Elizabeth McSheffrey
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News, Politics
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January 16th 2018
International Trade Minister François-Philippe Champagne will announce the creation of a long-awaited human rights watchdog for Canadian businesses operating abroad on Wednesday.
For human rights defenders putting their lives on the line in Guatemala, justice could hinge on an unfulfilled election promise of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
In 2003, the two Koreas and their superpower allies -- the U.S., China, Russia, and Japan -- met in Beijing to negotiate a peaceful path to denuclearizing the Korean peninsula. Over six years, the Six-Party Talks made halting diplomatic progress before North Korea suddenly pulled out of negotiations in 2009.
In 2004, Kim Jong-Il wanted to convince the United States that it had a nuclear bomb. His staff invited some of the world’s top nuclear scientists into his facility and handed Siegfried Hecker, a professor at Stanford University, a small piece of plutonium metal inside a glass jar.
Dolores O'Riordan, the defiant voice of Irish rock band the Cranberries who died on Monday at 46, found a certain solace in her second home — a remote town in Ontario.
