Nearly 60 immigrant men at two Ontario maximum security prisons Thursday entered the fourth day of a hunger strike to protest the Canadian policy of indefinite immigration detention that denies immigrants access to any judicial process. Between 2006 and 2014, under the Conservative government of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canada jailed over 87,000 immigrants …
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They were teenagers from tiny indigenous Canadian communities, isolated by a maze of lakes and forest. Thunder Bay, a metropolis by comparison, offered them their only opportunity for a high school education. Instead, the students met death. Indigenous leaders and parents of the dead had long called for investigations, suspecting the students were victims of …
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The Ottawa Police Association is denying Abdirahman Abdi’s death at the hands of several officers Sunday had anything to do with race. Abdi died after, according to witness accounts, cops pepper sprayed him, hit him with batons, and punched him in the head and neck. However, despite the denial of racial problems by police officials …
Dino Demir was sitting on the patio of a Starbucks at Davie and Denman streets, and using the cafe’s Wi-Fi to speak to a friend in the U.K. Demir noticed the two customers, both men, were gesturing at him. One was drinking beer and holding a six-pack. He told CTV Vancouver the men seemed to …
An unknown Italian group has pasted a racist poster on the wall of the Turkish Dorval Mosque in the Canadian city of Montreal. The imam and president of the mosque, Mehmet Değer, spoke about the poster, which appeared on Friday night. “This is the eighth racist attack against this mosque”, he said. “No one has …
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An arson Wednesday night at the Ibrahim Jame Mosque on King Street East was stopped by Syrian refugees who put out the small fire and helped police catch a suspect. The attack comes on the eve of 15th anniversary of an arson attack on Hamilton’s Hindu Samaj Temple in the days after 9/11. “Witnesses in …
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A newly-built Muslim cultural center in Sept-Îles, Canada was vandalized earlier this week, revealing a very troubling sharp increase in reported incidents that are related to Islamophobia in the country. A 38-year-old man was arrested and then released on a promise to appear in court in six to eight weeks on charges of breaking and …
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Quebec is moving ahead with a law to ban face coverings in the public sector in a move criticized as marginalizing Muslim women and potentially inflaming anti-immigrant tensions in the mainly French-speaking Canadian province. The proposed law prohibits anyone giving or receiving government services, such as a provincial government-issued health card, from wearing face-covering garments. …
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For the second Friday in a row, a Calgary mosque has been vandalized. The glass on the front door of the Ranchlands Mosque in northwest Calgary was smashed, officials from the Islamic Association of NW Calgary (IANWC) discovered on Saturday morning. A sign indicating that the mosque was open during construction was also thrown in …
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A southeast Calgary Islamic centre was vandalized late Friday evening, and a community leader is hoping the person responsible comes forward, because he wants to start a conversation. The glass on the door of the Islamic Centre of South Calgary in Queensland was broken. A burnt copy of the Quran and a hateful letter greeted …
