For Canada Day Parties, Ottawa Snubs Officials From Pariah Countries:TW Included

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Dean Deeby, For Canada Day Parties, Ottawa Snubs Officials From Pariah Countries. The Canadian Press, June 29, 2014.
www.thestar.com/news/canada/2014 ... riah_countries.html
(the list: North Korea, Fiji, Belarus, Iran, Syria, Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau, plus Taiwan)

Quote: "The department [Foreign Affairs] has refused to release its latest list [for 2014], but The Canadian Press obtained last year’s version — likely little changed for 2014, with the possible inclusion of Russia for the first time. * * * The memo and related materials were obtained under the Access to Information Act, with a few parts blacked out under an exemption protecting international relations.

Note:
(a) The Canadian Press is Canada's (official) "national news agency headquartered in Toronto."  Wikipedia

(b) Canada Day
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Day
(July 1, 1867; Originally called Dominion Day; united three colonies [Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Province of Canada--the last immediately split into Ontario and Quebec] into a single country called Canada within the British Empire)
(i) Province of Canada
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Canada
(1841-1867)
(ii) UK defeated France in French and Indian War/Seven Years' War (1756–1763), and acquired Quebec in Treaty of Paris (1763; which ended Seven Years' War).
(iii) Canada
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada
(section 1 Etymology)