WINNIPEG – A dangerous Somali refugee with a history of violence who was released in Winnipeg last month by an immigration official is on the lam, the Winnipeg Sun has learned. A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for Mohamed Said Jama, the Somali refugee slated for deportation last fall but returned to Canada after a failed attempt to remove him. Canada Border...Continue reading »
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The Latest News about Somalis in Canada.
Wararkii ugu danbeeyay ee Soomaalida ku nool wadanka Canada.
Bartamaha (Toronto):- Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed works as a security guard at an apartment complex in Toronto’s Little Mogadishu neighborhood. It can be a slow job, sitting at the gatehouse, but nobody could call him inexperienced. Before he returned to Toronto last year, the 35-year-old Canadian spent six months with the Somali militant group Al-Shabab. He trained...Continue reading »
WINNIPEG – A Somali refugee deemed by a federal judge to be too dangerous to stay in Canada and slated for deportation has been released in Winnipeg, the Winnipeg Sun has learned. Mohamed Said Jama was supposed to be deported to Somalia last year after losing a lengthy court battle to block his deportation. But Jama — who was convicted of assault with a weapon,...Continue reading »
Toronto — A Toronto man has been killed in Somalia while fighting with the al-Qaeda-linked militant group Al-Shabab, according to a message posted on the Internet. The message, which accompanies a video posted on YouTube, identifies the man as “Mohamed al Muhajiri” and says he worshipped at the Abu Huraira Mosque in Toronto. The death could not...Continue reading »
Canadian Somali Congress reacts to the Government of Canada decision to add the Al-Shabab group to the list of terrorist organizations and comments on the disappearances of Canadian Somali youth from Toronto. Ahmed Hussen, National President of the Canadian Somali Congress was interviewed by Anna Maria Tremonti on the CBC Radio Program, The Current. Also in the interview...Continue reading »
Brendan Kennedy Staff Reporter — Visible minorities in Toronto and its surrounding municipalities could more than double in the next 20 years, making up 63 per cent of the area’s total population by 2031, according to a study by Statistics Canada published Tuesday. The federal agency projects the number of visible minorities in the area to grow from 2.3...Continue reading »
Yet again, the victims were born in Somalia but raised in Toronto. Yet again, the victims appear to have had links to a bustling drug trade between Ontario and Alberta. Yet again, police have no suspects. On Feb. 17, Idiris Abess, 23, and Saed Adad, 22, were found dead in Hillside Manor, a downtown Fort McMurray apartment building notorious for drug-dealing and prostitution,...Continue reading »
An all too familiar pattern of drugs and death appears to be repeating itself in northern Alberta. RCMP in Fort McMurray have confirmed that two men found dead last week were murdered and both were known to police. The men were Idris Abess, 23, of Fort McMurray and Saed Adad, 22, from Toronto. In recent years, young men, many with roots in Somalia, have been ...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Ottawa):- Speding entire cold winter days outside in the snow has become hugely popular among Ottawa immigrants from hot, sunny Somalia, thanks to a successful community ski program. “The kids fell in love with it and it took off and it kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger,” said Mohamed Islam, one of the organizers of the program run out of...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Vancouver):- Canadian musicians are waving the Maple Leaf for Haiti, secretly recording a benefit single for the earthquake-ravaged country. Famed Canadian music producer Bob Ezrin is spearheading the project, which will include Somalian-born Canadian rapper K’naan, performing the K’naan hit song Wavin’ Flag . The recording is taking place...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi)- Alexandre Bilodeau won Canada’s first gold medal on home soil, lifting the host nation’s spirits on the third day of the Winter Olympics that have been marred by rain, race cancellations and the death of an athlete. “The party is just starting for Canada,†said Bilodeau, 22, who ended the country’s home medal drought...Continue reading »
Debra Black Staff Reporter (Toronto Star)  — Canada’s Transport Minister John Baird has travelled to Ethiopia to lobby on behalf of a detained Canadian citizen. Baird, MP for Ottawa West-Nepean, is in Addis Ababa for a mere 24 hours Wednesday to meet with Ethiopian officials about the case of Bashir Makhtal, a former Toronto man who has been convicted...Continue reading »
Toronto — Waxa magaaalada Toronto Qolka shirarka ee Huteelka Days Inn una dhow Masaajidka Daariq lagu qabtay kulan ballaaran ay ka soo qaybgaleen xubno ka tirsan Jaaliyadda Soomaaliyeed ee halkaas deggani. Kullanka waxa lagu soo bandhigay daraasado iyo film ku saabsan dadaalada nabadaa ee dadka Somaliyeed ay ayagu ku qabsadaan gobalada, degmooyinka iyo degaanada...Continue reading »
The Alberta Somali Community Center and the Canadian Somali Congress recently hosted an advocacy awareness event for the Canadian Somali community in Alberta. This event was meant to present three urgent tasks that the community will focus on in order to deal with some of the challenges that it is facing in Alberta. Advocacy tools presented by the Canadian Somali Congress...Continue reading »
Members from North Division, along with Supt. Brad Ward attended an Alberta Somali Community meeting on Friday, January 29th. The meeting showcased the challenges, opportunities, and work to be done at the grassroots level in Edmonton to achieve integration and equality for Canadians of Somali heritage. Inspiring messages were delivered to encourage young Canadian-Somalis...Continue reading »
They were four friends bound for Washington, D.C. to witness Obama’s inauguration. But around the same time they left Ottawa in a rented car, an informant walked into a U.S. embassy with a vague but alarming tip that would ricochet in unexpected directions and change their lives More than a million people stood proudly in the January chill of Washington’s National...Continue reading »
A 16-year-old boy who’s been in the care of the provincial Community Services Department since 2001 has accepted responsibility for his role in a “chilling” attack on a boy at a bus stop in downtown Dartmouth last March. The teenager, whose identity is protected by the Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded guilty last week in Halifax youth court to charges...Continue reading »
OTTAWA — Singling-out Muslim-Canadians for “intrusive†screening could backfire and hamper intelligence-gathering efforts, community leaders warned yesterday. U.S. measures that target individuals from specific countries — such as Lebanon, Pakistan and Somalia — could lead to “the radicalization of our youth,†said the Canadian...Continue reading »
By Louisa Taylor, Ottawa Citizen OTTAWA — Members of Ottawa’s Somali community say their youth were targeted by security officials in the run-up to the inauguration of Barack Obama, and the targeting continues more than a year later, causing deep mistrust in the community. Community activist Mohamed Sofa, 27, says he knows of 10 separate cases from the past...Continue reading »
