Global Affairs Canada

Brent Robson, Director of Emergency Operations at Global Affairs Canada. This portrait was taken in accordance with public health recommendations, taking all necessary steps to protect participants from COVID-19. (Photograph by Sarah Dea)

Brent Robson: The point man on the scramble to repatriate Canadians

When civilian travel ground to a halt last year, Brent Robson led efforts to bring Canadians home from the far reaches of the planet

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Inside the frantic, gruelling, all-hands-on-deck effort to bring Canadians home

An astonishing one million citizens and permanent residents returned to Canada in a single mid-March week, but legions more were desperate, homesick and stranded, as a panicked world snapped shut around them

Greg Bestavros and Marina Fanous are confined to their hostel in Cusco, Peru after other guests in their hostel tested positive for coronavirus. They've been told they cannot leave for at least 28 days, and can't get on the government-supported plane to return to Canada. (Courtesy of Greg Bestavros and Marina Fanous)

For Canadians at a hostel in Peru, coronavirus has them trapped in their room

Ottawa is flying hundreds of Canadians home from Peru. These Torontonians fear they won’t get help, stuck inside on quarantine for at least a month, maybe longer.

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These are the worst-behaved foreign diplomats in Canada

Newly released documents detail the unpunished crimes of diplomats who never fear prosecution in Canadian courts