Brig.-Gen. Lise Bourgon, has taken over responsibility for the country's air task force in a ceremony at the air base where Canadian aircraft conducting strikes against the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant are based.
The coalition, which calls itself Code Blue, wants UN Secretary Ban Ki-moon to lift the diplomatic immunity that protects UN employees from being held to account when abuse complaints arise.
QUEBEC — School officials in Quebec will no longer be permitted to strip search students as the provincial government moved to act on a report recommending that only police officers conduct such examinations.
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs says Canadian officials in Kabul and Ottawa are working to get more information after a guesthouse in the Afghan capital was stormed by armed gunmen.
MONCTON, N.B. — The cost of additional policing in the aftermath of last June's murder of three RCMP officers has been estimated at $9 million.
VANCOUVER — British Columbia's former auditor general for local government, who was fired amid accusations she was obstructing a review of her office, is fighting her dismissal in court.