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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: It’s been a year since Canada’s national antisemitism summit. What has been accomplished?
Description: The one-year anniversary of Canada's first National Summit on Antisemitism passed quietly on July 21. Last year, after violence resurged Israel and Hamas and Canadians saw a spike in antisemitic incidents, the government convened this emergency summit and appointed Irwin Cotler as its special envoy.
The summit lasted seven hours, during which time Cotler met with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet ministers. Since then, Parliament has outlawed Holocaust denial and made progress toward an anti-hate-speech bill that would cover antisemitism, while Ottawa has earmarked $30 million in the last budget to help Jews feel safer, on top...