Course brings Jewish and Muslim women together
The Canadian Jewish News: A new weekly course is bringing together Jewish and Muslim women to study each other’s spiritual texts and the roles of women in these religions. Shari […]
Toronto: millions of birds die each year in the financial district
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/world/americas/casualties-of-torontos-urban-skies.html?hp&_r=0 TORONTO — In the shadow of the massive black towers of a bank’s downtown headquarters here was an almost indistinguishable puff of dark gray fluff on the sidewalk. Ian Willms for The New York Times A rescuer collects an injured white-breasted nuthatch. More Photos » It was the body […]
Canadian Minister Kenney issues Statement to Recognize Eid-al-Adha
Source: Citizenship and Immigration Canada, http://www.cic.gc.ca Ottawa, October 25, 2012 — The Honourable Jason Kenney, Minister of Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, issued the following statement to recognize Eid-al-Adha: Today at […]
Imran Khan pulled off flight at Pearson for questioning
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/10/26/imran-khan-pulled-off-flight-to-us-for-questioning TORONTO – Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was yanked from his flight to New York and taken in for questioning at Toronto Pearson International Airport Friday. Khan, who was in Brampton Thursday night for a politically-charged speech about turmoil in his homeland, boarded an American Airlines plane from Toronto to […]
Don’t blame recipients for politicizing Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medals — blame the people awarding them
Author: Chris Selley Source: National Post, Canada In awarding a Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal to two scofflaw anti-abortion activists — Mary Wagner, who is behind bars, and Linda Gibbons, who usually is — Saskatchewan MP Maurice Vellacott obviously knew he would cause a political stir […]
WHY THE Canadian Council for Muslim Women IS IMPORTANT TO ME
WHY THE Canadian Council for Muslim Women IS IMPORTANT TO ME The Whig Standard, Kingston, Ontario Alia Hogben, Oct 5/2012. This year we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women. Another historic event was the leadership of the Edmonton CCMW chapter who saved the first Canadian […]
Saudi Arabian polygamists seek Canadian home
Officials say they’re flooded with applications from well-heeled Saudi Arabian men with one or more wives seeking a new life in Canada BY TOM GODFREY,TORONTO SUN Diplomatic officials said they’re […]
Canadian Minister, Jason Kenney calls on the Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
Source: Press Release On 12 October 2012, Canada’s Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney MP, visited the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, at the Fazl […]
CANADA’S GOVERNMENT MINISTER, JASON KENNEY, CALLS ON HEAD OF AHMADIYYA MUSLIM JAMAAT IN LONDON
Source: Ahmaddiyya Muslim Community Press Department UK On 12 October 2012, Canada’s Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, Jason Kenney MP, visited the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, Hadhrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, at the Fazl Mosque in London. During the hour-long meeting various issues were discussed, including Canada’s forthcoming […]
Local Muslims to participate in national campaign to educate Canadians about Islam
By Chris Zdeb, Edmonton Journal EDMONTON – Local Muslims will go door-to-door in Edmonton and Leduc this weekend as part of a national campaign to educate Canadians about Islam and […]
32nd World Religions Conference
Theme: Idea of an Ideal Government WATERLOO, ON – Scholars of 8 faiths and philosophies and over 800 delegates including members from academia, governments and faith organizations are gathering at […]
Notorious Pastor Terry Jones barred from Canada for debate
Source: National Post Canadian border officials turned away the U.S. pastor behind “International Burn a Koran Day,” only hours before he was due to speak at a event in Toronto. […]
Another honour killing in Canada
Honour killings are dishonourable http://www.torontosun.com/2012/10/09/honour-killings-are-dishonourable Tarek Fatah Toronto Sun Most of us know about the tragic “honour” killing of the three Shafia sisters and their stepmother, Rona Amir Mohammad. The four died at the hands of their family because they committed the “crime” of embracing Canada’s freedoms. Now we have […]
‘Sleeping Beauty’ syndrome turns teen into nothing like a princess
Source: Toronto Star TORONTO—There was nothing sweet about Kaitlyn Terrana’s 16th birthday. And she has virtually no recollection of her last birthday, her 17th, either. She slept through both of them. At a time when the teenager should be living each day to the fullest, she is trapped in a […]
P.E.I Muslims refuse to be intimidated
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1268267–p-e-i-muslims-refuse-to-be-intimidated CHARLOTTETOWN—Zain Esseghaier has been a Charlottetown resident for the last 33 years, married an islander and raised a family here. Though his modest two-story mosque has been the target of three serious threats over the past year — last week a bottle of gasoline was left at the entrance […]
Western defenders of ‘free speech’ need to look in the mirror
Source: The Toronto Star Writer: Haroon Siddiqui The wave of protests against an anti-Muhammad movie made in America is said to prove, yet again, the unbridgeable gap between the West and the world of Islam. Don’t we laugh off insults to Jesus? Haven’t even the Mormons taken the satirical Broadway […]
Editorial: Western defenders of free speech need to look in the mirror
The Star: The wave of protests against an anti-Muhammad movie made in America is said to prove, yet again, the unbridgeable gap between the West and the world of Islam. …………… The BBC apologized to the Queen after one of its reporters revealed that she once told him how “pretty […]
anti-Blasphemy laws are a danger to the world
Mahfooz Kanwar, Calgary Herald, Canada http://www.calgaryherald.com/opinion/columnists/Kanwar+Anti+blasphemy+laws+danger+world/7298498/story.html I am halfway through writing my next book entitled: Addiction to Religion, which discusses four organized religions: Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. This book will discuss further the issue of blasphemy in all religions. In this column, I am writing on what the blasphemy […]
Census: Canada’s families shifting away from marriage to common-law
by Mark Kennedy Montreal Gazette OTTAWA — The sanctity of marriage as the bedrock of the Canadian family is steadily eroding, new census data released Wednesday reveal. Instead, although married couples are still the norm — about two-thirds of families — their numbers are lagging and only increased by 3.1 […]
Ottawa Muslim leader condemns violence over anti-Islamic film
By Chloé Fedio, The Ottawa Citizen September 30, 2012 The Ottawa leader of a Muslim Community condemned the violent reaction to “an extremely foul and provocative film,” including bloody protests and the storming of a consulate building in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff. […]