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The supervising RCMP officer on duty the night Robert Dziekanski died at Vancouver's airport told a public inquiry Monday that he gave the order to shock the man with a Taser, and repeated the command as many as two more times.

RCMP made an arrest on Parliament Hill shortly before the arrival of U.S. President Barack Obama for a six-hour visit.

Big telecoms are trying to ruin Net democracy. Tell the feds to stop them.
In just over 10 days, nearly 4,500 Canadians have written the CRTC demanding that they put a stop to discriminatory Internet throttling by big ISPs. Canadians made it known that they will stand for nothing less than full and open access to all the Internet has to offer, free from ISP control.

Once a terror suspect, Montrealer has a ticket home home but no passport.Former Liberal justice minister Irwin Cotler and other opposition MPs joined forces on Tuesday to plead the case of Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Montrealer who has a ticket to fly home on Friday but remains in limbo at Canada's embassy in Sudan.

Benamar Benatta was mysteriously handed over by Canada to U.S. authorities the day after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, and spent nearly five years in American jails without ever being convicted of a crime.

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster.

An international peace conference in Johannesburg has been postponed after South Africa refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend the event.

Announcing the postponement at a news conference Tuesday, Irvin Khosa, chairman of the South African football league, did not offer an explanation for the delay.

Can a Canadian industry that has been abused for more than 15 years by speculators, incompetents and in some cases, outright thievery, reinvent itself to occupy a meaningful place in a fast-changing media world?

Muzzled MPs. A powerless cabinet. Politicized senior bureaucrats. Unaccountable parties. Canada's democracy is in trouble. To fix it we have to fix it we have to connect the dots.