Shanifa Nasser

The fallout over a Canadian legal organization's decision to cancel a noted Syrian Canadian entrepeneur and peace advocate's speaking invitation is deepening, with another high-profile resignation, this time by its treasurer.

A Canadian humanitarian organization says its key water-aid truck was bombed in Gaza this week and is calling on the federal government to mount a full investigation into what it believes was a “targeted” incident.

Ontario's Superior Court of Justice is now examining whether or not police officers who fatally shot a mentally ill man in crisis should have their names shielded from the public.

A major challenge of Canada’s ban on adoptions from many Muslim countries is set to play out in the Federal Court — a move some legal observers say wouldn’t be necessary if the government wasn’t upholding what they call a ‘discriminatory’ policy.

The jail sergeant who broke protocol to film Soleiman Faqiri’s condition in the hope of getting him help choked back tears as he recalled the joy in Faqiri’s face when he finally had a shower after days of deteriorating in segregation.

The top health care official at the jail where Soleiman Faqiri died didn’t feel he met the bar for her to send him to hospital and refused to watch a video taken by a guard capturing his decline in segregation, a coroner’s inquest heard Tuesday. That official had no medical background.

The guard in charge the day Soleiman Faqiri died left out of his report that the 30-year-old was swung at and punched multiple times in the head, an inquest has heard. Faqiri had been calm and cooperative earlier, a nurse said in a recording heard Thursday.

After a gripping first day, the inquest into Soleiman Faqiri’s death focused Tuesday on the conditions inside Ontario jails. Jurors heard from Lindsay Jennings about her lived and professional experience, as well as Howard Sapers, former federal correctional investigator and former Ontario independent advisor on correctional reform.

A police agency west of Toronto is fighting to secure a publication ban on the names of the officers involved in the death of Ejaz Choudry, a father of four with schizophrenia shot and killed by police who claimed they had to act out of fear for his safety.

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