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Yumna was fifteen years old. At the school she went to in London, Ont., she painted a big floor-to-ceiling mural. On it, she’d put the Earth in space, alongside the words: “Learn. Lead. Inspire.” Beside it, she wrote: “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the

Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Vladimir Putin’s regime immediately commenced brutally killing Ukrainian civilians on a massive scale. Russia committed war crimes. It committed acts of rape and infanticide. It took hostage innocent Ukrainians. It tortured them. Canada is home to the largest Ukrainian diaspora community in the world.

If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, some people will eventually believe it. The author of that one, of course, was Joseph Goebbels, and he would know. Goebbels was the chief propagandist for Germany’s Nazi Party. He helped to devise and then cover up the Shoah

  What is hate, and what isn’t? What words are against the law, and what words are allowed? Actions are easier to judge. When a six-year-old boy is stabbed to death for being a Muslim, Chicago police determined that it was homicide and charged a man. When a 69-year-old Jewish

Don’t make it about you. That’s one of the first things we learned in journalism school. First-person writing wasn’t completely outlawed – but, if your story had “I” and “me” in it, you had to have a very good reason for it. And: what you feel, as a writer, was

October 7 was beautiful, clear day, and the sky above Israel seemed to go on forever. It was the weekend. It was the Sabbath. It was a religious holiday. What we saw – taken from home security camera footage, or mobile phones, or live-streaming, but mostly from the footage Hamas

It’s the weekend, so there’s going to be more demonstrations against Israel. They’ve been happening every weekend since October 7, pretty much. There will be chants and signs and banners, proclaiming participants to be “anti-Zionist” (read: mostly anti-Semitic) and “pro-Palestine” (read: too often, pro-Hamas). By now, everyone knows who Hamas

“I never really knew much about Jews until this year.” That’s what Dana Remillard Kreil wrote in one of her essays, which ended up in court.  She went on: “In other grades, all I was told was that the Jews are a RACE that are discriminated against. They had never

I have never seen it this bad. And I’ve seen it when it is really, really bad. But never like this. Anti-Semitism, that is. Hatred and/or prejudice towards Jews. Some context, here.  As a journalist, I have been writing about, and researching, Jew-hatred since 1986. As a lawyer and a

Places of higher learning? Places that are stomach-churning, more like. We refer to campuses all over North America, of course. Since October 7, far too many students at university, college and high school campuses have blamed Hamas’ victims, not Hamas. They have promoted hatred, not opposed hatred. On Wednesday, thousands

Decisions. That’s all the voters are looking for, really. They know that they are not going to get their way on every single policy decision. So they all want just one thing from their political leaders: decisions. Clear, coherent, concise decisions. This writer worked for a leader like that: Jean

Thirty years ago today, this guy got elected with a massive majority. It was an honor to work for him.

Do you ever feel like you are living in history? Because you are. Right now. For too many, history is distant, abstract. It’s scribblings in dog-eared high school text books. A bit of dialogue recalled from a movie, or something said on a guided tour while on vacation. For too

KINSELLA COLUMN by Warren Kinsella Josh Gilman is a writer. And the whole world needs to see what he’s written.  And, in the past few days, a lot of the world has.  Josh is Canadian, a Dad, a communications specialist, and was formerly involved in politics. The party he belonged

If you’re going to finally confirm that justice was obstructed to hide obstruction of justice, when would you do that? When voters are focussed on a bloody war in the Middle East, probably. There are lot of moving parts in that lede. Let us explain. And here’s one truism, which

It “brings progress.” That’s what a Canadian union leader said, the day after Hamas massacred hundreds of Israeli men, women and children. “Progress.” Three student unions at a major Canadian university called Hamas’ terrorism “a strong act of resistance” – and called Israel a “so-called” country. “Resistance.” At street protests