Brantford police are searching for two suspects after a mosque on Greenwich Street was vandalized with hateful graffiti on October 21. It happened in the early-morning hours, around 2:20 a.m. at the Brantford Mosque. Officers say the two suspects spray painted the walls of the mosque and the parking lot with hateful remarks and symbols …
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After Oct. 17, passengers that take to the sky will be able to stroll through airport security with marijuana depending on their final destination. There are new rules right around the corner that will feel incredibly foreign to those flying. After Oct. 17, passengers that take to the sky will be able to stroll through …
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Hate crimes grew for both Muslims and Jews populations. Jews were targeted in 139 more incidents last year than in 2016, for an increase of 63 per cent. Muslims, meanwhile, were targeted in an additional 210 incidents, for an increase of 151 per cent. For years, police-reported hate crimes in Canada were inching up slowly. They …
A 29-year-old who shot dead six worshippers at a Quebec City mosque in the worst anti-Muslim attack in the West got life in prison on Friday. Alexandre Bissonnette will have to wait 40 years longer than usual before he can apply for parole. In his decision, Judge Francois Huot rejected a prosecution request for a 150-year sentence, …
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The Canadian province of Quebec will ban public sector employees from wearing religious symbols during work hours, in legislation introduced on Thursday, a controversial move that critics say targets Muslim women who wear hijabs or other head coverings. The proposed law sets the province’s right-leaning Coalition Avenir Québec (CAQ) government on a collision course with Prime Minister …
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The sister of a woman who spent some of her final hours waiting in a New Brunswick emergency room says she believes the wait contributed to her death. Donna Bordage says Marianne Porter waited for 11 hours in the Moncton Hospital before being seen. Bordage said her sister spent that time hunched over and moaning …
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As a schoolteacher in Quebec, she would be subject to a proposed ban on public employees wearing religious symbols on the job. But the Muslim woman says she is not taking off her headscarf. She says she’s thinking largely of her ninth-graders. “What message does that send to my students?” Naqvi asked. “We’re supposed to …
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The Canadian province of Quebec has passed a contentious law that bans public sector employees from wearing religious symbols – the Jewish kippah, Sikh turban or Muslim hijab, among others – on the job. The legislation, widely known as Bill 21, passed in a 73-35 vote late on Sunday and takes effect immediately. Quebec’s right-wing …
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Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai can teach in the Canadian province of Quebec if she removes her hijab, Quebec Education Minister Jean-Francois Roberge said. Quebec recently enacted Bill 21 that bans government employees from wearing religious symbols when dealing with the public, including teachers, nurses and bus drivers. Roberge posted a photo on Twitter …
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A Canadian cartoonist’s illustration of President Donald Trump playing golf over the bodies of two drowned migrants went viral on June 27. Two days later, Michael de Adder said on Twitter that he had been let go by a publishing company in New Brunswick, Canada. De Adder’s illustration depicted Trump asking the two dead migrants, “Do you …
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