NGOs’ ‘hostile behaviour’ over Jews, Israel; a call for anti-Israel group to be listed as terrorists; and more

It’s Wednesday, July 15. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

It’s Wednesday, July 15. Here are the top stories we’re following today. Report finds NGOs rife with ‘hostile behaviour related to Jews, Israel’ Managers, staff and leaders in various household‐name humanitarian and rights groups indulged in public airing of “dehumanizing views toward Israel and Jews,” according to dozens of former and current staff surveyed in the report.

Jewish organization calls for Palestine Action Canada to be listed as terrorist organization after attack on Ontario company “At a time when Canada has rightly identified its defence industry as essential to our national and economic security, terrorists are ‘taking matters into their own hands’ to harm businesses and the Canadians they employ,” the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs wrote after PAC confessed to targeting Dishon Limited on the weekend. Teen who killed random woman to be like fictional serial killer gets five years in youth facility The Ontario boy, who was 14 at the time of the murder, said he was inspired by a character in a Japanese graphic novel and anime cartoon who is portrayed as a meticulous killer trying to live quietly as a businessman despite periodically murdering women.

Scott Stinson: Ontario minister who lives in Toronto billed $16,000 for Toronto hotels While everyone was trying to figure how someone could spiritually justify staying in a hotel instead of taking a government-supplied car and driver for the quick drive home, Stan Cho’s office issued a statement that said he would repay all the hotel expenses, Stinson notes. Colby Cosh: Ontario’s welfare-for-illegal-migrants scheme could be dropped overnight Cosh writes that one problem with Premier Doug Ford’s promise to make illegal immigrants ineligible for welfare in Ontario is that any such regulation “is bound to face near-immediate Charter scrutiny in front of a real court — and how do we imagine that might go these days?”