Prime Minister Stephen Harper celebrates the return of Tim Hortons to Canada by with store staff in Oakville, Ont., on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2009. (PMO photo by Jason Ransom)
Tim Hortons is a huge supporter of our troops and their families, welcome back to Canada.
Bravo Zulu Canada at the UN General meeting
The Canadian delegation walked out of a speech at the United Nations by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad later Wednesday, to protest human rights abuses in Iran, as well as inflammatory comments the Iranian leader has made about Israel and the Holocaust.
Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon boycotts the speech under direct orders from Prime Minister Stephen Harper, CTV News' Ottawa Bureau Chief Robert Fife was first to report late Tuesday.
Canadian Foreign Service Diplomat takes over high profile position.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Ben Rowswell, formerly deputy chief of Canada's mission to Afghanistan and a past Canadian emissary in Iraq, has taken over the top civilian post in Kandahar.
Rowswell, 39, has already clocked 16 years of foreign service experience and plans to take a definite hands-on approach now that he has been installed as the Representative of Canada in Kandahar -- a title known more colloquially among Canadians in Afghanistan as the RoCK.
We need to engage with a wide range of Kandaharis and try as much as possible to get in touch with the actual people that are living through this insurgency, Rowswell said Wednesday following a transfer ceremony at Kandahar Airfield.
Those are the people, he said, who can tell us in better terms than anyone to defeat it and do the best job to stabilize their country.
Canadian Brig.-Gen. Jonathan Vance, Canada's representative in Kandahar Ken Lewis, Charge d'Affaires Ben Rowswell, Kandahar Gov. Tooryalai Wesa and Dand district chief Ahamadullah Nazak (from left to right) attend a shura on Tuesday, June 23, 2009 at the district centre in Deh-e Bagh, Afghanistan. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Colin Perkel)
As our troops comtinue with the mission in Afghanistan and other areas of the Globe. Canadian diplomats and politicians are doing their best to support them both diplomatically and with wide ranging knowledge..
Tomorrow is Red Friday let's all do our bit and show support by wearing RED.
Remember Everyone Deployed
Nil Sine Labore
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