Just days after spending a night in jail and being charged with mischief, emergency room physician Dr. Tarek Loubani climbed on top of a riser at Parliament Hill and called for a "Free Palestine," while demanding the government of Canada push for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
As a fragile truce between Hamas and Israel leads to more exchanges, friends and family of the released hostages are breathing a sigh of relief around the world—including in Toronto.
Montreal’s rash of antisemitic attacks continued on Monday with the discovery of a Molotov cocktail thrown at the front entrance of the Jewish Community Council (JCC).
Police chief Myron Demkiw yesterday said that since Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, a shocking spike in hate-crime incidents has hit ‘our city, which prides itself on diversity.’
Prominent members of British Columbia’s Jewish community and others believe Susan Kim, a city councillor in Victoria, should show more accountability for attaching her name to an open letter which doubted reports of sexual violence carried out by Hamas on Oct. 7.
Toronto police have laid mischief charges against 11 people they say were motivated by hate when an Indigo book store was defaced with red paint and fake posters accused the chain’s Jewish founder of financing genocide.