(Canadian Press) A Quebec Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied a request by a Muslim advocacy group and a civil liberties organization to suspend the province’s ban on prayer rooms in public schools. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and the National Council […]
(Canadian Press) Quebec’s ban on prayer rooms in public schools is harmful to Muslim students and should be suspended immediately, lawyers for a civil liberties group and a Muslim advocacy organization told a Montreal court Tuesday. The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and […]
(Canadian Press) A civil rights organization and a national Muslim advocacy group are the latest to launch a legal challenge of Quebec’s decree banning prayer rooms in public schools, the second one in recent weeks. The National Council of Canadian Muslims and […]
(Canadian Press) Islamophobia and violence against Muslims is widespread and deeply entrenched in Canadian society, early findings from a Senate committee studying the issue indicate. Muslim women who wear hijabs — black Muslim women in particular — are the most vulnerable, and […]
(Canadian Press) A member of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s new multiculturalism panel resigned Monday after the opposition resurrected past antisemitic social media posts. The Alberta NDP asked Smith to remove Tariq Khan, a Calgary-based realtor, from the Premier’s Council on Multiculturalism, citing […]
(Canadian Press) Muslim groups are speaking out against the Quebec government’s intention to ban prayer spaces in public schools, saying they will monitor how the Education Department enforces its new rules. In response to reports that at least two Montreal-area schools had […]
(Canadian Press) A Canadian woman who returned to Canada from a prison camp in northeastern Syria this week has been released on bail in Edmonton pending a terrorism peace bond application, Mounties in Alberta said Friday. She was among four Canadian women […]
(Canadian Press) The RCMP says its Federal Policing Integrated National Security Enforcement Team arrested two women at the Montreal-Trudeau International Airport and is seeking a terrorism peace bond against them under the Criminal Code. Police say in a release Thursday that Ammara […]
(Canadian Press) Quebec’s education minister said Wednesday it will soon be forbidden to have prayer rooms in the province’s public schools. Bernard Drainville told reporters in Quebec City he has learned of at least two Montreal-area schools that have permitted students to […]
(Canadian Press) A grassroots Muslim charity is pointing to internal Canada Revenue Agency documents in a bid to persuade an Ontario court that a long-running federal audit is fundamentally tainted by systemic bias and Islamophobia. The Muslim Association of Canada wants the […]
(Canadian Press) Six Canadian children are set to leave a Syrian prison camp and fly to Canada without their mother who cannot come with them because federal officials have not completed her security assessment, advocates for the family say. The federal government […]
(Canadian Press) Several members of the non-profit sector, including the United Way and Imagine Canada, are calling on the federal government to take immediate steps to shield Muslim-led charities from potentially discriminatory federal audits. More than a dozen organizations issued a statement […]
(Canadian Press) The federal taxpayers’ ombudsperson is recommending better unconscious bias training for employees of the Canada Revenue Agency’s charities directorate. In a report Monday on the fairness of the audit process for registered charities, François Boileau said the training should be […]
(Canadian Press) The federal Conservatives are trying to reassure the World Sikh Organization of Canada that the party remains opposed to Quebec’s secularism law after its MPs voted in support of a provision the province used to create it. On Monday, the […]
(Canadian Press) The federal government is appealing a judge’s declaration that four Canadian men being held in Syrian camps are entitled to Ottawa’s help to return home. In a filing Friday in the Federal Court of Appeal, the government asks that a […]
(Canadian Press) A Quebec woman facing terrorism charges after returning to Canada from a detention camp in northeastern Syria last October has been granted bail. The details of Oumaima Chouay’s bail hearing or the reasons for her release Friday by a Quebec […]
(Canadian Press) A lawyer for citizens detained in northern Syria who want to return to Canada says the federal government will continue to create obstacles and reverse decisions unless it is ordered to bring them home. The Federal Court heard final arguments […]
(Canadian Press) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau acknowledged Wednesday there is “significantly more to do” on the systemic barriers that confront Muslim charities amid concerns from a federal watchdog that his review of the issue also faces roadblocks. In a statement last month, […]
(Canadian Press) The Charter of Rights and Freedoms does not obligate Ottawa to repatriate Canadians held in Syrian camps, a government lawyer told a Federal Court hearing Tuesday. Family members of 23 detained Canadians — six women, four men and 13 children […]
(Canadian Press) A Federal Court is slated to begin two days of hearings today into the Liberal government’s refusal to repatriate 19 Canadian women and children who are being held in northeastern Syria. Family members for the six women and 13 children […]
(Canadian Press) The federal government is looking at helping to secure the release of 19 Canadian women and children being held in northeastern Syria, a newly filed court document says. The move comes just as family members of the six women and […]
(Canadian Press) A psychiatrist involved in efforts to support children of Canadian women detained in Syria after travelling to join the Islamic State is urging Ottawa to speed up repatriation efforts. Dr. Cécile Rousseau, a pediatric psychiatrist at McGill University and an […]
(Canadian Press) A British Columbia woman who was repatriated to Canada from a detention camp in Syria this week after marrying an ISIS fighter has been granted bail pending a peace bond hearing. Kimberly Polman will be released on recognizance and will […]
(Canadian Press) A Quebec woman who allegedly travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State terrorist group has been repatriated from a detention camp in Syria and is facing terrorism charges, the RCMP said Wednesday. Oumaima Chouay faces charges of leaving Canada […]
(Canadian Press) The Alberta government has rescinded the appointment of the head of its Human Rights Commission in a dispute stemming from a passage in a book review that has been criticized as Islamophobic. Justice Minister Tyler Shandro’s department did not formally […]
(Canadian Press) The federal government has told United Nations officials that international human rights law does not obligate Canada to actively facilitate the return of its citizens detained in northern Syria. Ottawa says that instead, the duty of respecting international conventions largely […]
(Canadian Press) A day after Justice Minister Tyler Shandro publicly directed the head of Alberta’s human rights commission to quit, the commissioner’s office lobbed the issue back at him, saying it’s Shandro who does the hiring and firing. “The commission does not […]
(Canadian Press) Religious minorities in Quebec are feeling less safe, less accepted and less hopeful since the province passed its secularism law three years ago, a new survey suggests. The results published Wednesday by Léger and the Association for Canadian Studies reveal […]
(Canadian Press) A Muslim international relief charity is telling the Supreme Court of Canada the federal government should not be allowed to “shoot first and hold a hearing later” when it comes to levying administrative penalties. Ottawa-based Human Concern International can resume […]
(Canadian Press) The NDP’s foreign affairs critic acknowledges the challenges related to Canadians being held in northern Syria, but says the federal government must step in to bring its citizens home. New Democrat MP Heather McPherson says the arbitrarily detained Canadians, including […]
(Canadian Press) The federal government will join a legal challenge to Quebec’s religious symbols law if it reaches the country’s highest court, Justice Minister David Lametti said Wednesday. “When it arrives at the Supreme Court of Canada, it is by definition a […]
(Canadian Press) Ontario’s New Democrats say they removed a longtime legislator from caucus because he was found to be a member of an Islamophobic Facebook group. The party’s provincial director issued a statement on Wednesday giving more details about Paul Miller’s ouster, […]
(Canadian Press) Organizations representing Sikhs and Muslims in Canada say they want Conservative leadership hopefuls to take a strong stand against Quebec’s controversial secularism law. Balpreet Singh, a spokesman for the World Sikh Organization of Canada, said when he met with Erin […]
(Canadian Press) A panel of judges has rejected a Muslim charity’s bid to freeze a federal suspension, which prohibits it from issuing tax receipts, while a challenge of the penalty plays out. The Canada Revenue Agency levied the one-year suspension against Ottawa-based […]
(Canadian Press) An opposition bill aimed at fighting Islamophobia and other hate crimes was tabled in Ontario’s legislature Wednesday, but it was unclear if it would receive the support of the majority Progressive Conservative government. The bill from the New Democrats, if […]
(Canadian Press) A Kingston, Ont., teen who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges was handed a three-year sentence on Wednesday, as an Ontario judge agreed the youth was unlikely to reoffend and commended his progress “in the face of enormous obstacles” while detained […]
(Canadian Press) Prosecutors are no longer seeking a life sentence for a teenager who pleaded guilty to terrorism-related charges including possession of explosive material and counselling someone to detonate a bomb. In a virtual hearing Friday, the crown said it is instead […]
(Canadian Press) Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is calling on Twitter to remove a tweet from an Ontario politician who labelled federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra a “terrorist.” Mendicino said Tuesday the tweet from Independent MPP Randy Hillier is “Islamophobic” and amounts […]
(Canadian Press) A new poll suggests support may have slipped for a key element of Quebec’s secularism law, known as Bill 21. A web panel survey carried out by Leger for the Association for Canadian Studies earlier this month found 55 per […]
(Canadian Press) Canada’s special envoy on combating antisemitism has sharply criticized as “discriminatory” Quebec’s law banning teachers and some other public-sector employees from wearing religious symbols at work. Prof. Irwin Cotler, who was appointed by the prime minister to fight antisemitism, has […]
(Canadian Press) Premier François Legault said Friday a school board in western Quebec should never have hired a woman who had to be removed from her teaching duties because she wears a hijab. Legault said the province’s law restricting religious symbols, known […]
(Canadian Press) Ontario students and teachers now have access to a set of online resources aimed at combating Islamophobia in schools. The Muslim Association of Canada, a national non-profit organization, launched a website Thursday that features three courses, four workshops and six […]
(Canadian Press) The Conservative MP leading outreach efforts for leader Erin O’Toole says a six-year-old promise to create a “barbaric cultural practices” hotline still hangs over the party’s attempts to rebuild relationships with racialized communities today. “It’s there,” Tim Uppal says. “It […]
(Canadian Press) The lawyer for an Ontario man charged with falsely claiming to have committed terrorist acts as a member of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant says his client is relieved after the charge was withdrawn. Shehroze Chaudhry was arrested […]
(Canadian Press) The Canadian Council of Imams says the Conservative candidate in Nova Scotia’s Central Nova riding must resign because his apology for Islamophobic media posts was an insincere attempt at damage control. Two weeks ago, Steven Cotter apologized on Facebook for […]
(Canadian Press) Dareen Shilbayeh can’t stop herself from looking over her shoulder while out in public. The London, Ont., resident who wears a hijab says she’s been worried she’ll be targeted because of her faith ever since a Muslim family was killed […]
(Canadian Press) A Conservative candidate dropped by the party over Islamophobic tweets she claims were faked says she is still running as the “confirmed” Tory candidate in the Toronto riding. The Tories dumped Lisa Robinson last week after the Beaches-East York Liberal […]
(Canadian Press) Candidate controversies over vaccines and Islamophobia dogged Erin O’Toole’s campaign Saturday as the Conservative leader made his pitch to residents in the Greater Toronto Area, a vote-rich region crucial to the outcome of the federal election on Sept. 20. The […]
(Canadian Press) A Muslim charity is asking a court to freeze a federal suspension, which prohibits it from issuing tax receipts, while a challenge of the penalty plays out. Ottawa-based Human Concern International says the one-year suspension levied last month will cause […]
(Canadian Press) Taxpayers’ ombudsperson François Boileau will investigate the concerns of Muslim charities and other charities led by people of colour about being inappropriately targeted for audits. Boileau said Friday he is committing to examining the issues raised by the charities and […]
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