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Despite a plea from a Canadian Jewish advocacy group, the Carney government will not be appointing a new special envoy to tackle antisemitism. Neither will it have an Islamophobia envoy. Instead, it launched an advisory council to combat hate on Wednesday. The role of Canada’s Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism was previously held by Deborah Lyons. But it has remained open since she stepped down in July. B’nai Brith Canada urged Prime Minister Mark Carney to fill the position in an open letter in mid-January. “During a national crisis of...