today’s ” AR-online” again AR-Online recent issues: May 1999 April 1999 March 1999 February 1999 January 1999 December 1998 November 1998 October 1998 September 1998 B’nai B’rith Canada: With malice aforethought In 1984, while running for election to the Canadian Parliament as a Conservative Party candidate, Winnipeg schoolteacher Luba Fedorkiw discovered, to her utter amazement, that B’nai B’rith Canada , a major so-called Jewish “anti-defamation”
organization, had circulated an internal memo which accused the candidate of “Jew-baiting.” This allegation was subsequently repeated in the Winnipeg Sun , and the resulting defamation cost her the election. Luba Fedorkiw sued B’nai B’rith Canada for libel, with the result that she was eventually awarded 5,000 in actual damages and 5,000 in punitive damages against the organization. The jury found that the charges of anti-Semitism were unfounded and malicious.
Winnipeg Free Press Winnipeg, Canada, November 26, 1987 $400,000 awarded in damages B’Nai B’rith guilty of libel, jury finds by David Roberts IN ONE of the largest defamation awards in Canadian history, a Winnipeg jury has awarded $400,000 in damages to former Tory candidate Luba Fedorkiw , saying she was maliciously libeled by a Jewish human rights group.
The six-member Court of Queen’s Bench civil jury deliberated for four hours yesterday, finding the B’nai B’rith acted with malice when word of an internal probe into anti-Semitic remarks attributed to Fedorkiw was leaked to the press. “I feel my name is cleared in Winnipeg, within the PC Party, and throughout Canada,” a jubilant Fedorkiw said after the verdict. “I feel I have been vindicated. It’s time to go on in my career as a teacher and to move on in my personal life.”
She said she planned to