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The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today welcomed the resumption of the Darfur peace process with the launching of civil society consultations in Doha, Qatar. “Canada welcomes the resumption of the...
A United Nations committee has approved a Canadian-led resolution urging Iran to stop harassing political opponents in the wake of its disputed presidential elections. The vote Friday in the General Assembly's 192-member human...
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, will speak to the Economic Club of Canada on Canada’s foreign policy priorities and the Arctic in Toronto on November 23, 2009. The Minister will discuss Canada’s...
While Sarah Palin and other right-wing opportunists create a cottage industry in drumming up public hysteria about Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other terror suspects from Guantanamo coming to New York for trial, many legal...
Afghanistan will Friday oppose a Canadian-led bid to have the United Nations highlight serious human rights abuses in Iran, diplomats expect — just a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged that respect for women's...
OTTAWA, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Opposition parliamentarians in Canada are pressuring the government Thursday to investigate after a former diplomat said Canadian military continued to transfer Afghan prisoners to local authorities...
With the weight of Afghanistan's failures on his shoulders, Karzai is sworn in to a new term and a new reality, with more pressure than ever to root out corruption and tackle the Taliban, or risk the West turning its back
On behalf of the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Scott Heatherington, Ambassador of Canada to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, today signed an agreement with Lithuania under Foreign Affairs and...
Back there, Transport Minister John Baird (yes - this same John Baird) was caught privately encouraging Canada's big airlines to step up their lobby campaign in order to kill a proposed "passenger bill of right" while his...
Ottawa Workers at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and War Museum have been on strike for 58 days almost a week longer than last year's OC Transpo strike. After eight weeks of picketing, letter-writing, lobbying and...
