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 ...
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...