Canada’s biggest air carrier has become the latest to come under fire after allegedly forcing a 12-year-old girl to remove her headscarf citing “security reasons”. The incident has sparked major backlash on social media. An Air Canada employee who was identified as a flight manager pulled Fatima Abdelrahman, a Muslim player on the U.S.’ Squash …
Justin Trudeau wore brownface at 2001 ‘Arabian Nights’ party
Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, wore brownface makeup to a party at the private school where he was teaching in the spring of 2001. TIME has obtained a photograph of the incident. The photograph has not been previously reported. The picture was taken at an “Arabian Nights”-themed gala. It shows Trudeau, then the 29-year-old son …
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Aspiring teachers denied employment as Montreal school boards apply religious symbols ban
A francophone school board in Montreal’s east end has confirmed that it denied employment to two aspiring teachers who wear religious symbols. This comes less than two weeks after the majority of school boards on the island publicly agreed to apply Quebec’s religious neutrality law after initially speaking out against Bill 21. “Both people were …
Statement from the Archbishop in Canada: 36 pastors sexually harassed 29 children
Canada’s Catholic Archdiocese of British Columbia, for the first time, announced the results of an in-house investigation, 36 priests since 1950 reported that 29 children have sexually abused. The results of the investigation, which was announced to the public for the first time in Canada, were brought up in the program called The Fifth Estate, …
Quebec City’s first Muslim cemetery set to open next spring
Quebec City’s mayor has signed a deed of sale for a parcel of land that will soon become the region’s first Muslim cemetery. Mayor Régis Labeaume had promised the land to the city’s Muslim community in 2017, shortly after residents of a nearby town voted against a proposal to open an Islamic cemetery in their …
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Canada’s Chinese community faces racist abuse in wake of coronavirus
When Toronto resident Terri Chu tweeted that she and other Chinese mothers feared the “inevitable wave of racism” that would accompany the spread of coronavirus around the world, she didn’t realize how visceral the reactions would be. “My Twitter has just exploded with vitriol since this morning,” she said on Tuesday. “But it’s just par for the course, growing …
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The shocking deaths in Canada’s long-term care homes
Medical staff who had abandoned hungry and desperately ill patients. An owner with a long criminal history. Thirty-one dead in less than one month — five from confirmed cases of coronavirus. Across the country, nursing homes from British Columbia to Alberta to Ontario have been devastated by the lethal spread of the virus. This week, …
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St. John’s Roman Catholic corporation liable for abuses at Mount Cashel orphanage: appeals court
Newfoundland and Labrador’s highest court says the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of St. John’s is financially liable for sexual abuse at the Mount Cashel orphanage in the 1950s. St. John’s Catholic archdiocese must now pay about $2 million to the four lead plaintiffs, said Geoff Budden, the victims’ lawyer, on Wednesday. The July 28 judgment …
Canada mourns as remains of 215 children found at indigenous school
A mass grave containing the remains of 215 children has been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978. The discovery was announced on Thursday by the chief of the Tk’emlups te …
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Man suspected of killing Canadian Muslim family was motivated by hate -police
A man accused of killing four members of a Canadian Muslim family by running them over in his pickup truck, targeted them in an attack motivated by hate, police said on Monday. Police in London, Ontario, citing witnesses, said that 20-year-old Nathaniel Veltman, jumped the curb in his vehicle on Sunday, struck five members of …
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