443 results for author: Kashif Ahmed

Ottawa police stopping Middle Eastern, black drivers at ‘disproportionate’ rate: report

York University researchers reviewed data from 81,902 traffic stops involving Ottawa residents CBC News | October 24, 2016 Middle Eastern and black drivers — particularly young men — were far more likely to be stopped by Ottawa police than other drivers, according to a report analyzing two years of traffic stops. A York University research team examined 81,902 traffic stops involving Ottawa residents from 2013 to 2015 where officers recorded their perception of the driver's race, as well as their gender, age range, the reason for the stop and whether the stop resulted in charges. The researchers found that police stopped drivers ...

School board won’t reveal outcome of investigation into Markham principal

By NOOR JAVED Toronto Star | October 21, 2016 More than a month after the York school board launched an investigation into allegations that a Markham elementary school principal put anti-Muslim posts on her Facebook page, board officials won’t tell concerned parents about the status of the investigation, calling it a “personnel matter.” Last month, the York Region District School Board said it was investigating after becoming aware of postings on the Facebook page of Ghada Sadaka, a principal at Sir Wilfrid Laurier Public School. Parents say they are frustrated by the lack of information they have received from the board about the ...

School board won’t reveal outcome of investigation into Markham principal

By NOOR JAVED Toronto Star | October 21, 2016 More than a month after the York school board launched an investigation into allegations that a Markham elementary school principal put anti-Muslim posts on her Facebook page, board officials won’t tell concerned parents about the status of the investigation, calling it a “personnel matter.” Last month, the York Region District School Board said it was investigating after becoming aware of postings on the Facebook page of Ghada Sadaka, a principal at Sir Wilfrid Laurier Public School. Parents say they are frustrated by the lack of information they have received from the board about the ...

Hearings to begin on proposed Quebec law targeting veiled women

By INGRID PERITZ The Globe and Mail | October 17, 2016 Quebec opens another difficult debate over the place of religion and minorities in the province with hearings Tuesday into a proposed law that would ban veiled women from receiving government services. The parliamentary hearings launch as questions about identity, religion, tolerance and immigration are again roiling the political waters in Quebec. The new legislation, “An Act to foster adherence to State religious neutrality and, in particular, to provide a framework for religious accommodation requests in certain bodies,” tabled by the Liberals last year, would make it illegal to ...

Hearings to begin on proposed Quebec law targeting veiled women

By INGRID PERITZ The Globe and Mail | October 17, 2016 Quebec opens another difficult debate over the place of religion and minorities in the province with hearings Tuesday into a proposed law that would ban veiled women from receiving government services. The parliamentary hearings launch as questions about identity, religion, tolerance and immigration are again roiling the political waters in Quebec. The new legislation, “An Act to foster adherence to State religious neutrality and, in particular, to provide a framework for religious accommodation requests in certain bodies,” tabled by the Liberals last year, would make it illegal to ...

Mississauga publication criticized for Islamophobic, baseless claims

By Nick Westoll Global News | October 9, 2016 Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie and community members are condemning an article posted online by a local publication that they say contains several Islamophobic and baseless claims. Entitled Bonnie’s Muslims Are Molesting Teenage Girls in Mississauga Highschools(sic), the article was posted on the Mississauga Gazette’s website Friday by editor-in-chief Acton Michaels. . . . Meanwhile, the National Council of Canadian Muslims called the article “hateful towards the Muslim community.” “Hate just breeds more hate,” Abbas Kassam, a board member with the organization, told Global ...

Mississauga publication criticized for Islamophobic, baseless claims

By Nick Westoll Global News | October 9, 2016 Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie and community members are condemning an article posted online by a local publication that they say contains several Islamophobic and baseless claims. Entitled Bonnie’s Muslims Are Molesting Teenage Girls in Mississauga Highschools(sic), the article was posted on the Mississauga Gazette’s website Friday by editor-in-chief Acton Michaels. . . . Meanwhile, the National Council of Canadian Muslims called the article “hateful towards the Muslim community.” “Hate just breeds more hate,” Abbas Kassam, a board member with the organization, told Global ...

Mississauga mayor files hate-crime complaint after inflammatory article

By SAN GREWAL, Urban Affairs Reporter Toronto Star | October 9, 2016 Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie says she has filed a hate-crime complaint with Peel police after a local website published an article claiming the mayor is trying to convert the city to Islam so “they can kill her son just for being gay.” The article, published by the Mississauga Gazette on Friday, also claims that Crombie “won’t rest until all girls in Mississauga are victims of rich rapists,” describing the actions of Muslim boys in Mississauga high schools, claiming they routinely assault girls. “Racism and flat-out lies have no place in Mississauga,” ...

Mississauga mayor files hate-crime complaint after inflammatory article

By SAN GREWAL, Urban Affairs Reporter Toronto Star | October 9, 2016 Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie says she has filed a hate-crime complaint with Peel police after a local website published an article claiming the mayor is trying to convert the city to Islam so “they can kill her son just for being gay.” The article, published by the Mississauga Gazette on Friday, also claims that Crombie “won’t rest until all girls in Mississauga are victims of rich rapists,” describing the actions of Muslim boys in Mississauga high schools, claiming they routinely assault girls. “Racism and flat-out lies have no place in Mississauga,” ...

Quebec judge had no legal basis for asking woman to remove hijab, higher court says

Superior Court 'deeply regrets' treatment of Rania El-Alloul by lower court Judge Eliana Marengo By Steve Rukavina CBC News | October 6, 2016 A Quebec Superior Court justice has strongly criticized a lower court judge's insistence that a Montreal woman, Rania El-Alloul, remove her hijab in order to have her case heard in court. "The court sympathizes with Ms. El-Alloul and deeply regrets how she was treated," wrote Justice Wilbrod Décarie in a decision released this week. The remarks represent a rebuke of controversial comments made last year by Quebec Court Judge Eliana Marengo. During a hearing in February 2015, Marengo told ...