Sean Murphy died Sept. 16, 2008, three weeks after he was beaten near the corner of Merivale Road and Shillington Avenue. On Monday, Mohammed Jama Yusuf pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

Somali refugee guilty of fatal beating  

Somali criminal refugee Mohamed Jama Yusuf bragged about stomping an old man in Ottawa . (Handout)

Megan Gillis, QMI Agency
First posted: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 07:36 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 07:42 PM EDT

Mohamed Jama Yusuf. (Handout)

OTTAWA – Actions speak louder than an 11th-hour apology, a prosecutor argued Tuesday as she sought 12 years for the “brutal, senseless and completely unprovoked” attack that left 51-year-old Sean Murphy dead.

Mohamed Jama Yusuf, 23, pleaded guilty to manslaughter, admitting he punched Murphy, a complete stranger, as he rode his bike towards Yusuf outside a Mac’s Milk store just after midnight on Aug. 26, 2008.

He then stomped and kicked the older, slighter man on the ground.

Ultra-left wing politician Amir Khadir is on the defensive over a picture on his kitchen table that shows him holding a gun and standing over Premier Jean Charest's dead body.

Quebec MNA Khadir defends picture showing dead Charest

Nima Machouf finds picture on their kitchen table that shows Khadir holding a gun and standing over Premier Jean Charest's dead body funny

Brian Daly, QMI Agency
First posted: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 11:33 AM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 03:32 PM EDT

MONTREAL — Ultra-left wing politician Amir Khadir is on the defensive over a picture on his kitchen table that shows him holding a gun and standing over Premier Jean Charest’s dead body.

The separatist Quebec Solidaire Leader and his wife both defended the image, currently being used as evidence against their daughter as she fights accusations of masterminding student violence.

The image is a doctored version of an 1830 painting by French artist Eugene Delacroix depicting the French Revolution of that year.

Khadir’s face is superimposed on the body of a revolutionary holding a musket. Charest’s face appears on the body of one of several dead men lying at Khadir’s feet.

Police snapped photos of the doctored painting last week as they raided Khadir’s home and arrested his daughter, Yalda Machouf Khadir, 19.

She spent five days in jail before a judge released her on $12,000 bail Tuesday.

Former OPP employee to taking racism allegations to Human Rights Tribunal
Man says he was racially discriminated in the workplace
By Sarah Frank
May 18, 2012 – 9:52 AM

(PETERBOROUGH) A former OPP employee is taking complaints of racism in the workplace before the Human Rights Tribunal in Toronto.
Michael Jack, a Russian Jew, claims his co-workers and management at the Peterborough detachment of the OPP used his racial background against him, forcing him to resign in the final month of his 12-month probation.
The Canadian immigrant, who speaks with a thick accent, claims his co-workers referred to him as “Crazy Ivan”, a derogatory nickname which he says circulated throughout the detachment. Mr. Jack also says he was deprived of regular performance evaluation meetings and developmental opportunities, among a long list of allegations detailing his unfair treatment in the workplace – for which he says he’s got written documentation.
On December 15, 2009, Mr. Jack says he was released from his job based on his failure to meet the requirements of a probationary constable.
According to Mr. Jack, he graduated from the Ontario Police College in Aylmer with a 91.6 cumulative average and was the recipient of the 100 per cent Ontario Police Fitness Award – which was only awarded to 1 per cent of the recruits.
Mr. Jack’s extensive work experience begins in Israel, where he worked in the Israeli Navy and with the Israeli Merchant fleet. From there, Mr. Jack began working for Intel Electronics Ltd., completing some of job training in the US.
In 2000, he immigrated to Canada, and spent five years studying and working at Trent University in Peterborough.

Islamic school apologizes for anti-Semitic material on website
CBC News Posted: May 8, 2012 1:23 PM ET Last Updated: May 8, 2012 4:51 PM ET
A Toronto Islamic school that is under police investigation after anti-Semitic teachings were found on its website is apologizing “unreservedly” for its curriculum material, which is now being reviewed.

The Toronto District School Board is also reviewing a complaint that the East End Madrassah was teaching children that “treacherous” Jews “conspired to kill” the Islamic prophet Mohammed. It also contrasted Islam with “the Jews and the Nazis.”

The complaint came from the Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which found the material on the school’s website.

The East End Madrassah, a Sunday school run that rents space in a Scarborough school, is run by a Thornhill, Ont., mosque. It has since taken the material off the website, but copies are still available online.

Incidents increase by 9.4%: B’nai Brith

By KATHERINE WILTON

A few weeks after thugs vandalized several Jewish-owned summer cottages in the Laurentians, a human rights organization says anti-Semitic incidents were on the rise in Montreal last year.

There were 303 incidents reported in Montreal, a 9.4 per cent increase from the 277 cases documented in 2010, according to the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada, which released its annual audit of anti-Semitic incidents across Canada.

Vandalism against Montreal’s Jewish community jumped from 51 cases in 2010 to 75 in 2011. The incidents include attacks on synagogues and cars being vandalized with swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs.

Montreal has one of the largest Jewish populations in Canada and “an increase in immigration, in part, brings prejudice from other countries,” said Moise Moghrabi, the League’s Quebec chair.

“When there is a flare up in the Middle East, they hold the Jewish population responsible.”

Retarded vandals broke into and defaced about 15 of 50 Jewish-owned summer homes in Val David. In one home, at least one of the vandals defecated on the floor, said Pinkas Feferkorn, director of the Val Morin synagogue. Photograph by: Pinkas Feferkorn

Vandals paint swastikas on Jewish-owned summer cottages in Quebec
By Andy Riga, Postmedia News April 16, 2012

Vandals broke into and defaced about 15 of 50 Jewish-owned summer homes in Val David. In one home, at least one of the vandals defecated on the floor, said Pinkas Feferkorn, director of the Val Morin synagogue.
Photograph by: Pinkas Feferkorn

MONTREAL — Vandals broke into several Jewish-owned summer cottages in Quebec in recent days, defacing at least two of them with anti-Jewish hate messages and swastikas.

The Quebec provincial police is investigating the break-ins in Val Morin, 90 kilometres northwest of Montreal in the Laurentians, but could not confirm Sunday that anti-Jewish graffiti was present.

No one was in the homes during the incidents.

Some break-ins occurred Thursday and others were reported Sunday, said Surete du Quebec spokesperson Ingrid Asselin. The vandals broke into about 15 of the 50 Jewish-owned homes in the area, said Pinkas Feferkorn, director of the Val Morin synagogue.

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Furniture was damaged, clothes and toys were thrown out windows and in one house, at least one of the vandals defecated on the floor, Feferkorn said.

Swastikas were spray-painted on the outside of one house. In another, swastikas were painted all over the interior, along with at least one phrase: “F–k Juif.”