July is here, and so all kinds of funny things appear in the news these days. Here’s an interesting bit of analysis from the Conference of Defence Associations in today’s Globe and Mail: Retired colonel Alain Pellerin of the Conference of Defence Associations said it’s tough to persuade poppy farmers in Kandahar – Taliban territory […]
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Conference of Defence Associations Institute President Slams Journalists and Public
The head of the military funded Conference of Defence Associations Institute used his farewell address to graduates at the Royal Military College to slam the media and public opinion (and presumably, the members of the public that hold that opinion). John Scott Cowan, President of the CDAI, told the graduating class of the Royal Military […]
The Conference of Defence Associations' secret contract with the Department of National Defence
National Defence watchers will no doubt be aware of today’s story in the Globe and Mail regarding the Conference of Defence Associations’ funding agreement with the Department of National Defence. For your background information, I am attaching a copy of that contract, which was tabled in the House this week. Download it here: p-39-cda-2008-05-131 (more…)
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 […]
And how the "peace lobby" responds
In the last post I told you about Jack Granatstein’s defence lobby think tank sending around a poison-pen article about a report written by Bill Robinson and me for the CCPA on Canada’s military spending. Granatstin’s article elicited a flood of letters in response after it was published in the Edmonton Journal. The paper devoted space to five letters […]
How the defence lobby operates
Even wonder how the defence lobby is able to get so many articles in the newspapers? Well let me show you… Here is a copy of an email sent out to newspapers, journalists, and others from a conservative, pro-military think tank run out of the University of Calgary called the Canadian Council for Security in […]