American Deserters Find a Mixed Reception in Canada
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Despite Canada's opposition to the Iraq war, the government also is opposing the U.S. deserters' refugee applications, saying the soldiers are not persecuted. It is resisting the argument that the Iraq war is illegal.
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Hundreds of Canadians, many of Ukrainian descent, braved freezing temperatures to protest what they consider to be the fixed outcome of the Ukrainian presidential election.
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The team&#39;s final game in Montreal on Wednesday brought sadness and a flood of memories back for Canadians and former players, who had long ago resigned themselves to saying goodbye to the country&#39;s first major-league team.
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TOKYO - First he struggled through 40 years of life in North Korea as a deserter. Then he spent a month in an American military prison for abandoning his US Army post for the isolated communist state.
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Villagers on the remote Japanese isle of Sado have warmly welcomed U.S. Army deserter Charles Jenkins since he arrived with his Japanese wife and their two North Korea-born daughters a week ago, his wife said Tuesday.
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RIGA, Latvia -- NATO was divided at its summit yesterday on deploying more troops to Afghanistan's volatile south, with Germany resisting any permanently expanded presence and Canada complaining of bearing the brunt of an increasingly bloody mission.
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"We will of course consult closely with Canada on this"  The vast majority of Canadians want this country's military mission in Afghanistan to end as scheduled in 2009, according to a new poll. via Canada.com
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Lorne Davis remembers it as a testament to the futility of war. Like clockwork every day at noon, the Germans holed up on Montecassino would fire three artillery rounds on a crossroads near the Canadian ...
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canadians depend largely on luck for national security, not good planning and preparedness, says a Senate committee.
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The impression up north is that Canada caved to the U.S. in settling a decades-long dispute, and that could hurt Stephen Harper's precarious minority government
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For nearly four decades, he was a prisoner of the North Koreans. Then US Army deserter Charles Jenkins came to Japan this year, faced a court-martial and was sentenced to a month in jail.
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Holding up signs calling US president George Bush a âwar criminalâ and âliar,â several thousand demonstrators marched on the parliament buildings in Canadaâs capital Ottawa to protest against his visit, the US-led war in Iraq and a host of other
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Oh, Canada! For the first time, Americans were taken with the top two picks in the NHL draft.
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A decorated soldier who deserted from the U.S. Army to avoid a second tour of duty in Iraq has crossed back into the United States after fleeing to Canada almost two years ago.
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Nearly two-thirds of Canadians had an unfavourable view of US President George W. Bush, even though most Canadians said they had a good opinion of Americans, suggests a poll done for The Associated Press.
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A day after desertion charges against Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun shocked his family and shook Utah&#39;s Muslim community, a relative calm prevailed at his Marine base and his adopted home.
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RABAT, Morocco -- A U.S. delegation seeking a home for a new military command in Africa got a chilly reception during a tour of the northern half of the continent this month, running into opposition even in countries that enjoy friendly relations with the Pentagon.