Steven Staples and Col. Mike Capstick (ret.) discuss the new CDS on CTV’s Mike Duffy Live. Steven Staples contributed to these reports on CBC TV by Julie van Dusen, and on CTV TV by Bob Fife. +++++++ Steven Staples of the Rideau Institute on the appointment of Lt.-Gen. Walter Natynczyk as Canada’s new Chief of Defence […]
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RSS feed for this sectionHear the one about the "lefties" who found secrets military plans in the garbage one day?
Here is a little long weekend reading for you… No doubt you have heard about my colleague Anthony Salloum’s discovery of plans for a secret military installation – that he found in the garbage on Bank Street. “What are the odds of that happening” – you might ask? More than a few people have expressed […]
This Conference of Defence Associations op-ed is brought to you by…
Some news on one of our sparring partners – the Conference of Defence Associations. Oh, how the defence lobby tries to label us an “NDP front group,” but just what do you call a group that gets paid by the military to write op-eds for the newspapers… From Macleans.ca The CDA gets $100,000 a year from the Department […]
GlobalTV reports on our military spending report.
A Global TV report on the recent study Bill Robinson and I wrote for the Canadian centre for Policy Alternatives. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wIIOvckyOc
Reaction to 67th soldier killed in Afghanistan.
I was asked by CTV Newsnet to comment on today’s sad news that another soldier has been killed in Afghanistan. Here is a link to the CTV.ca news story and my interview that aired this morning. It includes our thinking on some of the political implications of the death in light of the new Cabinet. […]
CBC TV interview on MacKay's Appointment to Defence Minister
I gave a brief interview to CBC TV today, a snippet of which was included in this report by Susan Bonner on The National. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skDyOs20XEw