The Secret Service was on alert for alleged Somali extremists from Canada. (Jan. 20, 2009) WASHINGTON–The storybook inauguration of Barack Obama played out with Washington on high alert for a major terror plot from Canada, security officials on both sides of the border have confirmed. The plot, later revealed as a false alarm, forced the incoming president’s...Continue reading »
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The Latest News about Somalis in Canada.
Wararkii ugu danbeeyay ee Soomaalida ku nool wadanka Canada.
MONTREAL – A 31-year-old man has been sentenced to a 30-day jail term after becoming involved in an mid-air altercation with a fellow passenger aboard an Air Canada flight en route from Toronto to Frankfurt that forced the plane to land in Montreal on Wednesday evening shortly after takeoff. Montreal police spokesperson Daniel Lacoursière said that Khodr Ahmad...Continue reading »
DET, Mich. — Canada’s investment in U.S. automaker General Motors has saved more than 9,000 jobs in Ontario, provincial officials said. To keep those jobs, Canada made loans of $9.5 billion to GM, becoming the first foreign government to hold a seat on the board of directors of the iconic American company, The Detroit News reported Friday. The provincial Ontario...Continue reading »
Suaad Hagi Mohamud came home to frenzied enthusiasm in mid-August, vindicated by DNA results that prompted Canadian authorities to repatriate her from Kenya. Since then, the Toronto woman of Somali origin who became one of the summer’s top newsmakers has disappeared from public view, resolutely declining all interviews. She was last heard from in late September,...Continue reading »
Transport Canada continues to tighten security at airports, which were thrown into chaos as a result of stricter security regulations in place in the wake of the attempted bombing of an airplane on Christmas Day. Effective immediately, passengers headed to the United States will not be allowed to travel with carry-on bags, Transport Canada said in a statement . Allowed...Continue reading »
CALGARY – Journalist Amanda Lindhout is thanking everyone involved in her rescue from 15 months of captivity in Somalia — from the Canadian government and the Aga Khan right down to her family and the ordinary Canadians who raised money to fund her release. “I am so proud to be a Canadian,” Ms. Lindhout said in the written statement — her...Continue reading »
TORONTO — At a mosque in a bleak industrial neighbourhood in north Toronto, Imam Saed Rageah devoted his sermon on Friday to denouncing the suicide bombings plaguing his homeland of Somalia. “This is not in Islam,” he said. The congregation of the Abu Huraira mosque kneeled and listened, but it was those who weren’t present that made his words...Continue reading »
by Raveena Aulakh (Toronto Star) — They hung out at a Somali restaurant in “Little Mogadishu” in the northwest corner of the city, played basketball together, and worshipped at a North York mosque. The five friends, in their early to mid-20s, grew up and attended schools in Toronto. They spoke English and Somali. At least two of them were university...Continue reading »
The man killed in a daylight shooting Sunday in Edmonton has been identified as 23-year-old Robleh Ali Mohamed, Edmonton police said Tuesday. Mohamed died of a gunshot wound to the head. Police have not yet determined a motive for the killing. Police responded to reports of gunshots in the area of 106th Avenue and 105th Street, where they found Mohamed’s body in...Continue reading »
Trio seen fleeing scene of shooting: Somali man killed in parked car near downtown in broad daylight
EDMONTON — A man was found dead behind the wheel of a parked car Sunday after gunshots rang out behind a row of businesses near downtown. Someone who saw the dead man’s body told The Journal he recognized the victim as a member of Edmonton’s Somali community. Just after 1 p.m., citizens reported hearing gunshots and called officers to a commercial building...Continue reading »
Images Hardline Islamist fighters from Al-Shabab paraded in the streets of Mogadishu. The rebel group has instituted a strict Muslim state in parts of Somalia. TORONTO — The Toronto mosque where a group of missing Somali-Canadians sometimes worshipped has urged anyone with information about them to come forward. The Abu Huraira Centre posted the statement on its...Continue reading »
Stewart Bell, National Post —Â An investigation into a half-dozen missing Toronto men who are feared to have joined a Somali terrorist group has raised questions about whether they could face criminal charges upon their return to Canada. In an interview yesterday, Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan would not comment on the continuing investigation but said Canadians...Continue reading »
Stewart Bell, National Post — Counterterrorism officials are investigating a group of youths who allegedly left Canada for East Africa two weeks ago, amid concerns they may have gone to join the Somali militant group Al-Shabab. Two sources familiar with the case said investigators had been canvassing Toronto’s large Somali-Canadian community for...Continue reading »
Canadian Somali Congress The shooting death of 21-year-old Abdulaziz Osman Isse in Edmonton, Alberta on Friday, November 13, 2009, has shattered 11 months of peace in Alberta’s Canadian Somali community. Between August 2008 and last May, the community mourned the deaths of six young men — five in Edmonton and one in Fort McMurray.  All of them were shot...Continue reading »
Royal Canadian Mounted Police Commissioner William Elliott arrives to testify at the Senate defence committee in Ottawa, Monday June 1, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld OTTAWA — Islamic radicalization of Canada’s Somali community is becoming a national security concern, RCMP Commissioner William Elliott said Friday. The potential of Somali-Canadians adopting...Continue reading »
A man watched in horror as his wife was struck by a car and killed as she rushed to catch a TTC bus in Scarborough yesterday morning. The couple began crossing together from the south to the north side of Finch Ave. E. at Blackbird Gt., just east of Nielson Rd., around 7:15 a.m., Toronto Police say. But the man hurried ahead to stop the bus. He looked back just in time...Continue reading »
WINNIPEG — A Somali refugee with a violent criminal history in Winnipeg has lost a lengthy legal battle to avoid deportation to his homeland, where he fears his family’s ties to the country’s former military regime will compromise his safety. Mohamed Said Jama, 39, found himself at the losing end of a federal court application to block his deportation...Continue reading »
The Canadian government has decided to go on the offensive and tell its side of the story in connection with allegations that its officials mishandled the case of Suaad Hagi Mohamud, the Canadian of Somali origin who was detained in Kenya on suspicion that someone else was using her passport to travel to Canada. Such a move by Ottawa is relatively rare. In the case of...Continue reading »
The small Canadian cattle-ranching city of Brooks, in south-eastern Alberta, is preparing to celebrate its 100th anniversary next year. Painted murals depicting a proud western heritage of cattle farming, cowboys, ice hockey and the oil and gas industry have appeared throughout the city. A century ago, immigrants cried when they reached Brooks because the landscape was...Continue reading »
