



Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals, Ottawa’s mayor, one of the nation’s premier children’s hospitals, the University of Ottawa, civil servants and Jewish community groups are among those pulling out of the capital city’s annual Pride parade, as tensions over the organizing committee’s anti-Israel messaging threaten to undo festivities.
It is the latest Pride event to face boycotts and pushback for characterizing the ongoing Israel-Hamas war as human rights abuses against Palestinians. Last month, Fredericton Pride cancelled its two-week festival due to harassment board members received after the group expressed solidarity with Palestinians and named the Fredericton Palestine Solidarity Organization, an activist group, grand marshal in the city’s Pride parade.