TRENTON, Canada (AA) – More than 300 Afghans touched down at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport on Wednesday, bringing Canada closer to its goal of resettling 40,000 refugees from Taliban-run Afghanistan. The passengers on the flight, which arrived from Pakistan, were those who aided Canada in its Afghanistan mission, including families o...
TORONTO (AA) – A man was apprehended by Canadian police after he rammed his car into a Muslim person in Toronto, officials said Sunday. The attacker has been detained pending trial for hate crime. The incident took place in the parking lot of the Markham Islamic Society Mosque, the oldest and largest mosque in the […]
Canada (AA) – A new report says that while Canada’s tax department is ensnared in red tape making a comprehensive review impossible, it should provide training to end “unconscious” bias when dealing with Muslim charities. The Office of the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson report found that bias creeps in unconsciously and training would “improve the CR...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russia announced Tuesday that it summoned Canada’s charge d’affaires for comments made by the Canadian foreign minister. The Russian Foreign Ministry said Brian Ebel was summoned Monday and was told that the comments were “unacceptable and ran counter to the obligations of Canada as a state party to the Vienna Convention ...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A Toronto-area school board has become the first in Canada to introduce an anti-Islamophobia program. The Peel District School Board did its homework and found that about one-quarter of its 153,000 students – Kindergarten through Grade 12 in 244 schools – were Muslim. “The launch of the strategy demonstrates the Peel [&h...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada has announced another CAN$30 million (US$22 million) for those affected by the disastrous earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. The government will match CAN$10 million in donations to the Humanitarian Coalition and provide CAN$20 million in direct relief, International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan said in...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – As many as 17 potential unmarked graves have been found using ground-penetrating radar at the former Alberni Indian Residential School on Vancouver Island, the Tseshaht First Nation announced at a press conference. But only 10% of the 300 hectares (741 acres) of the area has been covered, and more could be [&hellip...
LONDON (AA) – Ministers responsible for energy from about 40 countries have pledged their continued support for disaster relief and recovery efforts in Türkiye. Canadian minister Jonathan Wilkinson chaired an online meeting held in this connection. It was co-chaired by Irish minister Eamon Ryan and United States Secretary of Energy Jenni...
Ottawa, Canada (AFP): Canada’s parliament has unanimously passed a motion to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees who fled China. The move builds on a February 2021 move by Canadian lawmakers to label Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in its northwestern Xinjiang territory as genocide. Rights groups believe at least...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The government of Quebec province has called for the resignation of Canada’s newly-appointed representative to fight Islamophobia. However, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expressed his support for Amira Elghawaby. Elghawaby, a human rights activist and the world’s first government-appointed official ...
