In the run-up to Monday's vote on the future Canada's anti-ISIS mission, the Conservatives pegged the opposition as being against a mission that will protect ethnic and religious minorities from genocide.

With the world's eyes on South Africa, the devolving crisis happening 5,000 kilometres north in Central African Republic has received relatively little attention.

Canadian Lt.-Gen. Romeo Dallaire said the international response to Syria, two decades after he witnessed the genocide in Rwanda, hasn't gotten much better and it's coming way too late.