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World News // 1 decade ago

Canada pulls most diplomats from Syria

Canada has evacuated all but a few of its embassy staff from Syria as that country teeters on civil war, the foreign minister said in Ottawa.

Entertainment News // 1 decade ago

Canadians gave royals diamonds and rocks

Canadians gave the newlywed royal couple Prince William and Kate more than 200 gifts last summer that ranged from diamond jewelry to rock samples.

World News // 1 decade ago

Canada urges its citizens to flee Syria

About 5,000 Canadians in violence-wracked Syria should get out of the country as quickly as possible, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird warned Thursday.

Outside View // 1 decade ago

Outside View: Will U.S. enable Iranian Holocaust?

The United States needs to take steps to stop a feared massacre of an Iranian dissident group at Camp Ashraf in Iraq.

World News // 1 decade ago

Japan apologizes to Canada over POWs

Japan issued a formal apology in Tokyo Thursday to Canada for its abuse and starvation of Canadian prisoners of war in World War II.

World News // 1 decade ago

Canadian: I helped Saadi Gadhafi flee

Members of Canada's Libyan community called on Ottawa to investigate if an Ontario man broke laws by helping one of Moammar Gadhafi's sons flee Libya for Niger.

World News // 1 decade ago

Canada to give Libya $10M to disarm

Libya's National Transition Council will receive $10 million from Canada to hunt down and destroy weapons, a Canadian minister said in Tripoli Tuesday.

Energy News // 1 decade ago

Canada puts sanctions on Syrian oil

Sanctions imposed against Syria by the Canadian government prohibit economic activity related to the country's oil sector, the foreign minister said.

Special Reports // 1 decade ago

Canada concerned by Tymoshenko case

The Canadian government became the latest Western power to express concern about the appearance of bias in the case against Ukraine's Yulia Tymoshenko.

World News // 1 decade ago

Canadian lawmaker in hot water over e-mails

The drum beat for Conservative Canadian Member of Parliament Bob Dechert to step down over inappropriate e-mails to a Chinese journalist grew louder Wednesday.

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John Russell Baird, PC, MP (born May 26, 1969) is a Canadian politician currently serving as the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Baird had previously held the posts of Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, Minister of the Environment and President of the Treasury Board. Prior to entering federal politics he was a provincial politician serving in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 2005 and a cabinet minister in the Progressive Conservative governments of Mike Harris and Ernie Eves serving as the Minister for Children, Community and Social Services, Energy and Francophone Affairs in addition to being the Government's Chief Whip.

A long-time resident of the former city of Nepean and a graduate of Kingston's Queen's University, he is the member of the Canadian House of Commons for the riding of Ottawa West—Nepean. Baird was elected as a candidate for the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2006 federal election when his party won a minority government over Paul Martin's Liberal Party.

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