The telecommunications consultant who originally exposed antisemitic Twitter posts by former federal contractor Laith Marouf has told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage that knowledge of Marouf’s conduct was well-known throughout the federal government prior to funding being pulled, but action on the matter was not taken until media reported on it….

The Canadian Heritage Ministry will change its contractor vetting process, it said at an inquiry Monday, after it had to cancel a contract with an organization accused of antisemitism. The contract was under the purview of the ministry’s anti-racism initiatives. The inquiry found that other government departments had awarded multiple contracts to the same organization…

The Department of Canadian Heritage says it conducted a “comprehensive assessment” prior to awarding a contract to a now-defunded firm that employed a consultant later found to have posted numerous antisemitic remarks online. Montreal-based consultancy firm Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) was approved for funding “following a comprehensive assessment including both regional and national committees,”…

Former government-funded consultant Laith Marouf, whose group’s funding was pulled because of deragotary tweets with comments such as “Jewish white supremacists,” says Heritage Canada “begged” his group to take over $130,000 in funding. Marouf, a senior consultant working for the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) in Montréal, said Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s department of Canadian Heritage initially approached…

A petition presented in the House of Commons is calling on Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez to provide a list of the individuals involved in approving a government grant to a group with ties to consultant Laith Marouf. Funding to the group was pulled after Marouf was found to have made anti-Semitic comments on Twitter over several…

A federal government advisor attended a workshop in May put on by the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC), which was recently defunded after one of its senior consultants, Laith Marouf, was found to have made antisemitic Twitter posts. Karim Karim, a professor at Carleton University’s journalism and communications school and a former policy analyst for the Canadian Heritage…

OTTAWA—Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez broke his silence on Wednesday over his department’s funding of an agency whose senior consultant posted a series of tweets about “Jewish white supremacists,” more than a week after the government cut off the money. “Racism in any form has no place in Canada. I condemn the disgusting antisemitic comments made…

Commentary Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s Heritage Department is in a mess of its own creation. Last year, under the rubric of its “Anti-Racism Action Program,” Heritage granted over $133,000 to the non-profit Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) to build an “anti-racism strategy” for Canadian media. One of CMAC’s “senior consultants” is Beirut-based Laith Marouf, a longtime…

Commentary Minister Pablo Rodriguez’s Heritage Department is in a mess of its own creation. Last year, under the rubric of its “Anti-Racism Action Program,” Heritage granted over $133,000 to the non-profit Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) to build an “anti-racism strategy” for Canadian media. One of CMAC’s “senior consultants” is Beirut-based Laith Marouf, a longtime…