"Gone To Neverland", "Forever Young"

"[The review board's decision is] wrong. This man needs to be locked away."

"He should not be getting any kind of discharge, conditional or otherwise."

"After what he did, the public has every right to expect that he remains under the strictest supervision for the rest of his life." 

"The Review Board has once again shown that under this NDP government, dangerous people can gradually work their way toward more freedom, even after committing the most unthinkable crimes against children."

Former B.C. Conservative leader John Rustad

 

"I am outraged by the British Columbia Review Board's slippery slope normalization of someone who killed their children."

"A conditional discharge is not a minor administrative step. It is part of a process that moves him closer to greater freedom." 

Port Coquitlam Mayor Brad West

A mourner holds a program showing the pictures of Max, Kaitlynne and Cordon Schoenborn during a public memorial in Merritt, B.C., on April 27, 2008. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press)

 

It took ten days for police to discover where Allan Schoenborn was hiding, in 2008 after his children were found dead by their mother, Darcie Clark, when she arrived home in Merritt, British Columbia. Her estranged husband, Allan, had moved to  the Lower Mainland after they had separated, although he often returned to Merritt to visit with their three children, Cordon 5, Max 8, and Kaitlynne 10. When she found the children, they were all posed as though they were peacefully sleeping. The boys were lying together on a couch, and their sister was in her bed.

 

Their father explained afterward that he had separated them, not wanting the children to witness him smothering one another to death and trying to escape, making things awkward for him. After he killed his children he wrote a message on the living room wall with soy sauce: "Forever young". He repeated the phrase on one of Kaitlynne's pillow cases in blood.On the other pillowcase the bloody message read: "Gone to Neverland".

 

Allan Schoenborn had convinced himself that he was saving the children from a future where they would become addicted to drugs. He believed they were being sexually abused. By killing them he reasoned he  was saving them from a sordid, unhappy life of sex and drugs. At his trial in 2010 he claimed not to have been responsible for their murder, that he was afflicted with a mental illness and was thus not guilty for the carnage he had wrought. 

 

The B.C. Supreme Court judge reasoned that the man before him had plotted precisely what he set out to do, and was therefore guilty of capital murder as proven by the Crown, but he still accepted that due to mental illness Schoenborn was not 'responsible'.

 

Allan Schoenborn is shown in this sketch attending a British Columbia Review Board in Coquitlam, B.C., on Thursday March 12, 2020. (Felicity Don/The Canadian Press)

 

Now, sixteen years after his conviction and incarceration,  Allan Schoenborn has been granted a conditional discharge by the British Columbia Review Board. Found not criminally responsible given his mental disorder, for the first-degree murders of his children, he is now on track for a pathway to release. He had requested a 12-month conditional discharge when he appeared before the board for his annual hearing. Schoenborn is to attend a psychiatric clinic for treatment, live in a supervised place and stay at the Forensic Psychiatric Hospital in Coquitlam under the board's ruling, taking effect June 2nd.

 

Allan Schoenborn

Other conditions ordered were to report any intimate relationships, remain on good behaviour, and not have in his possession, nor use, any weapons or drugs. Schoenborn had legally changed his name to Ken John Johnson in May of 2021. That led the British Columbia government to pass legislation in prevention of those convicted of serious crimes from hanging their names. The Name Amendment Act requires all applicants for a legal name change in the province, aged12 years and older be background-checked for any possible criminal record.

 

The obvious intention is to prevent convicted criminals from evading accountability and the due consequences of their criminal actions, through a name change. 

"In my opinion, [Schoenborn] is more evil than he is ill. He's interested in getting out, he's not interested in getting better."

"The conditional discharge is a] waiting room for the absolute discharge. It's very rare that people on a conditional discharge do not advance forward." 

"Should he ever get an absolute discharge, I promise you we will be hearing about him on the news after he's created more tragedy."

Spokesperson for the victims' family, Dave Teixeira 

Every Jew Is A Target

"In the video you also see her choking me for a second before getting pulled off and that was what I was referring to when saying 'I was just assaulted'."

"I thought that was the end of it, but she came at me again and that's when the video cuts out. She choked me for a second time, kicked me and shoved me to the ground using the force from grabbing my hair."

"I was on the floor for the entirety of the next stop getting beaten all the while her hand never left my hair and her grasp was so strong that the clump of hair was ripped out."

"I noticed that while I was attacked, before and after I hit the ground, only one couple tried to help me." 

"I now understand that every Jew is a target." 

Unnamed Jewish Montrealer, 23-yr-old nurse 

"Jews are eating kids!"

"You're a Jew. I smell the kids."

"It's OK for her to eat a kid but I can't choke her down?"

Diana Smith, assailant 

A young Montrealer who happened to be an orthodox Jew now living in New York was choked, kicked, thrown to the floor and had the hair from her scalp pulled away by another passenger on a subway train in New York. The 23-year-old, a registered nurse by profession, took a video of the assault as it initiated, with her smartphone. The afternoon C train on May 31st was packed with commuters. A female who happened to be a large Black woman, after assessing the young woman as a Jew, turned about to face the aisle then shouted "Jews are eating kids!"

 

Leaning toward the young woman her assailant spoke directly to her: "You're a Jew. I smell the kids." The  woman whose sheer size overwhelmed the petite nurse physically shoved her, leading the onboard crowd to collectively gasp and prompting some of the passengers to intervene to draw the attacker away from the smaller woman. The video records the shock of the assailant at others disapproving of her violence: "It's OK for her to eat a kid but I can't choke her down?", she protests.

 

Posted on X by Combat Antisemitism Movement, the video became the subject of a New York Post story, leading to a discussion over the rise of antisemitism in New York City, under a mayor who overtly champions the 'cause' of Palestinian nationhood and constantly vilifies Israel. 

 

Agreeing to speak about her experience to the news media, the woman asked to remain anonymous. She was agreeable however, to sharing videos and photographs during the discussion. She also pointed out her despair that as she was being endlessly mauled, out of the subway car hosting a multitude of onlookers, only one couple made an effort to come to her aid.

 

Her attacker was identified as Bronx resident Diana Smith whom the New York Police Department confirmed as the assailant, listing the charges she is likely to face: assault, criminal obstruction of breathing and aggravated harassment, all in the context of hate crimes. It was left to The New York Post to reveal that the woman has a history of mental illness and police run-ins. She is yet to be indicted by the Manhattan District Attorney.

 

Clearly, the charges will be contested on a plea of the attacker not being guilty of the listed charges on the basis of mental illness. Like so many other similar instances of Jews being accosted, threatened and assaulted wherever they live in the diaspora, charges are laid and criminal prosecution is confounded by claims of mental illness, leading to withdrawn charges or the ensuing penalty hugely minimized in deference to someone's mental health leading to a psychotic incident.

 

The victims on the other hand? Stiff upper lip, Jews. 

 

 

"I honestly feel terrified and I've been just running on fear and adrenaline. I have not been able to sleep properly or have much of an appetite."

"I feel sick that people can watch another human be attacked and do nothing. That they can hear dehumanizing words and say nothing."

"Physically, I know I will be OK. Emotionally though, these scars will never fade." 

"It's stuff I saw on the news but not things that actually happened to people just on the subway home. I now understand that every Jew is a target. It isn't about Zionism, it's about Judaism." 

"People have hated and persecuted us for years. As Jewish people, we have seen where this leads."

"We said 'never again' after the Holocaust -- and yet."

Victim of New York Subway Attack 

Quebec's Tolerance for Palestinian Social Disruptions and Vilifications

"[Maintaining] peace, order and public safety, while allowing free expression [is part of the mandate for the Surete du Quebec (SQ)]."

"[Officers only intervene] to protect life and property, as well as to ensure everyone's peaceful and free exercise of their individual and collective rights."

Spokesperson, Surete du Quebec

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 52-year-old Andre Therrien, a resident of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec, learned through a Facebook page of a planned rally in his neighbourhood, called Stop General Dynamics, mounted by the Palestinian Youth Movement. Taking umbrage at the Palestinian Youth Movement planning a rally in his neighbourhood, he drove the short distance from  his home to the site on Saturday, planning to voice his objections to their appearance in his neighbourhood. Clearly, the constant 'protests' and pro-Palestinian marches through Montreal and elsewhere in the province have been disruptive to ordinary residents, many of whom resent that this group and others like them bring their violent-voiced and threatening presence all too often to the streets of Quebec's major city.

 

For the most part, these protests are aimed directly at Jewish Quebecers, whether they take place in residential areas with a heavy Jewish presence, or at Quebec's universities where they have mounted campus pro-Palestinian encampments whose purpose is to disseminate anti-Israel propaganda labelling the Jewish state genocidal against the Palestinian population in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Both of which territories are the never-ending source of campaigns challenging Israel's legitimacy, along with frequent deadly attacks against Jewish Israelis. Ironically, as the source of the lethal attacks, the Palestinians describe themselves to sympathetic Western media as the 'victims' of Israeli 'aggression' and 'occupation'.

 

Mr. Therrien, to put it mildly is not enamoured of the Palestinian group's influence in his community. The protest was scheduled to take place at the Elisabeth Monette School, a five-minute walk from Mr. Therrien's home. "I don't want these groups in my neighbourhood", he explained in an interview that took place following the scheduled rally. He began to film the rally, when one of the group knocked his phone out of his hand. A 30-second video showed him approaching the masked demonstrators with their keffiyehs, those leading holding a banner that read "Genocide Dynamics".

 

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The clip shows Mr. Therrien addressing the crowd in French, before his recording stops abruptly. That was when SQ officers informed him their presence had a purpose; to protect him. "OK, if you're going to protect me, I'm going to stand in front of the manifestation (protest)", he responded. At which time the officers arrested the man for "assault and obstruction", reflected by his aggressive behaviour manifested toward the protesters. "Charges related to the arrest may be laid at a later date", he was subsequently informed, as he was released, at that point.

 

Mr. Therrien could be seen speaking with police officers and protesters, before turning around and walking off. A video posted to social media by the X account Leviathan, documented the proceedings. The officers followed him, and then tackled him from behind, knocking him to the ground, punching him in the liver, and ultimately breaking his eyeglasses, before cuffing him. He was released soon afterward without charge in front of his vehicle, where his two dogs awaited  him.

 

Mr. Therrien explained later that he had gone directly to a police station to file a complaint where an officer on duty advised him to file it online, warning that charges against him would likely remain pending. 

 

The Facebook page of the Palestinian Youth Movement heralded its mission to "stop the expansion project of the General Dynamics factory in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield", promoting it as well on Instagram, adding that there were arrangements for two buses to ferry protesters to and from the site. A network of Montreal area pro-Palestinian groups; PYM Montreal, Montreal4Palestine (Divest for Palestine) and Monteregie Antifasciste are all networked on the Stop General Dynamic Facebook account. 

 

Also connected is activist Safa Chebbi who serves on the board of the federally funded L'Observatoire des inegalites raciales au Quebec, "an action group for the production of knowledge" to researchers, community and union actors, speaking on behalf of Divest for Palestine. She also acts as a spokesperson for the Global Sumud Flotilla that annually sets off to break the Israeli government's sea blockade of Gaza.  

 

André Therrien says his glasses were broken after he was knocked to the ground by Sûreté du Québec (SQ) officers in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Que., on May 30, 2026. André Therrien (used with permission)

 

All of which, taken together, makes one wonder why the provincial and municipal governments in Quebec fail to address the hate-mongering, socially divisive, ideologically-driven messaging of these groups which have brought a far-off, complex conflict of long duration and currency to Canada and more specifically Quebec. Their viral, disruptive gatherings openly calling for the destruction of a democratic nation, their offensives mounted against Jewish Quebecers, their alienation of ordinary non-Jewish Quebecers, express values that have no currency in Canada/Quebec. Yet nothing is ever done to dissuade these groups from their mission of malevolence against Jews in Canada whose constitutional rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms are constantly imperilled.

 

Quebec, on the other hand, has demonstrated time and again why it bears the reputation of being the most Jew-hostile province in Canada. That its governments tolerate the presence of groups that set out to deliberately and with malice aforethought plan to estrange the province from its relationship with its Jewish citizens is obvious enough, and no one in authority appears to be particularly perturbed although all would be swift to avow that antisemitism is deplorable. Those who defy and have contempt for Canada's social compact and its laws against hate-mongering appear to have soft-handed treatment by both government and policing authorities.

 

Citizens who demand accountability from both in the matter of public order are given short shrift. Worse, in the instance of Salaberry-de-Valleyfield resident Andre Therrien, at the very time that the Surete du Quebec present themselves at such disturbing events to ensure that no undue and obvious violence erupts, it is not groups such as the Palestinian Youth Movement that are held to account, but members of the community who express their exasperation and profound annoyance at their presence, disrupting the social order with their campaigns of delegitimization and threats, who become the villains that the Surete must respond to with physical force. For shame! 

 

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Ozempic a Cancer-Fighting Drug?

"Our study was observational and does not definitively confirm an association between GLP-1 medications and reduced breast cancer incidence,"

"It does add to the growing body of evidence suggesting that it's worth investigating these weight loss drugs as potential cancer prevention tools."

"GLP-1 medications are intriguing from a cancer research perspective because they weren't designed for cancer therapy, but they do affect many different targets and pathways associated with cancer development, so we're eager to study them in this context,"

"We know obesity is a risk factor, but we don't understand how."

"Ultimately, we want to find better options to prevent breast cancer. It’s been encouraging to see the survival rates for breast cancer improve over recent decades, and we’d love to see the same gains in prevention."

Dr. Elizabeth McDonald, physician, radiology professor, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

 

"Our study found that use of GLP-1 drugs… was associated with a meaningful reduction in cancer progression across four solid tumor types."

"It provides early evidence that future studies are worth pursuing."

Mark David Orland, oncologist, Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland Clinic

 

"GLP-1 receptor agonists have never been just glucose-lowering drugs,"

"Their anti-inflammatory and immune-modulatory properties have long suggested broader effects."

"What's new here is the consistency across tumor types, and data this large and this consistent warrant a prospective randomized trial."

Marcin Chwistek, oncologist, Fox Chase Cancer Center, ASCO Expert in supportive care

One analysis found those who took GLP-1 medications were 30% less likely to develop breast cancer than those not taking weight-loss drugs. Photograph: Munro/Getty Images

Over 40 studies, abstracts, oral presentations and poster presentations examining the relationship between GLP-1-based drugs and cancer were presented at the recently-held annual American Society of Clinical Oncology Chicago meeting. What makes these studies remarkable was the consistency of their findings, suggesting that individuals who take medications like Ozempic, Wegovy and Mounjaro may develop a lower rate of certain cancers than those not using the famously popular weight-loss drugs.

 

In addition to which hopeful signs that for those for whom cancer has already been diagnosed, use of the drugs may lead to a slower decline and improved outcomes. "We're really excited to be on the forefront of looking at the effects of these drugs", stated Mark Orland, cancer researcher at the Cleveland Clinic. The findings are "super promising". 

 

Many of the  13 types of cancer associated with obesity were included in the studies, the most prominent among them, an analysis from the University of Pennsylvania, which studied data from over 100,000 women, and found that lower rates of breast cancer emerged among women taking the drugs. Another study followed over 10,000 patients t o find those taking the medications were significantly less likely to progress to metastatic disease across four solid tumours. 

 

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 Findings related to lung cancer, not generally associated with weight, also drew attention for its impact. where taking the medications were seen to have its effect on lung  cancer, where several studies hinted that GLP-1s could enhance treatment effects. The possibility has arisen due to these findings that GLP-1s may be acting independently of weight loss, by reducing inflammation, altering metabolic pathways involved in cancer development, or perhaps slowing tumour growth itself. Doctors feel the evidence is not yet strong enough to recommend prescribing the drugs for that purpose.

 

Observation studies which can identify associations but cannot establish cause and effect cannot prove that GLP-1s prevent cancer. For the present, caution is being promoted for the observational studies leading to findings that cannot link cause and effect with certainty. GLP-1 findings remain hypothetical, eluding a conclusion. despite the growing volume of evidence turning the question toward serious investigation. What is left is the question whether medicine has underestimated how many diseases share a similar underlying biology. GLP-1s force medicine to withdraw boundaries between diseases that once appeared to be separate.

 

The emerging theory is that many conditions such as diabetes, obesity heart disease, kidney disease, addiction, dementia, and cancer may share properties -- more than researchers have understood. As far as Gilberto de Lima Lopes, chief of medical oncology at the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami is concerned, the cancer findings fit a broader pattern, where GLP-1s increasingly resemble "a really interesting longevity drug. The potential benefit is real, and it makes biological sense", he contends.  

 

One of the most talked about findings among the researchers was Dr. McDonald's, whose study relied on analyzing existing medical records instead of a randomized clinical trial. Records from about 100,000 women aged 45 to 60 were examined who had undergone breast imaging to find that -- accounting for differences in age, obesity, diabetes and other risk factors, -- GLP-1 users remained roughly 30 percent less likely to develop breast cancer. According to Dr. McDonald, the findings built on the scaffolding of years of studies in lab-grown cells and animals that suggested GLP-1 drugs can slow cancer cell growth, enhance effects of chemotherapy and influence other pathways linked to the development of cancer. 

 

Also presented at the ASCO meeting, Jasmine Sukumar of MD Anderson Cancer Centre, a separate breast cancer study analyzed records from over 137,000 breast cancer patients between the years 2014 and 2023. Women taking GLP-1 drugs  had markedly superior survival rates where close to 96 percent survived five years following surgery. in comparison with about 90 percent of similar patients who were not taking the medications. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unredeemable Monsters Came in All Ages

"[The youth's intention] was to engage in sexual activity [with the 11-year-old. He knew she was not consenting when he tried to touch her. When she resisted, he attacked her with the knife]."

"At some point during the knife attack, he overcame her resistance and was able to remove her pants completely, throwing them to the side and pulled down her underwear, leaving the garment around her right ankle."

"[When he was just 12 he surreptitiously took photos of the girl's body and had] accessed pornography-related websites over 2,000 times."

"[The youth told the 911 dispatcher that the girl had been] forcibly taken from the bush area ... by three men in a white truck." 

Assistant Crown attorney Deanna Bronowicki

 

"People just came from nowhere and grabbed [her]."

"I don't know. I just ran."

Youthful murderer to 911 dispatcher  

A teen charged in the 2024 death of an 11-year-old girl in Holmesville has pleaded guilty. CTV London

 

 A boy aged 13 in July of 2024 was arrested for the murder of an 11-year-old girl. Known to one another they set off on July2nd, of 2024 to share some playful activities at the schoolyard of an elementary school that had been closed for several years. The boy, a wood whittler, carried a knife and his cellphone. Entering a wooded area close by the Holmesville public school, they never did proceed further to the school itself. Evidence later pointed to the youth having attacked the 82-pound girl of five feet in height.

 

The sheer savage brutality inflicted on the girl left her with 70 knife wounds to her head, face, neck, torso and extremities. Her carotid artery and jugular vein were severed, her sinus perforated along with her cranial cavity, and deep cuts had collapsed her lungs. She had obviously attempted to ward off the blows raining on her -- as attested by wounds to her hands and arms. Just two weeks earlier her attacker had turned 13.

 

Before that time he had been perusing online pornography and in fact accessed enormous amounts of it, the investigation that proceeded on the discovery of the girl's body revealed. The boy, after making his 911 call to report the falsehood that the girl had been abducted by strangers, was kept on the line to the point where emergency services succeeded in tracking his cellphone location. Ontario Provincial Police officers found the youth on a road close to Holmesville, Ontario. 

 

Police cordoned off the area surrounding Holmesville Public School in southwestern Ontario and have charged a 13-year-old boy with first-degree murder. (Alessio Donnini/CBC)

 

It was clear to the officers that there was more to the situation than what the youth had stated, of strangers having abducted the girl before his eyes. Since, before the officers' eyes stood a boy with bloodied hands and clothing. He had dialled 911 just after 4:00 p.m. and 30 minutes after he had last used his cellphone. Paramedics on the scene, though noting cuts on his hands chose not to clean them; they represented, after all, evidence, blood samples which would be scrutinized at a police laboratory.

 

An hour after the police found the boy's location, and put him in a cruiser to be taken to back to the school location, an officer en route video-recorded their conversation. At the same time, the youth took advantage of the interlude while in the cruiser to delete messages from his cellphone. It took little time for the police to reach a surmise that things may not have occurred as the youth claimed they had. It took an hour, but their search of the nearby bush revealed the girl's body, lying motionless on her back.

 

The assistant Crown attorney Bronowski, in her summation to the Goderich court, stated it was immediately evident the girl had suffered "significant blood loss from what appeared to be numerous stab wounds to her arms, hands, neck and head". The knife had been discarded, discovered lying on the ground beside the girl's left hip. She was pronounced dead at the Clinton Public Hospital. And that was roughly when the youth was taken to the Clinton OPP detachment and charged with murder.  

 

Ontario Provincial Police continued their investigation around an abandoned school and in a nearby woodlot after the boy was charged. (Alessio Donnini/CBC News)

 

Police searched the youth's bedroom the following day, finding Airsoft BB guns and a number of knives. They also discovered a pair of girls' underwear and feminine hygiene products in one of his dresser drawers. An Ontario Court preliminary hearing committed the youth to stand trial for first-degree murder, concluding that the girl was killed during a sexual assault. An assault, furthermore, that culminated following a gradual and incremental preparation leading to the determination to rape the girl if she spurned his attempts at sex.

 

Searching the youth's cellphone police found 27 photos of the girl's body, alongside evidence that the youth was obsessed with pornography. DNA from the boy's blood was found throughout the crime scene; on the body of the murdered girl, on her jeans, on a ball cap, sunglasses, and of course the knife. Youth protects the boy from facing justice as an adult. Now 15 years old, taller and more physically robust than two years previously, the youth pleaded guilty to first-degree murder.

 

Superior Court Justice Marc Garson noted that the case was 'disturbing', 'upsetting', 'highly violent' and 'troubling'. An evident gross understatement. As much for the carnage that the mutilating attacks resulted in causing the death of the girl, as for the legal protection under the law for an underaged murderer whose act of horrific aggravated homicide on a vulnerable victim was vicious beyond comprehension. 

 

The maximum sentence for first-degree murder under Canada's youth law is ten years, with six years in detention and four years under community supervision. And then a monster is unleashed to walk the streets of a Canadian city.   

"If this is an intentional, planned murder by a 13 year-old, he’s going to get a murder sentence tailored not only for youth, but for very young youth."

"That is still a significant sentence for first-degree murder."

Scott Cowan, criminal defence lawyer 

 

“It’s got to be pretty significant and major for a 13-year-old to even come through the system anymore because most of those go through community resource and diversion programs."

"It’s not the 12- or 13-year-olds aren’t doing stuff, it’s that they don’t go to court as much as they once did. A 13-year-old charged with a violent crime, first-degree murder, oh my gosh."

Alan Leschied, psychologist, Western University professor emeritus  

The Goderich Court House. (Blackburn News File Photo) 

 

 

The Source of His Discomfiture ... Raw Antisemitism

"The health system issues that may have played a role in Manny Moss deciding to leave, they didn't just arise last week or last month or last year."

"The problems with the health system have existed for years, and he could have left at any time before."

"So what it comes down to is the antisemitism and the feeling that this [city] has become an increasingly dangerous or unrecognizable place to live [for Canadian Jewish Montrealers]."

Anonymous source

 

"[Dr. Moss's departure is a blow to the already perilous state of cardiac surgery in Quebec]."

"He's 45 and he's ultra specialized in robotic surgery."

"He's in the prime of his career and he's leaving for personal reasons and obviously for resources reasons."

Dr. Louis Perrault, president, Association des chirurgiens cardio-vasculaires et thoraciques du Quebec 

Dr. Emmanuel Moss sits at the controls as he performs robotic cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal on Monday May 28, 2018. John Mahoney / Montreal Gazett

 

Canadian Jews, although proud of their citizenship have been shocked in the past several years by a sudden upheaval in civic life in Canada where groups of anti-Israel -- and by extension anti-Jewish-presence -- protesters led by Palestinian student groups throughout Canadian universities alongside incitement and funding from foreign sources have called for a 'final solution', chanting for Jews to 'go back to Poland', railing against Israeli 'genocide' while calling for a 'global Intifada' and the establishment of a sovereign Palestine 'from the river to the sea'. All of which is doublespeak for the destruction of the state of Israel, and a yearning for another Holocaust.

 

Dr. Emmanuel Moss, Institut de cardiologie de Montréal)

That their government, under Liberal party leadership, has done nothing whatever to put a stop to the constant harassment of Canadian Jews -- the malicious marches, the university campus 'Palestinian' tent camps where Jewish students and staff were mercilessly threatened and harassed, Canadian-Jewish-owned businesses vandalized, marches taking place in areas of cities comprising Jewish neighbourhoods -- leaving the Jewish community confused, abandoned, isolated and beyond troubled, wondering how safe they and their families are now in the country they call home.

 

Aside from random Canadian Jews  now and again deciding they've had enough, and preparing to abandon their Canadian roots for other places where they feel safe and secure, there have been high-profile departures, such as that of Professor Gad Saad, formerly of Concordia University, leaving to take up residence in the United States. "I'm now leaving in large part because it became difficult for me, if not impossible, to be a high-profile Jewish professor who supports the right of Israel to exist", he explained. Not did the death threats he received convince him to remain in Canada.

 

Now, the Jewish community in Montreal has been made aware that the chief of cardiac surgery at the Jewish General Hospital tendered his resignation, with plans to move his family to Atlanta. He has cited both rising antisemitism in Montreal, as well as the deteriorating health-care system in the province.  

After working out of the Jewish General Hospital for the past decade, Dr. Emmanuel Moss informed his patients and his synagogue of his impending move to the United States. Although Dr. Moss declined to offer a statement to the press, close sources confirmed the background of disillusionment with rampant antisemitism and the lack of action by authorities to crack down on serious incidents of Jew-hate.

Montreal4Palestine posted this image to Instagram on Wednesday in response to the public outcry, clarifying that the three figures hanging in effigy at a rally on Saturday in Montreal were directed specifically at political figures. (mtl4pal/Instagram)

 

Images that circulated recently of masked anti-Zionist protesters in Montreal staging a mock hanging of an effigy of a kippah-clad man that appeared to depict Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, added its weight of concern over anti-Jew extremism to the incidents of physical assaults, vandalism of Jewish-owned businesses and firebombing of synagogues and bullets fired at a Jewish girls' school.   Incidents too numerous, frustrating and worrying that in total represented a complete rejection of Jewish life in Canada, with no response from the federal government for the years these events have been carried out in the wake of the mass Palestinian terrorist atrocities in southern Israel on October 7, 2023.

 

On a more personal, professional level, Dr. Moss's frustration  with limited resources for heart patients in vital need of heart surgery in Quebec, all played on his sensibilities. Obviously, for  him in his professional capacity layered over with his personal reaction in alarm over rising antisemitism played their critical role in his difficult decision to leave Canada. Just recently, Dr. Moss sounded the alarm over a shortage of perfusionists at the Jewish General, with the warning that the scarcity of technicians operating heart-lung machines placed the hospital's cardiac surgery program in jeopardy.

 

Jewish General Hospital, Montreal    Photo: Adama Diop

"From a strategic planning perspective, we have been aware that Dr. Moss could leave at a time of his choosing, for personal reasons, and we have been working on contingencies for some time."

"When he departs, we will have a plan in place to offset any potential negative impact to our cardiac surgery program, with a view of maintaining timely access to high-quality care."

Dr. Lawrence Rosenberg, chief executive officer, west-central Montreal health authority 

Ukraine, Putting Up a Strong Defence

"[Ukraine has significantly] slowed the enemy's advance and is gradually regaining the initiative."

"[About 35,203 Russian soldiers were killed or severely wounded in April and the goal is] to inflict at least 200 enemy losses for every square kilometre of advance."

"Together with the president and the diplomatic team, we explain to our partners that Ukraine is doing its homework."

"What matters now is for our partners to do their part and help scale up what is already proving effective today."

Ukraine Defence Minister Mykhailo Fedorov

 

"Ukraine is putting up a strong defence."

"If you look at the front line at the moment, it is stabilizing."

"[Ukraine is even regaining territory] on net terms."

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte

Ukrainian servicemen of Khartia brigade launch a drone towards Russian positions at the front line in the Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

 

There is a feeling among Ukraine and its allies that Vladimir Putin's 'special military operation' is on the cusp of failing, with Kyiv's position now of stabilizing the front line, stalling a Russian spring offensive. Ukraine is matching its growing effectiveness at drone deployment, inflicting heavy Russian troop losses, by also striking behind the front lines as well as deep drone and rocket incursions inside Russia, a situation that has succeeded in increased domestic criticism of Russia's president by a war-weary and increasingly vulnerable home population.

 

Many among Russia's elite are becoming edgy about the situation, taking into account the worsening economic situation alongside the demoralizing effects that Ukraine's counteroffensive success has wrought. When some senior Kremlin officials reach the state of considering the conflict has reached a dead end, with no way appearing open to a resolution to the situation, Vladimir Putin must be feeling the heat. He plans to conclude the war by year's end, but as long as he counts on his demands being met, that plan cannot succeed.

 

He needs a face-saving victory; nothing less than full control over the eastern Ukrainian Donbas region, despite that his greater forces have to date in four years of combat, failed to capture. He insists as well on a broader security agreement with Europe that would have the effect of acknowledging Moscow's new gains in territory. Eastern Europe, in fear of Putin's next moves to continue his grasping territorial ambitions with their own sovereignty next in line, is unlikely to give their stamp of approval to his military annexation of eastern Ukraine.

 

Left: Head of Ukraine’s Security Service Vasyl Maliuk looks at a map of an airfield in a handout picture released June 1. | Right: A drone lifts off from wooden sheds loaded onto a truck at the perimeter of a Russian airbase in a social video on June 1. Left: Security Service of Ukraine/Reuters | Right: Social Media/Reuters

 

A major security advance in the north of the country was announced on Thursday following President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's warning of the risk of a potential Russian offensive from the Bryansk region and from Belarus, in a repeat initiative that failed at the start of Russia's invasion in 2022. Anticipating the Kremlin's resorting to another conscription campaign, however unpopular it is with Russians, to enable greater troop support for another push this summer, Ukrainian forces have succeeded in holding the line after a winter lull.

 

According to data from DeepState, a conflict mapping service in cooperation with Ukraine's Defence Ministry, much of the front was stabilized by mid-May. Ukraine's casualty ratio has significantly improved to approximately one Ukrainian soldier for every five Russian troops. In an assessment by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Ukraine possesses now Europe's "most powerful armed forces". The game changer has been Ukraine's deploying in greater numbers, drones which has helped to offset a manpower disadvantage.

 

UKRAINIAN drones have struck a key Russian oil station 800 miles behind the frontline in the latest blow to Vladimir Putin’s bloody war. Astonishing footage showed towering plumes of smoke billowing in the skies following Kyiv‘s precise attack. Huge plumes of smoke were seen after the blitz Credit: @ZelenskyyUa / X

 

Kyiv launched one of its heaviest attacks on Moscow over the weekend, as well as on the surrounding region, leading many Russians to directly fault their president for bringing the conflict into Russia. In response, Russia has conducted massive drones and missile strikes recently, in an effort to destroy the public morale in Ukraine. The death toll among civilians rose last month, according to the United Nations, to the highest number tallied since July 2025. 

 

All is not quite celebratory in Ukraine which itself has failed to achieve its strategic goals to reclaim most of the territory Russia occupies, nor moving any closer to an acceptable peace agreement in negotiations that lead frustratingly nowhere. Ukraine's population, understandably weary of the war, is increasingly unwilling to join the army, with broader conscription remaining deeply unpopular. Ukraine's Defence Minister Fedorov is preparing reforms to increase pay for service members in hopes of attracting fresh recruits.

 

Adept at intercepting drones, the struggle by Ukraine's air defences continues against ballistic missiles that during the brutally cold winter decimated its energy infrastructure. Growing difficulties in securing ammunition for U.S.-made Patriot missile systems that experience proved to be the only really effective weapon against ballistic missiles, remain a sore point for Kyiv. 

 

Russia continues to launch attacks on Ukrainian towns and cities Credit: AFP

 

"Russia is facing setbacks on the battlefield."

"In order to sustain its war efforts in Ukraine, the Kremlin will almost certainly have to impose a second partial mobilization [within the next 12 months]." 

Nigel Gould-Davies, senior fellow for Russia and Eurasia, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London