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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 2025, Winnipeg, Manitoba winnipegfreepress.com/ photostore Bring the great outdoors, indoors Choose from 150 years of Free Press archived photos. M A K E S A N I D E A L G I F T SERVING MANITOBA SINCE 1872. FOREVER WITH YOUR SUPPORT. MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 2025 WEATHER PARTLY SUNNY. HIGH 1 — LOW -7 SPORTS BACKUP GOALIE COMRIE LEADS JETS TO WIN / C1 Egypt, Jordan say resettling Palestinians from war-torn region to their nations a non-starter Trump’s Gaza refugee plan rejected D ORAL, Fla. — President Donald Trump’s push to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza fell flat with those countries’ governments and left a key congres- sional ally in Washington perplexed on Sunday. Fighting that broke out in the ter- ritory after ruling Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023 is paused due to a fragile ceasefire, but much of Gaza’s population has been left largely home- less by an Israeli military campaign. Trump told reporters Saturday aboard Air Force One that moving some 1.5 million people away from Gaza might mean that “we just clean out that whole thing.” Trump relayed what he told Jordan’s King Abdullah when the two held a call earlier Saturday: “I said to him, ‘I’d love for you to take on more because I’m looking at the whole Gaza Strip right now and it’s a mess.’” He said he was making a similar appeal to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi during a conversation they were having while Trump was at his Doral resort in Florida on Sunday. Trump said he would “like Egypt to take people and I’d like Jordan to take people.” Egypt and Jordan, along with the Palestinians, worry that Israel would never allow them to return to Gaza once they have left. Both Egypt and Jordan also have perpetually strug- gling economies and their govern- ments, as well as those of other Arab states, fear massive destabilization of their own countries and the region from any such influx of refugees. Jordan already is home to more than 2 million Palestinian refugees. Egypt has warned of the security implica- tions of transferring large numbers of Palestinians to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsu- la, bordering Gaza. Trump suggested that resettling most of Gaza’s population of 2.3 million could be temporary or long term. Jordan’s foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, said Sunday that his country’s opposition to what Trump floated was “firm and unwavering.” Some Israel officials had raised the idea early in the war. Egypt’s foreign minister issued a statement saying that the temporary or long-term transfer of Palestinians “risks expanding the conflict in the region.” WILL WEISSERT Growing number of Canadians believe Holocaust exaggerated, survey suggests DAVID BAXTER OTTAWA — Today the world will mark eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi exter- mination camps where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered during the Second World War. But as world leaders and Auschwitz survivors prepare to gather at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in southern Poland, a new survey suggests a growing number of Canadians believe the history of the Holocaust has been exaggerated. A panel survey commissioned by the Association of Canadian Studies and conducted by the polling firm Leger last spring found 18 per cent of Canadians between 18 and 24 years old agreed with the statement “I think the Holocaust was exaggerated.” Among Canadians between 25 and 34 years old, 15 per cent agreed with that statement. The survey queried 1,519 Canadians between May 17 and May 20, 2024. A margin of error cannot be assigned to panel surveys. A Leger poll conducted in February 2024, that asked the same question, found 16 per cent of 18 to 24 year olds agreed with the statement as did eight per cent of 25 to 34 year olds. The number of Canadians between 35 to 44 years old agreeing with that statement increased from five to eight per cent between the February and May surveys, while the number in the 45 to 54 age cohort increased from four to 11 per cent. Deborah Lyons, Canada’s special envoy on antisemitism and Holocaust remembrance, said in an interview Friday that the world faces a challenge as the number of living Holocaust survivors continues to dwindle. “A story like the Holocaust is first and foremost an emotional story. It is not just about the facts and so losing those survivors now as they pass on is particularly challenging for us to work through new ways of helping people understand the story of the Holocaust,” she said. A year ago, the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany published what it called an “unprecedented” demographic study on Holocaust survivors, reporting about 245,000 people who had survived it were still alive. Man, dog found dead in exhaust-filled car A Winnipeg man who found two friends unconscious inside an ex- haust-filled car — in an incident that police say claimed the lives of one person and a pet dog — was in disbe- lief Sunday. City police said the deaths of an 84-year-old man and the dog are be- lieved to have been caused by carbon monoxide poisoning when the car’s tailpipe became blocked by snow and fumes filled the vehicle. A 67-year-old man, who also was in the car, was taken to hospital in critical condition, said police, who are treating the incident as an accident. “They were good neighbourhood buddies,” said Mike Condra, who discovered the men and the dog in a station wagon in a small parking lot behind an apartment building at 688 Nassau St. S., between Arnold and Hethrington avenues, in Lord Roberts. “It’s really too bad that it happened.” Condra was walking to a grocery store at about 2 p.m. Friday when he noticed the 67-year-old man’s car was backed up at an odd angle close to the building. The rear passenger side of the car was in a snowbank, he said. “I kind of paused and looked, and thought, ‘Is there somebody in it?’” Condra said. When he moved closer, he noticed the 67-year-old man, who appeared to be leaning forward, in the driv- er’s seat. The man didn’t move when Condra shouted in an attempt to get his attention. He then noticed the 84-year-old man in the front passenger seat, while he continued to approach the car. No one moved when Condra tapped on the driver’s side window, so he opened the door. “At which point, I could just smell exhaust. I was just like, ‘Oh no,’” he said. Condra called 911 on his cellphone and shouted at another passerby to help remove the men from the car. The driver appeared to be breathing faintly when he was pulled from the vehicle, Condra said. He said he was unable to find a pulse when he checked on the passenger. Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service members arrived a short time later and began treating the pair. Police said the dog died at the scene, and the 84-year-old died after he was taken to hospital in critical condition. Condra said the man who died oper- ated the apartment building, while the man who remained in hospital was a tenant of the block. The pair frequently went out to run errands together, Condra said. He said the younger man often had to reverse his car toward the building in order to pull out of the small lot, which is accessible by a back lane. “They were both nice guys,” Condra said, noting the dog, a dachshund that was found in the car’s front console area, was owned by the younger man. “(The dog) rode everywhere with them. It was (the driver’s) little side- kick.” Condra was left with questions about how the incident happened. It was unclear how long the men had been in the car. CHRIS KITCHING CONNIE LALIBERTE PHOTO TEAM CAMERON TRIUMPHS Third Taylor McDonald (from left), lead Mackenzie Elias and skip Kate Cameron eye a shot Sunday at the 2025 RME Women of the Rings Championship in Pilot Mound. Cameron’s squad defeated Beth Peterson’s team to advance to the Scotties Tournament of Hearts / C1 ● GAZA, CONTINUED ON A2 ● CAR, CONTINUED ON A2 ● HOLOCAUST, CONTINUED ON A2 ;