Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned his country will have to react in some way if the rising number of Czech asylum seekers is not curbed.
Harper raised the issue in talks with Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek Wednesday in Prague on the sidelines of an EU-Canada meeting, Prague radio reported.
Harper said the Czech Republic violated conditions under which Canada has issued free entry visas since 2007, Topolanek told reporters in Prague.

One day before U.S. President Barack Obama’s Canadian visit last week, Canadian fighter jets intercepted two Russian bombers near Canadian air space, the defense minister said Friday.
“At no time did Russian planes enter Canadian air space, but within 24 hours of the president’s visit here … we did scramble F-18 fighter planes from NORAD in Canada command,” Peter MacKay said in a news conference in Ottawa.
The Russian planes were in international waters, about 118 miles (190 kilometers) northeast of Tuktoyuktuk, in Canada’s Northwest Territories.

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) — A Canadian Broadcasting Corp. correspondent who had been held in Afghanistan for four weeks has been released, the CBC said Saturday.
Mellissa Fung “is now safe and in reasonable health,” Hubert T. Lacroix, CBC/Radio Canada’s president and chief executive officer, said in Toronto.

OTTAWA — When Mohammad Momin Khawaja becomes the first Canadian to be sentenced for terrorist crimes next month, he could face a stiff sentence under new anti-terrorism laws that oblige judges to stack jail terms for certain offences, rather than allow them to be served concurrently.

OTTAWA (Reuters) – A Canadian man who was the first to be charged under a tough new anti-terror law was found guilty on Wednesday in a trial linked to a plot to carry out bomb attacks in Britain.
Judge Douglas Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court ruled that software engineer Momin Khawaja was involved in a terrorist group and found him guilty of several charges. Khawaja was tried without a jury.