Lawyers for a Canadian youth found guilty of terrorism-related offenses argued that a police informant who infiltrated a home-grown terrorist cell broke the law. The youth in question is one of 18 men arrested in Toronto in 2006 in connection with an alleged plot to truck-bomb nuclear power plants and a building housing Canada’s spy…
Protestors in several Canadian cities waved placards and Palestinian flags denouncing the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza. In Ottawa, more than 500 demonstrators marched on the steps of Parliament Hill, eventually walking to the Israeli and U.S. embassies. A gathering of several thousand people in Toronto followed suit. Events also took place in Montreal and…
Canadian Muslims are meeting from December 26-28 in Toronto for the seventh annual “Reviving the Islamic Spirit” convention. Its press secretary Nadir Shirazi says, “with an average annual attendance of 15,000 participants, the convention draws a diverse group of attendees.” The gathering echoes the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) convention in the U.S. The…
Canadian Mounties and young Torontonian Muslims played a soccer match in the BMO Field, home of Toronto’s FC soccer club. The score: a 4-4 tie. Following the match, the soccer adversaries sat down for a question-and-answer session. Full-text article continues here. (Some news sites may require registration)
The term “honour” killing is under debate in many Western countries, including in Mississauga, Ontario, where the father and brother of teenager Aqsa Parvez will soon appear in court charged with her killing last December. The term itself, claims Craig Offman in this National Post article, is already on trial and remains a sensitive topic…
