Canada's foreign minister pledged Can$10 million (US$9 million) on Monday to help victims of sexual violence and human rights abuses that he said were perpetrated by the Islamic State (IS) group.

Canada's prime minister on Friday sought parliament's support for a plan -- which is expected to be approved -- to send fighter jets to help fight the Islamic State group in Iraq.

Lawmakers, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said, will be asked to vote on the mission -- which the government framed as a six-month "counter-terrorism operation" -- on Monday.

An expat Lebanese boxer has been murdered in the Canadian city of Vancouver and the motives are likely sport-related, a media report said on Saturday.

“Alaeddine Ramadan, a 20-year-old boxing champion in the Canadian city of Vancouver, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds on Wednesday night,” LBCI TV reported.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop on Tuesday said Canberra was treating as genuine a call by the Islamic State group for Muslims to indiscriminately kill Australians, issued after anti-terrorism raids foiled an alleged abduction plot.

The militants on Monday released a statement urging the deaths of citizens of all countries taking part in the U.S.-led coalition against the jihadists. Australia was mentioned, along with the United States, Canada and France. 

Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday his government is looking to scale up its fight against terrorism after the Islamic State group threatened lone-wolf attacks on Canadians.

"We have, as you know, strengthened laws in this country to deal with these kinds of threats," Harper said.

Canada announced fresh sanctions against Russia on Tuesday, targeting four senior Russian army generals, a bank and five arms manufacturers, over Moscow's support for rebels in Ukraine.

In a statement, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said this 12th round of economic sanctions was motivated by Moscow's continued "aggression" in eastern Ukraine.

Canada has sent 69 soldiers to northern Iraq to advise security forces fighting Islamist militants in the northern part of the country, the prime minister said Tuesday.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper provided the figure to parliament as opposition parties pressed for clarification of government statements saying "several dozen" special forces personnel had been deployed this month.

A defrocked Catholic priest was found guilty Friday of raping dozens of children and a sled dog in the Canadian Arctic, where he worked as a missionary for decades.

The Belgian-born Eric Dejaeger, 67, was convicted of 31 counts of sexual offenses against children and one count of bestiality.

The Russian defence ministry said on Tuesday that its planes had not approached a Canadian frigate on a NATO mission in the Black Sea in an incident Ottawa denounced as "unnecessarily provocative".

Canada said Friday it will deploy "several dozen" military personnel to Iraq to advise security forces fighting Islamist militants in the northern part of the country.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's office said the Canadians will join U.S. advisers in helping local forces "to be more effective against the threat posed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant."