Canada Land, funded by you. I'm Jesse Brown, and this is an update on what is happening here.

It's been just over four months since we published the last episode of this series. At that time,

in late December of 2025, Israel had recently entered into a ceasefire

with Hamas, and there were hopes that the unprecedented spike in harm and discrimination

to Canadian Jews was over, or at least on the wane. What you're going to hear today is an

overview of the ways in which those hopes were realized

and the ways in which they were let down.

I'll also take a few minutes to update you on what has happened with this show itself.

I asked listeners for support in order to finish funding this podcast,

and I also asked for help in order to carry the message of

the show as far and wide as I could. I want to tell you about how that's been going. This episode

will sound different than earlier episodes. There is a significant amount of information to convey

about what has gone on these past few months. So today I'm just going to spend this time

taking you through all of it. And I'll spend a little bit of time talking about what to make of it all

and what it all means to me. Thank you for returning.

So I'll begin this update the same way that I began this series by talking about the most clear and obvious examples of anti-Jewish harm.

Just days after publishing the final episode of this show,

news broke that three men living in the suburbs of

Toronto were accused of hunting women and Jews on the streets of Toronto as part of a hate

plot. Toronto police were quoted saying that they had arrested three individuals for offenses

targeting women and members of the Jewish community, attempted kidnapping with firearms,

conspiracy to commit sexual assault,

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