A new branch of the National Council of Jewish Women of Canada is starting in Barrie, Ont. It’s the first Jewish organization outside a synagogue to open in the booming city north of Toronto.

A year after their son and brother vanished, an Ethiopian Jewish family in Kitchener, Ont., continues to hope he will come home, even as they admit that a happy ending to their nightmare is becoming ever more remote.

The Montreal Holocaust Museum has embarked on a $50-million project that could see it relocate to its own, much larger, space in downtown Montreal.