After 12 years and nine months a man who was taken to Guantanamo Bay at 15 years old has been granted bail, defeating an attempt by Canada’s conservative government to keep Omar Khadr in prison.

A Canadian judge has granted Omar Khadr bail, offering the former Guantanamo Bay detainee his first taste of freedom after more than 12 years in custody.

Stephen Harper says the practice of covering one’s face with a niqab is “rooted in a culture that is anti-women” – his bluntest effort to date to explain why the Conservative government is fighting the use of these veils during Canadian citizenship ceremonies.

Rania El-Alloul’s collection of hijabs is a source of pride, and she takes care to match her headscarf to her outfit. On Tuesday, she chose a plain beige one with gold trim, fitting, she thought, for the serious occasion of appearing before a judge.

A Quebec judge told a Muslim woman appearing in a Montreal courtroom she would not hear her case until she removed her head scarf.

An appeal from the mother of Omar Khadr.

A man who moved from Ottawa to Fort McMurray less than a month ago was shot dead in his Alberta apartment on Monday, his family told CBC News.

A telecoms sales manager sent his staff a text message urging them to ‘blow away’ the competition at a trade show – and the Muslim man ended up in jail.

A Muslim Secondary School called Musulmane secondaire de Montréal in Montreal, Canada was shot at over the weekend. Police say it appears someone may have used a pellet gun to put holes in several windows of the school. Alhamdulillah, the building was closed over the weekend and no one was