Long-serving Ontario MPP Monte Kwinter will not seek reelection
York Centre MPP Monte Kwinter, Ontario’s oldest-serving member of the provincial legislature, announced on July 20 that he will not seek reelection in 2018.
Textbook suggesting Israel uses child soldiers to be corrected
The publisher of a school textbook that implied Israel has used child soldiers has apologized for any “confusion” and says it has fixed the issue in time for the coming school year.
Ontario’s NDP takes stand against anti-Semitism
Party’s motion not voten on and anti-Semitism motion added at recent conference
Ontario funding policies threaten Jewish education
Ontario remains the only province that refuses to contribute funding to the general studies portion of the curriculum of non-Catholic denominational schools.
Keith Landy recalled as ‘quintessential Jewish communal leader’
Keith Landy, who headed Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) nationally as well as in Ontario, died in Toronto Feb. 24 of pancreatic cancer. He was 66.
Israel, Ontario each give $5 million to promote cyber-security
Israel and Ontario will each give $5 million each to promote joint ventures between small and medium-sized enterprises to create cyber-security solutions for Canadian financial institutions.
Joe Oliver loses Ontario PC bid to Roman Baber
Former federal finance minister and former Conservative MP for Toronto’s Eglinton-Lawrence riding Joe Oliver lost his bid for the Ontario Progressive Conservative nomination in the riding of York Centre to Roman Baber.
Integrity watchdog to probe councillor who posted anti-Semitic tweet
A motion to censure a Niagara regional councillor in St. Catharines, Ont., for posting an anti-Semitic video on Twitter was referred to the purview of a newly reinstated regional integrity commissioner
Did Ontario’s anti-BDS motion go far enough?
On Dec. 1, Ontario became the first province to pass a motion against the BDS campaign against Israel, but behind the cheers were echoes of a bitter defeat
The high-flying bootlegger and builder of the 1920s
Unlike many Jews who settled in London, Ont. in the 1920s, Charlie Burns did not have to resort to peddling or junk collection to eke out a living
