"It's scary," says Catherine Sinchak, who lives near a Montreal Jewish school recently hit by gunfire. The Jewish community is calling on Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante to take action to combat anti-Semitism.
Montreal police (SPVM) said they received a 911 call Wednesday afternoon and responded to the Belz school on Hillsdale Road, near Van Horne Avenue, in the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough.
A newly minted doctor from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg sparked outrage—including from the medical school’s primary charitable donor—when he used his valedictory speech to his fellow Max Rady College of Medicine graduates to disparage Israel.
York Regional Police is expanding its presence around Jewish education centres and places of worship following a shooting outside a Jewish elementary school in North York.