A Canadian town is getting heat for refusing to remove or cover up a swastika on display in a public park. The swastika, emblazoned on the anchor of a Nazi-er ship recovered about 25 years ago under Canadian shores, sits in a park at the center of Pointe-des-Cascades, a French-speaking town in Quebec. Corey Fleischer,…
TORONTO (Reuters) – Conservative Canadian website The Rebel said its domain provider cut its internet registration, making the site inaccessible to some users around the world on Monday as the company scrambled to get back online using a second provider. The move comes after GoDaddy, Google and other technology firms last week pushed the neo-Nazi…
The co-founder of Rebel Media, the far-right Canadian news organization commonly referred to as “Breitbart North,” resigned on Monday, citing the firm’s cozy ties to white supremacists. Brian Lilley, a conservative radio host, said in a Facebook post that the departure had been “a long time coming. What may have started as a concern over…
Canadian authorities have issued an arrest warrant for a Palestinian-Jordanian imam who made anti-Semitic statements at a mosque in Montreal last year, the Montreal Gazette reported Sunday. Sheikh Muhammad ibn Musa Al Nasr is being charged with willful promotion of hatred. In his guest lecture in December 2016 at the Dar Al-Araqm mosque, he called…
MONTREAL (JTA) — A Jewish hairdresser who got fired for refusing — against the orders of his Jewish boss — to take Shabbat off was awarded nearly $10,000 by a Quebec court for having his religious rights violated. The Quebec Human Rights Tribunal on Thursday ordered the payment by former salon owner Iris Grassy two years after she…
They still have trouble pronouncing “shakshuka.” But Calgary locals have gone wild for an Israeli bakery and its exotic wares — think babka, labneh and even chopped liver. Sidewalk Citizen launched as a one-man bread-delivery service. Outgrowing its tiny rented kitchen, the bakery rehabbed a cavernous former mattress factory into a commercial cookery and dining…
(JTA) — A food distributor accused of sending cheddar cheese to Jewish summer camps falsely labeled as kosher was fined $25,000 by a court in Ontario. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency in May accused Ontario-based Creation Foods and its vice president, Kefir Sadiklar, with forging documents to make it seem as if the cheese sent to…
In the Canadian Jewish News, Janice Arnold shares the story of Nakuset, an indigenous Canadian (Cree) woman adopted by Montreal Jews. Nakuset (one name only) is executive director of the Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal, spoke at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Westmount, Quebec on April 30th at an event called “‘Imagining Tomorrow: Lessons from Indigenous…
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