Davide Mastracci

1 week ago | readthemaple.com | Emma Paling |Alex Cosh |Davide Mastracci

Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre is getting an easier ride at media events during the current election than Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney, an analysis by The Maple finds. The data shows that despite Poilievre’s constant complaints that the media go easy on his Liberal opponents, the opposite is true in this election campaign.

3 weeks ago | readthemaple.com | Davide Mastracci |Emma Paling |Alex Cosh

The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) is a Zionist lobby group that has a stated priority of “strengthening the Canada-Israel Friendship.” It has aimed to do so in several ways, including lobbying MPs and taking them on fully paid trips to Israel. I’ve published several articles on CIJA’s activities since 2022, including a list of the 10 MPs most lobbied by CIJA and a breakdown of MPs CIJA has taken to Israel.

1 month ago | readthemaple.com | Davide Mastracci

On February 24, I published Find IDF Soldiers, a database containing profiles of 85 Canadians that have joined the Israeli military at any point in their lives. Several people in the database and/or their family members have since reacted to it online, including by speaking with a variety of news outlets. I’ve compiled these reactions here, sorted by name in alphabetical order. Some of these comments will be added to the Find IDF Soldiers website the next time it is updated.

1 month ago | readthemaple.com | Alex Cosh |Davide Mastracci |Emma Paling |Peter McFarlane

In the wake of United States President Donald Trump’s ongoing threats to make Canada the “51st state,” a recent Leger poll found that 27 per cent of Canadians view their southern neighbour as an “enemy state.”While a higher share — 30 per cent — view the U.S. as an “ally,” the substantial figure of those willing to use such negative terms to describe the Canadian state’s traditionally closest partner has prompted surprise, as well as disgust from some quarters.

1 month ago | readthemaple.com | Davide Mastracci |Alex Cosh |Emma Paling |Peter McFarlane

For the better part of the past century, some Jews in Canada have been travelling to Israel to fight alongside other Jewish Zionists from around the world. Throughout this time, the Israeli military has been credibly accused by and/or before major international bodies of ethnic cleansing, war crimes, apartheid, and now genocide.