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 ...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Another case of a woman accusing a Roman Catholic Cardinal in Canada of sexual misconduct has surfaced. Cardinal Marc Ouellet, former archbishop of the Quebec City diocese in Canada and now head of the Vatican’s bishops’ office, was accused but the charge had not been publicly disclosed. However, a lett...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The Star Blanket Cree Nation in Canada has revealed that searchers found the remnants of a long-buried child at the site of a 19th century school for native Indians. Ground-penetrating radar had 2,000 “hits” that may indicate unmarked graves at the site of the former Indian Residential School. At a pres...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Countries whose citizens died when Iran shot down a Ukrainian airliner with 176 onboard have called for binding arbitration to compensate victims, according to a statement from the Canadian government. “We, Ministers representing Canada, Sweden, Ukraine and the United Kingdom, have taken concrete action today to en...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has refused to investigate false documents alleging a Muslim charity was financing terrorism although some of the false paperwork included phony RCMP search warrants, the Canadian Press has reported. The RCMP told the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) it should take concern...
ANKARA (AA) – At least five people were killed and another injured at a condominium unit in a Toronto suburb on Sunday evening, according to police sources. Police found a “horrendous scene where numerous victims were deceased” after responding to an active shooting call at the building in Vaughan, a city just north of the […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – More than 100 residents in Canada face 428 charges related to child exploitation as a result of an investigation called “Project Maverick.” All 107 suspects reside in the province of Ontario and the investigation took place in October. In all, 121 children were identified, with 60 being “safeguard...
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...
