Articles of Interest
Sheldon Kirshner ::Canadian Jewish News Richard Marceau, an 11th-generation Quebecker from a staunch Roman Catholic family and a former Bloc Québécois parliamentarian, is a Jew by choice. He converted to Judaism in 2004 after a long process, but his spiritual odyssey began after he met a Toronto Jewish woman who opened “the door to a [...]
Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird sits down with the ‘Post’ and explains his government’s tremendous support of Israel. The Hill Times, a Canadian weekly newspaper that covers that country’s politics, recently came out with its annual edition of the country’s 100 most influential people in government and politics. John Baird, Canada’s Conservative 42-year-old foreign [...]
Andy Levy-Ajzenkopf ::The Canadian Jewish News Canada continues to tighten sanctions on Iran via the Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA). On Jan. 31, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird announced from Israel – where he and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty were on a weeklong diplomatic mission – that Canada had frozen the assets of three Iranian-born [...]
By Paul Michaels The brazen self-assurance of Tony Burman is something to behold. Burman is the former head of CBC News and most recently of Al Jazeera English. He’s now back in Toronto as a journalism professor at Ryerson University and is a columnist with the Toronto Star. In his Jan. 21 column he opened [...]
Visiting Canadian FM John Baird says Israel has no better friend than Ottawa. Israel has no greater friend in the world than Canada, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird said during a warm address at the opening of the 12th-annual Herzliya Conference on Monday night. Ottawa stood with Israel because it was a Canadian tradition “to [...]
Minister Baird Meets with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu January 29, 2012 – Jerusalem – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird meets with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem as part of a series of high-level meetings. Baird reiterated that Canada will not accept to stay silent while the Jewish state is attacked for defending [...]
Janice Arnold ::The Canadian Jewish News MONTREAL — Faced with growing outrage over anti-Israel statements that the Jewish community and others regard as antisemitic, TV host Stéphane Gendron made an on-air statement of regret Jan. 27. Later the same day, his employer, V Télévision, issued a joint statement with the Centre for Israel and Jewish [...]
This is my third visit to Israel, though my first as Foreign Minister. I was last here as Transport Minister in 2010. While I didn’t make it during my last posting as Leader of the Government in Canada’s Parliament, I have had constructive dealings with Israeli counterparts in each of the Cabinet portfolios I’ve held… [...]
For Immediate Release: Montreal, January 27, 2012 – V Network reiterates today that the network dissociates itself from the unfortunate comments made by talk show host Stéphane Gendron about Jews and the state ofIsrael. V Network would like to reassure the public that these types of comments will no longer be tolerated on its airwaves. [...]
HUNTINGDON, Que. – A small-town Quebec mayor is under fire for anti-Israel comments. Mayor Stephane Gendron, who is also a television host, said during a broadcast that Israel is an apartheid state that doesn’t deserve to exist. Gendron made the comments on Face-a-Face, a daily television talk show he co-hosts on the V-Tele, a Quebec [...] 
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