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Calgary: Six black men enter Whitehorn Community Centre, one pulls out handgun and fires several rounds

Police are investigating a shooting incident at a northeast Calgary community centre early Sunday morning. (CBC)

2 shootings in northeast Calgary probed
CBC News
Posted: Apr 1, 2012 11:43 AM MT Last Updated: Apr 1, 2012 11:50 AM MT

Police are investigating a shooting incident at a northeast Calgary community centre early Sunday morning. (CBC)

Calgary police are investigating two shootings in the northeast community of Whitehorn.

The first incident happened just after 9 p.m. on Saturday on the 200 block of Whitehorn Road N.E.

After a verbal fight between a group of men and two other men, one of the pair shot at the larger group with a handgun, police said.

One man received minor injuries.

The two men fled on foot. They were described as East Indian, police said.

The second incident happened nearby inside the Whitehorn Community Centre just before 3 a.m. on Sunday morning.

Six black men entered the centre and got in a confrontation with a group of other people there.

One of the black men pulled out a handgun and fired several rounds, police said.

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Brian Stewart worried about Canada’s immigration shift

Brian Stewart: Europe’s job exodus, Canada’s immigration shift

A backstory to Canada’s changing immigration policy
By Brian Stewart, special to CBC News
Posted: Mar 28, 2012 7:58 PM ET Last Updated: Mar 28, 2012 7:56 PM ET

About The Author

One of this country’s most experienced journalists and foreign correspondents, Brian Stewart is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Munk School for Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. He also sits on the advisory board of Human Rights Watch Canada. In almost four decades of reporting, he has covered many of the world’s conflicts and reported from 10 war zones, from El Salvador to Beirut and Afghanistan. 

There is one part of Europe’s economic suffering at least that suits Ottawa and the provinces just fine.

The high unemployment among the continent’s skilled trade workers has opened a motherlode of tens of thousands of prized immigrants of exactly the type Ottawa now wants to encourage — young, well-educated and fluent in either English or French.

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Muslim booklet promoting Sharia rules for wife-beating sold out

Muslim book backlash grows

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/muslim-book-backlash-grows/1538884363001

Market for misogyny in Canada?

http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/video/market-for-misogyny-in-canada%3F/1530800707001

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Nameless Sikh angry at Jonathan Kay’s piece “Why are some Canadian Sikhs expressing solidarity with an unrepentant terrorist?“

 

Jonathan Kay is a Managing Editor of Canada’s National Post newspaper, a columnist on the newspaper’s op-ed page, and a regular blogger on the Post’s web site.

The Canadian Sikh Community Will Not Be Marginalized by Milewski and Kay
In: America, Featured

Canada: The following was authored by a concerned Canadian Sikh academic, who wrote under the condition of anonymity, in rebuttal to Jonathan Kay’s piece, entitled “Why are some Canadian Sikhs expressing solidarity with an unrepentant terrorist?“

There are many questions surrounding the stay of execution of of Balwant Singh Rajoana, who was sentenced for his involvement in the 1995 assassination of Beant Singh — the former chief minister of Punjab who spear headed the genocide against Sikhs in the region. But Rajoana’s sentence has since been stayed.

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