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The former board president of Egale Canada, a leading Canadian group that advocates for LGBT rights, says she now wants to devote her energies to fighting antisemitism. Jacki Lewis is managing partner of Toronto law firm, Lewis & Associates. She has 30 years’ experience representing refugees before the Refugee Protection Division and Federal Court of Canada and was president of Egale Canada’s board for more than 10 years. “My reasons for leaving are that I have been with the organization for a long time and my politics and priorities lie with fighting antisemitism with Tafsik...
March 12, 2026 - 16:18 | National Post Staff | National Post
A Jewish Montreal woman says federal officials have offered her only a limited apology after passport office employees told her she could not indicate Israel as her country of birth because of “political conflict.”Anastasia Zorchinsky is a Canadian citizen but was born in Kfar Saba, in central Israel. However, she says Service Canada officials told her because of the “political conflict we cannot put Israel in your passport.” Alternatively, she was told she could have indicated her birth country as Palestine, and that Kfar Saba was one of several cities that was allegedly caught by this...
December 3, 2025 - 15:03 | National Post Staff | National Post
October 31, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
Ontario Provincial Police say a 77-year-old man from Cornwall, Ont., is dead after a two-vehicle collision in North Glengarry Township on Saturday.
September 30, 2025 - 18:47 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Taylor Thomson, the 66-year-old middle child of Canada’s billionaire Thomson family, is suing her former friend after a crypto investment, bought by the two friends and allegedly recommended by a psychic, went south. Now an Uber driver , 47-year-old Californian Ashley Richardson is representing herself. She lost her personal wealth in the doomed crypto investment. Thomson reportedly lost US$80 million. It also cost them their friendship. The two friends reportedly met back in 2009 at a Malibu house party. Richardson grew up in an affluent part of Monterey County, Calif., attending an...
August 27, 2025 - 13:25 | National Post Staff | National Post
June 18, 2025 - 05:01 | | CBC News - Canada
