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About 450 people with assorted roles in Hamas have ties to Canada, Global News has learned.

The UN's committee on the rights of the child said Canada needs to "raise the bar" in how it protects the rights of children, especially when it comes to aboriginal, disabled and immigrant kids.

OTTAWA - United Nations officials say they're concerned vulnerable Canadian children may be falling through the cracks of a fractious federal system that lacks accountability and a clear strategy.

TORONTO - Lawyers for convicted war criminal Omar Khadr are taking out a legal stick in an effort to speed his transfer to a Canadian prison.

TORONTO - Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr tends to blame others for his problems and comes across as defensive and manipulative, a military psychologist concluded in a report the federal government is using as it ponders allowing him to return to Canada.

TORONTO - Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr tends to blame others for his problems and comes across as defensive and manipulative, a military psychologist concluded in a report the federal government is using as it ponders allowing him to return to Canada.

TORONTO - The federal government's demand to view videotaped interviews that psychiatrists did with Omar Khadr is a "spurious" reason to delay his transfer to a Canadian prison, a lawyer for the convicted war criminal said Friday.

TORONTO - A decade after 15-year-old Omar Khadr was pulled near death from the rubble of a bombed-out compound in Afghanistan, the Canadian citizen set foot on Canadian soil early Saturday following an American military flight from the notorious prison in Guantanamo Bay.

TORONTO - A QuickSketch of the Toronto-based family of Omar Khadr, who was transferred to Canadian custody from Guantanamo Bay on Saturday.

Full transcript from Episode 4, Season 2 of The West Block, from Sunday, September 30, 2012, featuring former RCMP deputy commissioner Barbara George, former House of Commons committee clerk Thomas Hall, Liberal leader Bob Rae, Omar Khadr lawyer John Norris.

TORONTO - Hours after a disbelieving Omar Khadr arrived in Canada following his 10 years in the notorious U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, among his first questions was whether he could get a pen and paper so he could carry on his studies, one of his lawyers said Sunday.

Hours after a disbelieving Omar Khadr arrived in Canada following his 10 years in the notorious U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay, among his first questions was whether he could get a pen and paper so he could carry on his studies, one of his lawyers said Sunday.

OTTAWA - The United States didn't have to pressure Canada to repatriate convicted terrorist Omar Khadr from its Cuban military prison, American envoy David Jacobson said Monday.

TORONTO - The transfer of Omar Khadr to Canada from Guantanamo Bay has infuriated a former American soldier partly blinded in the firefight in which the badly wounded Canadian teenager was captured.

TORONTO - The transfer of Omar Khadr to Canada from Guantanamo Bay has infuriated a former American soldier partly blinded in the firefight in which the badly wounded Canadian teenager was captured.

TORONTO - The transfer of Omar Khadr to Canada from Guantanamo Bay has infuriated a former American soldier partly blinded in the firefight in which the badly wounded Canadian teenager was captured.

The federal government's tough-on-crime agenda is "excessively punitive" for youth and is a step backwards for Canada's child rights record, says a United Nations group.

<p> Pakistani military launches offensive near Afghan border; 25 militants, 4 soldiers killed <p>ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's military says it has launched a combined air and ground operation in a volatile tribal area near the Afghan border that has left 25 militants and four soldiers dead.</p> <p>Th</p>

TORONTO - Canada's ability to comply with its international obligations could be compromised if a decision staying the extradition of Abdullah Khadr is allowed to stand, the federal government said Friday.

A lawyer for Mohamed Harkat says the security certificate process being used to deport the Algerian refugee is unconstitutional.