Not all Canadian Jews support Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act

 As Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, continues its journey toward becoming law in Canada, representatives of Canada’s Jewish community, such as CIJA and B’nai Brith, continue to voice their support. In doing so, they are failing to represent the best interests of the community.

The Time Has Come to End Incitement in Palestinian Schools

With Iran's regional influence curtailed, the international community has a rare and crucial opportunity to address one of the most pervasive and insidious obstacles to Middle East peace: the systematic indoctrination of Palestinian children through their education system.

The operation against Iran is about more than nukes.

 For years, Western governments’ policy toward Iran concentrated on one objective: preventing that country from acquiring a nuclear weapon. Diplomacy revolved around enrichment levels, centrifuges, and inspections under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. Sanctions were calibrated to nuclear benchmarks. Political capital was spent defending or dismantling the deal. But that singular focus created a strategic blind spot.

Canada’s conservatives take the bait – again.

As a long-time member of the Conservative party of Canada (and its previous iterations), organizer, and conservative activist I regret being put into a position where I feel the need to speak out against the actions of our party’s leader, Erin O’Toole, and those members who voted to eject Derek Sloan from the federal conservative party caucus.

Rethinking our response to this (and any future) pandemic

Let me make clear right from the start that I am not an anti-masker. I do question the efficiency of mask-wearing, but not because I subscribe to the theory that masks are “too porous” to filter a virus as small as the COVID19 virus, or because I detect a conspiracy to take away our rights and impose one-world government. I question the efficiency of mask-wearing because making it compulsory has done little to slow the spread of the virus, in contrast to the success we had in the spring, when masks were voluntary. So I question the usefulness of making mask wearing mandatory, given the evidence.