By Karin Kloosterman
Karin, a Canadian-Israeli, meets Prince Hassan of Jordan at a water security conference in Switzerland last week.
It was a meeting of minds, water minds. Water consultants, ambassadors who’ve built water treaties, and government specialists and negotiators from around the Middle East and Europe gathered in Montreux, Switzerland for a two-day workshop on Water [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
When I was in university my roommate Catherine once lived in Margaret Atwood’s dorm at Victoria College, University of Toronto. Like many young Canadian women in the post-feminism era, we grew up on writers like Atwood who paved the way for us so we wouldn’t have to be feminists. It was so cool [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

As a kid who grew up in Canada with natural gas heating, cooking and a natural gas clothes dryer, it’s great news to see that a Canadian company, the Bontan Oil and Gas Company, based in Toronto, has found what could be up to $6 billion dollars worth of natural gas off the [...]

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By Paul Shindman
What was better, them visiting or us hosting?
An impossible call since we were in hockey heaven with two of the greatest hockey icons of the Maple Leafs, and even Montreal and Edmonton fans look at Henderson as a national treausre.
So it’s an easy call to make - ice hockey and Canada-Israel relations were [...]

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By Paul Shindman
There are a hundred ways to rank the success of a hockey tournament, but you’d have a hard time finding a more amazing set of circumstances that what we have this week in Israel.
The 4th annual Israel Recreational Hockey Tournament started today. It’s only three days long with six teams, but with two [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Paul Henderson is probably the most famous Canadian hockey personality of the 20th century.
And even more so for the Jews.
A year before the historic 1972 Canada-USSR hockey summit, I remember when the entire Jewish community of Toronto marched against the visit of the Soviet foreign minister (Kosygin, for you history buffs). We were [...]

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We already know that Israel and the Province of Manitoba are collaborating on wetlands research. And last year Canada’s water experts from Manitoba were in Israel to learn about the very dry country’s techniques in water conservation.
Last week my friend from Reuters sent me a note that Israel is to host the second Manitoba-Israel Water [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
If you’ve been planning a trip to Israel and are looking for an insider’s view of what to do, look no further: I’d start at igoogledisrael. The blog started about a year ago by Ashley gives you the best of Israeli culture, as though you’d been living there for years already. Who wants [...]

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We found this great greeting on the web!  The team at Canada’s Israel would like to wish all who celebrate Christmas, in Canada, Israel and around the world, a joyous holiday.

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By Karin Kloosterman
Israeli companies are starting to look to Toronto’s stock exchange as an alternative to the NASDAQ. Lately, there seems to be a surge in growing business ties between Canada and Israel, reports the Jewish Tribune.
A new money management firm called BSP Funds Canada Inc is the first Israel-based company of its kind in [...]

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