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...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A Canadian man who perpetrated a “racially motivated” attack on a Black Muslim woman and her daughter was sentenced Friday to 16 months in prison and probation for two years. Richard Bradley Stevens, 43, accosted the pair Dec. 8, 2020, while they were sitting in their car outside a shopping mall [&helli...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Authorities are searching for a graffiti writer who vandalized a mosque in Toronto last week. Police have an image of the graffiti writer that was captured on security camera and have issued a description of the suspect. Authorities appealed to the public to come forward with information related to the incident. [&...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The co-founder of the Quebec City mosque where six worshippers were killed in a deadly shooting spree in 2017 urged Canadian lawmakers Thursday to toughen and pass a proposed gun bill. Boufeldja Benabdallah said Bill C-21 should include a ban on assault-style semi-automatic weapons “that are not reasonably us...
Immigrant rights advocates on Thursday called on the Supreme Court of Canada to terminate an agreement between the country and the U.S. which allows Canadian officials to turn refugees away if they attempt to enter the country at its southern border, arguing that Canada cannot send people in need of protection to the U.S. without potentially [...
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...
