TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada will drop its COVID-19 measures October 1 for those entering the country, including requirements for proof of vaccinations, tests and masks, the government has announced. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said the border measures were ended because travelers “no longer influence in a significant wayR...
At least eight homes were reportedly swept into the sea in southern Newfoundland Saturday after post-Tropical Storm Fiona slammed into eastern Canada with winds racing at nearly 81 miles per hour and the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded for a storm in the country. After knocking out power in Puerto Rico last week when it hit the U.S. [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has slammed what it called “provocative” transit by the US and Canadian warships through the Taiwan Strait. Shi Yi, a senior colonel of the Chinese military, said in a statement that the US navy destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) and Canadian navy frigate HMCS Vancouver (FFH-331) sailed through the Taiwan Strait […]...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A manhunt continued Tuesday in Canada for the second suspect in a stabbing rampage that left 10 people dead and 18 wounded. Myles Sanderson, 32, was said to have been spotted Tuesday on the James Smith Cree Nation reserve, the scene of most of the stabbings that took place Sunday, in […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canadian police have charged two suspects who are still at large with five counts of first-degree murder following a stabbing spree in the province of Saskatchewan. The violence has left 10 people dead and 18 injured after two men ran amok on the James Smith Cree Nation reserve and a nearby […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 10 people have been killed and 15 more injured in a series of stabbings in Canada’s central Saskatchewan province, police said on Sunday. Two suspects – Damien Sanderson, 31, and Myles Sanderson, 30 – are still at large, according to Rhonda Blackmore, commanding officer of the Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted [&hell...
LONDON (AA) – Shamima Begum, a schoolgirl who left the UK to join the ISIS, has said she was smuggled into Syria by a Canadian intelligence agent. Mohammed al-Rasheed posed as a human smuggler when he helped Begum and two other British girls travel to Syria in 2015. Begum was 15 years old at the […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canadian star hockey player Nazem Kadri, the first Muslim to be on a Stanley Cup winning team, returned to his hometown of London, Ontario, on Saturday to celebrate the historic victory. As a Muslim, Kadri’s return is poignant. In 2021, four members of a Muslim family were run down and killed […]
TORONTO (AA) – A Muslim mother and her daughters wearing ‘burkinis’ were not allowed to swim at a water park in Canada. A burkini is a swimming costume worn by Muslim women, which fully covers the body according to religious requirements, leaving only the hands, face and feet exposed. Mother Halima Jelloul, her husband and [&...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A retired priest pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a Canadian court to a sexual assault that allegedly occurred more than 50 years ago at an Indian Residential School. Arthur Masse, 92, who was not in the courtroom, entered the plea through his lawyer, George Green. The indecent assault involves a 10-year-old [&helli...
