Canada

Thousands have been forced to evacuate their homes as fast-moving wildfires threaten communities in Western Canada, Anadolu Agency reported today. In British Columbia, over 3,000 residents of Fort Nelson and the nearby First Nation were ordered to leave on Friday…

Canadian authorities have charged three Indian nationals in the murder of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia last June, TRTWorld reported yesterday citing court documents. Nijjar, 45, was shot dead outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, a…

The Liberal government of Canada plans to introduce “halal mortgages” in its 2024 federal budget as a way to increase access to home ownership, Hindustan Times reported yesterday. The plan mentions the creation of “alternative financing products, including halal mortgages”…

Canada has introduced draft legislation that would compel tech platforms to swiftly remove online content deemed harmful, such as material that sexualizes children and incites hate, Al Jazeera reported. The Online Harms Act, put forth by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s…

A life sentence was handed down to a Canadian white supremacist who intentionally ran over five members of a Muslim family, resulting in the outright death of four and serious injuries of nine-year-old son, Al Jazeera reported. In November, Nathaniel…

Canada’s Uyghur community group has pulled out of a commission investigating allegations of foreign interference in the country’s elections due to concerns about some politicians with alleged sympathies to China being given influence in the review body. The organization, known…

According to Canadian media outlets, a gathering was held in Montreal, Canada to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the armed attack on a mosque in Quebec City. Six people were killed and five others were seriously injured in the attack,…

Ahead of the 7th anniversary of the attack on the mosque in Quebec, Canada, the people of Montreal held a gathering to start the “Islamic Awareness Week”. Montrealers commemorated the loss of six lives on January 29, 2017, when a…

Muslim teenagers and young children of Montreal are attending religious education classes at Al-Hawra Zainab Hussainiya, one of the centers affiliated to the Office of the Supreme Marja, Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Sadiq al-Shirazi in Montreal. For more than a year,…

The war in the Middle East has led to a rise in hate crimes against Muslims in Canada, even in places that are designed to be safe spaces. Shelters are now reporting an increase in hate directed at Muslims, with…