A member of the Canadian Armed Forces has been arrested after someone rammed a truck through the gates of Rideau Hall and drove up the path toward the official residences that house Gov. Gen. Julie Payette and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau before being stopped by police.
The Canadian Forces are considering whether to recruit elite special-forces soldiers straight off the street rather than forcing them to follow the traditional route of first spending several years in the military.
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.
American officials say the North Korea nuclear crisis will be one of several topics of conversation when Rex Tillerson makes his first visit to Canada as secretary of state on Tuesday, December 19, 2017.
"The last six months have been a gamechanger," Conservative foreign affairs critic Erin O'Toole said Wednesday, referring to South Korea's sabre rattling.
On an issue with the highest stakes imaginable, the life-and-death matter of a nuclear showdown, Donald Trump's team delivered mixed messages Wednesday.
Canada will add elite special forces commandos, wage offensive cyberwarfare attacks and deploy armed drones to international battlefields to meet 21st century threats.
Staff at Canada's nuclear watchdog were developing strategic plans for management to review its oversight role based on the "political environment" in 2015, says an internal federal document.