No politician is safe from ‘zealous leftists’; how DEI has lowered opinions about Jews, Israel; and more

Ann Widdecombe speaks at Reform UK South West Conference on Nov. 9, 2024. Photo by Finnbarr Webster/Getty News Images

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Terry Newman: Is it no longer safe to be a conservative?

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Newman writes about the murder of former U.K. Reform MP Ann Widdecombe, which is now being investigated by Britain’s counter-terrorism police. She notes that the sort of violent and dehumanizing rhetoric that was directed at Widdecombe by “zealous leftists” happens in Canada, too, and even politicians on the left can be targets of it.

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A Canadian Red Cross badge. Photo by JUSTIN SAMANSKI-LANGILLE/Brunswick News Archive

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Hate has corrupted the world’s biggest charities: Full Comment podcast

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Danielle Haas talks about an investigation by her organization EiGHT, which found major NGOs including Red Cross, Amnesty International, Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF and others to be rife with bias, particularly against Jews and Israel, while often refusing to acknowledge atrocities committed by Hamas.

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Israel’s Ambassador to Canada Iddo Moed examines bullet holes in windows at the Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto synagogue in Vaughan, Thursday March 12, 2026. Photo by Peter J. Thompson/National Post

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Researchers blame DEI for fast decline in Canadian goodwill for Jews, Israel

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“When DEI is framed almost exclusively around systemic barriers defined by race, it cannot grapple with how antisemitism operates along religious, cultural, economic and national lines,” said study co-author Rhonda Lenton.

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Stan Cho, Ontario minister of tourism, culture and gaming, in June 2026. Photo by Peter Power/Postmedia

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Scott Stinson: Ontario MPP in new spending controversy after riding association spent almost $100K on his meals, hotels

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Stan Cho resigned as tourism minister on Friday, a few days after it was revealed that he spent more than $16,000 on Toronto hotel rooms despite living just a few kilometres from the Queen’s Park legislature. Questions have now been raised about his other expenses.

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British Columbia Health Minister Josie Osborne. B.C.’s MAID Oversight Unit, housed within the the ministry of health, reviews every case of MAID in the province. Photo by Nick Procaylo/Postmedia/File

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B.C. found hundreds of MAID ‘compliance concerns’ in 2024. The province won’t say what happened

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In 2024, 4,169 people sought MAID in B.C., with 51.9 per cent of those cases requiring follow-up by the province’s MAID oversight unit, according to a government report. But serious deviations from the mandated MAID process are rare, the province says.

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