TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A Canadian man who perpetrated a “racially motivated” attack on a Black Muslim woman and her daughter was sentenced Friday to 16 months in prison and probation for two years. Richard Bradley Stevens, 43, accosted the pair Dec. 8, 2020, while they were sitting in their car outside a shopping mall [&helli...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Authorities are searching for a graffiti writer who vandalized a mosque in Toronto last week. Police have an image of the graffiti writer that was captured on security camera and have issued a description of the suspect. Authorities appealed to the public to come forward with information related to the incident. [&...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The co-founder of the Quebec City mosque where six worshippers were killed in a deadly shooting spree in 2017 urged Canadian lawmakers Thursday to toughen and pass a proposed gun bill. Boufeldja Benabdallah said Bill C-21 should include a ban on assault-style semi-automatic weapons “that are not reasonably us...
Immigrant rights advocates on Thursday called on the Supreme Court of Canada to terminate an agreement between the country and the U.S. which allows Canadian officials to turn refugees away if they attempt to enter the country at its southern border, arguing that Canada cannot send people in need of protection to the U.S. without potentially [...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada will drop its COVID-19 measures October 1 for those entering the country, including requirements for proof of vaccinations, tests and masks, the government has announced. Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos said the border measures were ended because travelers “no longer influence in a significant wayR...
At least eight homes were reportedly swept into the sea in southern Newfoundland Saturday after post-Tropical Storm Fiona slammed into eastern Canada with winds racing at nearly 81 miles per hour and the lowest barometric pressure ever recorded for a storm in the country. After knocking out power in Puerto Rico last week when it hit the U.S. [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has slammed what it called “provocative” transit by the US and Canadian warships through the Taiwan Strait. Shi Yi, a senior colonel of the Chinese military, said in a statement that the US navy destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) and Canadian navy frigate HMCS Vancouver (FFH-331) sailed through the Taiwan Strait […]...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A manhunt continued Tuesday in Canada for the second suspect in a stabbing rampage that left 10 people dead and 18 wounded. Myles Sanderson, 32, was said to have been spotted Tuesday on the James Smith Cree Nation reserve, the scene of most of the stabbings that took place Sunday, in […]
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canadian police have charged two suspects who are still at large with five counts of first-degree murder following a stabbing spree in the province of Saskatchewan. The violence has left 10 people dead and 18 injured after two men ran amok on the James Smith Cree Nation reserve and a nearby […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 10 people have been killed and 15 more injured in a series of stabbings in Canada’s central Saskatchewan province, police said on Sunday. Two suspects – Damien Sanderson, 31, and Myles Sanderson, 30 – are still at large, according to Rhonda Blackmore, commanding officer of the Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Mounted [&hell...