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Publication Date: May 20, 2026 - 08:57
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Frank Hayden, Canadian researcher who helped spearhead Special Olympics, dead at 96
May 20, 2026
Special Olympics Canada says Frank Hayden, whose research in the 1960s spearheaded the creation of the Special Olympics globally, has died.
Prime Minister Mark Carney launched a new faith advisory council to combat antisemitism led by former Senator Marc Gold in a speech at a Toronto synagogue on Monday evening.
June 1, 2026 - 18:52 | | CBC News - Canada
June 1, 2026 - 18:47 | Molly Hayes | The Globe and Mail
In a speech in Toronto on Monday, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that the country’s civic compact “is failing Jewish Canadians,” who are being “brutally targeted” amid a crisis of antisemitism in the country. Carney said that more than two-thirds of all religiously-motivated hate crimes were directed at Jewish Canadians last year, even though they only make up one per cent of the population, and argued that it “demands a targeted response.” Read the full text of Carney’s speech: Thank you, Leslie and Evan, for that introduction. I would like to thank Cantor David Rosen for...
June 1, 2026 - 18:30 | National Post | National Post



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