Jewish community voices are reprising their warnings of intensifying and unchecked antisemitism in Toronto after two locations of a Jewish-owned bakery and restaurant chain were damaged in separate incidents Sunday morning, one by gunfire.

The Toronto Police Service said the first occurred at 8:12 a.m. at a business near the intersection of Yonge Street and St. Clair Avenue, where police found a broken window and evidence that shots were fired.

The second occurred approximately 18 minutes later at the chain’s Bathurst Street and Steeles Avenue location, where officers found a broken window but no evidence of shots fired.

Police said nobody was injured in either and that hate crime unit officers are investigating both. The guns and gangs unit is also assisting in the first.

“At this time, investigators are examining whether the incidents are connected and working to identify those responsible,” TPS wrote on X.

Police didn’t specify which chain was targeted, but several users on X, including Avi Benlolo, founding chairman and CEO of The Abraham Global Peace Initiative (AGPI), identified it as Kiva’s Bagel Bar on St. Clair and their bakery and restaurant on Steeles.

AGPI CONDEMNS ANTISEMITIC ATTACKS ON KIVA’S RESTAURANT

The Abraham Global Peace Initiative (AGPI) condemns this morning’s antisemitic hate-crime attacks against two Toronto locations of Kiva’s Bakery and Restaurant.

Toronto Police reported that a window at Kiva’s Bagel Bar near… https://t.co/xFkze0qOXa

— Avi Abraham Benlolo (@AviBenlolo) July 26, 2026

“From AGPI’s perspective, there is no ambiguity: targeting two locations of the same Jewish-owned business constitutes an antisemitic hate crime,” he said in a statement.

“Jewish businesses, schools and synagogues have been repeatedly targeted. This escalating campaign of intimidation and violence is intolerable.”

Toronto MP Melissa Lantsman pushed back against any notion it was a “coincidence” that both places were attacked and called it “a targeted campaign of intimidation on one community.”

Canada, she said on X, “needs to wake up to the hatred metastasizing in its streets” and that the Jewish community wants action in the form of arrests and prosecutions, not sympathy.

When a Jewish-owned business gets hit twice, it’s not coincidence, it’s a targeted campaign of intimidation on one community. Synagogues, schools, and Jewish businesses come under attack again and again.

This country needs to wake up to the hatred metastasizing in its streets.… https://t.co/xgvW8GLCzJ

— Melissa Lantsman (@MelissaLantsman) July 26, 2026

“Toothless bills, thoughts and prayers and more statements don’t quell a community’s anxiety, they just insult it. Task forces don’t act. No more councils that don’t speak up. Just do the results part. Enforce the law. “

Liberal Toronto MP Leslie Church called Kiva’s “beloved local deli” that’s “part of our community.

“I share our whole community’s anger at seeing more violent, antisemitic incidents in Toronto,” she wrote on X. “Gunfire at a Jewish-owned business is criminal and vile in every respect.”

The Centre of Israel and Jewish Affairs said the attacks “come amid a broader rise in violent extremism across Canada and other Western democracies — a toxic brew of antizionist rhetoric, local criminal elements, Iranian-backed proxies, and ISIS-inspired terrorism.”

“Our leaders must be unequivocal: nothing justifies attacks on Canadians,” they wrote on X.

The UJA Federation of Greater Toronto, meanwhile, said the Jewish Security Network had liaised with police and “deployed resources to both affected locations.”

York Centre MPP Michael Kerzner said he was “outraged” by the news.

“Let me be clear: there is no place for hate in Ontario,” he wrote in a statement shared on X. “Acts of antisemitism and intimidation have no place in our communities and will not be tolerated.”

Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow denounced the “targeted attacks” as “vile and unacceptable.”

“We all have a responsibility to stand against hate. I will always stand with Toronto’s Jewish community against antisemitism,” she added on X. “We will continue to invest in community safety and the necessary work of confronting hate wherever it exists.”

Aviva Klompas, co-founder of Boundless, a think-tank dedicated to educating groups about Israel and combatting antisemitism, responded to the news on X by saying “It is open season on Canadian Jews… and Chow is utterly disinterested.”

“Shame on every official that is issuing useless statements of concern while allowing violence to escalate.”

🚨 Two Jewish businesses were shot at in Toronto today.

Two locations of the Jewish-owned Kiva’s Bagel Bar were targeted - one at Yonge & St. Clair and another at Bathurst & Steeles. At least one location was struck by gunfire.

It is open season on Canadian Jews and Toronto…

— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) July 26, 2026

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Canadians spent $3.3 billion less on travel to the United States in 2025 compared to 2024, according to figures released by Statistics Canada.

The decline resulted in a total spend of $18.1 billion on visits to the U.S. last year, with the decrease driven by lower spending on leisure-related visits, which fell by $2.2 billion to $12.1 billion.

The data , which comes from StatCan’s quarterly National Travel Survey (NTS), reveals that Canadians made 7.4 million fewer trips across the border in 2025 compared to the year prior. When it came to leisure travel to the U.S., visits from Canadians dropped by 3.2 million, a reduction of 21.5 per cent.

This decrease was almost entirely offset by an increase in both domestic (+5 million) and overseas (+1.3 million) visits. And spending on leisure-related visits overseas (other than the U.S.) grew by $3.6 billion in 2025 to reach $22.8 billion, accounting for just under half of overall expenditures abroad.

Domestic travel also saw a boost, with expenditures rising by 8.7 per cent in 2025 to $81.3 billion, driven by an 8.1 per cent increase in spending on leisure-related travel.

StatCan notes that the dramatic decline in cross-border travel occurred “following the change in the U.S. administration in early 2025 and the implementation of America First policies,” adding that “Canadians’ travel plans shifted abruptly” during this time.

In fact, Canadian travel to the U.S. began to decline in December 2024 — one month after Trump won the U.S. presidential election and first raised the idea of Canada becoming a “51st state” — and continued to drop for 15 consecutive months.

This is consistent with a widely held assumption that the decline in U.S. travel by Canadians is a response to the Trump administration’s trade war against Canada .

Along with cross-border travel, many Canadians decided to boycott U.S. goods last year, with a survey by Nanos for CTV News published in May revealing eight out of 10 still believe that avoiding American goods and travel to the U.S. helps strengthen Canada’s bargaining position.

However, StatCan observed the first uptick in travel to the U.S. in April this year, suggesting the travel boycott may be coming to an end. The increase in trips to the U.S. was driven by a 5.8 per cent year-over-year increase in return trips via automobile, but return trips by air continued to decrease — down 8.1 per cent in April 2026 compared to last year.

A similar trend was observed in May, with return trips to the U.S. by automobile up 15.1 per cent compared to last year, but down 5.5 per cent for travel by air. This resulted in an overall year-over-year increase in cross-border travel of 9.5 per cent.

In June, trips by automobile saw an increase of 5.2 per cent, while return trips by air had decreased 3.8 per cent.

The latest StatCan figures come after Trump announced plans to impose a new 50 per cent tariff on Canadian goods in response to what the U.S. administration views as discriminatory trade practices by Canada. And on Thursday, 60 countries, including Canada, were hit with new tariffs between 10 and 12.5 per cent following an investigation into forced labour.

The new tariffs mark the latest escalation in an 18-month-long trade war between Canada and the U.S., but it remains to be seen whether the announcements will have further impact on Canadians’ travel habits.

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The Waterloo region is known worldwide for one reason: it builds world-class tech companies and, with good cause, is often called Canada’s Silicon Valley.

Behind the success stories like BlackBerry, OpenText and Arctic Wolf, there’s a powerful ecosystem at play: Perimeter Institute, the deep-science and big-idea pillar; Communitech, the practical, membership-driven startup hub; and Velocity, the University of Waterloo’s engine room of startup culture, turning researchers and students into builders.

The region has surprisingly little political muscle at the cabinet tables. Aside from MPP Mike Harris Jr. in Kitchener-Conestoga, there are no federal or provincial ministers rooted here. Still, it’s clearly on Ottawa’s radar, as is the man freshly in charge of the region’s, and potentially one of the nation’s, most important institutions: the University of Waterloo.

Earlier this month, new U of W president Bill Rosehart joined a roundtable hosted by federal Industry Minister Mélanie Joly at the Accelerator Centre in Waterloo, where she met with local dual-use tech companies to discuss innovation, defence capabilities, and supporting Canadian SMEs in the region.

I spoke to Rosehart to understand how this new president plans to ensure Waterloo plays its full part in rebuilding the region and the country. Ten days into the job, Bill Rosehart leans into the camera wearing a dark suit jacket and open-collared blue shirt, looking every bit the polished engineering dean turned university CEO. He speaks in complete, thoughtful sentences. No woke rambling. No ivory tower bafflegab.

He arrives in the job at a crucial time. Canada needs more Waterloo. The country is hungry for entrepreneurs and for success, and if you listen to people like Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, a harsh critic of the policy factors that have led to national stagnation, it’s no longer built that way.

Rosehart is ambitious, and not just for Waterloo: “I want to see the whole country grow,” he tells me.

Rosehart, 53, is the first alum to hold the presidency at the University of Waterloo. Born in Thunder Bay where his father was president of Lakehead University, he later watched his dad lead Wilfrid Laurier, just across the street from Waterloo. Now the son has come full circle.

It’s a great homecoming story, and there’s no question he’s qualified. Rosehart is a three-time University of Waterloo graduate: BASc in electrical engineering in 1996, MASc in 1997, and PhD in 2001. From there, he spent 23 years at the University of Calgary, rising from engineering professor to department head to dean. The past two years, he served as provost and vice-president academic at the University of Guelph.

“I wouldn’t have believed it if you’d told me when I graduated,” he says with a smile. “This was never the plan. The plan was just to have a positive impact in everything I did and really put my heart into it.”

That sounds sentimental until you think about the challenges he’s walking into. A serious budget deficit. Staff cuts over the past two years. The lingering trauma from the 2023 campus stabbing. And that’s before you get to the impacts of federal international student caps, Ontario’s shift to performance-based funding for post-secondaries, and the overall strain on the provincial and national economies triggered by a trade war with America.

Full disclosure: I grew up on a farm south of Kitchener-Waterloo, did my undergrad at Wilfrid Laurier literally just across the street from Waterloo, and was Rosehart’s MLA in the Alberta Legislature when he was appointed dean in Calgary. I’ve seen firsthand how cost-cutting and funding pressures play out in post-secondary education. That background makes me particularly curious about how this homecoming president plans to navigate the same headwinds here.

Rosehart knows the stakes. He says he’s focused on “amplifying what we’re doing in the entrepreneurship and innovation transfer and startup space…making it a whole lot easier for our faculties to take their research and get it into practice and generate economic activity from their work.” It’s what he feels the community wants the university to do.

That mindset shines through when he talks about Waterloo’s secret weapon — its co-op program, its relationship with the outside world beyond the ivory tower. From day one, the university bet on a model that forces deep integration with the real world. For Rosehart, co-op is the perfect embodiment of his leadership style: it supports the success of students by giving them real problems to solve, supports companies by bringing fresh talent and ideas, and supports the university by keeping it grounded in the economy it serves.

“AI is changing everything,” he acknowledges, but instead of wringing hands over AI-generated student essays and cheating, Rosehart sees opportunity. Waterloo is already placing co-op students inside local companies to help them rethink their operations with “fresh eyes and very AI-ready eyes.” The students get real problems. The companies get innovation help. The university stays relevant. It’s classic Waterloo: experiential learning that forces the institution to stay connected to the real economy.

He leans forward when talking about the bigger picture. “You can’t do community building or nation building if you’re not connected into the community.” He repeats once more with emphasis. When I push him on what nation-building actually looks like from a university president’s office in Waterloo, he doesn’t dodge.

“There are a lot of challenges in the world. We need to step up as a nation and help ourselves create these opportunities to support our true prosperity.”

It’s the kind of language that could easily slide into politician-speak, but coming from an electrical engineer whose PhD was on power systems, it carries a certain grounded credibility (pun intended).

His research into electrical energy systems, integration of renewables, and energy storage is highly topical. Yet he assures me he’s never been tempted to exit academia for the private sector. “I love it here,” he says, and it looks like he does. “I love supporting the students.”

That same systems-thinking mindset applies to one of the region’s biggest upcoming projects: the new regional hospital planned for Waterloo’s North Campus. The previous administration got the photo-op with Premier Doug Ford. Rosehart gets the harder part: turning the project into something more than bricks and mortar.

“We’re not running a hospital. We’re not training medical students,” he clarifies. “Our focus is going to be innovation — from technology to policy to overall healthy community approaches.” He sees the university’s role as figuring out how to adopt new tools, design better systems, and rethink care delivery.

Partnership-heavy, interdisciplinary, outward-facing. Exactly what you’d hope from Canada’s most entrepreneurial university.

Still, there’s an undeniable tension. Rosehart talks a strong game about the Velocity startups, the Perimeter and Communitech connections, the tech ecosystem. But that story can’t happen inside the institution. It has to be lived in the community. It’s about real relationships.

Rosehart has advantages — he’s an alum with family roots in the region — and he’s also highly credible on his own merits. But the clock is already ticking. He has reached out to David Johnston (the former Waterloo president who went on to become Canada’s governor general) and Elizabeth Cannon (former University of Calgary president) for advice. Cannon, in particular, knows him well: she chose him as dean of the Schulich School of Engineering and built a strong reputation for partnering with the private sector and attracting significant industry investment. Both told him the same thing: get out of the building.

In our conversation, on day 10 in the new job, Rosehart sounds like he understands what’s required. The next few years will be challenging as he steers the university through a changing higher-education landscape and economic tumult in the country. The homecoming story is compelling. Now comes the harder part: making it matter.

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A 28-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly entering several homes in a single day and sexually assaulting multiple victims in Oshawa, Ontario.

Mohamed Basil Lafir of no fixed address is charged with several suspected offences, including multiple break-and-enters, committing an indecent act, forcible confinement, and two sexual assaults.

Lafir was held after his arrest for a bail hearing.

The alleged crime spree unfolded on Nov. 11, according to Durham Regional Police . The service says it responded to calls received late Tuesday afternoon about a man entering homes and exposing himself.

The suspect entered one home and exposed himself to the residents before being startled by a dog and fleeing, says the DRPS in a release.

“The suspect then entered a second residence on the same street, where he sexually assaulted the homeowner when she confronted him.”

Afterward, he fled and entered a third home. While inside it, the suspect sexually assaulted an older female, who was in bed. He fled the third residence through the bedroom window.

When police arrived in the area, they located the suspect and took him into custody without incident.

Police are concerned there may be more victims.

However, the allegations have yet to be proven in court.

Anyone with information or video connected to these incidents is asked to contact the DPRS investigative division at 1-888-579-1520 ext. 2452.

Meanwhile, anonymous information can be shared with Durham Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or online at www.durhamregionalcrimestoppers.ca

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The B.C. Court of Appeal has granted interim release to a medical aesthetics spa owner convicted of seven counts of sexual assault, pending the hearing of his appeal.

Justice Susan Griffin heard the bail application from the convicted man requesting that he be released under 24-hour house arrest with electronic monitoring. In her Nov. 28 decision , she noted that Farshad Khojsteh Kashani complied with bail conditions prior to trial, as well as the Crown’s agreement that he does not pose a current safety risk to the public. Further, she was satisfied he would not flee, despite ties to Iran.

Kashani, 51, was born in Iran. He studied medicine in Iran and worked as a general practitioner there for about four years, according to the court decision. Then, around age 37, in 2011, he came to Canada with his wife and became a Canadian citizen in 2017.

He failed to meet the English language proficiency required to practice medicine in B.C., and instead trained in aesthetics procedures and opened a medical aesthetics spa, which he operated between 2017 and 2022.

However, in May 2019, one of his clients reported to the police that he had sexually assaulted her during a procedure. Two years later, another client made a similar report. Following a news release issued by the police and subsequent media coverage, five other complainants came forward with similar allegations. Kashani was subsequently charged with seven counts of sexual assault.

In April 2025, he was found guilty of all seven counts of sexual assault and sentenced to 11 years imprisonment.

“The offences were highly invasive,” wrote Justice Griffin in her decision. “In some cases, the offences involved: vaginal penetration using a medical instrument, which the appellant thrusted aggressively to varying degrees; digital penetration; touching of the vulva and/or clitoral area; and the infliction of physical pain.”

Further she wrote: “There were hallmarks of planning, as four of the complainants went to the clinic initially for other treatments and the appellant encouraged them towards this procedure.”

It should be noted that a publication ban has been imposed by the court restricting the publication of any evidence that would identify a complainant or witness.

Justice Griffin noted that the sentencing judge said Kashani had no prior criminal record, had generally led a productive life, and was at a low risk of reoffending. “However, given the gravity of the offences, the sentencing judge found that the objectives of denunciation and deterrence were paramount and necessitated a substantial penitentiary term.”

Turning to the bail application, Griffin focused on submissions from Kashani and his wife that “they are both prepared to surrender all passports, Canadian and Iranian, and expired passports. The appellant’s wife says that while one can apply online for an Iranian passport, an original birth certificate is necessary to complete the process. The appellant is also willing to surrender his birth certificate.”

Kashani also proposed bail terms aimed at mitigating concern that he might flee, including 24‑hour house arrest and submission to electronic monitoring. As further reassurance, Justice Griffin noted that Kashani’s wife submitted that she is willing to act as surety, provide a cash deposit of $150,000, and also provide the security of their condominium residence located in Coquitlam.

“Weighing all of this, I am satisfied that the risk of the appellant fleeing the jurisdiction can be mitigated by the additional measures proposed by the appellant. I am satisfied that he has established that he will surrender himself (for the appeal hearing) … I am not persuaded that detention is in the public interest.”

Finally, she ordered Kashani to surrender himself in mid-April or on the date when the appeal is finally set down to be heard.

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More than two years after separating from Justin Trudeau, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau seems to be coping with her ex’s public romance with singer Katy Perry. Moreover, she credits him with stepping up to joint parent their three children.

“I’m definitely not a single mom. I have a partnership with a father who has such deep love and availability to his children,” she said when she sat down recently with Canadian businesswoman Arlene Dickinson for a YouTube episode of “ Arlene Is Alone: The Single Life .”

The discussion with Grégoire Trudeau was wide-ranging, exploring mental health, motherhood, living in the public eye, and women finding authenticity amid constant scrutiny.

Acknowledging that being in the public eye can present many “triggers,” Grégoire Trudeau said she has learned to “listen to the music, not the noise.”

Dickinson injected her own sense of frustration with the publicity surrounding Justin and Perry (without mentioning the entertainer’s name but referring to the widely publicized photos of the couple in a Montreal restaurant and then on Perry’s yacht). “I don’t know how you stay cool … I really admire it because I would probably not be that way.”

Grégoire Trudeau responded by acknowledging “stuff affects us” and she is aware that a lot of “public stuff out there can be triggers.” However, she says she chooses not to stay triggered: “How you react to stuff is your decision. The woman I want to become through this is my decision.”

She said it’s possible to stay in a reactive state, but “you’ll suffer the consequences. Your stress levels are going to be up the roof. You’re going to become more and more judgmental because that’s a loop as well.”

Grégoire Trudeau married Justin Trudeau, the twenty-third prime minister of Canada, in 2005. The couple separated in 2023. There are no public plans to divorce. They have three children: Xavier James, Ella-Grace Margaret, and Hadrien Gregoire.

Dickinson asked her what’s it’s like to be a single mom. However, Grégoire Trudeau insisted she is not one, crediting her husband for his ongoing dedication to the family .

Regarding the very public life of a senior politician’s family, she spoke about “the scrutiny, the speed at which things are happening. You’re constantly reacting, knowing that when you go out there, the partner and the man you love, and your kids, they are under physical and psychological stress and safety issues. That’s hard to face as a family.”

“So, she said, “I can’t say I’m a single mom because we have raised these kids together.”

Dickson asked about times when Justin might be on the road and Grégoire Trudeau is facing a parental challenge. In response, Grégoire Trudeau said: “We call each other up. We’ll text each other … We will really try to build cohesion, so that the kids feel that cohesion … We have separate lives, but we have one family life, right?”

Despite the marriage breakup, Grégoire Trudeau insisted that it has been “a common, conscious decision that our family is our greatest creation and we’re going to feed it together no matter if we are on different life paths.”

Notably, the two women did not discuss that Grégoire Trudeau has been in a new relationship with Ottawa pediatric surgeon, Dr. Marcos Bettolli , possibly since before breakup became public in 2023.

Still, she expressed public anguish about the failure of the marriage. For example, in May 2024, People Magazine reported her saying: “It hurts deeply. You know, marriage is ‘success.’ Separation and divorce is ‘failure.'”

However, Grégoire Trudeau did not express any grief on this occasion. Instead, she went on to say that at age 50 she has learned people will “meet life where they are inside” and then a person must decide how they will let that affect their happiness.

At the end of any day, she said, you must ask “what did I do to take care of myself.”

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Air Canada is reviewing a complaint from a Toronto Jewish man about a flight attendant wearing a political pin on her uniform.

The pin was shaped like Israel but illustrated with Palestinian colours and had an image of the Al-Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem’s Old City) in the centre.

“We are reviewing this matter. We will address it directly with the employee involved, as appropriate,” Air Canada’s manager of corporate communications, Peter Fitzpatrick, told National Post in an email.

The passenger, author and businessman Israel Ellis, told National Post in an email this week that there “is no place for political statements of any kind on a public airline, especially that which identifies clearly with a polarized issue used as a guise for antisemitism.”

This kind of incident “normalize(s) calls for the erasure of the Jewish people,” he said. “A pin depicting Palestine in the stead of Israel is a clear call for genocide.”

National Post shared Ellis’s concerns with Air Canada, requesting comment.

“We have a policy for uniform staff that covers which pins and symbols are permissible,” said Fitzpatrick. “There is a finite list of pins that are accepted, none of them political, as I think you mean it. Instead think of something like a poppy.”

Ellis says the incident unfolded during an Air Canada flight to Atlanta last week, with a headscarf-wearing flight attendant who wore the pin underneath her airline pin.

“I felt her disdain as she shouted at me with a grimace, seeing me and my wife’s Star of David necklaces,” he says.

He shared phone-photos of the flight attendant’s pin with National Post.

After the incident, Ellis wrote to Air Canada to complain but has not yet received a response. Meanwhile, he posted his experience on Instagram , receiving almost 3,000 responses and 1,400 comments.

Ellis says he felt “harassed, threatened, and unsafe in a situation … that should be providing comfort and security regardless of my identity,” adding that “seeing this supported by Air Canada is unnerving and I suppose another consequence of a country that has betrayed its Jewish constituents.”

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A leading Jewish group is continuing its legal battle against the University of Windsor’s boycott of Israel, enacted as part of an agreement with protesters to end anti-Israel encampments on campus last year.

“The agreements are discriminatory and signify a dangerous capitulation to extremists,” Richard Marceau, senior vice-president of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), said in a statement after the group appealed a court ruling that left intact a provincial decision upholding the agreement.

The deal with anti-Israel protesters , who were part of a wave of anti-Israel protests at universities across Canada, included a mandate for the university to develop anti-racism initiatives, divest from investments in organizations involved in Israel’s offensive in Gaza, review academic partnerships with Israeli universities, as well as provide opportunities supporting Palestinian students and scholars.

It was signed by the university and by protesters, who called themselves the “Windsor Liberation Zone Team,” following weeks of negotiation.

On Oct. 29, the Divisional Court dismissed the CIJA’s request for judicial review of the Ontario Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery’s decision upholding the deal.

“The academic boycott … singles out Israeli universities — and only Israeli universities — for exclusion,” CIJA says in a news release. “This constitutes overt discrimination based on nationality, place of origin, and geographic location.”

CIJA’s argument centred on a key provision stipulating the university “not … pursue any institutional academic agreements with Israeli universities … unless supported by the (University of Windsor) senate.” It contended this could be interpreted as refusing or failing “to employ a person,” contrary to the Ontario Discriminatory Business Practices Act.

The ministry director who reviewed the complaint disagreed.

The academic boycott embedded in the University of Windsor’s agreements singles out Israeli universities – and only Israeli universities – for exclusion. This constitutes overt discrimination based on nationality, place of origin, and geographic location.

That's why this week…

— CIJA (@CIJAinfo) November 27, 2025

The agreement with protesters acknowledged that the university does not have any academic partnerships with Israeli institutions. However, it goes on to state that because of “the challenging environment for academic collaboration the University agrees not to pursue any institutional agreements with Israeli universities until the right of Palestinian self-determination has been realized, as determined by the United Nations, unless supported by the (University of Windsor) Senate. This does not prevent individual academics at the University of Windsor from working (or collaborating) with academics in Israel. ”

The court wrote in its decision that institutional academic agreements fall “within a core non-business purpose” of the university, and therefore it was “reasonable for the (ministry) director to conclude the university was not a business, nor engaging in business in relation to the provision.”

Further, it wrote “any uncertainty about the impact on professors is expressly addressed (within) the provision itself.”

CIJA has filed a motion to appeal, saying that in the midst of a surge in antisemitism across Ontario’s campuses and public institutions, the court “failed to properly apply the law in a manner that would prevent discrimination.”

Said Marceau: “We continue to urge the University of Windsor to rescind the harmful agreements and take further steps to restore the Jewish campus community’s confidence in the institution.”

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Peruvian rescue teams have recovered the bodies of a Canadian woman, Sandra Covone, and Daniel Navarro, her Mexican husband, after they were engulfed in an avalanche on the summit of a 6,000-metre mountain in the Andes.

“The bodies of Canadian Sandra Covone and Mexican Daniel Navarro, who were found in the area of the landslide, have been recovered and taken to the city of Huaraz,” Peruvian police said in a statement to Univision , an American Spanish-language news site.

The mountaineering couple were killed by the avalanche at dawn on Wednesday, June 17, according to Spanish newspaper Mundo Deportivo . The avalanche occurred on Tocllaraju, one of the snow-covered peaks in the Cordillera Blanca mountains, which attract climbers from all over the world.

The married couple were accustomed to mountain ascents, according to comments from the Peruvian Mountain Guides Association to Mundo Deportivo.

Covone’s body was found on Thursday, while Navarro’s was recovered on Friday. The Mountain Guides Association said Navarro’s remains were located approximately 5,500 metres above sea level, in a difficult-to-access area.

The bodies were taken to the morgue in the city of Huaraz for subsequent repatriation.

“Global Affairs Canada is aware of the death of the death of a Canadian citizen in Peru,” the federal department told National Post in an email on Monday. “Consular officials are providing assistance and are in contact with local authorities.”

A GoFundMe page has been set up by the family to help with the C $73,500 costs for the search and rescue costs, repatriation of the remains, as well as legal fees.

The avalanche also buried their guide, Floriano Caldua, but he managed to survive and raised the alarm via satellite phone. He was later rescued in stable condition by a mountain rescue team.

Three rescue teams were organized to carry out the search and rescue operation. They successfully located the guide and woman’s body, while the search for the man’s remains was temporarily suspended due to weather conditions.

News aggregator site, GN Youth News reported the couple was in Peru for an acclimatization route in the region. The site posted several photos of the couple.

It reported that they posted updates from their climbs of Nevado Mateo on June 7 and Nevado Vallunaraju on June 9 as part of their training.

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York Regional Police are investigating what they are calling a hate-motivated incident in Vaughan, Ontario.

YRP are reporting that around 9:35 Saturday morning, a male suspect attempted to gain forced entry at the Sephardic Kehila Centre on Bathurst Street on Saturday morning. The centre serves members of the Jewish community who are of Sephardic heritage, descending from Spain and Portugal.

HATE/BIAS-MOTIVATED INCIDENT
09:35am
7026 Bathurst Street, Vaughan
Sephardic Kehila Centre
- male suspect (pictured below) attempted to force his way into a Synagogue and assaulted a victim prior to fleeing the scene
- the victim was not injured
- York Regional Police Hate Crime… pic.twitter.com/hssjGcWHAw

— York Regional Police (@YRP) April 25, 2026

The male suspect fled the scene, assaulting someone while doing so.

However, YRP says “the victim was not injured.”

Police are searching for the suspect.

Vaughan’s mayor Steven Del Duca posted about the incident Saturday afternoon on X.

I have been made aware of a deeply disturbing assault at the Sephardic Kehila Centre. @YRP is investigating and I urge anyone with information to come forward. pic.twitter.com/IFf4fqRuBp

— Steven Del Duca (@StevenDelDuca) April 25, 2026

“ I have been made aware of a deeply disturbing assault at the Sephardic Kehila Centre. (York Regional Police)

is investigating and I urge anyone with information to come forward.”

Further, he wrote that “in a time when antisemitism and Jew hatred is on the rise, we must be vigilant and do everything possible to support and protect our Jewish residents. This remains a top priority for me as Mayor of Vaughan.”

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