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Petition: Stop the Attack on Kandahar

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

The U.S. and NATO, including Canada, are planning a major attack on the city of Kandahar. The CBC declared it will result in a summer of bloodshed. Please urge Stephen Harper to call off the attack on Kandahar.

Canadian military quietly stops reporting wounded

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

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The Canadian military has quietly stopped reporting when soldiers are wounded on the battlefield (Murray Brewster, “Canada forbids reporting of battlefield wounded,” Globe and Mail, 23 March 2010). In order to satisfy the public’s right to know what is going on in Afghanistan, the military says it will instead provide an annual report on battle-related injuries. The policy [...]

Budget “adjustments” miss obvious defence spending waste

Friday, January 8, 2010

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As noted in an earlier post, all three branches of the Canadian Forces (Army, Navy, Air Force) are currently conducting budget “adjustments”, amounting to $190 million, that have to be made by the end of March. As part of this process, the Army is “adjusting” its budget by $80 million, and the Reserves are reportedly taking [...]

Roll up the Taliban to win?

Thursday, December 3, 2009

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Canada’s area of military responsibility in Afghanistan is being reduced to maintaining a security perimeter—described by one Canadian soldier as a “doughnut of stability”—around Kandahar City and conducting anti-Taliban operations in Arghandab district just to the northwest of the city, the Globe and Mail reports (see here and here). The new role will be shared [...]

Will Canada Join the Drone War in Pakistan?

Thursday, July 23, 2009

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Speculation as to what Canada’s role in Afghanistan will be beyond 2001 has been stirred up amid recent reports that Obama Democrats are quietly lobbying the Tory government to keep troops in Kandahar province after 2011. Steven Staples says that Although the role of Canadian ground troops in Afghanistan may diminish, the Canadian Air Force [...]

Poll Finds Canadians Want Out

Monday, May 18, 2009

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A newly released poll by The Canadian Press and Harris-Decima shows nearly 90 per cent of Canadians want troops out of Afghanistan by the mission’s scheduled end date of 2011, or earlier. 46 per cent of respondents indicated the Canadian Forces should remain in Afghanistan only until the scheduled end date of 2011, while an equally [...]

Canadian Air Force misuses tax dollars and military resources

Sunday, May 17, 2009

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A recent flight by one of Canada’s C-17 transport planes to New Zealand has Defence Minister Peter Mackay asking why a military plane was authorized to pick up a vintage aircraft for a Canadian private organization by the name of Vintage Wings. Vintage Wings is a not-for-profit organization that collects, restores, and flies vintage aircraft at various [...]