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Passover reflections: Fighting modern-day plague (Jewish Independent)

Passover is a story of survival and courage. At the heart of it, over these 2,000 years, our tenacity as a people and our willingness to stand up to those who would do us harm have remained steadfast.

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April 12, 2024

What's Fact and What's Fiction - The New Online Harms Bill

Click on the image above to play the video Click here to watch on YouTube There have been a lot of questions around the new Online Harms Bill. In fact,...Read More

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April 12, 2024

B.C.’S Jewish Community Reacts to Introduction of Anti-Racism Act

Vancouver, B.C. – April 11, 2024 – Today, B.C. Attorney General Niki Sharma introduced the province’s long-anticipated Anti-Racism Act, outlining the government’s framework for creating an action plan to address...Read More

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April 11, 2024

Canadian relatives of Oct. 7 victims take government to court over renewed UNRWA funding (Jewish Insider)

The 'decision to re-instate UNRWA funding flies in the face of Canada's own anti-terrorism provisions of the criminal code,' states the families’ application for judicial review

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April 11, 2024

Israeli Ambassador attends six month commemoration of Oct.7 (The Suburban)

The Montreal community turned out in droves to attend a standing room-only event Sunday organized by Bring Them Home Montreal and Federation CJA to mark the six-month anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, in which 1,200 people were brutally murdered, some 250 kidnapped and thousands wounded.

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April 10, 2024

Swastika drawn on poster of baby, other Hamas hostages in Toronto park (The Jerusalem Post)

"Such vile and callous acts of antisemitism are not acceptable anywhere," said The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs in a social media post on Tuesday. "This hate has to stop!"

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April 10, 2024

Housefather to remain with Liberals (The Suburban)

The Liberals and NDP co sponsored a motion in the house of commons calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict and a halt in arms exports to Israel. The government has in fact halted arms sales to Israel for its defence. Liberal MPs Anthony Housefather, Ben Carr and Marco Mendicino were the only Liberals to vote against. The Conservatives unanimously opposed the motion. Housefather said he felt isolated and that the revised motion was too hurriedly passed. After this event Housefather began a period of self-reflection.

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April 10, 2024

Judge expands injunction against anti-Israel protests protecting 27 institutions (The Suburban)

Superior Court Justice Louis Charette has broadly expanded a provisional interlocutory injunction against pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel protests so that demonstrators cannot protest within 50 metres of numerous Jewish community institutions throughout Montreal.The defendants are Independent Jewish Voices, Montreal4Palestine, the Palestinian Youth Movement Montreal (PYMMontreal), Alliance4Palestine.QC and Bara Iyad Abuhamed, the latter of whom faces charges of assaulting a police officer during a trespassing protest by an anti-Israel mob inside Carrefour Laval.

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April 10, 2024

Relatives of October 7 victims file suit against Canadian resumption of UNRWA funding (The Times of Israel)

Federal Court application says renewed funding for UNRWA ‘a grotesque violation of Canadian values’; families of Hamas victims ‘appalled and sickened’ by decision

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April 09, 2024

Des proches de victimes du 7 octobre s'opposent à la reprise du financement canadien à l'UNRWA (The Times of Israël)

Dans leur requête auprès de la Cour fédérale, ils estiment que c'est "une violation patente des valeurs canadiennes" et se disent "consternés et écœurés"

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April 09, 2024

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Passover reflections: Fighting modern-day plague (Jewish Independent)

What's Fact and What's Fiction - The New Online Harms Bill

B.C.’S Jewish Community Reacts to Introduction of Anti-Racism Act

Canadian relatives of Oct. 7 victims take government to court over renewed UNRWA funding (Jewish Insider)

Israeli Ambassador attends six month commemoration of Oct.7 (The Suburban)

Swastika drawn on poster of baby, other Hamas hostages in Toronto park (The Jerusalem Post)

Housefather to remain with Liberals (The Suburban)

Judge expands injunction against anti-Israel protests protecting 27 institutions (The Suburban)

Relatives of October 7 victims file suit against Canadian resumption of UNRWA funding (The Times of Israel)

Des proches de victimes du 7 octobre s'opposent à la reprise du financement canadien à l'UNRWA (The Times of Israël)

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Canada-Israel Friendship

CIJA rejects the ICJ’s non-binding opinion on Israel's policies towards the Palestinian territories, calls on the government of Canada to do the same

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