Five Muslim men were injured when someone opened fire on the group, which had just finished midnight prayers in the suburb of Scarborough, police said. The men range in age from 28 to 35 years old. Acting staff Supt. David Rydzik RIJIK said the men, who were observing nightly prayers for Ramadan, gathered around 1 […]
TORONTO, Canada (AA) – Five people were injured in a mosque shooting Saturday in Toronto, according to police sources. A group of men, who had finished midnight prayers during the holy month of Ramadan, was randomly attacked in a drive-by shooting in the Scarborough district, said Toronto Police Department spokesperson David Rydzik. At l...
TRENTON, Canada – Canada’s largest Muslim charitable organization has launched a court challenge, saying the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) probe into its affairs is rife with Islamophobia. The Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) wants the CRA audit stopped because it is unfairly “tainted by systemic bias and Islamophobia...
Canada Post has released its fourth Eid stamp since 2017. It is among several annual stamp issues marking events of importance to Canada’s culturally diverse population. Eid festivals this year begin in early May and early July. They are celebrated by more than one million Muslims in Canada, and millions more worldwide. Other religious...
TRENTON, Canada – The 2022 federal Canadian budget bans foreigners from buying residences for two years and allocates CAN$8 billion ($6.3 billion) for increased military spending. Those were two of the highlights of the budget – which includes CAN$60 billion ($47.6 billion) in total new spending – delivered by Finance Ministe...
One Ummah Radio Station’s inaugural broadcast hit the airwaves at the start of the holy month of Ramadan in the Canadian city of Halifax. After two years of planning, the station began broadcasting live from a small room in the basement of the Ummah Masjid. Abdullah Yousri, imam and executive director of the mosque, said […]
BRUSSELS (AA) – NATO marked its 73rd anniversary on Monday amid new security challenges caused by the Russian war on Ukraine, which is regarded by many as the “biggest threat” Europe has faced since the Cold War and the “greatest destruction” witnessed since World War II. NATO was founded to restructure the security architecture in [&hel...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Pope Francis on Friday apologized to the representatives of Canadian indigenous peoples for the abuses suffered by the students of church-run residential schools in Canada, local media reported on Friday. “I ask for forgiveness from God for this reprehensible conduct by some members of the Church,” Francis told an audience with...
As Ramadan begins for Muslims worldwide, some Canadian Muslims are concerned for loved ones unlawfully detained in northeast Syria. An estimated four dozen Canadian Muslims have spent three or more years detained in squalid prisons and camps for people suspected of ties to ISIS. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau releases statements at the...
Ottawa, Canada – AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Wednesday with an Indigenous community that recently identified 93 graves at a former residential school, part of a series of similar discoveries that shocked the country. His visit to the Williams Lake First Nation in British Columbia came just days after a delegation spoke...
