Last week’s perimeter security talks between Prime Minister Harper and President Obama included an interesting proposal of expanding NORAD to cover land and sea operations. The proposed new deal would integrate Canada-U.S. command structures, headquarters, and operations with regards to continental security. (John Ivison, “NORAD could be expanded to land and sea,” The National Post, 11 February 2011). The plan resonates the 2002 Canada-U.S. combined defence plan that would have placed Canada under the sphere of U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM).
Go figure: What would it cost to save the world?
$1.6 trillion in military spending worldwide in 2010. What else could we have done with that money?
Respected Canadian negotiator removed from disarmament talks, resigns
Respected Canadian disarmament negotiator Earl Turcotte has been removed from his post following American complaints that his stance on the international Convention on Cluster Munitions …
Steven Staples discusses F-35s on CTV Power Play
Watch Steven Staples discuss Canada’s controversial purchase of F-35s with Lt.-Gen. George Macdonald on CTV Power Play.
The human cost of war
The human cost of war sometimes seems like just one more statistic. But what’s at stake is lost lives and broken families. Ernie Regehr discussed …
Canada: Time to play a leadership role in nuclear disarmament
Last month Canada assumed the presidency of the main UN disarmament body, the Conference on Disarmament (CD). Paul Meyer, who served as Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament in Geneva from 2003 to 2007, argues that Canada needs to look outside the CD if it is to help advance the non-proliferation and disarmament cause.