Unpublished Newswire

A Liberal MP has issued a call to action amid growing antisemitism across Canada, highlighting the recent unprovoked attack on a Jewish woman shopping for groceries in Ottawa last week. In a statement from Quebec’s Anthony Housefather (Mount Royal), co-signed by 31 of his Liberal colleagues, the four-term member of parliament said Jewish Canadians deserve the same right to feel safe as all Canadians. “Regrettably, right now, there is a deep sense of unease, fear and unsafety among many Jewish Canadians across Canada,” he wrote in the statement posted to X. Housefather, citing...

Some small Indigenous businesses are halting shipments to the U.S. in the wake of President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, even though trade ties exist that predate the founding of both Canada and the United States.“There needs to be a resolution to allow Indigenous Peoples to continue to undergo the trade routes that they have established and practised, and the treaties that have been signed in the past have suggested that these would be honoured,” said Matthew Foss, who serves as the vice president of research and public policy at the Canadian Council for Indigenous Businesses.