Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Lisa Johnson
Publication Date: August 15, 2025 - 08:00
Alberta premier met with anger, criticism at Alberta Next Panel in Edmonton
August 15, 2025
A travelling panel collecting public feedback on Alberta’s grievances with Ottawa struggled to keep an emotionally-charged crowd on topic at its third summer town hall on Thursday night.
Premier Danielle Smith and members of her Alberta Next panel drew its biggest crowd yet – nearly 750 people – in Edmonton to brainstorm about possible future referendum questions.
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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...
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August 31, 2025 - 15:25 | Doug Menary | Ottawa Citizen
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