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Ottawa police chief resigns under pressure to quell protests
Feb 16, 2022 10:12Ottawa's police chief has been forced to resign under intense pressure from authorities for not being tough enough in handling days of mass protests that have paralyzed the Canadian capital and prompted the government to invoke a state of emergency for the first time in half a century.
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Time to end Canadian taxpayer subsidies for Israeli regime apartheid
Feb 14, 2022 11:15Most Canadian taxpayers would be shocked to learn they are subsidizing a group raising funds for a university enmeshed in Israeli regime colonialism and militarism.
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Key US-Canada border bridge remains closed as Canadian police clear protesters
Feb 14, 2022 10:06Canadian police have cleared protesters and vehicles that had blocked a key border crossing with the United States in protest against the government's COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates.
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Canada’s Ontario declares state of emergency amid truckers’ vaccine protests
Feb 12, 2022 05:22The Canadian province of Ontario has declared a state of emergency as truck drivers continue their protests against the government’s COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates.
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Canada police threaten crackdown as protests spread to other countries
Feb 10, 2022 09:14Canadian police have threatened to start arresting truckers and other demonstrators who have shut down central Ottawa and disrupted cross-border trade for two weeks in protest against the government's COVID-19 measures, as similar protests have spread to other countries to demand an end to pandemic restrictions.
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Canada intensifies crackdown as protests spread
Feb 08, 2022 05:00Police in Canada's national capital have seized thousands of liters of fuel as part of a crackdown to end days long protest against the government's COVID-19 measures.
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Pro-Palestine Canadian activists protest Israel’s aggression
Jan 31, 2022 02:49Pro-Palestine Canadian activists and demonstrators have staged a protest against Israel’s decades-long aggression and atrocities against Palestinians, to which state-run media have chosen to turn a blind eye under the pretext of covering a rally against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's COVID-19 vaccine mandates.
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Iran's rights official takes swipe at Canada over indigenous children killings
Jan 27, 2022 07:57A senior Iranian rights official has denounced Canada for its “hypocritical” double-standard approach to the issue of human rights, after shocking reports emerged of the discovery of new graves near a former school for indigenous children there.
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Iran's official calls on annulment of Canada’s anti-hijab law in defense of Muslim teacher
Dec 17, 2021 09:09A senior Iranian rights official has called on the Canadian government to revoke a discriminatory law that removed a citizen from her teaching post for wearing a hijab in classroom in the eastern Province of Quebec.
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Iran says all aspects of 2020 Ukrainian plane crash ‘adequately’ investigated
Dec 01, 2021 03:40Over a week into the launch of a hearing process over the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane near Tehran, Iran has defended its investigations into the case and said it has provided “adequate” attention to all aspects of the deadly tragedy that happened early last year.