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 MONTREAL- What the Hell is happening here? Here, in a city previously known for arts and cuisine and a decided European flair, things have gone from bad to worse. Consider: • A Montreal Jewish school for boys has been shot up twice. • Another Montreal Jewish school, for children

Protest movements come and go. But they are quite different. These days, protest movements happen more on the Left then on the Right. There are exceptions, of course, like the Ottawa occupation. But for the most part, conservatives focus on achieving influence within institutions – academia, think tanks, media, politics.

The polls say Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives have dropped, a bit. Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have gone up, a bit. How come? Ten reasons. Tories first. 1. Poilievre’s LikeAbility Gap. Every successful political leader in Canada – Jean Chretien, Rene Levesque, Mel Lastman, Ralph Klein, Doug Ford – was likeable. They were

 Peace in our time.  With war raging, and yet more war seeming imminent, speeches were made. Leaders gathered together, rising to leave behind some words that would be remembered. Remembered by history. Addressing his people, and the world, one powerful man rose and said these things. “We should seek

What do you do when hate shows up in your neighbourhood? In some cases, knowing how to react is pretty straightforward. When Heather Reisman’s bookstore in Toronto is attacked and vandalized because its owner is a Jew? You call the police. So, too, when Yeshiva Gedoloa, a Jewish school in

Ehrlich Anthony Coker was a rapist. He was a murderer and thief, too. While serving three life sentences at the Ware Correctional Institution in Waycross, Georgia, Coker escaped. On that same night, Coker broke into the home of Allen and Elnita Carver and held the couple hostage. He raped Elnita,

  Follow the money.   That’s the best strategy when trying to get to the bottom of a political scandal.  Follow the money, and you’ll eventually find the bad guys.   But what about ethical and moral scandals? What about, say, when the presidents of some of the most prestigious

OTTAWA — We saw the Palestinians. They were there. They were. They had some flags and some signs, over by West Block on Parliament Hill. We saw them, but there weren’t a lot of them. They were shouting and angry and waving their flags. Some of them were driving up

According to Forbes, the Chicago Blackhawks are worth at least $1.5 billion (U.S.). They’ve won Stanley Cups. Bobby Hull and Stan Mikita played for them. They were Barack Obama’s favourite hockey team. They’ve got a longtime owner, the Wirtz family. They’ve got a president of business operations. They’ve got a

A Christmas tree. A Christmas tree lighting get-together, to be precise. They’ve been doing the Christmas tree celebration in Rockefeller Center, in Midtown Manhattan, for a long time. The first time they did it was in 1931, during the Great Depression. A Norway Spruce, often from upstate New York. They

Annihilation. Bloodbath. Destruction. Massacre. Decimation. Wipeout. Use whatever synonym you like, and it’ll apply. The Liberal Party of Canada – at one time, the most-successful political machine in Western democracy – is heading inexorably towards a defeat of truly historic proportions. Some of us have been warning, for a long

The street my parents lived on – and where I was born – was Coolbrook Avenue in Montreal. It was previously home to poorer Irish Catholics, but is now home to many Hasidic Jews, the Lubavitchers. It’s a nice area. Lots of trees, little parks. The Jews and the Irish

Hate is everywhere, these days. How to stop it? Jew hatred is statistically the worst, of course, with anti-Semitic crimes and incidents happening everywhere on a near-daily basis. But the Islamophobia is bad, as well. For every four anti-Semitic incidents, there is roughly one Islamophobic one. It’s a bad situation

  If you’re LGBTQ, you’ll be fine in Palestine, right? I mean, that’s certainly what some folks seem to believe. This week, someone hoisted a banner to that effect at a Canadian university. Here’s what it said, in all caps: TRANS LIBERATION CAN’T HAPPEN WITHOUT PALESTINIAN LIBERATION Universities being places

It’s a deadly virus, one that has killed for millennia. But the virus has mutated. It’s not actually a coronavirus. It’s anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism – hatred of Jews – is one of the oldest viruses. It pre-dates Christ by Centuries, as far back as Abraham. Before the Common Era (BCE), Hebrews