Canada
I wouldn’t have wanted to be on the receiving end of the Canadian barrage.
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St-Pierre-Miquelon is a small French colonial possession (bet you didn’t know that France still had territory next to Canada) off the coast of Newfoundland. The problem arises from competing Canadian and French claims over rights to the mineral rich seabeds that surround the area. Canada and France appear headed for an underwater showdown over the [...]
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If you follow the blog, EU Referendum, you might be familiar with the argument that Britain’s troops are relatively poorly equipped in Afghanistan. The British paper, The Telegraph is also starting to cover this issue more in depth, as exemplified by this article: “Canada and Britain are very close and honest with each other good [...]
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Just a reminder that our Canadian allies have stood and fought with America for seven long years in Afghanistan. Condolences to the families of these brave men. Tributes are pouring in for three Canadian soldiers killed Saturday in a roadside bombing west of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Brig.-Gen. Denis Thompson, commander of Task Force Kandahar [...]
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The newly elected Conservative government of Prime Minister Harper might shortly be in the opposition. Canada’s opposition parties signed an unprecedented agreement Monday to topple the Conservative government in a no-confidence vote next week and form a coalition government less than two months after national elections. The three parties in the alliance, which together control [...]
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Don’t get me wrong, I like Canada and I even wrote my Master’s Thesis on its multicultural politics. The Canadians have been staunch allies in Afghanistan and there is nothing more we can ask of our northern neighbor. But, sometimes our left, and Canadians themselves glorify Canada as holier than thou (the thou being the [...]
Way too funny and needs no commentary if you are conservative…. Medical marijuana users are on the hook for more than $500,000 in unpaid bills for government-certified weed, raising questions about the effectiveness of Health Canada’s troubled dope program. Newly disclosed statistics show that Health Canada has sent final notices —and sometimes dispatched a collection [...]
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Right Wing News has links to the following video and website, of a certain Ezra Levant, former editor of the Western Standard. Mr. Levant has been hauled before the Human Rights commission of Alberta on charges that he incited hatred by publishing the “Mohammed” cartoons. The speech given by Mr. Levant is extremely impassioned, and [...]
