TORONTO, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- The Sri Lankan separatist Tamil Tiger movement is using Canada as a restaging base, a think-tank professor in Singapore told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

OTTAWA, July 24 (UPI) -- Refugee claimants from five countries will no longer be welcome in Canada if entering from the United States, the Canadian government announced.

OTTAWA, July 14 (UPI) -- Canada raised diplomatic ire Tuesday by demanding travelers from the Czech Republic and Mexico have visas in a bid to cut down refugee claims.

PRAGUE, Czech Republic, July 2 (UPI) -- A top Czech official, in a bid to avert Canada's threat to re-impose travel visas, has tried to curb rising number of Czech asylum seekers, officials said.

OTTAWA, April 28 (UPI) -- The Canadian government issued a warning to citizens against non-essential travel to Mexico, where the death toll from a swine flu outbreak surpassed 150.

ISTANBUL, Turkey, April 22 (UPI) -- Turkey recalled its ambassador to Canada in protest of a federal minister who attended a ceremony commemorating the deaths of 1.5 million Armenians.

OTTAWA, March 31 (UPI) -- A British member of Parliament, barred from Canada for his Middle East peace efforts, taunted the Canadian immigration minister electronically from New York.

OTTAWA, March 21 (UPI) -- George Galloway, a controversial member of the British Parliament, said he will fight a ruling that he should be barred from Canada as a security risk.

CALGARY, Alberta, March 21 (UPI) -- Immigrants who want Canadian citizenship should learn French or English first, the Canadian immigration minister says.