Open this photo in gallery: Thomas Lukaszuk, who has helped spearhead the Ukrainian donations operation, is seen at a warehouse in Edmonton, Alta. on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. Read more » »

Irving Abella, a noted scholar of Jewish history, died on July 3. This is an excerpt of a speech he gave to the Canadian Historical Association when he was the group’s president in 2000.The Canada of the first half of the last century, and particularly from the 1920s through the 1940s, was a foreboding place for Jews, as it was for most immigrants. Read more » »