Podcast Episodes

Canada won’t unilaterally recognize Palestine after all, as NDP walks back key demand

Late Monday night, March 18, 2024, Canada’s lawmakers voted to keep a key part of the country’s foreign policy on Israel-Palestine the same as it’s b…

2 years, 3 months ago

What’s the deal with that photo showing Ya’ara Saks holding hands with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas?

The photo has caused outrage in Canada’s Jewish community. Last week, the government released an image of the minister of foreign affairs, Melanie Jo…

2 years, 3 months ago

Selina Robinson is mulling her future after quitting the B.C. NDP over its ‘silence’ on antisemitism

It’s been a week since Selina Robinson scorched her premier and former B.C. NDP colleagues for their “silence” after Oct. 7, and for the way they’ve …

2 years, 3 months ago

Jewish organizations are suing the Canadian government over new kosher slaughter rules they warn could destroy the industry

Canada’s main kosher supervision agencies, the Kashruth Council of Canada (COR) and the Jewish Community Council in Montreal, which runs the MK brand…

2 years, 3 months ago

Why did Israeli real estate shows become such a flashpoint for protests in Canada?

For decades, Israeli entrepreneurs have been mounting traveling real estate trade shows here in Canada, to encourage Diaspora Jews to buy property in…

2 years, 3 months ago

What’s so important about the UN’s new report confirming Oct. 7 rapes, torture of Israeli women?

Warning: This episode contains descriptions of sexual violence against women, and may be disturbing to some listeners.

On March 4, days before Intern…

2 years, 4 months ago

This Canadian lone IDF soldier describes life fighting on Israel's wartime front

It’s been more than 150 days since Hamas captured Israeli hostages on Oct. 7 and took them into Gaza. Hamas leaders claim they don’t know where all t…

2 years, 4 months ago

18 things worth remembering about Brian Mulroney’s support for Canadian Jews and Israel

Brian Mulroney didn’t meet a Jew until he left his home in Quebec to go to boarding school. Yet despite this, the Canadian prime minister, who died o…

2 years, 4 months ago

Will Canada's proposed new law regulating online hate speech be derailed by politics?

On Feb. 26, Canada signalled it is done waiting for internet giants and social media companies to protect children from consuming or being victims of…

2 years, 4 months ago

Why these are the most unsafe campuses for Jews in Canada: York, UofT, Concordia, UVic, Queen’s, UBC, TMU and Lethbridge

Last Thursday, Feb. 22, the school of business at McGill University in Montreal had to quickly cancel its in-person classes and switch to online lear…

2 years, 4 months ago