New Heritage Minute celebrates Bora Laskin, Canada’s 1st Jewish chief Supreme Court justice

New Heritage Minute celebrates Bora Laskin, Canada’s 1st Jewish chief Supreme Court justice

Michel Beaulieu says Historica Canada's new Heritage Minute featuring Bora Laskin is "long overdue."Born in 1912 in Fort William — now Thunder Bay, Ont., — Laskin is known for overcoming antisemitism to become the first Jewish Chief Justice of the

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