Tag: Musings

Bubble zones: they work. Bubble zones – or “buffer zones,” “safe access zones” or access zones” – first started to show up in the early 1990s.  Back then, women seeking legal abortions, or just seeking advice, were routinely being harassed and threatened at clinics and hospitals that provide those services. Going

Grassroots. Gotcha. The anti-Israel, pro-Hamas propagandists would like you do believe that theirs is a spontaneous, organic, community-based effort, one that is entirely funded by regular folks, presumably through bake sales. Oh, and this: they want to reassure you that their advocacy isn’t against Jews.  It’s against “Zionists.” (Who Dr.

A rain tax. Seriously, they want to tax the rain. Before we get started on the latest insanity to, um, seep out of Toronto’s municipal government, let’s give credit where credit is due, shall we? For sheer gall, for its bottomless brazen brassiness, you can’t beat this one: a tax

Who’s the Wizard of Oz? Everyone remembers the Wizard of Oz. In the epic 1939 film, Dorothy – played by Judy Garland – awakens in the magical land of Oz, and finds herself facing lots of terrifying and potentially-lethal threats. Dorothy ultimately pulls back a curtain, and reveals that the

Faked? The death toll in Gaza was repeatedly cited by Canadian Parliamentarians on Monday as they voted on an NDP resolution to “officially recognize the state of Palestine” and demand an immediate ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war. Over and over, MPs claimed that 32,000 Gazans have been killed by Israel

Is Canada’s foreign policy dominated by Jew-hating bigots? Good question. Listen to what one of our most senior diplomats had to say: “Israelis exercise an unhealthy influence over North America. There is no other influence on government which remotely approaches the influence of the Israeli lobby. They have infiltrated government,

  Fabric Unravelling? A Dialogue on Society’s Shift: A Fireside Chat with Warren Kinsella and Stephanie Smyth Join B’nai Brith Canada’s Special Advisory Council to the League for Human Rights (SAC-LHR) on Thursday, March 21 at 7pm EST for a riveting virtual event. The evening will include two powerhouses, @kinsellawarren,

What’s it going to take? To charge someone with a hate crime, that is. It’s been less than a week since a mob descended on a Toronto Jewish synagogue, and the perpetrators are still walking the streets. How is that possible? Because, make no mistake, what took place at the