TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada announced Monday that it will provide CAN$62.5 million (US$46.3 million) in support over the next six years for an Indigenous tribe rocked by a horrific stabbing spree that claimed 11 victims in September. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made the announcement during a visit to the James Smith Cree Nation in [&...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The Canadian government has unveiled a new CAN$1.6 billion ($1.2 billion) five-year climate action plan to help deal with storms, floods and forest fires. Canada has been hit with several disasters due to climate change. Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair announced the new strategy while in Prince Edward Is...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A Canadian Muslim charity wants to provide a haven for displaced Syrians by building a village for them in the war-torn country. Hope Village Project would see 500 homes, a hospital, a mosque and a school built at an estimate cost of CAN$2,250,00 (US$1.7 million) through money raised by Human Concern […]
Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt (AFP): West African nations have vowed to protect 30 percent of their land and seas by 2030. It constitutes a cornerstone pledge of high-stakes biodiversity talks scheduled in Canada next month. The announcement was made at UN climate talks in Egypt’s Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where dozens of world [&helli...
Defying new legislation fast-tracked by right-wing Ontario Premier Doug Ford outlawing strikes, more than 55,000 education workers in the Canadian province hit the picket lines Friday, vowing to stay in the streets for “as long as it takes” to secure a contract they feel is fair. The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) launch...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada plans to add 500,000 immigrants in 2025 to ensure the economic prosperity of the country, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said Tuesday. That is on top of the 465,000 immigrants Canada expects to welcome next year and up from the 400,000 that arrived last year. Fraser said the numbers are necessary […...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has urged Canada to find an alternative way to return the convicted killer of the country’s founding leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as current Canadian law prohibits such a return. Law Minister Anisul Huq told reporters in Dhaka after meeting with Canadian High Commissioner Lilly Nicholls, who paid a cou...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Police in Canada are investigating reports of three so-called Chinese police stations in Toronto which are supposedly being used to capture individuals targeted by the Chinese regime, the UK’s Guardian newspaper has reported. Human-rights group Safeguard Defenders reported in September that China has set up p...
TORONTO (AA) – A study conducted in Canada has revealed the networks that funded Islamophobia, as it “has become a transnational sector.” Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Jasmin Zine, a professor of Sociology, Religion and Culture, and the Muslim Studies Option at Wilfrid Laurier University, said the Islamophobia industry has a ma...
TORONTO (AA) – Fourteen newly-elected lawmakers in the Canadian province of Quebec have rejected the constitutionally required oath of allegiance to the king of Great Britain, according to the Montreal Gazette. The lawmakers removed their allegiance to King Charles III on Friday in the text of the oath that is in the Canadian Constitutio...
