Canada offered Friday to take in Raif Badawi, a jailed Saudi blogger who faces flogging, listing him as a priority immigrant on humanitarian grounds so that he might rejoin his family already living in the country.

The province of Quebec cleared the way for his coming to this country by offering Badawi a so-called immigration selection certificate.

Canada's lawmakers and staff were warned Friday of an ongoing cyberattack targeting the country's parliament, local media reported.

A government email published by the daily Ottawa Citizen said "private and public sector employees, including House of Commons employees, are currently being targeted by several cyberattacks."

Canadian federal police announced Friday the arrest of a Somali national in the 2008 kidnapping of Canadian and Australian journalists.

Ali Omar Ader had been in Ottawa for "a few days" before he was taken into custody by Royal Canadian Mounted Police national security unit.

More than 30,000 people demonstrated Thursday against a G7 summit starting at the weekend in the southern German state of Bavaria, police said.

The peaceful march took place in the state capital Munich, around 100 kilometers (60 miles) north of the Alpine venue where Chancellor Angela Merkel is to welcome leaders from the club of rich nations from Sunday.

Canadian police smashed a mafia drug trafficking ring with the arrest of 19 alleged high-ranking members of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta criminal organization, officials said Wednesday.

The Toronto area dragnet Tuesday involving 260 officers was the culmination of a two-year investigation targeting "the highest levels" of the 'Ndrangheta, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said.

Canada's foreign minister on Wednesday reaffirmed his country's ironclad support for Israel and said the realities of the Middle East left the Jewish state no choice but to defend itself.

Meeting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his first visit to Israel, Rob Nicholson's comments were welcomed at a time of growing pressure on Netanyahu and his rightwing government to curb West Bank settlement and renew talks with the Palestinians.

A member of a banned Pakistani sectarian group will soon be deported from Canada after being caught with a cache of firearms, an immigration hearing reportedly heard Monday.

According to the daily National Post, a Canadian immigration and refugee board was informed by the Canada Border Services Agency of Muhammad Aqeeq Ansari's pending deportation.

A member of a banned Pakistani sectarian group will be deported from Canada in the next month after being caught with a cache of firearms, an immigration hearing heard Monday.

According to the daily National Post, Muhammad Aqeeq Ansari stockpiled Can$20,000 worth of guns and ammunition in the basement of a Peterborough, Ontario home.

A revised Canadian immigration law came into force Friday enabling the government to revoke the citizenship of persons convicted of terrorism, treason, spying or taking up arms against Canadian soldiers.

The latter provision is aimed in part at Canadians who travel to Syria and Iraq to join the Islamic State group fighting a U.S.-led coalition that includes Canada.

One of the top suspects of Nazi war crimes during the Second World War has died at the age of 93, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported.

A Canadian of Ukrainian descent, Vladimir Katriuk, was listed as the second most wanted Nazi this year by the US-based Simon Wiesenthal Center that focuses on war criminals.