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Canada: Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival Apologizes for Discriminating Against Falun Dafa to Appease Chinese Embassy

Nov. 22, 2023 | By Minghui correspondent Yingzi in Ottawa (Minghui.org) The Ottawa Dragon Boat Foundation issued a statement on its website on November 13, 2023 to apologise for asking Mr. Gerry Smith to remove his shirt with the words, “Falun Dafa is Good” in 2019. The statement reads, “The Festival has a policy of …

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Ottawa: Introducing Falun Dafa at the Orleans Multicultural Day

Sept. 6, 2023 | By Minghui correspondent Ying Zi (Minghui.org) Practitioners participated in the Orleans Multicultural Day in Ottawa on September 2 and introduced Falun Dafa to the community. Many people praised their efforts, and some learned the exercises during the event or asked for information on how to practice.   Host Welcomes the Principles of …

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Canada: Falun Dafa Praised at World Multicultural Festival in Ottawa

Dec. 3, 2022 | By Ying Zi, Minghui correspondent in Ottawa, Canada (Minghui.org) Practitioners participated in the World Cultural Festival in Landsdowne Park on November 27, 2022, and introduced Falun Dafa, a traditional cultivation practice from China. During the ten-hour colorful multicultural event with people of different ethnicities from 17 communities, the Falun Gong exercise demonstration …

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Ottawa, Canada: Member of Parliament Commends April 25 Peaceful Appeal

April 24, 2022 | By Minghui correspondent Ying Xin ____________________________________ (Minghui.org) Falun Dafa practitioners held a rally in front of the Chinese Embassy in Ottawa on April 22 to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Falun Gong April 25 peaceful appeal. Practitioner Jack Liu, a student at Carleton University, called on the Chinese Communist Party …

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Historic Peaceful Appeal in China Being Remembered in Major Canadian Cities

Several events were recently held in major Canadian cities to commemorate the peaceful appeal by Falun Dafa practitioners in Beijing on April 25, 1999. After the Chinese government illegally arrested dozens of practitioners in Tianjin, over 10,000 practitioners voluntarily gathered in nearby Beijing to request their release. Three months later, then-Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin …

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The Ottawa Citizen: New Heights for Human Rights

From the Matas-Kilgour report: “The Organ Transplant Center of the Armed Police General Hospital in Beijing boldly states: ‘Our Organ Transplant Center is our main department for making money. This year (2004) there is a chance to break through 30,000,000 yuan (about $3.8 million U.S.).’ ”