Sept. 3, 2021 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada and Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC) are partnering with the Afghan Women’s Organization Refugee & Immigrant Service and The Neighbourhood Organization to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghan refugees. Thousands of Afghan refugees are being resettled in Canada because of the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Many are […]
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Ahead of the federal election on Sept. 20, B’nai Brith Canada is proud to officially launch its 2021 Elections Guide! As in the past, the Guide will serve as the go-to resource for the Jewish community to get clear and detailed information about all sorts of election-related matters — including material about the major parties, details on how
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Sept. 1, 2021 OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada stands in solidarity with Canada’s Iranian community in commemorating the mass murder of thousands of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 at the hands of the Iranian regime. In 2013, the House of Commons unanimously passed a motion declaring the premediated killings a crime against humanity. We commend
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August 24, 2021 VICTORIA – B’nai Brith Canada is calling for public action to ensure that an upcoming course on antisemitism at the University of Victoria (UVic) does not become a forum for antisemitic views. CLICK HERE to contact UVic directly on this critical issue For the upcoming fall semester, UVic was originally slated to offer a course
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August 20, 2021 TORONTO – In a rare and welcome step, one of Ontario’s most prominent unions has endorsed a resolution to combat the rising tide of Jew-hatred in Canada. At its annual general meeting earlier this week, the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) resolved to “establish a task force to combat Antisemitism in Ontario,”
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August 19, 2021 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is alarmed by a noticeable increase in antisemitic vandalism across the country, seemingly coinciding with the start of the federal election campaign. In the latest outrage, on Thursday morning, a swastika and other graffiti was discovered on the entrance of the Beth Sholom Synagogue in midtown Toronto. That
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English version of article below Photographiés de gauche à droite : Le Conseiller juridique en chef Steven Slimovitch, le Député David Birnbaum, le Coprésident du Conseil du Québec Ronnie Roter, le Coprésident du Conseil du Québec Jerry Tarasofsky au bureau de B’nai Brith Canada à Montréal. Pictured from left to right: Chief Legal Counsel Steven
Image credit: THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang August 16, 2021 OTTAWA – Canadians will head to the polls September 20th. This is an opportunity for members of Canada’s Jewish community to play their role in the democratic process. Since the last federal election, B’nai Brith Canada has been engaged in consultations with Elections Canada officials, advocating for
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August 12, 2021 TORONTO — B’nai Brith has written a letter to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship of Canada and the Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Disability Inclusion, to request that their ministries deny a work permit to Valentina Azarova, should she apply for one to serve as director of the International Human
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Tareq al-Suwaidan delivers a leadership lecture for the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) on Dec. 25, 2020 August 11, 2021 TORONTO – B’nai Brith Canada is demanding that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) revoke the status of a group that twice invited a notorious Jew-hater to address its membership. Tareq al-Suwaidan, an Islamist activist from Kuwait
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