The Conservative government may be quietly revisiting a decade-old decision not to join the U.S. ballistic missile defence (BMD) program.
Missile defence: What, again?
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National Day of Honour: Whose celebration?
Less than two months after the final Canadian troops pulled out of Afghanistan, Prime Minister Stephen Harper hosted our country’s first National Day of Honour “to recognize those who fought and to remember the fallen” throughout the 12-year mission.
SOFEX 2014: Canada's debutante ball
It is hard to imagine that when Dwight Eisenhower coined the term military industrial complex he could have foreseen how commercial the complex would become. SOFEX, the Kingdom of Jordan’s 10th biannual Special Operations Forces Exhibition and Conference, is just that: commercial.
Saudi arms contract has 'significant risk'
Celebrated by the Canadian government as the “largest advanced manufacturing export win” in the country’s existence, the recently announced $10-billion sale of armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia poses a “significant risk” of contributing to serious human rights violations.
Nuclear protocol with China "weak"
The Conservative government opened the way in 2012 for a major Canadian uranium mining company to export raw uranium to China by changing longstanding nuclear non-proliferation rules to ones described by the government’s own report as “weak”.
Canada to send fighter jets to Poland
Canada will send six CF-18 fighter jets to Poland to support NATO operations to flex the West’s military might amidst the ongoing tensions in Ukraine.