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News Reports

‘Islam is evil’: Several anti-Muslim graffiti appear in Surrey in Canada, police launch probe to catch the culprits

OpIndia Staff - 17 July, 2021

The Canada police believe that these incidents are linked and the same person or group who may have painted these anti-Muslim graffiti

News Reports

Canada: British Columbia tribe announces discovery of another 160 unmarked graves near site of defunct missionary school

OpIndia Staff - 13 July, 2021

The residential schools were run by the Church, with funding from the federal government of Canada.

News Reports

Canada: Amul wins trademark case, to receive ₹19.59 lakhs as damages

OpIndia Staff - 11 July, 2021

Amul Dairy had filed a case with the Federal Court of Canada over trademark infringement by a group called 'Amul Canada.'

Opinions

‘You natives, be grateful that your children died as Christians, not pagans’: American Conservative magazine tells indigenous people in Canada

Sanghamitra - 9 July, 2021

The article goes on to defend the residential school system altogether. It actually asserts that 'it was necessary to convert native people into Christianity because otherwise, "their souls could not have been saved."

World

Canada: As hundreds of unmarked graves of residential school victims are found, churches are being burned, unrest grows over painful past

Dibakar Dutta - 2 July, 2021

"Don't ever set foot in Canada. An apology is going to do nothing," Canadian First Nation grand chief warns Pope Francis as resentment against Catholic church grows.

World

Crimes of the Church: Canada’s residential schools where countless indigenous children suffered, died and were forgotten

Anurag - 1 July, 2021

Unmarked graves of 182 people found close to former St. Eugene's Mission School in Cranbrook.

News Reports

Indian Consulate in Toronto writes to Canada govt over anti-India curriculum being taught at schools, warns it will harm bilateral relations

OpIndia Staff - 20 June, 2021

Despite India raising strong objections, schools in Canada continue to teach anti-India content in schools on farmer protest issue

News Reports

‘We have economic ties with China, they are good neighbours’: Pakistan PM Imran Khan when probed about Uyghur Muslims

OpIndia Staff - 15 June, 2021

“We have economic ties with China, China is our neighbor. They've been very good to us in our most difficult times", Khan said to CBC in an interview.

World

Canada: Mass grave of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, discovered at a former Indigenous residential school site

OpIndia Staff - 30 May, 2021

A 2015 report documented horrific details of abuse, rape, malnutrition and other atrocities suffered by the students who attended the Residential Schools.

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