Holocaust

Quebecers are significantly less likely than other Canadians to have learned about the Holocaust in school, to have read a book about the genocide in the Second World War or to have ever been in contact with a Jewish person, a new poll suggests.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed on Wednesday, November 7, 2018, that his government will do more to protect synagogues and other places of worship from violence as part of an apology for anti-Semitic policies that denied refuge in Canada to Jews fleeing the Holocaust.

The federal government's apology for one of Canada's most shameful anti-Semitic episodes was personal for some of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet ministers.

Judith Steel remembers holding her father's hand, being told to look off to the right for a moment, and feeling someone else take her hand.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will issue an official government apology today, November 7, 2018, for what he will call the country's moral failure when Canada closed its doors to Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.

There was no shortage of reaction from social media users on Saturday, November 4, 2017, to Environment Minister Catherine McKenna's decision to call out a conservative site that had repeatedly referred to her as "climate Barbie."

Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard says he hopes his current trip to Israel will lead to increased economic ties between the province and the Middle Eastern country.

A hundred years ago, both my parents' families escaped certain death. That makes me the son of holocaust survivors, writes Canadian singer Raffi Cavoukian.