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Petition to Prime Minister Trudeau: Take Strong Stand on Palestinian Child Soldiers

February 18, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada Dear Mr. Prime Minister, For decades, the plight of Palestinian children has largely been ignored by the global community. They have fulfilled the roles of combatants, labourers, support staff, and even suicide bombers. As a result, their childhoods have been shortened by death, severe injury, or imprisonment. Neglect and …

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Sign Our Petition: Canada Must Denounce the Use of Palestinian Child Soldiers

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February 18, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is calling on the federal government to speak out forcefully against the recruitment and use of Palestinian child soldiers in advance of Palestinian Child Soldiers Week (Feb. 18-21). TO SIGN OUR PETITION, PLEASE CLICK HERE. Canada has been at the forefront of tackling the international problem of …

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Deadline Getting Closer for Students to Win Cash in B’nai Brith Book Contest

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Feb. 14, 2020 Just a friendly reminder that the deadline for B’nai Brith Canada’s Diverse Minds Creative Writing Competition is approaching—March 9, 2020. Don’t fear, though. Students still have enough time to enter. We are still accepting and encouraging submissions for the contest in Manitoba, Edmonton, Hamilton, and Montreal. This is an exciting opportunity for high-school students …

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Registration for 2020 Softball Opens March 2!

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February 14, 2020 B’nai Brith Sports of Canada is happy to announce that registrations for our 2020 mens’ and womens’ softball leagues open on March 2! Join more than 800 men and 200 women playing in North America’s largest Jewish Sports League! Don’t get left at home. Click here to register today! Need to be placed on a …

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Help B’nai Brith Spread Joy This Purim

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Feb. 13, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada Dear Friends, Each year before Purim, B’nai Brith Canada volunteers help us package and deliver food bags to the most vulnerable members of our community, including seniors, Holocaust survivors, widows and widowers, and individuals with disabilities. Once again, we will deliver bags to over 1,000 people across the Greater …

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Ontario City Admits Issues with Terror-Glorifying Event on City Property

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February 7, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Officials just west of Toronto have belatedly admitted that city policy was breached at an event held by a Palestinian group at a local community centre. On Feb. 2, the Arab Palestine Association of Ontario (APAO) held an event at the Mississauga Valley Community Centre to celebrate “the 55th Anniversary of …

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Diverse Minds Creative Writing Competition Launched in Montreal

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February 3, 2020 QUEBEC CONFIDENTIAL | By Mike Cohen MONTREAL – Amid great enthusiasm, the Montreal edition of B’nai Brith Canada’s Diverse Minds creative writing competition has been formally launched. Harvey Levine and Janna Minikovich, B’nai Brith’s Quebec Regional Director and Research Coordinator for B’nai Brith’s League for Human Rights, respectively, attended an English Montreal School Board …

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Canadian Pro-Tehran Holocaust Denier Shut Down by Facebook

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January 30, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada TORONTO – Facebook has shut down at least two Canadian-linked pages that have publicly sympathized with the Islamist Regime in Iran, B’nai Brith Canada has learned. Last Friday, CNN profiled the “American Herald Tribune” website, revealing that Facebook had deleted its page on the social media website in August of 2018 because it …

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BINGO: Fun-Loving Volunteers Needed

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January 28, 2020 Dear Friends, B’nai Brith Canada is looking for fun-loving bingo volunteers in the Greater Toronto Area. This is a tremendous opportunity to raise funds for a variety of our programs, including one in which seniors who live at or below the poverty line socialize with one another and are served light meals daily. …

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Diverse Minds is on the air in Hamilton!

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January 22, 2020 B’nai Brith Canada 900 CHML’s Rick Zamperin chats with B’nai Brith Canada CEO Michael Mostyn about the launch of Diverse Minds in Hamilton, Ontario.