Egyptian military makes way for moderates

6:03 PM

Opinion: Egyptian elections

The result of the military’s machinations is that 10 of the 27 candidates for the presidency have been removed, including all the more extreme ones with any serious prospect of winning the election.

UN Photo: Ryan Brown

Olivier De Schutter, UN special rapporteur on the right to food, at UN headquarters in New York last fall.

UN food envoy to meet with health minister

By KRISTEN SHANE

9:20 AM

Until now, Cabinet ministers had not accepted a request to meet with Olivier De Schutter.

Embassy Photos: Carl Meyer

What’s up, Docs? Downtown Ottawa doctors and their supporters staged a demonstration on Parliament Hill on May 11 calling on the Harper government to maintain health-care services being provided to refugees. Clockwise from top left: Mark Tyndall, head of infectious diseases at the Ottawa Hospital; Haoua Inoua, a refugee from Chad; David Ponka, chair of the Global Health Committee at the University of Ottawa Department of Family Medicine; the crowd that gathered for Mr. Ponka’s speech.

Some refugees may have to pay for childbirth

By Kristen Shane

They could be stuck paying for emergency surgery, hospital childbirth. Feds say it's about equity, cost savings, discouraging abuse.

'Baby steps' to US agents on Canadian soil: RCMP

By Carl Meyer

Mounties have spent $3 million on cross-border policing pilot projects so far; day-to-day threat is organized crime, not terrorism.

Canada's human rights reputation under fire

By Ally Foster

UN special rapporteur for the right to food says he was told public servants would be adequate for his mission.

Military's structural overhaul seen as long overdue

By Carl Meyer

MacKay's office says it's only one part of a larger reorganization.

Striker sues Ottawa police
Mulroney leaving China
RCMP objected to kettling
Big Canuck carbon footprint: Report

Genderless passports considered

Passport Canada is considering allowing Canadians to apply for genderless passports, La Presse reported. A briefing note obtained by the paper said the policy is the subject of a review by the agency. The current rules only permit Canadians to change the sex on their passport if they have undergone surgery to reassign their gender and have provided medical proof of the procedure.

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Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal.

Diplomatic Agenda

By ALIA KELLOCK HEWARD

May. 14, 11:42 PM

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt gives a speech on the Arctic at Carleton University on Thursday, while Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal speaks about the freedom to worship, to trade and to be secure at the University of Ottawa on Friday. Much of Ottawa is also anticipating the G8 Summit at Camp David starting Friday and the NATO Summit in Chicago starting Sunday.

Making sausages on the Hill: The case of Bill C-31

By PETER SHOWLER

May. 13, 11:16 PM

Opinion: Refugee policy

Most of us do not want to spend much time in the back kitchen where the spices are added to raw meat—but we should. We are the ones who will be eating those sausages. A refugee bill just coming out of committee is a case in point.

NEWS

Full embassy in Albania's capital could boost ties: Foreign minister

By Avinash Gavai

Edmond Haxhinasto was in town to promote commercial deals to boost investment in Albania.

Future Afghan refugee funding in question

By Ally Foster

Canadian delegates joined an international conference on sustainable repatriation, but UNHCR support is 'still under consideration.'

Polish prime minister talks energy in Ottawa

By Sneh Duggal

Donald Tusk partakes in roundtable with Canadian officials and executives from Talisman, Encana, and Nexen.

Business views Japan talks as 'strategic play' for TPP

By Sneh Duggal

The Canada-Japan trade talks are a "strategic" move that could give Canada some leverage for getting into the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations, say recent witnesses at the House Trade committee.

OPINION

Refugee bill changes not good enough

COLUMNS

Greek default, euro collapse?

By Gwynne Dyer

Last year, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned: "Nobody should believe that another half-century of peace in Europe is a given...If the euro collapses, Europe collapses.

Diplomatic Circles

Burkina Faso's envoy hopes for 'win-win' relationship

By Kristen Shane

It sparked a small firestorm of controversy within Canadian international development circles, but Burkina Faso's new ambassador to Canada says he wants to see more partnerships like the one the Canadian International Development Agency started with the development NGO Plan Canada, and the Canadian gold giant IAMGOLD.

Chatter House

A Korean spy story

By Avinash Gavai

When an ambassador's tenure in a country adds up to a grand total of only eight months, the signs are usually ominous.

Inside Defence

Peter MacKay's accounting problem

By Scott Taylor

For the past few months the Harper government has been taking it on the chin for allegedly low-balling the acquisition costs of the controversial F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

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