Source Feed:     The Globe and Mail  
  
      Author:     Greg Mercer, Alexandra Posadzki  
  
      Publication Date:     October 6, 2025 - 06:00  
  Jewish organization calls on Ottawa to increase security at Canada’s synagogues
    October 6, 2025  
  One of the country’s largest Jewish organizations is calling on the federal government to spend millions more on security for Canada’s synagogues, as Israel’s war in Gaza approaches its second anniversary.
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) says rising antisemitism and violent attacks on Jews have forced Jewish communities across Canada to spend more than $40-million in the past year on private security and in fortifying their places of worship.
    A landmark court ruling has ignited fierce debate and uncertainty over the future of private property rights in the province and across the country.  
  October 31, 2025 - 12:50 | Sean Boynton | Global News - Canada 
    
    
    The rockslide forced the closure of the section between Callan and North Beach roads, reducing the highway to two lanes and causing repeated delays and detours.  
  October 31, 2025 - 12:49 | Victoria Femia | Global News - Canada 
    
    
    In 2008, at the age of fifty-one, André Alexis published his second novel. He had come rather late to the game, putting out his first collection of short stories at thirty-seven and his debut novel a few years later. But his work was well received, and that first novel, Childhood, garnered him a brace of major literary prizes. Four hundred and eighty pages long and a decade in the making, Asylum was a suitably ambitious follow-up. Exploring the intersecting lives of a cast of characters in Ottawa during the early Brian Mulroney administration, the action is driven by a bureaucratic hero...
  October 31, 2025 - 12:44 | André Forget | Walrus 
    
    


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