Despite warnings about an impending attack, the Canadian government failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the Air India bombing off the coast of Ireland in 1985, writes Eddie Cassidy.

Prime minister Stephen Harper made an official government apology to native Canadians for the country’s past practice of taking aboriginal children from their families and forcing them to attend state-funded schools meant to assimilate them.

The Iranian government has said that it agrees with the acquittal of a secret agent who had been charged with the killing of an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist, but Canada protested the verdict, hinting at further action to pressure the Middle Eastern country to find out the truth.