I’ll let you in on a little secret: they’re lot friendlier than you know. Members of Parliament, that is. Partisan differences notwithstanding, durable friendships persist behind the scenes. And ...

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Forty-five years ago today, Ian Curtis took his life. I was in Calgary, and getting ready to start at Carleton and later – I figured – a journalism degree. In Calgary, I had been involved with the ...

Meet the new boss, worse than the old boss. Apologies to The Who, but the misapplication of their song lyric is apt: on all matters related to the Jewish state, former Global Affairs Minister Melanie ...

Does antisemitism come from the Left or the Right? In truth, Jew-hatred is a shape-shifter. It isn’t practiced by one ideology – it’s embraced, at different moments in history, by every ideology, ...

Is Benjamin Netanyahu Israel? Is Israel Benjamin Netanyahu? If you spend a few weeks there, talking to Israelis, the answer is pretty clear: no. To many Israelis, their Prime Minister no longer ...

A banker has broken into your place, and is stealing all of your ideas.” It’s a bit of an exaggeration to make a point, of course – Liberal Mark Carney hasn’t stolen all of the Conservative leader’s ...

An Ontario farm that has received federal funding is being taken to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario – for allegedly refusing to hire a man because he is an Israeli. As revealed in the Sun last ...

In Washington, D.C., two Israeli embassy staff were gunned down in the street on May 21. They were assassinated as they were leaving the Capital Jewish Museum by a man who fired 21 bullets into the ...

Long, long ago, in the prehistoric times before the Internet, I was a reporter at a fine Postmedia paper, the Calgary Herald. I’d work there on weekends during law school, to keep myself in Kraft ...