OTTAWA – Canada’s new Liberal government said on Monday it was delivering a “tough message” to Israel as a good friend after expressing concern about Israeli-Palestinian violence, Israeli settlements and unilateral Palestinian moves. The statement came a day after Foreign Minister Stephane Dion was criticized for saying Palestinian initiatives toward statehood in international forums and…
On the day kosher-certified medical marijuana first went on sale in New York, Canada’s largest kashrut agency said it believes such certification is unnecessary. Following a debate Thursday, the Kashruth Council of Canada announced that medication need not be kosher, The Canadian Press reported. Last month, Vireo Health of New York announced that the Orthodox…
Finally, some heartwarming news. A Canadian congregation in Ontario to use its synagogue as a place to worship after their mosque was fire-bombed in a suspected hate crime following the Paris attacks. The attack, which caused an estimated $80,000 worth of damage, rendered Masjid al-Salaam mosque — the only one in Peterborough, Ontario — unusable. That’s…
Canada’s just-elected Liberal government will stop making Israel a partisan issue, the country’s new foreign affairs minister said. Stephane Dion, a former leader of the Liberal Party, said Canada can help Israel more by returning to its role as an “honest broker” and improving relations with other Middle East nations than continuing the staunchly pro-Israel…
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Canada’s prime minister designate, Justin Trudeau, in a telephone call affirming the friendship between the two countries. The Canadian Press (CP) wire service reported that Rafael Barak, Israel’s ambassador to Canada, said the call from Netanyahu took place Oct. 23 and left his country assured that relations between Canada…
The election of Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau as prime minister represents the since Stephen Harper and his Conservatives assumed power in 2006. What is unlikely to change, however, is Ottawa’s robust support for Israel — a policy cemented under Harper, whose forceful backing of the Jewish state earned him a reputation as one of…
A candidate in Canada’s federal elections has apologized for not knowing that Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp. “Well, I didn’t know what Auschwitz was, or I didn’t up until today,” Alex Johnstone, who is running in the Oct. 19 elections for Parliament in southwestern Ontario for the New Democratic Party, told the Hamilton Spectator…
The general council of a large Canadian church network voted in favor of promoting a boycott against institutions complicit in what it called the illegal occupation of Palestinian land. On its 42nd annual gathering this week, the council of the United Church of Canada voted in favor of the text on Israel on Aug. 11,…
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