International Crisis Group

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a slate of new supports for Haiti in the Bahamas on Thursday, February 16, 2023, including humanitarian aid and some naval vessels to help with surveillance.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wants European nations to join Canada in sanctioning Haiti's elites over alleged ties to the violent gangs paralyzing that country.

In his darkest moments, Michael Kovrig draws strength from knowing that his fellow Canadians and people around the world are working to free him and Michael Spavor from their respective Chinese prison cells.

The political silence in Ottawa was deafening on Wednesday, November 4, 2020, after Donald Trump's bombastic declarations of victory in the U.S. presidential election and his threat to take his re-election fight to the Supreme Court.

The president of a prominent think tank used a high-level U.N. Security Council meeting on Tuesday, October 20, 2020, to appeal for the release of former Canadian diplomat Michael Kovrig, who has been held by Beijing for nearly two years as part of a diplomatic dispute with Canada.

The escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf between Iran and the United States have implications for the future safety of Canadian troops in Iraq, analysts suggested on Monday, July 8, 2019.

China warned Canada on Friday, May 31, 2019, that it needs to be aware of the consequences of aiding the U.S. in a case involving the Chinese tech giant Huawei that is believed to have sparked the detention of two Canadians in China.

Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the government is "deeply concerned" about China's decision to formally arrest two Canadians citizens it has been holding since December.

Canada will continue to meet with like-minded nations as it aims to bridge divides between countries at a time of simmering international tensions, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said from Germany on Saturday, February 16, 2019.

The employer of a Canadian man detained in China is expressing confidence in the Trudeau government following the firing of John McCallum.

A former Canadian diplomat detained in China last month does not enjoy diplomatic immunity, a Chinese spokeswoman said on Monday, January 14, 2019, rejecting a complaint from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that the man's rights were being denied.

A group of Canadian lawmakers travelling to China this weekend will use the trip to push for the release of two Canadians detained there since last month, says a Conservative MP in the delegation.

Western allies' support for Canada in its argument with China over the arrests of two Canadians on national-security grounds have made China "very dissatisfied," its foreign ministry said on Monday, December 24, 2018.

After more than a week of expressing worsening upset about China's arrests of two Canadians, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday, December 22, 2018, formally demanded that Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor be let go.