CBC journalist Brian Stewart calls for Canada to once again contribute to UN peacekeeping operations.
Stewart: Get back to peacekeeping
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Pundits on the F-35 fiasco
Prominent media commentators and pundits weigh in on the F-35 procurement fiasco.
Canadian military quietly stops reporting wounded
The Canadian military has quietly stopped reporting when soldiers are wounded on the battlefield (Murray Brewster, “Canada forbids reporting of battlefield wounded,” Globe and Mail, 23 March 2010). In order to satisfy the public’s right to know what is going on in Afghanistan, the military says it will instead provide an annual report on battle-related injuries. The […]
An upswing in violence in Afghanistan… What does this mean for Canada?
By any measure the last few months have been marked by an upswing in violence in Afghanistan–a “dreary and bloody stalemate” according to the CBC’s Brian Stewart. NATO–and the US in particular–have come to recognize this as there has been much ado about how to re-cast the mission. First of all this has meant the implementation of a new command structure […]