, spoke in favour of secularism in Quebec. ' The last time I went to southern France to work on an election, the newspaper's credit card didn't work' Canada in firefights OTTAWA - There have been two more firefights between Canadian special- forces troops and militants in the Middle East - clashes sure to fan the flames of a raging political debate about Canada's evolving combat mission in Iraq. The elite troops were helping Kurdish commanders plan for an upcoming operation and twice came under direct fire while visiting the largely static front lines near Irbil, the military disclosed Monday. In both cases, the Canadian troops returned fire and " neutralized" the threats, navy Capt. Paul Forget told a weekly technical briefing at National Defence headquarters. " They were acting in selfdefence," Forget said. - The Canadian Press A_ 05_ Jan- 27- 15_ FP_ 01. indd A5 1/ 26/ 15 9: 47: 27 PM ;