As the government gets set to expand Canada's anti-ISIS mission in Iraq, the former deputy minister in charge of the Afghanistan Task Force worries Canada is in a hurry to forget what happened in Afghanistan when there are real lessons to be learned from our mistakes there.

The United Nations said Friday that it is "regrettable" Canada will withdraw from a UN convention that fights the spread of droughts.

The Harper government is pulling out of a United Nations convention that fights droughts in Africa and elsewhere, making Canada the only country in world outside the agreement.