Finally, someone begins to address the real issue about our tanks in Afghanistan. Check out James Travers in the Toronto Star today. In his column, “Whether new or old, tanks just not for this war,” Travers points out that, The rush to lease nearly two dozen Leopard 2 A6M tanks is the most compelling evidence […]
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General Johnson and Canadian Pugwash Group on Parliament Hill
This week I had the pleasure of spending the day with someone whose name I know well but had never actually met: Major General Leonard V. Johnson (ret.). (Second from right above) Len, as he prefers to be called, retired from the Canadian Forces back in 1984. Not long after, as he told me, he told […]
Oh What a Lovely War!
The Harper government and its amen chorus in the media seems intent on perpetuating the mythology of the Battle of Vimy Ridge (more properly, the battle for Arras) as the “birth of the Canadian nation”. The presence of the Queen and the last-minute concession allowing Oppostion members to attend the ceremonies may remove the partisan sting, but rest assured the […]
Head-to-head with Lockheed Martin
Last week our good friend Philip Coyle paid a visit to Ottawa to appear as a witness for the Commons Standing Committee on National Defence. Here is Philip Coyle’s testimony. Phil is a senior advisor to the Washington DC-based Centre for Defense Information, but his real claim to fame is the fact that he was the […]
"Raining on the ABM Parade"
As featured in the previous post, last week Canada was honoured by the visit of Dr. David Wright of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who spoke with members of Parliament about the dangers to space security posed by anti-satellite weapons. Dr. Wright is well-known as a co-author of the 2004 definitive technical analysis which showed that the anti-ballistic […]
Anti-Satellite Weapons, Space Debris, and Canada
Last week our campaign to promote space security received a boost from a visit to Ottawa by Cambridge-based Dr. David Wright of the Union of Concerned Scientists. We invited Dr. Wright to come to Canada and to speak to Members of Parliament about the growing international danger posed to space security by anti-satellite weapons. Dr. Wright wrote […]