OttawaThe UN votes to recognize a Palestinian stateThe UN voted 138-9 this evening to give the Palestinians non-member observer status. Canada joined the United States, Israel, the...
OttawaIrwin Cotler on Israel and the Palestinian resolutionIrwin Cotler expands on his objections to the Palestinian resolution at the United Nations.
OttawaCanada will vote noJohn Baird is in New York today to vote against a resolution that would recognize Palestine as a non-voting observer state at the...
GeneralHarper condemns attacks on Israeli cities, urges both sides to spare innocentsQUEBEC CITY, Que. - Prime Minister Stephen Harper condemned the continuing rocket attacks against Israel as tensions continued to...
GeneralIsrael, Palestine use social media propaganda during Gaza attacksUsing the digital front to win hearts and minds
GeneralTurkey-Syria conflict escalates amid ’air piracy’ incidentAn early-morning decision by Turkey to escort a plane bound for Syria to the ground is escalating already high tensions between...
WorldIs this your first war? Michael Petrou’s travels in AfghanistanMaclean’s journalist describes fighting between the Taliban and the Afghan Northern Alliance, one month after 9/11
General15 dead in Pakistani protestsPakistan is the latest country to erupt over the portrayal of the prophet Muhammad in an amateur American film. At least 15 people...
GeneralProtests continue as U.S. embassy in Tunis burnsThe violent protests in the Middle East, fuelled by an anti-Muslim movie, have spread with thousands of protesters storming the...
GeneralAnti-Muslim filmmaker’s identity discovered by American authoritiesU.S. authorities have identified the man who was behind the California-made, ardently anti-Muslim film, Innocence of Muslims...