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Ahead of Spring Economic Statement, Jewish Community Calls For Stronger Security Support

Ottawa, ON – April 15, 2026 – Ahead of the April 28 Spring Economic Statement, Canada’s Jewish community is urging the federal government to significantly expand and streamline the Canada...

Apr 15, 2026

Combating Antisemitism

Davis Cup

Tennis Canada just announced that the Davis Cup matches in Halifax will be played without spectators in the stadium because of "escalating safety concerns." Extremists are threatening our Canadian way of...

Sep 10, 2025

Protecting Jewish Life

Update on appeal for interlocutory injunction to protect production of Canada’s kosher meat

CFIA’s unjustified and untenable imposition of conditions on shechita forces the Jewish community to seek court relief Ottawa, ON – July 12, 2024 – This week, the Centre for Israel...

Jul 12, 2024

Canada-Israel Friendship

Canada Needs to Change Course

Germany gets it. We need you to help PM Carney understand. Germany has made it clear: advancing recognition of Palestinian statehood right now would undermine efforts toward peace. After meeting...

Aug 27, 2025

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What’s at Stake—Toronto’s Proposed Bylaw on Safe Access Zones

After 19 months of relentless, targeted harassment outside synagogues, Jewish schools, and community institutions, our collective voice is making a difference. The City of Toronto—Canada’s largest and most influential municipality—has...

May 21, 2025

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Humanitarian aid shipments at risk as talks between Israel, Hamas collapse (The Globe and Mail)

The trucks slowly lumbered forward, passing single file through a gap in the seven-metre-high concrete barrier that separates Israel from the northern Gaza Strip. Twenty-eight flatbed trucks were allowed to enter on Sunday morning, each laden with giant sacks of Turkish flour.

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May 05, 2024

This Week in Canadian Jewish Advocacy, May 5, 2024

This week, we reached out to leadership at major Canadian post-secondary institutions to provide guidance on building formal plans for security and enforcing policies, called on Ontarians to tell MPPs...Read More

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May 05, 2024

Pro-Palestinian encampment coming to the University of Manitoba next week (CTV News Winnipeg)

The three-day event will be hosted by U of M students advocating for justice in Palestine in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Organizers are asking participants to stand together “in solidarity with land defenders globally.”

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May 04, 2024

Pro-Palestinian encampment planned for U of Manitoba campus (CBC News Manitoba)

Organizers want university to divest from groups with ties to Israel

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May 03, 2024

Terry Glavin: Finally, a terrorist sympathizer is arrested (National Post)

After everything that has happened since October 7, it might not have been the worst way to begin Jewish Heritage Month in Canada. Following on 207 days of bloodcurdling antisemitic incitements, attacks on synagogues and Jewish-owned businesses, and lurid public celebrations of the bloodiest day in Jewish history since the Holocaust, an arrest has been made.

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May 03, 2024

Proposal to teach Palestinian history in schools faces backlash (CBC)

Nakba noticeably absent from teaching, proponents say; Jewish group says inclusion would 'delegitimize Israel'

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May 02, 2024

Proposal to teach Palestinian history in schools faces backlash (CBC News British Columbia)

Nakba noticeably absent from teaching, proponents say; Jewish group says inclusion would 'delegitimize Israel'

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May 02, 2024

Quebec court won't order removal of McGill anti-Israel protest encampment (National Post)

Montreal police have yet to act, but one Jewish advocacy organization says that 'the situation continues to escalate'

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May 01, 2024

Police arrest woman who praised Hamas attack at Vancouver protest (CTV News Vancouver)

Authorities have arrested a 44-year-old woman who praised last October's attack on Israel during a rally in downtown Vancouver.

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May 01, 2024

Vancouver police arrest pro-Hamas woman who chanted 'Long live October 7 (The Jerusalem Post)

Police said that they had arrested the 45-year-old woman, and while Kates has been released, authorities are conducting a criminal investigation.

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May 01, 2024

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