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Dan Rogers, the director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, gives a press conference in Ottawa on November 13, 2025. (Screenshot/Youtube)
November 13, 2025, 11:23 pm
Canada’s spy agency says it foiled potentially ‘lethal threats’ by Iran
In rare statement, Canada’s spy chief says agency has acted to protect residents of country threatened by Islamic Republic, thwarted several antisemitic terror plots
By Reuters and ToI Staff
A drone is seen in the sky seconds before it fired on buildings in Kyiv, Ukraine, on October 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
November 16, 2022, 8:36 pm
Canada sanctions Iranian makers of attack drones used by Russia in Ukraine
Foreign Minister Joly says Shahed Aviation Industries and Qods Aviation Industries are key to Tehran’s ‘activities aimed at destabilizing international peace and security’
By AFP
A demonstration in support of Iranian women in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, on October 1, 2022. (Mathiew Leiser/AFP)
October 8, 2022, 1:00 am
Canada to permanently deny entry to 10,000 members of ‘murderous’ Iranian regime
Revolutionary Guard members among those ‘forever’ banned, Trudeau says, as thousands of Canadians protest in solidarity with Iranian demonstrators
By AFP
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a memorial service for the victims of the Ukrainian Airlines flight PS752 crash in Iran at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton, Canada, January 12, 2020. (Walter Tychnowicz / AFP)
January 4, 2022, 11:21 am
Canada court awards families CAN$100m compensation over airliner downed by Iran
Relatives of 6 of the 85 Canadians killed when Ukrainian plane was destroyed in 2020 sought CAN$1.5 billion in damages
By AFP
Yevhenii Yenin (C), Ukraine's deputy minister for foreign affairs, meets with members of the Iranian delegation in the second round of talks on compensation for the families of victims of the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 crash, in Iran's capital Tehran on October 19, 2020 (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
October 20, 2020, 12:51 am
Iran and Ukraine launch new round of talks over downed plane
In Tehran, Kyiv’s representatives welcome ‘Iran’s decision to take full responsibility, readiness to ensure compensation’
By AFP
Canadian Conservative Party leadership candidate Peter MacKay during a campaign event, January 2020 (courtesy)
July 22, 2020, 4:52 pm
Canadian would-be PM seeks greater role in peace process, is wary of annexation
Peter MacKay, front-runner in Conservative Party’s upcoming leadership race, vows to immediately move embassy to Jerusalem, calls for ‘enormous sustained pressure’ on Iran
By Raphael Ahren
Rescue teams work amid debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. (AFP)
June 13, 2020, 4:06 am
Iran asks France to analyze Ukraine flight black boxes, probe officials say
Accident agency denies it has been contacted, but says it is ‘ready to look at any request’; Canada has urged Tehran to hand over black boxes to Ukraine or France for analysis
By AFP
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives at a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, January 17, 2020. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
January 17, 2020, 10:50 pm
Canada provides money to families of those killed in plane shot down by Iran
Trudeau says Tehran must ultimately compensate loved ones of 57 Canadian citizens, 29 permanent residents who were on aircraft downed by Iranian missile
By Rob Gillies
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at a memorial service for the victims of the Ukrainian Airlines flight PS752 crash in Iran at the Saville Community Sports Centre in Edmonton January 12, 2020. (Photo by Walter Tychnowicz / AFP)
January 14, 2020, 5:06 am
Trudeau: Canadian plane victims would be alive if not for tensions
‘If there was no escalation recently in region,’ they’d be ‘home with their families,’ PM says, adding he’d ‘obviously’ have liked a warning from Trump ahead of Soleimani killing
By Rob Gillies
A woman weeps during a memorial service at the University of Toronto in Toronto, Ontario on January 12, 2020 for the victims of Ukrainian Airlines flight 752 which was shot down over Iran this past week. (Photo by Geoff Robins / AFP)
January 13, 2020, 2:49 am
Anger and grief as Canada remembers Iran plane crash victims
‘We will not rest until there is justice and accountability,’ Trudeau tells mourners as services held to remember 57 Canadians killed when IRGC shot down Ukrainian plane
By AFP
Members of Montreal's Iranian community attend a vigil, Thursday, Jan. 9, 2019 in downtown Montreal (Andrej Ivanov/The Canadian Press via AP)
January 10, 2020, 1:33 pm
As Iran and US take step back from the brink, Canada grieves plane crash victims
Victims of Ukrainian Airlines crash were students, newlyweds, doctors and parents. ‘Community is overwhelmed with mourning and sadness,’ prominent Iranian-Canadian says
By Rob Gillies and Tim Sullivan
Kavous Seyed Emami, a prominent Iranian-Canadian environmentalist, gives a lecture in Iran in November 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 9, 2018, 10:35 pm
Dead environmentalist’s son tells of ‘chaotic’ flight from Iran
Iranian authorities accused the 63-year-old professor who died in prison last month of being part of an espionage network set up by the Mossad and the CIA
By AFP
Kavous Seyed-Emami. (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 8, 2018, 10:40 am
Canada protests as widow of professor is barred from leaving Iran
Wife of Kavous Seyed-Emami, who died in Tehran prison, detained as she tries to board flight en route to Vancouver
By Jon Gambrell
Kavous Seyed Emami, a prominent Iranian-Canadian environmentalist, gives a lecture in Iran in November 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
February 11, 2018, 3:38 pm
Iranian-Canadian environmentalist dies in Iran prison after ‘suicide’
Family, colleagues of Kavous Seyed Emami reject authorities’ account of prominent professor’s death
By Eric RANDOLPH
US Secretary of State John Kerry (left) speaks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif after the UN atomic watchdog verifies that Iran has met all conditions of the July 2015 nuclear deal, in Vienna, Austria, on January 16, 2016. (AFP/Kevin Lamarque/Pool)
November 18, 2016, 1:34 pm
Iran arrested 12 top officials for spying in last 2 years, MP says
Detainees reportedly infiltrated top government posts, held dual citizenship; Tehran denies breaching nuke deal
By ToI Staff and AFP
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