Toronto

November 1, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

What would Matt Baldacci do? The collaborator mentality returns

If people can’t stand up for Jews in a democracy where free speech is part of our national ethos, how should we expect them to behave if the stakes and the costs are much graver?

July 29, 2024 | |

Jewish National Fund Facing Loss of Charitable Status in Canada

Latest Developments Following a years-long auditing process, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) decided to revoke the Jewish National Fund of Canada’s (JNF) charitable status over the organization’s...

September 27, 2023 | David Adesnik |

How US taxpayer dollars line the pockets of Syrian despot Bashar al-Assad

Presidents and prime ministers descended on Manhattan the past two weeks to take part in the 78th annual session of the UN General Assembly. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres took the stage at Turtle...

March 18, 2022 | Tzvi Kahn |

Canada Must Bar Iranian Officials From Entering the Country

It was, at first glance, an unremarkable sight. A man in his 60s, sporting a green T-shirt and blue shorts, walks on a treadmill in a Toronto-area fitness center. Younger men and women exercise on adjacent...

March 7, 2022 | Alireza Nader |

Trudeau’s Double Standards on Iranian Immigrants

Canadian-Iranians must hold Trudeau accountable for his promises, including finding justice for the PS752 families, writes Alireza Nader.

January 2, 2021 | Cleo Paskal |

In U.S. backyard: How China embedded itself in Canada

Since the 1970s, there have been important political and economic pro-China vectors emanating out of Montreal and Ottawa. Since then, that have broadened to influential pro-Beijing groups across Canada. Canada...

September 28, 2020 | Alireza Nader |

Trudeau Fails Canadian-Iranians

Recent developments confirm that Canada has become a major hub for the Islamic Republic in Iran and its supporters, and perhaps an unsafe place for Canadian-Iranian democracy activists. On January 8, 2020,...

July 15, 2020 | Alireza Nader |

Why won’t Trudeau demand more from Iran?

The Islamic Republic in Iran is about to execute three young Iranian men for their participation in the November 2019 popular uprising against the regime. But Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is no...

April 20, 2020 | Alireza Nader |

Regime in Iran Exploits Canada’s Policy of Engagement Without Pressure

Canada has little to show for its government’s conciliatory approach to the Islamic Republic of Iran following the death of 57 Canadian-Iranians on January 8, when the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps...

June 13, 2018 | Saeed Ghasseminejad, Sheryl Saperia

Is Canada a safe haven for corrupt Iranian officials and their money?

The Trudeau government has been under heavy fire lately for its continued pursuit of re-establishing diplomatic ties with Iran, but a shift may be underway. On Monday, several members of the Liberal c...

February 27, 2018 | Sheryl Saperia

Preventing Radicalization at Home

In furtherance of a 2015 campaign promise, the Liberals recently launched the Canada Centre for Community Engagement and Prevention of Violence, which “work(s) with youth, communities, acad...

January 25, 2018 | Sheryl Saperia

A fast way to keep extremist influence out of our schools

The Trudeau government says countering radicalization is a foundational component of Canada’s national security policy. Indeed, it has established the new Canada Centre for Community Engage...

December 15, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht, Mark Dubowitz

Deceptive Deja Vu

In France, all right-thinking people know instinctively what the pensée unique is—the socially acceptable view on any subject that ensures a Parisian won’t get axed from the be...

November 1, 2016 | Sheryl Saperia

Expect Political Turmoil in the Year Ahead

“Trump, Brexit, Migration: Is the world on fire?” This was the topical question explored by five panellists last month at a Toronto event sponsored by three organizations: th...

October 26, 2016 | Clifford D. May

The Battle of Mosul

Ayman al-Zawahiri was correct. Believed to be ensconced in the tribal lands of Pakistan, the leader of what’s sometimes called al Qaeda Central has dedicated his life to a ji...

October 20, 2016 | Oren Kessler

Rizvi’s Reformation

The Atheist Muslim opens with snow in Saudi Arabia. The author, Ali Rizvi, is in fifth grade at the American school in Riyadh, where students are folding glittery snowflakes out of construction p...

April 18, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Tear down Iran’s anti-democracy wall

Is there anything to say about bringing about a democratic political and social order in Iran? A lively panel titled “Anti-democratic Regimes: Confrontation or Coexistence?” at the Fo...

February 12, 2016 | Sheryl Saperia |

Canada Must Not Cave to Iranian Demands

Over the last several weeks, terror victims have squared off against the Islamic Republic of Iran in a Toronto courtroom, seeking to hold that regime civilly liable for its sponsorship of terrori...

December 10, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran Sentences Woman To Death By Stoning

A criminal court in Iran's northern province of Gilan sentenced a woman to be executed by stoning for alleged complicity in the murder of her husband Arash Babaieepour Tabrizinejad....

October 9, 2015 | R. James Woolsey |

Obama Failing to Check Russian Imperialism, Former CIA Head Says

In the eyes of former CIA director James Woolsey, Russian President Vladimir Putin is like the farmer Abraham Lincoln once recalled, who said he wasn’t greedy for land, he only wanted what...