Making Headlines compiles stories from mainstream media about Muslim Canadians.
November 5, 2024
On Thursday, October 31, Crown prosecutors dropped assault and harassment charges against Lorna Bernbaum, 74, after she pulled the hijab of pro-Palestinian demonstrator, Hayfa Abdelkhaleq.
In collaboration with healthcare workers nationwide, on June 22, 2024, Canadians for Palestine organized a national die-in across Canada.
A Muslim Canadian pioneer, Pervez Nasim, passed away on Wednesday May 1, 2024 in Toronto. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji`un - We belong to Allah and to Him we return.
A coalition of Montreal student groups in support of Palestine have started their indefinite encampment at McGill University.
On Monday April 29th students at University of Ottawa (UOttawa) began hosting a sit-in to occupy Tabaret lawn for the Popular University of Gaza, standing in solidarity with people in Gaza who have undergone 200+ days of Genocide under the brutal occupation and with Universities across North America rising up against the ongoing genocide.
Umar Zameer and his family came to Canada in 2019. By September 2021, Zameer was arrested facing first-degree murder charges for allegedly killing a Toronto Police Officer Constable Jeffery Northrup.
Mansour Shouman has gone missing. It is believed he was abducted by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). He regularly reported what was on the siege of Gaza thorugh his social media and was regularly interviewed by English language meeting about what life was like on the ground for Gazan civilians.
Since fighting broke out in April 2023, members of the Sudanese Canadian communities have been calling on the federal government to take action to help civilians trapped in Sudan by the ongoing fight between the Sudanese armed forces and the powerful Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group (RSF).