Executive Summary In October 2025, the National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) released a landmark review that officially confirmed the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) approach to terrorism-related charity audits is “deeply flawed,” lacks rigour, and introduces significant risks of bias and discrimination, potentially breaching the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.[i] This report validated decades of advocacy by Muslim, Arab, and Sikh communities, whose charitable organizations have faced disproportionate scrutiny based on weak or unsubstantiated leads.[ii]  Click here to download the full report as a PDF Continue reading

Executive Summary In recent months, several Canadian municipalities have moved to establish local “bubble zone” laws, creating blanket bans on protests in large sections of multiple Canadian cities. These measures – modelled after laws that create protest-free perimeters around sites like abortion clinics or hospitals – are now being applied to places of worship, schools, and community centres. The trend has accelerated in 2023–2024, amid large pro-Palestinian demonstrations against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and Canadian complicity. These municipal bylaws, while framed as public safety tools, are disproportionately being used to suppress pro-Palestinian protest and other dissenting voices. The laws’ broad language and expansive zones risk infringing on constitutional freedoms, chilling lawful protest, and empowering authorities to selectively enforce against what they perceive to be unpopular or controversial. This brief examines the rise of these bubble zone bylaws and their impacts, and offers policy recommendations to safeguard democratic expression while addressing genuine safety concerns. Click here to download the full report as a PDF Continue reading

This report, co-authored with CJPME, reveals an explosion of anti-Palestinian racism (APR) in 2023 over the previous year. Read the Executive Summary below, or download the full report. Issued December 2024 Click here to download the full report as a PDF Continue reading