Canada's National Defence: Defence Policy v. 1 (Canada's national defence)
Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Department of National Defence (DND) invites the public to vote for the People's Choice Award in the 2009 DND Photography Contest organized by Canadian Forces Imaging Services. Celebrating its 41st year, the DND Photography Contest received a record 1816 entries from 305 talented amateur and professional photographers in the Defence community.
Creekside (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Commenter Stephen Phillips under this CBC poll has a question of his own : "What kind of a question is this? Mr. Colvin is a distinguished career diplomat under attack by a Government that has misled Parliament and the country about prisoner transfers and is now systematically blocking the work of the Military Complaints Tribunal. The real question is this: why is the Government trying to smear...
liberal catnip (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Via the CBC : Defence Minister Peter MacKay defended his government Thursday in the face of claims that detainees in Afghanistan were routinely abused by Afghan authorities after being handed over by Canadian soldiers. "There has not been a single, solitary proven allegation of abuse involving a transferred Taliban prisoner by Canadian forces," MacKay said Thursday in the House of Commons....
JURIST (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
[JURIST] A former senior Canadian diplomat alleged Wednesday that the Canadian military was complicit in the torture of Afghans by their own government, during testimony before the House of Commons Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan. Richard Colvin, who represented the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Kandahar from 2006-2007 and is currently the...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Command of Joint Task Force Afghanistan was transferred from Brigadier-General (BGen) Jonathan Vance to BGen Daniel Menard during a ceremony held today at Kandahar Airfield.
Buckdog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"According to our information, the likelihood is that all the Afghans we handed over were tortured," said Colvin, the former political director of the provincial reconstruction team in Kandahar city. "For interrogators in Kandahar, it was standard operating procedure." He also said that when the Red Cross wanted to look into the treatment of detainees turned over by the Canadian...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A Canadian diplomat says many Afghan detainees captured by Canadian forces in 2006 and 2007 are likely to have been tortured.
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
As part of the bucket defence* they are deploying in response to Richard Colvin’s testimony on allegations of torture routinely inflicted on prisoners handed over by Canadian Forces to Afghan authorities, Conservative MPs are arguing that these prisoners were, after all, trained to tell tall tales about horrible treatment to attract sympathy. This is a [...]
Creekside (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
A month ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time Peter MacKay , and Minister of Defence at the time Gordon O'Connor all denied ever seeing any of the 16 reports "circulated widely throughout the Foreign Affairs and Defence departments and also shared with senior military commanders in Ottawa and Afghanistan" warning that Afghan authorities were abusing detainees...
Canadian Medicine (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Trying to make crack safer Vancouver may get a supervised crack-smoking clinic. PHS Community Services, which also operates the supervised injection site Insite, would like to set up the crack-smoking clinic but federal officials would have to provide an exemption to the relevant drug-control laws. [ Globe and Mail ] Needless to say, the idea is a controversial one. [ Vancouver Courier ] Emergency...
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Canadian Forces opened a new phase in their campaign against the Taliban insurgency over the weekend.
The Torch (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
So far only the Globe and Mail (good on them, but a rather, er, curt story) has seen fit to report this ; most of our media only pretend to cover the CF at Kanadahar, and don't even use what is reported--see second story: Canadian offensive sees little action [that's good, right'] Operation Hydra launches with 1,000 Canadian troops [emphasis added, that's big, right'] and 200 Afghanistan National Army...
Creekside (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Canada's new immigration guide is all very back to the fifties. Not the real fifties of course - more a 1950's Pleasantville chamber of commerce directive of prim paternalistic homilies about the value of hard work and service. Lots of military dudes have done important manly men stuff and you too, aspiring immigrant, can join them: Defending Canada There is no compulsory military service in Canada....
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
Medals were given Friday to 48 members of the Canadian Forces for their courage and service.
The Torch (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
The Chief of Defence Staff has been, er, crystal clear : CDS serves a hard Afghan ball to the government That ball is now very firmly in their court . Time soon to end their dancing. Good on General Natynczyk, after having been much quieter that his predecessor , for coming through loud and clear: Soldiers out of Kandahar by 2011: defence chief... But his minister is still obfuscating : ... MacKay...
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