Tag Archives: Steven Staples
Canada and the Nuclear Abolition Moment
On Sunday, July 26, Steven Staples of the Rideau Institute gave a presentation to the First Unitarian Congregation of Ottawa on the nuclear disarmament movement. Below is the text of his presentation, entitled “The Renaissance of the Nuclear Abolition Movement.” Normally I come to deliver bad news – another potential war to avert, a […]
Will Canada Join the Drone War in Pakistan?
Speculation as to what Canada’s role in Afghanistan will be beyond 2001 has been stirred up amid recent reports that Obama Democrats are quietly lobbying the Tory government to keep troops in Kandahar province after 2011. Steven Staples says that Although the role of Canadian ground troops in Afghanistan may diminish, the Canadian Air Force […]
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 […]
Steven Staples on CBC's Afghanistan Panel
CanWest: Canada's ballooning Afghan war cost no longer national secret
Canada’s ballooning Afghan war cost no longer national secret By Mike Blanchfield, Canwest News Service June 24, 2009 OTTAWA – The Defence Department admitted Wednesday that it was wrong to withhold the future cost of the war in Afghanistan on the basis that releasing it would violate national security. Earlier this week, Canwest News Service […]