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TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire – June 12, 2009) – The Government of Canada is investing in an ambitious and groundbreaking project that will bring together young Somali-Canadians with established Jewish-Canadian mentors in an effort to improve cross-cultural understanding. Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney made the announcement...Continue reading »

CityNews.ca Staff — Toronto’s latest murder victim has been identified as 16-year-old Ayoob Adam.  Police say Adam died following a confrontation at a Dixon and Kipling high rise early Sunday morning. Police initially received calls about gunshots going off in the area, so when they found the young victim bleeding heavily, they assumed he was shot. ...Continue reading »

Mustafa is in Grade 7 at Nelson Mandela Park Public School in Regent Park. This poem, “A Single Rose,” earned him a standing ovation at the Hot Docs film festival. Video Randy Risling, Tara Walton. (June 5, 2009)   ...

Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout sits with a child in Mogadishu, Somalia, in this undated handout photo. Lindhout, 27, and three others were abducted Aug. 23, 2008. John Goddard (Toronto Star) — Few cut as glamorous a figure as the freelance journalist in a conflict zone, especially when she is a long-legged beauty. Laptop computer, digital cameras...Continue reading »

  Jennifer Lewington — Somali-born doctor Cadigia Ali has carved out a successful new life here as a community volunteer, public servant and now aspiring politician, but is living proof of the findings of a new report released Wednesday on the low presence of visible minorities in leadership posts in the Toronto area. Ms. Ali, 59, a live-wire personality who...Continue reading »

MOGADISHU (AFP) — A Canadian reporter and an Australian photographer who have been held hostage in Somalia for nine months said they are in poor health and have sought greater help from their governments to secure their release. Freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout and photographer Nigel Brennan spoke to an AFP correspondent in Mogadishu by phone for five minutes...Continue reading »

(Toronto Star) Robyn Doolittle Staff Reporter — A Riverdale man has been charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of his 27-year-old sister. Police allege that just before noon yesterday, Abdirasak Hassan, 24, attacked his sister, Jamila, stabbing her many times in the chest. She was left to die in the bathtub. He then reportedly turned the knife on himself...Continue reading »

DAVID MCDOUGALL From Monday’s Globe and Mail —NAIROBI — A Somali journalist kidnapped alongside Canadian freelancer Amanda Lindhout last August says he communicated with her daily through sign language during his captivity and she was in good health when he last saw her before his release earlier this year. Abdifatah Mohammed Elmi, who was taken near...Continue reading »

By TAMAS VIRAG, Edmonton SUN MEDIA — Cops say exaggerated reports of an Edmonton woman being attacked – circulating in the city via e-mail, and warning residents of a rash of violent attacks against women on the north side – is more fiction than fact. The urban legend started as an e-mail that warns of Somali gang members who have savagely beaten a handful...Continue reading »

OTTAWA — Police are searching for witnesses who could help them identify the man responsible for a fatal shooting early Thursday in a ByWard Market club. Mohamed Jama Ali, 26, a Somalian refugee and gang member who was known to police and went by the nickname Casper, was shot in the stomach in Bar 56 after a fight broke out during the club’s weekly Wednesday...Continue reading »

CTV.ca News Staff — Canada is extending the anti-piracy mission of HMCS Winnipeg off the coast of Somalia, Defence Minister Peter MacKay told CTV’s Question Period Sunday. MacKay said the federal government agreed to a NATO request for the frigate to continue operations as part of an allied effort to deter pirates who have seized dozens of vessels off the Horn...Continue reading »

By JASMINE FRANKLIN, SPECIAL TO SUN MEDIA — Concerned parents and members of Edmonton’s Somali community gathered yesterday to create a plan for protecting their children in light of another slaying. “The lack of knowledge on both parents and children’s parts is what is steering our youth in the wrong direction,” said Mohamednur Madowe, executive...Continue reading »

By Ben Gelinas, The Edmonton Journal — One of two men who were kidnapped and robbed on the weekend watched as his friend was shot in the stomach with a shotgun in Hermitage Park, police say.Mustafa Warsame dove into a nearby pond to escape his captors, according to a search warrant in the case, obtained by The Journal. Police searched an apartment suite on 118th...Continue reading »

By Stewart Bell, National Post Canada’s Public Safety Minister said yesterday he was alarmed at reports that Canadians have gone overseas to join armed Islamist groups in places such as Somalia and Pakistan. Peter Van Loan, Canada's Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan said in an interview the Canadian Security Intelligence Service was monitoring the issue...Continue reading »