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The Global Dialogue on the Future of Iran, an effort by the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and the Department of Foreign Affairs to provide a platform for Iranians  to discuss and debate the country’s future, mostly through Internet social media, has received more than 149,000 distinct visitors from inside Iran, according to a Foreign Affairs source.

Canada severed diplomatic relations with Iran last September, cutting off contact between the Iranian and Canadian governments. Simultaneously, however, a team at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has been working to engage directly with Iranian citizens.

Why Canada decided to ditch Israeli trauma kits during Baird’s 2011 visit

This morning I sent Suzanne Legault, Canada’s information commissioner, the following letter. Updates will be posted here as warranted.

Canada’s Access to Information Act stipulates that a government institution should disclose information 30 days after a request is received.

Canada probably wants to help the insurgency but is afraid to say so openly

Last year’s revolutions of the Arab Spring were, and remain, the greatest opportunity for the global growth of democracy since the end of the Cold War and the resulting spread of freedom in Eastern Europe.

John Baird is wrong to say Canada is allowing Suncor to continue working in Syria out of humanitarian concerns

If Canada believes its sanctions are effective, it should be able to say so

While Richard Colvin awaits the necessary funds to pay his legal bills, the Liberals have publicly tabled some of the dozens of written questions they had put on the order paper and were awaiting government response when the second session of the 40th Parliament met its untimely demise. Included among them, several on the matter of Afghan detainees. To wit.

Unsolicited, a three paragraph statement from Foreign Affairs arrived just now.

The Toronto Star’s John Goddard tells a sad and familiar tale.