Are Chief of Defence Staff General Rick Hillier and Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor war criminals? That’s the question that two international law professors are asking …
Afghanistan
Out of the Woodwork
Well, yesterday’s blog about Omar Khadr has evoked two reactions: one predictable, reasoned, but simply wrong, and one absolutely terrifying. First, let me get something …
Canadian child in the dock at Guantanamo show trials
While mistreatment of Afghan detainees has made the news this week, a Toronto-born Canadian is about to be put on trial by a U.S. military kangaroo court …
Calls for O'Connor's resignation gaining traction, say journalists
Columnist Don Martin, writing in the National Post (and Ottawa Citizen) today, says that calls for Defence Minister O’Connor to resign may be picking up …
Tories accuse constituents of believing "Taliban terrorists" over Harper government
In a letter to a Ceasefire.ca supporter this week, Conservative Member of Parliament Dick Harris shot back from his Blackberry saying, “I am confused why you …
Harpers' Week from hell
I’m not trying to fill this blog with material from the NDP, but I thought their compilation of the “week from Hell” for the Conservatives …