Rachel Bendayan and her baby girl on the campaign trail

Dec. 4, 2018

QUEBEC CONFIDENTIAL | By Mike Cohen

The opinions, facts and any media content presented do not necessarily reflect the position of B'nai Brith Canada.

MONTREAL – Quebec may be one step closer to getting another Jewish Member of Parliament.

Swastikas drawn in the snow in a Jewish neighbourhood north of Toronto in November

Nov. 28, 2018

By Daniel Koren
Manager, Media Relations & Communications
B'nai Brith Canada

TORONTO – Statistics Canada has released its dossier on police-reported hate crimes for the year 2017 – and the results confirm a worrying trend highlighted in B’nai Brith Canada’s 2017 Annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents, the authoritative document on antisemitism in Canada.

The MS St. Louis

Nov. 7, 2018

By Marty York & Daniel Koren
B'nai Brith Canada

OTTAWA – B’nai Brith Canada is welcoming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s apology to the Jewish community. Still, the organization is again urging the federal government to adopt a concrete, national action plan to fight antisemitism.

Oct. 26, 2018

By Daniel Koren
Manager, Media Relations & Communications
B'nai Brith Canada

OTTAWA – After hearing testimony from B’nai Brith Canada, the House of Commons Justice Committee has voted to strengthen clauses in a justice bill that otherwise could have allowed judges to give more lenient sentences for terrorism-related offences.

François Legault

Oct. 11, 2018

QUEBEC CONFIDENTIAL | By Mike Cohen

The opinions, facts and any media content presented do not necessarily reflect the position of B'nai Brith Canada.

MONTREAL – For most new governments, municipal, federal, or provincial, there’s a honeymoon period. In Quebec, that has hardly been the case for Premier-elect François Legault, whose Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) won a strong majority in the Oct. 1 provincial election with 74 seats compared to 32 for the Liberals, 10 for Québec Solidaire and 10 for the Parti Québecois (PQ).

Oct. 5, 2018

By Daniel Koren
Manager, Media Relations & Communications
B'nai Brith Canada

MONTREAL – As the controversy intensifies over the freshly elected Coalition Avenir Quebec’s (CAQ) proposed ban on religious symbols in public institutions across Quebec, B’nai Brith Canada is urging Premier-elect Francois Legault to reconsider adopting the discriminatory legislation.

David Birnbaum

Sept. 28, 2018

QUEBEC CONFIDENTIAL | By Mike Cohen
B'nai Brith Canada

The following is the last of four profiles on Jewish candidates running in the Quebec provincial election. We've also run profiles on Laura Azéroual, Yaniv Loran and Mélodie Cohn.

MONTREAL – In the days leading up to the Oct. 1 Quebec election, incumbent D’Arcy McGee Liberal MNA David Birnbaum is hopeful and optimistic that his party will obtain another mandate. When the campaign began, the Coalition Avenir Quebec (CAQ) was ahead in the polls. But following three debates, Premier Philippe Couillard has put his troops back in the running.

Bernard Praw, a Jewish commissioner from the English Montreal School Board, meets with CAQ candidates Nathalie Dansereau, Mélodie Cohn and Laura Azéroual

Sept. 18, 2018

QUEBEC CONFIDENTIAL | By Mike Cohen
B'nai Brith Canada

The following is the third of four profiles on Jewish candidates running in the Quebec provincial election. For our profile on Laura Azéroual, click here. For our profile on Yaniv Loran, click here.

With the Oct. 1 Quebec elections only a few weeks away, polls still predict a tight race between the governing Liberal Party and the opposition Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ).

Yaniv Loran

Sept. 4, 2018

QUEBEC CONFIDENTIAL | By Mike Cohen
B'nai Brith Canada

The following is the second of four profiles on Jewish candidates running in the Quebec provincial election. For the first, click here.

MONTREAL – With the Quebec election campaign now officially underway, some more Jewish candidates have stepped up to the plate.

Laura Azéroual campaigns with François Legault

Aug. 22, 2018

QUEBEC CONFIDENTIAL | By Mike Cohen
B'nai Brith Canada

The following is the first of four profiles on Jewish candidates running in the Quebec provincial election. For the second, click here.

MONTREAL – While the provincial election campaign in Quebec will not officially kick off until Thursday, it is just as if the writ has already dropped. Polls show that the Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) and its leader François Legault are the early favourites to defeat the governing Liberals, with the Parti Québecois potentially wiped from the map.