Over a hundred members of the Ottawa Somali community braved a rainstorm on the evening of Saturday, May 8th, 2010 to attend an information and registration session at Carlton University’s Minto Center. The Canadian International Peace Project and the Canadian Somali Congress invited potential mentees from the Somali community in Ottawa to be part of a groundbreaking...Continue reading »
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The Latest News about Somalis in Canada.
Wararkii ugu danbeeyay ee Soomaalida ku nool wadanka Canada.
Bartamaha (Nairobi) Even by the jaded standards of the failed state of Somalia, this week’s news was enough to raise eyebrows: one of the country’s two competing Islamist factions, Hizbul Islam, stormed into the coastal city of Harardhere and drove out the pirates who have run amok in the waters off the Horn of Africa, wreaking havoc on global shipping and...Continue reading »
CBC radio interviews Ahmed Hussen, national president of Canadian Somali Congress about the Canadian Somali-Jewish Mentorship Project launch in Ottawa. The internship program will help young Somali college and university students as well as young professionals to find mentors in desired proefessions. Those individuals that are interested in joining this initiative...Continue reading »
30 Somali-Canadians killed in province since 2005 Mohamed Abdi is at school early Tuesday, looking for extra chemistry help. The 18-year-old Edmonton high school student said he struggles with financial pressures all the time in his hopes of becoming an engineer. The lure to make a fast dollar through illegal activity is everywhere in the city, he said. “Nobody...Continue reading »
Ottawa’s Jewish community is volunteering to help young Somali-Canadians develop contacts in the city and break into professional fields. The Canadian Somali Congress and the Canadian International Peace Project are holding an information and registration session this Saturday at Carleton University for Somali-Canadian university and college students and young...Continue reading »
The Canadian Somali Congress and the Canadian International Peace Project invite mentees from the Canadian Somali community in Ottawa to be part of an informational and registration session on an important mentorship project between the Somali and Jewish communities. We strongly urge Canadian Somali university and college students as well as young professionals to...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):-A star-studded, remixed version of K’naan’s ubiquitous track Wavin’ Flag has raised more than $1 million for victims of the Haitian earthquake. Since its release on March 12, the benefit single racked up seven consecutive weeks atop Canadian radio charts, sold more than 160,000 copies on online music retailer iTunes and its accompanying...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi)- Inside a dark, wood coffin lies the body of a young Somali man from Toronto, killed in Fort McMurray, Alta., last week, and prayed over by an Edmonton community where most didn’t know him. To many in Alberta’s growing Somali community, the death of 19-year-old Abdinasir Abdulkadir Dirie — declared a homicide Monday, the same day...Continue reading »
Young man is 30th young Somali-Canadian murder victim in Alberta since 2005 Alberta–He was young. He was of Somali descent. He had grown up in Toronto, but had moved west for work and opportunity. His body was found Thursday in an apartment in Fort McMurray. Abdinasir Ali is the 30th young Somali-Canadian man killed in Alberta since 2005. His death is the latest...Continue reading »
Bartamaha (Nairobi):- A Somali refugee living in Charlottetown is hoping the public will help her after she lost all the money she had to live on for the next month. Ubah Ali and her seven children arrived on the Island last summer, sponsored by the First Baptist Church. Every month, Ali receives a cheque for $2,200 from the federal government — enough to pay...Continue reading »
Faced with a booming drug trade and a pair of violent murders earlier this year, city and provincial officials have dispatched a throng of new police officers to oil-rich Fort McMurray. An addition of 21 Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers was announced in the northern city Tuesday. The majority are veteran officers from other regions of Alberta who will tackle...Continue reading »
A 70-year-old woman is whipped for missing prayers; men with “Western” haircuts are shaved with broken bottles; a mother is lashed and locked in a shipping container for leaving her home without a head covering. A Human Rights Watch report to be released today describes the “grinding repression” in Somalia under al-Shabab, the armed group that has...Continue reading »
Canadian Somali Congress President participates in a panel discussion on Alberta’s failure to fully integrate Canadian Somalis The vast majority of Somalis in Canada are no longer immigrants but are Canadian citizens. Canadian Somali Congress National President Ahmed Hussen talks about Albertas failure to fully integrate young Canadian Somalis. Issues such as...Continue reading »
The Canadian Somali Congress recently hosted a community town hall meeting in Ottawa in order to discuss issues of importance to the Canadian Somali community with the Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Transport Minister John Baird. The main issues that were brought up included immigration issues as well as problems that are constantly faced by Canadian...Continue reading »
Some members of Winnipeg’s Somalian community are torn about what should be done with a refugee who has a history of criminal violence. Mohamed Said Jama, 40, is in custody at Stony Mountain Institution. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) wants to deport him but Jama’s lawyer has said his client fears he will be killed if returned because he is the son...Continue reading »
The Canadian Somali Congress invites you to a Canadian Somali Community Town hall meeting with the Federal Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Transport Minister John Baird. The meeting will enable engagement with the Government of Canada on immigration issues affecting the Canadian Somali community for a long time. These issues include delays in spousal...Continue reading »
Somali-Canadians caught in Alberta’s deadly drug trade EDMONTON — Four months after he left Toronto, 21-year-old Abas Abukar was dead. On Halloween morning in 2008, the former Humber College student’s body was found in Northmount Park, a wooded area in this city’s north end. Abukar had been shot a few hours earlier, an autopsy concluded. He...Continue reading »
The National: For the 1st time a group of Somali-Canadians speaks out (video) Somali-Canadian families in the Greater Toronto Area are demanding justice after 29 of their sons have been slain in separate incidents in Alberta in recent years and only one arrest has been made. In the past five years, 29 men have been killed in Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray in...Continue reading »
EDMONTON — The Edmonton Police Commission is offering $40,000 rewards for information leading to arrests and convictions in 11 unsolved homicides involving victims tied to the city’s central-east African communities. The move comes in response to requests made last December by leaders of the Somali community, said Mahamad Accord, director of the Alberta...Continue reading »
Mohamed Said Jama, a Winnipeg man with a lengthy criminal history who is fighting a deportation order, is back in custody authorities say. Jama, 40, has been in Canada since 1991 when he arrived as a refugee from Somalia. Four years later, Jama began racking up a criminal record beginning with an impaired driving conviction in B.C. His most serious convictions related...Continue reading »
