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• Marrakech Named 7th Best Tourist City Globally, Outranking Berlin and Montreal
  9 July 2024, by Sylvanus

  A Moroccan city is among the ten best tourist cities in the world, ahead of the most famous cities like Berlin (Germany) and Montreal (Canada).
  Marrakech ranks seventh in the ranking of the 10 best tourist cities in the world, established by a British magazine specializing in tourism and travel. It is also the only Arab city featured in this top. The ochre city owes its place to the growing influx of tourists from different regions of the world, the popular character of the old (…)

• Muslim Professionals Leaving France Amid Rising Discrimination, Study Finds
  13 May 2024, by Sylvanus

  Many French people of Muslim culture or faith, who constitute a "cultural and economic elite", are leaving France to settle in London, Dubai, New York, Casablanca, Montreal or Brussels due to discrimination in the job market, stigmatization for their religion, their names or their origins.
  The book "France, you love it, but you’re leaving it" sheds light on Muslim talents who have decided to leave France due to discrimination, particularly in employment and racism. This book investigates (…)

• Moroccan-Canadian Comedy Trio Takes Quebec by Storm with "Surtout Anas" Tour
  30 April 2023, by Prince

  Anas Hassouna and Oussama Fares are two comedian friends of Moroccan origin who grew up in Montreal-Nord. In 2018, they met Charles Brunet, a young comedian from the city. The three friends now form a trio who will be on tour all next year in Quebec with their show "Surtout Anas".
  Anas and Oussama met during their first year of high school and became very good friends. The two comedians met Charles Brunet, a young comedian barely 18 years old, in 2018 and now form a trio. "We are united (…)

• Air Canada Flight to Morocco Disrupted by Passenger Confrontation
  17 March 2023, by Sylvanus

  As a couple from New Brunswick were traveling to Morocco on an Air Canada Montreal-Casablanca flight, an incident occurred. They share their story.
  Chantal LePage and Marc LeBlanc were marked by the 7-hour Air Canada AC 072 flight, operated on February 16. While they were mid-flight, the conversation with a passenger sitting next to them "quickly derails," Chantal confides. "He says: ’your wife, she doesn’t respect the man. She touched me with her foot several times.’ It wasn’t true. So (…)

• Royal Air Maroc Flight Evacuation Strands 100 Montreal Students at Airport
  2 April 2023, by Prince

  Boarded on a Royal Air Maroc flight to Spain on Friday, about a hundred children and chaperones from the Montreal Sports School had to be urgently evacuated from the aircraft due to a mechanical breakdown, after more than an hour of waiting on board. For the past 24 hours, they have been stranded at the airport.
  The young people and the staff were supposed to take off on a Royal Air Maroc flight on Friday at 10 pm to participate in a football tournament. But an hour later, the plane had (…)

• Royal Air Maroc Loses Luggage of Quebec Tourists Returning from Egypt and Morocco
  28 January 2024, by Sylvanus

  After returning to Canada via a flight of the airline Royal Air Maroc (RAM) after a trip to Egypt and Morocco, Quebec tourists find themselves without their suitcases. Some of them have since been located, in an unexpected place in Montreal.
  They will long remember their return to Canada. About twenty travelers - precisely 25 - learn on January 7 that Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has lost track of their luggage. Their attempts to find their suitcases have been in vain. Neither the airline nor (…)

• Royal Air Maroc Addresses Luggage Delays on Montreal Flights Amid Airport System Changes
  1 February 2024, by Sylvanus

  The national airline [Royal Air Maroc (RAM)] explains the delays recorded in the delivery of luggage for some of its clients traveling on its flights to Montreal, Canada.
  The late delivery of luggage for some of its clients traveling on its flights to Montreal, Canada, "is due to the change in the baggage handling system in transit at terminal 1 of Mohammed V airport in Casablanca (CMN), which has led to significant delays in the routing of transit baggage to their final destination," (…)

• Air Canada Flight Canceled After Crew-Passenger Dispute Over Blankets
  28 July 2024, by Sylvanus

  An Air Canada flight from Casablanca to Montreal was canceled following an altercation between the cabin manager and passengers.
  Tensions rose when the cabin manager and passengers had an altercation. In videos posted by Jalal Belayane and other passengers on social media, we see the flight attendant raising her voice in front of passengers seated in their seats. "Are you going to behave [properly], or are we getting off?" she asks. The origin of this dispute was requests for blankets on (…)

• Muslim Professionals Leaving France Amid Rising Discrimination and Career Barriers
  28 May 2024, by Sylvanus

  Many French executives of Muslim faith are leaving France to settle in Dubai, London, New York or Montreal due to discrimination in the job market, stigmatization for their religion, their names or their origins.
  "We are suffocating in France," says a 33-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin to the Charente Libre website. Because of the "gloomy atmosphere" and the "daily humiliations" related to his surname and origins, this tech employee is about to emigrate to Southeast Asia with his (…)

• World Cup: Montreal’s Moroccan Community Buzzes Ahead of Morocco-Canada Match
  30 November 2022, by Sylvanus

  Moroccans in Montreal are eagerly awaiting the match between Morocco and Canada, a team already eliminated from the World Cup.
  The Morocco-Canada match for the 3rd day of the Qatar 2022 World Cup is highly anticipated in Montreal, where there is a large Moroccan community - about 37,360. Some Moroccans living abroad (MREs) intend to storm the cafes and bars of the city, especially "Petit Maghreb", located in a neighborhood north of downtown, to follow the match on Thursday, December 1, (…)