The Mideast reaches its tentacles to Queen's Park

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WAR ZONE — “I’m a farm boy from Northern Ontario. What am I doing speaking in a place like this about tragedies that are happening in the Middle East?”

So began the NDP’s JOHN VANTHOF during debate on the PCs motion condemning the Hamas attacks on Israel — the less-combative of a pair of motions on the conflict — before launching into a mo…