Canadian Muslims suffer the damage caused by Islamophobic rhetoric, but have no recourse because parliamentary privilege protects those who espouse such toxic messages from accountability.
Thousands of Montrealers chanted for solidarity and loudly denounced Premier Francois Legault on Sunday, April 7, 2019, as they took to the streets to oppose the Quebec government's proposed secularism bill.
Alexandre Bissonnette was driven by "racism and hatred" when he stormed into a Quebec City mosque and gunned down six worshippers in 2017, a judge said Friday as he sentenced him to 40 years in prison without possibility of parole.
The man who murdered six Muslim men in 2017 told a social worker several months after the killings that he wished there had been more victims, evidence tabled in court on Monday, April 16, 2018, indicated.
Amir Belkacemi addressed about a thousand people who braved the frigid cold in Quebec City on Monday night and asked them never to forget the tragic mosque shooting that killed his father and five other men.
Painful memories ripple throughout the Quebec City neighbourhood of Ste-Foy nearly after the terrorist attack that left six men dead at a local mosque. But residents are determined to heal, writes Clothilde Goujard, who spoke with community leaders ahead of the one-year anniversary of the shooting.
A fundraiser to find a new home for a man who lost use of his legs in the Quebec City mosque shooting earlier this year has reached almost half its goal.