Canadian Motion to Recognize ISIS Slaughter of Christians, Yazidis, Shias, and Gays as Genocide Defeated Olivia Ward, The Toronto Star  16 June 2016  Image: A Yazidi woman from the Sinjar district of Iraq holds her child after arriving by boat from the Turkish coast on the island of Lesbos, Greece, Nov. 26, 2015.  (SERGEY PONOMAREV / THE NEW YORK TIMES)   When Daesh attacked their homeland in Iraq’s Sinjar region in August 2014, thousands

Philippines Confirms Killing of Robert Hall, Canadian Hostage, by Abu Sayyaf Floyd Whaley and Ian Austen, The New York Times  14 June 2016 Image: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada said on Tuesday that his government had “every reason to believe” that a Canadian held hostage in the Philippines had been killed by his captors. MANILA — Philippine officials confirmed on Tuesday that a Canadian man held captive by the militant group Abu

Welcome to Canada, Where the Prime Minister Meets Refugees at the Airport Reid Standish, Foreign Policy10 December 2015A young boy runs through a field carrying a Canadian flag, the sun lit behind him as the country’s red and white national colors flap in the wind. Above the photo, large text reads, “Welcome to Canada,” with the Arabic transliteration below: Ahlan wa sahlan. “Welcome.” This is the cover of Thursday’s Toronto Star, Canada’s

Anti-Islam protest in Montreal scuttled by opposition groups Michael Schulman, CTV News 28 March 2015   An anti-Islam protest by a right-wing European political organization was scuttled in the face of hundreds of counter-demonstrators in Montreal on Saturday afternoon. The Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West group (PEGIDA) had organized a demonstration to oppose what it called the "Islamification" of Quebec society in the

Islamic State attacks on religious minorities ‘genocide,’ Canadian ambassador says By Olivia Ward, Toronto Star 8 September 2014  The explosion of ethno-religious hatred, forced expulsions and gruesome murders by Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria has risen to the level of genocide, says Andrew Bennett, Canada’s ambassador for religious freedom. “ISIS is a barbaric terrorist group that has taken Sunni Islam and warped it, distorted

In Toronto, Armenian Genocide Curriculum Survives Turkish Challenge   By Tessa Manuello Rudaw, AINA   July 28, 2014   MONTREAL, Canada -- An effort by Canadian Turks to abolish curriculum on the Armenian genocide in Toronto schools has failed, with education officials telling Rudaw that the genocide will continue to be taught for years to come. Canadian Turks earlier this year submitted over 2,200 signatures from an online petition

Dallaire: Canada must act in Central African Republic to avoid another Rwanda The Star, Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter Mar 21 2014 BANGUI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC—He was 12 years old when his older brother was shot dead, 14 when a militia recruited him, fed him drugs and put him on the front lines, and now at 16, he is trying to move past the fighting, as the crisis in his country worsens. Jean is one of the Central African Republic’s

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