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Jewish and other faith communities have denounced it, the head of Statistics Canada resigned over it, and hundreds of national charities, businesses, think-tanks and social service agencies are fuming because of the federal government’s recent decision to scrap the 2011 mandatory long-form census.
Tony Clement
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 Canada has joined the European Union in stepping up pressure on Iran. In a statement Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Lawrence Cannon said
that, effective immediately, the government has issued a new set of
sanctions aimed at curbing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s quest
to obtain a nuclear weapon.
Lawrence Cannon
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 TORONTO - Cantor Louis Harry Danto, world-renowned cantor emeritus of Beth Emeth Bais Yehuda Synagogue, died last Friday morning at Toronto’s Baycrest Hospital of Parkinson’s Disease. He was 81.
Cantor Louis Harry Danto
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 TORONTO - Founded in 1993 by three computer geeks fresh out
of the army, Check Point makes systems that are considered
the industry standard in Internet security.
Amnon Bar-Lev
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 Our theme this year for the Rosh Hashanah supplement is "Women you should know." The CJN will be profiling 16 women of Jewish history – including four Canadians – looking back only over the last 500 years. (Read more)
Golda Meir (A woman you should know?)
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 St. Urbain’s Horseman, the three-hour CBC adaptation of Mordechai Richler’s 1971 Governor-General-Award-winning novel, was released recently on DVD.
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 We all know that summertime means barbecues, picnics, pot-luck dinners and get-togethers with family and friends. But when the weather is hot and humid and our energy levels run low, the thought of cooking isn’t very appealing.
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 TORONTO - Brenna Singer had always been too nervous to give blood. Until last Wednesday.
Nineteen people came to donate blood at the Hillel/Canadian Friends of Rambam Health Care Campus blood
drive last Wednesday.
Josh Zelikovitz, Lyla Abells, Brenna Singer.
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