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Deportation of serial rapist Louay Khalil to Lebanon, accused of assaulting mentally challenged woman

Khalil’s entry into Canada was made possible by marrying his own cousin

Original source article: Sex offender turned over to immigration authorities after deportation stalled

A man ordered deported in 2011 but who stayed in the country because of ongoing legal issues has now been handed over to immigration authorities.

Louay Khalil was ordered deported to Lebanon in 2011 for two sexual assaults in 2007.

Police say he reoffended in March 2010 and March 2012, and was rearrested.

He could not be deported until those matters were settled in court. In one case he was charged with sexual interference and sexual assault, and in the other case he was accused of sexually assaulting a developmentally disabled woman.

Both cases were stayed in court this month. On Tuesday, Khalil was handed over to the Canada Border Services Agency. He appeared briefly before an immigration hearing in Calgary on Wednesday morning, but it was delayed for a day to translate documents into Arabic.

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Posted by on Apr 19, 2013 | 1 comment

Regina: Multicultural soccer tournament game ends after Team Sudan attacks referee

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/dailybrew/multicultural-soccer-game-ends-referee-knocked-unconscious-142749959.html

A multicultural soccer tournament held in Regina this week was a perfect example of cultures coming together in a respectful and peaceful way. Except for that huge brawl.

CIR: Perhaps one day, the symbolism of apartheid evident in the standard soccer ball colour scheme will be overcome.

And the referee who got punched in the face.

Regina Police are on the hunt for a 26-year-old man who allegedly knocked a 45-year-old referee unconscious during an indoor soccer match, Wednesday night.

The match was part of the annual World Class Players Cup Tournament, which pits local players of various backgrounds against one another. The focus is on providing competitive soccer and highlighting cultural communities.

The incident happened during a game between Team Poland and Team Sudan, following a brawl that “went beyond the normal scuffles that happen in all levels of competitive sporting events.”

The WCP Cup Organizing Committee broke the series of events down in a blog posted to their website. It said that about 15 minutes after that scuffle, which resulted in four players being ejected, another Team Sudan player committed a “hard tackle” and was thrown out of the game.

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Posted by on Apr 12, 2013 | 1 comment

Canada pledges $13M in aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan

Syrian refugees flock to Turkey and Jordan

Canada pledges $13M in aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan
Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-pledges-13m-in-aid-for-syrian-refugees-in-jordan-1.1217947#ixzz2PVokhgzT

CTVNews.ca Staff
Published Sunday, March 31, 2013 11:02AM EDT
Last Updated Sunday, March 31, 2013 4:36PM EDT

Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird committed to an additional $13 million to Jordan to help deal with the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees who have arrived in the Middle Eastern county over the last two years.

During a stop Amman, the country’s capital, Baird said Jordan has demonstrated a “leadership” role in promoting peace in the region.

“Jordan’s generosity in hosting an influx of Syrian refugees is a model for all,” he said in a statement. “Some 2,000 desperate Syrians arrive in Jordan daily. Accepting them is not without sacrifice or risk domestically. It is done in the finest tradition of promoting human dignity.”

Read more: http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/canada-pledges-13m-in-aid-for-syrian-refugees-in-jordan-1.1217947#ixzz2PVofZpHS

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Posted by on Apr 4, 2013 | 0 comments

Syrians living in Canada angry that feds don’t do more to bring their relatives to Canada

Syrian Canadians despair for relatives trapped by war, call on Kenney to do more
Mike Blanchfield, Friday, February 22, 2013 4:53 PM

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OTTAWA – Every bomb that explodes in Damascus strikes at the heart of a woman in suburban Ottawa, leaving her to wonder why the government here is not helping to get her son out of the besieged Syrian capital.
Leila, not her real name, knows that her 27-year-old son is hiding somewhere in Damascus, trying to keep one step ahead of a security apparatus that has his name on a list of forced conscripts.

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Posted by on Feb 24, 2013 | 9 comments

Deported from Canada in 2008, Libyan family to return to Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds

Lawyer says decision a ‘measure of justice’ after Benhmuda father tortured in Libya

CBC News Posted: Jan 18, 2013 12:51 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 18, 2013 8:08 PM ET

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A picture of Adam and Omar Benhmuda, from the petition sponsored by their Mississauga, Ont., school friends and neighbours.A picture of Adam and Omar Benhmuda, from the petition sponsored by their Mississauga, Ont., school friends and neighbours. (Benhmuda family)

A Libyan family deported by Canadian immigration officials five years ago is being allowed to return to Canada on humanitarian and compassionate grounds after a Federal Court judge ordered a review of their case.

After the review, Citizenship and Immigration Canada approved the Benhmuda family’s return to Canada.

Efforts to get the family back to Canada were spearheaded by Ingrid Kerrigan, the younger children’s kindergarten teacher at Springfield Public School in Mississauga, Ont.

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The petition posted on change.org, an online petition platform, garnered 15,674 signatures.

“It wasn’t just the Benhmudas who were asking to come back, it was more than 15,000 people who had read their story and were so moved by it that they took the step of signing the petition,” said Andrew Brouwer, the family’s lawyer.

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Adel Benhmuda, his wife and four sons — two of whom, Adam and Omar, were born in Canada — were deported to Libya in 2008 after their claim for refugee status in Canada was denied.

The Benhmudas had lived in Canada since 2000 and applied for refugee status, saying they were in danger because Adel Benhmuda’s brother was linked to a group opposed to the regime of the late dictator Moammar Gadhafi.

As soon as the family arrived in Libya, Adel Benhmuda was arrested by Libyan police and spent four months in prison, where he was tortured.

After paying a bribe, the family fled to a refugee camp in Malta, where the UN High Commission for Refugees declared the family to be legitimate refugees and asked Canada to take them back.

Aisha Benmatug (Benhmuda) with her sons in front of a container with their possessions at a refugee camp in Malta.Aisha Benmatug (Benhmuda) with her sons in front of a container with their possessions at a refugee camp in Malta.(Benhmuda family)But a visa officer with the Canadian Embassy in Rome rejected that idea, alleging the family had been a welfare drain after arriving in Canada. That was not the case.

In a scathing ruling last October, a federal judge ruled the visa officer was biased and had placed wrong information in their file. She ordered the case to be sent to another visa post.

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She, and other supporters of the Benhmuda family’s plight, will help the family re-integrate back into Canadian culture.

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The family will still need to complete steps, such as new police checks and medical evaluations before they get the final approval to return to Canada.

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Posted by on Jan 20, 2013 | 0 comments

Montreal: Mohamed Amin claims he was humiliated at license office

Montreal man claims he was humiliated at license office
Posted By: Luciano Pipia lpipia@astral.com · 1/18/2013 9:25:00 PM
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A Montreal man says he was humiliated at a license bureau in front of his family.

Mohamed Amin spoke English at the S-A-A-Q outlet on Decarie.

He told the Barry Morgan show he intervened after his wife failed to get a bureau worker to address her in English.

“I told her why are you doing this to us, in front of everyone”, Amin told the show.

“Why it’s so lovely to you to see us being like that. And then she answered me, with a very cold bood, tu est in Quebec, you are in Quebec, you have to address me in French. And I told her listen to me, my lady, I’m in Canada. The official two languages, English and French” Amin went on to say.

Amin added he pays taxes and therefore should be addresed in either official language with respect.

He also says the worker then looked at him and called out for another customer by saying “next”.

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Posted by on Jan 20, 2013 | 0 comments
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