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Community: Hasidic Community and Bernard Avenue

community: New places of worship were already blocked on other commercial and residential streets, according to CBC. Hasidic community members have said they will pursue legal action. Residents voted Sunday in favour of sticking with the ban on Bernard Avenue, which effectively blocks the ultra-Orthodox community from establishing a new synagogue in the borough. The very notion of the Charter means that democracy is not majority rule.- Julius Grey, constitutional lawyer We will for sure use the rights of the constitution, we will for sure go to court, said Abraham Ekstein, a leader in the Hasidic community. I go with my kids. Ekstein said some synagogues in the borough are already filled to capacity. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.