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Harper: Canada May Contribute To UN Mali Mission

CP | Mike Blanchfield, The Canadian Press | Posted 05.14.2013 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is leaning towards development assistance for Mali rather than a further military contribution as he consults w...

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Canada Anticipated Getting Grilled By UN: Memos

CP | Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.12.2013 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Canada fully expected the intense grilling it got from a United Nations committee earlier this year about its international obligations to sh...

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UN Blasts Tory Crime Bill

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.09.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - The federal government's tough-on-crime agenda is "excessively punitive" for youth and is a step backwards for Canada's child rights record, ...

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UN Slams Canada On Child Rights

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.26.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - United Nations officials say they're concerned vulnerable Canadian children may be falling through the cracks of a fractious federal system t...

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Canada Joins Other Nations To Snub Ahmadinejad At UN

AP | Edith M. Lederer | Posted 11.22.2011 | Canada Politics
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UPDATE: CBC reports the Canadian delegation was the first to walk out, before Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his speech to the United Nat...

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Time to Celebrate the UN's Hidden Victories

Glen Pearson | Posted 09.30.2011 | Canada
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Glen Pearson

The real success of the United Nations can never be measured by what it's done or failed to do. I hearken back to former Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's observation: "The UN was not created in order to bring us to heaven, but in order to save us from hell."

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