Yazidi Canadian Nafiya Naso has initiated a Parliamentary Petition to the House of Commons requesting that "the Government of Canada to expand the definition of family to include extended family members for Yazidi refugees given that they are genocide survivors and given that many of their immediate family members are deceased or missing in action and to immediately clear the backlog in the existing sponsorship cases under the One Year Window provision for children."

Pakistani Canadian Meena Waseem, a student at Cameron Heights Collegiate in Kitchener, Ontario, is one of 35 Canadian students who won the prestigious Loran scholarship.

The Hoyo Working Group, also known as the Hoyo Collective, is an Edmonton based Somali mothers group who came together with the intention to create a collective support group for mothers with common barriers and diverse talents to address their barriers through education, innovation, and capacity building.

Join the Muslim Youth Fellowship on Thursday, February 28 at Toronto City Hall as they introduce their 2019 Fellows and explore the theme of women's leadership in political spaces with political strategist Ruby Latif, and past TDSB trustee Ausma Malik. Mayor John Tory will also be a special guest.

The family of Egyptian Canadian Yasser Albaz, 51, is calling on the Canadian government to intervene and demand his release from the infamous Tora Prison in Egypt.

Zainab Merchant is a Muslim-American Harvard graduate student from Florida who also is the CEO of the digital media and animation company Chipakly.

Quebec mosque shooting survivor Aymen Derbali attended the commemoration of the January 29th Quebec Mosque Shooting at the Centre Islamique de l'Outaouais (CIO) in Gatineau, Quebec on January 29, 2019.

Malaysian Canadian Sabariah Binti Hussein's charitable activism made Canadian headlines in 2017. This news soon reached her homeland of Malaysia, making her an instant celebrity.

A high school student from Edmonton is making headlines because of research she conducted at the University of Alberta as part of the WISEST, the Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science, and Technology Summer Research Program. WISEST aims to empower women and other underrepresented groups in science.

On December 10, 2018, London Muslim Mosque presentated funds in the amount of $89,074 to the London Health Sciences Foundation towards the training of an international physician.