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Muslims in Canada

Muslims in Canada represent a significant and growing part of the population. As of the 2021 census, approximately 4.9% of Canadians, or nearly 1.8 million people, identify as Muslim. This makes Islam the second most commonly reported religion in the country after Christianity.The majority of Canadian Muslims reside in Ontario, with significant communities also in Quebec, Alberta, and British Columbia. In urban areas like the Greater Toronto Area and Greater Montreal, Muslims make up about 10% and 8.7% of the population, respectively.

IQNA – The Muslim community in Saint John, Canada, is expressing worry over a string of break-ins targeting mosques.
News ID: 3488161    Publish Date : 2024/05/01

IQNA – Students at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, set up several tents at the downtown campus as an act of solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
News ID: 3488116    Publish Date : 2024/04/28

IQNA – The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ordered Joyce Middleton, the director of a massage school in British Columbia, to pay $12,000 for discriminatory practices against Majid Shahadat, a Muslim man.
News ID: 3488063    Publish Date : 2024/04/24

IQNA – Ottawa's plan to expand access to halal mortgages can lower high borrowing costs, according to providers.
News ID: 3488009    Publish Date : 2024/04/20

IQNA – Canada’s government plans to introduce halal mortgage for the country’s Muslims.
News ID: 3487980    Publish Date : 2024/04/17

IQNA – A Canadian Muslim organization has urged for the revival of an anti-hate bill amid the growing Islamophobic incidents in the country.
News ID: 3487907    Publish Date : 2024/04/12

IQNA – A man convicted of murdering four members of a Muslim family in Ontario, Canada, is seeking to appeal the convictions, his lawyer said.
News ID: 3487879    Publish Date : 2024/04/09

IQNA – In a disturbing incident, two individuals armed with an axe and a knife attempted to break into the Abu Bakr Al-Siddique Community Centre, a mosque located in Winnipeg, Manitoba province, Canada.
News ID: 3487812    Publish Date : 2024/04/05

IQNA – A local Muslim group says the dumping of a pig carcass on the doorstep of a Halal grocery store in south London is “an incredibly disrespectful act”.
News ID: 3487731    Publish Date : 2024/03/27

IQNA – The top court in Canada declined to hear the appeal of a private school that was found to have discriminated against two Muslim students.
News ID: 3487689    Publish Date : 2024/03/22

IQNA – The National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) has strongly slammed as "absolutely unacceptable" and "racist" an incident in which a mosque in Montreal was targeted with islamophobic drawing ahead of Ramadan.
News ID: 3487571    Publish Date : 2024/03/15

IQNA – At the London Muslim Mosque, a team of chefs and volunteers are coming together to provide more than 250 daily meals throughout the holy month of Ramadan.
News ID: 3487533    Publish Date : 2024/03/12

IQNA – The Muslim community in Canada is campaigning this Ramadan to get politicians to push for an end to the Israeli regime’s genocidal war on Gaza.
News ID: 3487530    Publish Date : 2024/03/12

IQNA – The Muslim community in Montreal have expressed dismay after a Canadian court upheld Bill 21 which is considered “islamophobic” by the community.
News ID: 3487393    Publish Date : 2024/03/02

IQNA – Beneath the radar, Trudeau’s progressive country has turned into a far-right haven – it is ranked worst in the G7 for murders of Muslims
News ID: 3487379    Publish Date : 2024/03/01

IQNA – A mental health service in Ontario is seeking funding to resume a support program for Muslim women that was initiated after several Islamophobic attacks, including the 2021 London killings of four members of the Afzaal family.
News ID: 3487337    Publish Date : 2024/02/26

IQNA – Legislators and politicians in London, Canada’s Ontario, acknowledge that they are losing support in the Muslim community over their parties’ stance on the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza.  
News ID: 3487311    Publish Date : 2024/02/24

IQNA – Muslim groups say Canadian lawmakers won't be welcome in mosques until they call for a ceasefire in Gaza where nearly 30,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks.
News ID: 3487306    Publish Date : 2024/02/23

IQNA – A Canadian white supremacist who deliberately ran over four members of a Muslim family has been sentenced to life in prison.
News ID: 3487304    Publish Date : 2024/02/23

IQNA – Masjid Beit Naballa in St. James, Winnipeg, Canada’s Manitoba, is celebrating its opening weekend at 325 Wallasey St.
News ID: 3487230    Publish Date : 2024/02/18