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Back to SearchWelcome to the other side: Hear from Jews who support the truckers
Yesterday, Premier Doug Ford of Ontario announced he would join Manitoba, Alberta and Saskatchewan in speeding up a timeline for loosening COVID rest…
4 years, 4 months ago
Taking back Ottawa's streets: Inside the counter-protests against the truckers
Ariel Troster doesn't know who she is more mad at: the local police in Ottawa, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau or the truck protesters clogging her cit…
4 years, 4 months ago
Antisemitism in Toronto schools, Part 2: The targeted teen speaks out
Yesterday, we brought you a story on three antisemitic incidents that happened within days of each other at two different Toronto middle schools. (If…
4 years, 4 months ago
Antisemitism in Toronto schools, Part 1: Why are we still seeing Nazi symbols in classrooms?
Recently, two separate Toronto-area middle schools have witnessed three antisemitic incidents. At Charles H. Best Junior Middle School, kids targeted…
4 years, 4 months ago
Inside the initiative to help impoverished Holocaust survivors live out their days in comfort
Pinchas Gutter has been one of Canada's most active Holocaust survivors. He's spent years educating Canadians about the genocide and what life was li…
4 years, 5 months ago
Meet the Canadian Jewish performer pushing for people with disabilities to take centre stage
Ophira Calof is having a busy month. The 28-year-old Toronto-based actor, writer and curator will be judging entries for AccessCBC, the CBC’s new acc…
4 years, 5 months ago
Meet the Canadians behind the scenes of the Jewish movement to boycott the Beijing Olympics
Marc Grushcow has never waded into political protests before. But this year, ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the Canadian retiree—and father…
4 years, 5 months ago
The untold story of Isay Rottenberg, Nazi Germany's 'reverse Schindler'
Just before Hitler rose to power, Isay Rottenberg, then living in Amsterdam, made an unusual move. Rather than flee the area, he moved to Germany, bu…
4 years, 5 months ago
Justin Trudeau’s chief policy advisor, the highest-ranking Jewish woman in the PMO, has stepped down
Marci Surkes has been called the air traffic controller of the Prime Minister's Office. For the last two years, it's been her job to make sure all th…
4 years, 5 months ago
'Who cares' about swastikas in the trucker convoy, group's Jewish spokesperson asks
This weekend, a convoy of protesters, including truckers and those opposed to mandatory vaccine passports, reached Ottawa after days of a cross-count…
4 years, 5 months ago