The Canadian Union of Public Employees has “lost confidence” in national vice-president Fred Hahn and is demanding his resignation after he posted a video denounced as antisemitic.
Hospitals, synagogues and Jewish organizations in Ottawa were among the more than a hundred across Canada who received identical bomb threats on Wednesday morning.
Rabbi Moshe Goldman, director of Chabad of the Waterloo Region, says they did not receive an emailed threat on Wednesday like other Jewish institutions across the country, but people here may still feel afraid at hearing the news.
A bomb threat sent to multiple Jewish organizations and some hospitals across the country on Wednesday morning is being investigated by Toronto police and a number of other nation-wide police forces.
A Manitoba member of Parliament is condemning a wave of bomb threats that placed Jewish organizations and synagogues across Canada — including in Winnipeg — on high alert Wednesday.