Archive | January, 2010

Harper on Canada's role in Afghanistan post-2011

In an interview with the Canwest News Service a few days ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper made some of his most definitive statements to date on the future of the Canadian presence in Afghanistan. He pledged that Canada would continue to maintain humanitarian and development missions in the country but stated that “we will not […]

Discontent in the prorogue state

Two public opinion polls released on Thursday show that Canadians are not happy about the Prime Minister’s decision to prorogue Parliament until March 3rd. According to the poll conducted by EKOS Research Associates, 67% of Canadians are aware of the decision to prorogue Parliament (including 52% “clearly aware”), and those who are aware of it […]

Canadians unhappy with Harper on climate change

A new Angus Reid poll shows that Canadians are generally unhappy with the results of last month’s Climate Change Summit (press release; full report). According to the poll, 48% of Canadians are dissatisfied with Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s performance at the conference (including 33% who are very dissatisfied), while only 28% are satisfied (9% very […]

Tsutomu Yamaguchi dead at 93

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, the only official survivor of both the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, died Monday at the age of 93. Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima on business on August 6th, 1945 when the first atomic bomb was dropped. He returned to his home in Nagasaki the following day and was […]

Air Force Association pushes CF-18 replacement

The Air Force Association of Canada is pressing the government to proceed as soon as possible on a replacement for the CF-18 fighter, David Pugliese reports. The Next Generation Fighter program, expected to cost as much as $10 billion, is intended to procure about 65 aircraft to replace the CF-18 in the 2018-2023 period: The […]