MONTREAL (JTA) — Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada rose to a record high for the third consecutive year, according to an annual audit by B’nai Brith Canada released Monday. The audit showed 2,041 anti-Semitic incidents recorded last year in Canada – 16.5 percent more than the 1,752 incidents in 2017. “To put that in stark perspective,…
(JTA) — An alleged anti-Semitic attack on a kosher Italian-style café in Winnipeg, Canada was staged by the owners of the restaurant, police now say. Police charged the owners of the BerMax Caffe and Bistro in Winnipeg, in central Canada, with public mischief. The investigation of the April 18 incident involved 25 police officers and…
The mayor of Winnipeg, Canada has called on a local not-for-profit to disinvite Women’s March co-leader Linda Sarsour from a panel event scheduled for Friday over the allegations of anti-Semitism against her. Flanked by representatives from local Jewish organization, mayor Brian Bowman said in a press conference on Tuesday that Sarsour’s history of “racialized identity…
The mayor of the most heavily-Jewish city in Canada is refusing to back down in the face of criticism over his comments about a controversial bill in the Quebec legislature that would ban teachers and other government employees in positions of authority from wearing religious clothing. William Steinberg, the mayor of the Montreal suburb of…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel “anti-Semitic” during a town hall in Ontario last week. “I will continue to condemn the BDS movement,” Trudeau said. Speaking at Brock University in St. Catharines, Trudeau was asked by an audience member to retract his previous condemnations of BDS,…
MONTREAL (JTA)— Canada’s largest and oldest Jewish charity, the Jewish National Fund of Canada, is downplaying news that it was audited by Canadian tax authorities for using donor money to fund projects linked to the IDF. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Jan. 4 that the audit was carried out by the Canada Revenue Agency…
The Mexican government said Tuesday that it will award Jared Kushner with the Order of the Aztec Eagle, the highest honor the country gives to foreigners, “for his significant contributions in achieving the renegotiation of the new (trade) agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada,” AP reported. Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser,…
Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau formally apologized on Wednesday for the country’s 1939 refusal to take in a ship carrying more than 900 Jewish refugees, adding that the country would do more to protect Canadian Jews from violence. The St. Louis left Hamburg in May 1939 in a desperate search for a safe haven from…
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