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If O'Connor Goes Now, Do the Generals Win?

News reports are predicting that Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor will be shuffled out of the cabinet in the coming days. While many people have been calling for him to be removed, myself included, ironically the timing is very bad. The military (i.e. General Hillier) has been openly challenging O’Connor and the government on defence policy. […]

Liberal Party Demands Resignation of Defence Minister and Renews Call for Access to Information Investigation

http://www.liberal.ca/story_12981_e.aspx Liberal Party Demands Resignation of Defence Minister and Renews Call for Access to Information Investigation July 17, 2007 MONTREAL – Prime Minister Stephen Harper must immediately replace Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor and must take immediate steps to restore the public’s access to information about Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan, said Liberal Defence Critic Denis Coderre […]

Edmonton Journal: Unbeknownst to the crowd, Staples was already a watched man

Here is a column that appeared in the Edmonton Journal, and later the Ottawa Citizen, by Journal columnist Sheila Pratt. Sheila Pratt must have attended the presentation I delivered a year after the controversial Halifax speech that was secretly monitored by the Department of National Defence. In February 2007 I was in Edmonton at the University of Alberta on a panel with […]

The presentation DND was so interested in hearing

Back in January 2006, I was invited by the Halifax Peace Coalition to go down to Halifax to give a few lectures, talk to the media, and generally promote the good work of the group and further its cause. One of the presentations they had arranged was co-sponsored by Dalhousie University’s Centre for Foreign Policy […]

Help Stop Harper's War Agenda

June 29, 2007 Give a gift of $25 or more to receive this cool, limited edition Ceasefire.ca pin Dear friend, Did you know that pro-war lobbyists are forming a new group that is “aimed specifically at countering peace advocates” like us? I read this recently in Now Magazine. That’s why I founded the Rideau Institute […]