By Howie Silbiger When bullets ripped through the doors of Yeshiva Gedola High School on an early November morning in 2023, it felt unreal, like something that happened somewhere else, to someone…
Category: opinion
Canada’s Jewish Moment of Reckoning
By Howie Silbiger There is no longer any honest way to pretend that what Jews are experiencing in Canada and around the world is a series of isolated incidents. It is a…
Opinion: When Jews Need Guards, Democracy Has Failed
By Howie Silbiger I have lived long enough in the diaspora to recognize a pattern that many of us did not want to see. It is not just that antiJewism is back….
Government Bill Threatens to Erase Jewish Life From Schools
By Howie Silbiger Quebec is preparing to introduce a sweeping new secularism bill and Jewish schools across the province know exactly what is coming. The government intends to outlaw prayer rooms in…
Federally Sponsored Nakba Exhibit Becomes the Latest Product of Years of Liberal Political Engineering
By Howie Silbiger The Canadian Museum for Human Rights has scheduled in 2026, a full Nakba exhibit at a time when Jewish Canadians are facing the most disturbing rise in anti Jewish…
Opinion: The Senate gave Hate a Microphone and Told Jews to Deal With It
By Howie Silbiger, Editor-in-Chief What happened in Ottawa was not a mistake, not a misunderstanding, and not some innocent booking error. The Senate of Canada knowingly handed over its space to a…
Opinion: John Cleese Lied and Expected Israel to Believe Him
By William Rafael Smyth John Cleese did not only cancel shows. He lied to the people who trusted him. He lied with the smug confidence of a man who thinks the world…
OPINION: The Death of English Media in Montreal
By Howie Silbiger My whole life has been centered around media. I knew I wanted to work in radio from the time I was ten years old and I always believed that…
OPINION: Lists, Lies, and Liberal Hypocrisy: The Growing Danger for Jews in Canada
By Joseph Marshall Something has shifted in Canada. You can feel it in the air, in the silence that follows when someone mentions Israel, in the way people lower their voices when…
OPINION: Côte Saint Luc Voters Have a Chance to Break Free from the Liberal Machine
By Joseph Marshall Côte Saint Luc residents finally have a chance to make a real change. The upcoming municipal election is more than a local contest over budgets and bylaws. It is…