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"The truth is no-one is invincible"
Need some extra inspiration to change the conversation on mental health in your area? Read and watch to the inspirational messages from...

RCS Ottawa
Feb 25, 2017


Prince Harry visits Walking With The Wounded
This week Prince Harry visited Walking With The Wounded to meet some veterans currently being supported through our Head Start and ...

RCS Ottawa
Feb 25, 2017


Will you join in the biggest national annual day of talking about mental health today?
To help kick off Time To Talk Day we have launched a film showing how simple, and important, a first conversation on mental health can...

RCS Ottawa
Feb 2, 2017
Join the conversation on military health matters
PTSD, prosthetics, brain injury, robotics, medications, physical injury, mental health—the scope of research into military and veteran...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 25, 2017


A British nuclear test last June accidentally sent an unarmed missile hurtling towards the US
The first test of Britain’s nuclear defense system in four years, which took place in June 2016, accidentally fired an unarmed missile...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 23, 2017


Let's Talk: Mental Health Awareness and the Invictus Games
It’s finally 2017, the year Canada will play host to the third and largest Invictus Games! Toronto will soon welcome 550 wounded, ill...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 11, 2017


The US navy is retraining its mine-hunting dolphins to help save an elusive, endangered species
Everything is fair in war, even deploying dolphins. Since the 1960s, the US navy has run a marine-mammal program that trains dolphins and...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 4, 2017
Putin's Real Long Game
Politico magazine explains how the West is already at war, whether it wants to be or not. It may not be a war we recognize, but it is a...

RCS Ottawa
Jan 1, 2017


A collision of Chinese manufacturing, globalization, and consumer ignorance could ruin the internet
On Oct. 23 2016, one of the largest coordinated cyber attacks in history took down several major internet sites in the United States and...

RCS Ottawa
Nov 1, 2016


This is what happens when we build walls and fences to keep people out
Over a million migrants fled to Europe by sea in 2015. European leaders were unable to agree on a united approach as the crisis unfolded on

RCS Ottawa
Oct 17, 2016
First national inquiry into family violence in Samoa announced
The first national inquiry into family violence in Samoa was announced by the country’s ombudsman at this week’s Commonwealth Women’s...

RCS Ottawa
Oct 2, 2016


RBA Seen Holding Fire, Watching Fed as Stevens Makes Final Call
Australia’s central bank is forecast to keep the benchmark interest rate unchanged at Governor Glenn Stevens’s final meeting Tuesday as...

RCS Ottawa
Sep 7, 2016


Events aimed at raising awareness and action on the issue of nuclear disarmament
The world remains at the risk of nuclear weapons that are set on hair-triggers, writes Faheem Bin Tariq, a Commonwealth Correspondent...

RCS Ottawa
Sep 5, 2016
John Kerry travels to Kenya, Nigeria, and Saudi Arabia.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Nairobi, Kenya, on August 22 to meet with President Kenyatta to discuss regional...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 23, 2016
Restricting Correspondent Banking Relationships
Disconnecting from Global Finance, The Commonwelath report proposes solutions to the trend of financial institutions terminating or...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 16, 2016


Sterling steadies near three-year low vs. euro, eyes on post-Brexit data
Currency traders kept the pressure on sterling on Monday at the start of a week packed full of the first round of hard national data on...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 16, 2016


British Pound To Euro, US Dollar Exchange Rates Lifted As Today's CPI Prints At Best In 20 Month
Today's widely anticipated UK CPI release has seen the GBP/EUR, GBP/USD briefly bounce off historic lows. See today's update below. The...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 16, 2016


Commonwealth calls for collaboration on ‘detrimental’ declines in banking relationships
Passions ran high as money transfer businesses and smaller financial institutions met yesterday at the Commonwealth Secretariat to...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 14, 2016
Chinese Foreign Minister to visit India for three days
NEW DELHI: Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi will arrive in India on Friday on a three-day visit starting from Goa, the venue for the...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 12, 2016
Commonwealth ‘can provide global leadership’ to tackle cybercriminals – Secretary-General
Parliamentarians from countries in Asia and the Pacific learned about legislative and policy responses to overcome threats to...

RCS Ottawa
Aug 11, 2016
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