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A U.K. rabbi learned of the Golders Green attack at Auschwitz. Here’s what he has to say

1 May 2026 at 16:20
On Thursday, a GBNews reporter interviewed Rabbi Doron Birnbaum in Golders Green, a north London neighbourhood where two Jewish men were stabbed this week in a knife attack authorities are treating as an act of terrorism. Birnbaum, an educator, had just returned to the city after visiting Holocaust sites in Poland with 90 Jewish students when he was asked about the attack. Here's the full text of what he said. Read More

Police release images of suspect and vehicle in Toronto area synagogue shootings

1 May 2026 at 15:58
Police are asking for the public’s help to identify a male suspect and vehicle wanted in connection with the March shootings of synagogues in Toronto and Vaughan, Ontario. Read More

What Canadian experts are saying about a viral trend to treat PMDD and menopause symptoms

1 May 2026 at 14:19
An Ontario health specialist says she has had some of her patients ask her about a TikTok trend involving two over-the-counter medications for relief from anxiety, mood swings and other symptoms of PMDD and menopause. But Dr. Alison Shea, menopause and reproductive health specialist, remains skeptical. Read More

Ironically, this Canadian city has been voted the best place for Gen Z to live in Canada

1 May 2026 at 12:34
In a finding that may surprise Canadians who ascribe to the view that the nation's capital is boring, Ottawa has been deemed the best place in Canada for under-30s who are looking for a place to live. Read More

Renoir’s return: How a Canadian non-profit emancipated looted artwork

1 May 2026 at 11:00
A Toronto foundation has helped return a Renoir artwork allegedly looted by the Nazis to the Musée d’Orsay, after a 90-year journey as dramatic as the painting itself. Read More
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  • Avi Benlolo: Enough words. Antisemitism is now a national emergency Terry Newman
    Words. Words. Words. This week, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, a Jewish area on the outskirts of London. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson called it “sickening” and asked, “What is the useless (London Mayor) Sadiq Khan doing?” The Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Sarah, put the terror incident into perspective: “An attack on one community is an attack on us all.” Read More
     

Avi Benlolo: Enough words. Antisemitism is now a national emergency

1 May 2026 at 10:00
Words. Words. Words. This week, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, a Jewish area on the outskirts of London. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson called it “sickening” and asked, “What is the useless (London Mayor) Sadiq Khan doing?” The Archbishop of Canterbury, Archbishop Sarah, put the terror incident into perspective: “An attack on one community is an attack on us all.” Read More

John Ivison: An ambivalent Trump and emboldened Putin, what could go wrong?

1 May 2026 at 10:00
A pessimist could construe Donald Trump’s warning about American troop reductions in Germany as a less brazen modern equivalent to the non-aggression Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union in 1939. Read More
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