Federal ministers expressed sympathy on Monday, September 11, 2017, for the hundreds of Canadians affected by Hurricane Irma as well as their worried families back home.
A Mississauga, Ont., man ran with his wife and two daughters into an adjoining hotel, where they huddled on an upper floor for the next five hours, flinching at the sound of gunshots.
The two Canadians killed in a suspected terrorist attack in Burkina Faso have been identified as Tammy Chen of Ontario and Bilel Diffalah, a volunteer for a Quebec-based anti poverty group.
The son of a Canadian pastor who was imprisoned for more than two years in North Korea said that faith is what kept his father and their whole family going throughout the entire ordeal.
Mike Summers, a member of the Falklands legislative assembly, said the economy of the remote South Atlantic archipelago is based on fishing, agriculture and wildlife tourism.
