MONTREAL, Canada (MNTV) – Quebec has introduced a bill that significantly expands restrictions on religious expression in public spaces, higher education institutions, and partially funded private institutions, tightening and broadening the framework established under the province’s 2019 secularism law, Bill 21. Bill No. 9, introduced Thursday...
MONTREAL, Canada (MNTV) – Quebec’s provincial government has proposed sweeping new restrictions on religious expression, introducing a law that would ban prayer and face coverings in public institutions—measures that rights groups say disproportionately target Muslims. According to The Guardian, the bill, introduced by the ruling Coalition Ave...
MONTREAL, Canada (MNTV) – The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) says it is weighing legal action after the Quebec government introduced a sweeping new secularism bill that expands earlier restrictions on religious expression. Quebec’s minister for secularism, Jean-François Roberge, presented Bill 9, which builds on Bill 21 by proposi...
TORONTO, Canada (MNTV) – The Islamic Society of Toronto (IST) celebrated the grand opening of its new Islamic Centre at 20 Overlea Boulevard in Thorncliffe Park, marking a historic milestone for one of Toronto’s largest Muslim communities. The 66,377-square-foot mosque is roughly five times larger than IST’s previous facility and serves approx...
Deal to remove, reduce tariff, non-tariff barriers, establish more transparent, predictable framework for trade, investment, says Canada’s Prime Minister’s Office ISTANBUL (AA) – Canada has announced a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) with Indonesia, Ottawa’s first bilateral trade agreement within ASE...
EDMONTON, Canada (MNTV) — Alberta has scaled back its controversial school library book ban, saying it will now only target visual depictions of sexual acts while allowing written descriptions to remain. Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides said Monday the revised order reflects the government’s original concern. “An image can be understood...
MONTREAL, Canada (MNTV) – The Quebec government plans to introduce legislation banning prayers in public spaces, a move Muslim groups and civil rights advocates say unfairly targets religious communities. Stephen Brown, CEO of the National Council of Canadian Muslims, called the proposal “absurd,” arguing that public prayers are neither new no...
MONTREAL, Canada (MNTV) – Canadian Muslim organizations have slammed a new 300-page study urging that Quebec’s ban on religious symbols be extended to daycares. The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) is already fighting a headscarf ban in the Supreme Court, which forbids wearing religious symbols by public servants in the workplace. B...
TORONTO, Canada (MNTV) – Surging Islamophobic attacks in Canada have driven Muslim community to live in a constant state of fear which has shattered the country’s multicultural image. Canada has long cultivated the image of a multicultural society as it welcomes hundreds of thousands of residents from other countries annually. But for many yea...
OTTAWA, Canada (MNTV) – Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged their support for US President Donald Trump’s peace efforts, emphasizing that a settlement with Ukraine must be built rather than imposed. According to Reuters, during a phone call, Carney and Starmer discussed their unwavering sup...
