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A Jewish advocacy group warns that the City of Ottawa cancelling its public ceremony for an Israel flag-raising event will further ostracize Jewish Canadians. 

A Toronto Metropolitan University student is suing the university for failing to apply their policies which prohibit antisemitism. The lawsuit alleges the university’s inaction has created a “poisoned antisemitic learning and working environment” in the wake of Hamas’ massacre of Jews in Israel on Oct. 7.

When the going gets tough, our leaders get going (as far away as possible).

A Jewish mom living in downtown Toronto can’t believe her 10-year-old daughter was recently harassed during recess by a loud and aggressive crowd of pro-Palestinian protesters.

"What the response and the human rights claim also proves is how far CUPE Ontario has deviated from its real mission to ensure members are well represented in bargaining and in grievances with the employer."

Since the brutal atrocities of Oct 7, they’ve been stalked on social media, doxxed, confronted on campus and have experienced several death threats.

Mounting protests at Jewish businesses, institutions, and even neighbourhoods combined with the acceptability of virulently anti-Israel language reveal that antisemitism is the new normal in Canada, although many argue the only thing that's changed is its visibility. While many in the federal government have condemned the most extreme examples of antisemitism on display, they feed into antisemitism with their rhetoric and equivocation on Israel, True North's Andrew Lawton discusses. Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs president Shimon Koffler Fogel joins to weigh in further.

Canada’s largest public sector union is rejecting claims before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal that it has promoted and engaged in antisemitism.

In the wake of controversy stemming from Selina Robinson’s allegations of antisemitism within the NDP caucus, British Columbia Premier David Eby convened with Jewish community leaders, committing to addressing and combat antisemitism across the province.

British Columbia MLA Selina Robinson has left the NDP caucus with harsh parting words about her party’s treatment of her and its tolerance of antisemitism.