Haiti

The Liberal government is taking steps to stem the tide of asylum seekers who've been crossing into Canada from the U.S. at unofficial border crossings.

Dozens of Quebec tourists who had been trapped in Haiti amid violent street protests were greeted with hugs and tears from relieved loved ones as they landed at Montreal's airport on Saturday, February 16, 2019.

An Ottawa physician who navigated the dangerous roads of Haiti on Friday, February 15, 2019, to get to the Port-au-Prince airport with three Canadian colleagues says he feel lucky to be alive and is warning others stranded in the strife-torn country not to follow his lead.

People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier has chosen a candidate to represent his party in its first-ever Quebec election.

The number of Canadian police officers on UN missions has reached its lowest point in more than a decade despite a shortage of such personnel on many peacekeeping operations and a Liberal promise to address it.

Anastasia Marcelin, originally from Haiti, says she became an activist after witnessing how city police treated her three younger brothers in their Montreal North neighbourhood.

With two weeks to go before la Francophonie names its new leader, former governor general Michaelle Jean is receiving only lukewarm support from Quebec's political party leaders as she seeks a second term.

A Haitian asylum seeker who fled violence at home says he's worried about being sent back, especially as the situation in his country deteriorates due to civil unrest.

"Trudeau and other politicians must realize the real-life consequences of their words when it comes to immigration. It is not compassionate nor prudent to give these individuals false hope when we know that the majority of the asylum claims before the Immigration and Refugee Board will eventually be rejected." — Conservative MP Michelle Rempel. CP tests this and a reply for accuracy.

The Quebec government says it is facing even more asylum-seekers entering the province from the United States this year and is asking the federal government for help.

Only weeks after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada was prepared to offer helicopters, aircraft and hundreds of troops to peacekeeping, the number of Canadians on UN missions reached a new low, new figures indicate.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will personally reveal today, Nov. 15, 2017, what Canada has offered to provide the United Nations in terms of troops and military equipment for peacekeeping missions.

The Trudeau government is formally offering helicopters, transport aircraft and a 200-strong rapid-response team of soldiers for UN peacekeeping — though it will be months before Canadians know when and where they will go.

Air Transat has launched an airlift to get all its travellers out of the Dominican Republic ahead of the arrival of hurricane Irma.

Their lives changed in an instant that July day when the government letter arrived telling them that her work permit was not being renewed.