By Alison@Creekside “He simply will not last very long,” Harper said of Muammar Gaddafi back in March, as Canada prepared to drop $27-million of smart money smart bombs on Libya in order to oust him. As of now Gaddafi controls most of the country, including the capital. Today Parliament will debate Steve’s resolution to support […]
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Wikileaks on Harper, America, and the “transformational agenda”
By Alison@Creekside An embassy cable written by US Ambassador David Wilkins the day the Cons were first elected in 2006 suggests Harper would be useful in advancing the US agenda for Canada and that giving him ” a success story” like the softwood lumber deal would “shore up” his ability to stay in office without appearing to “sell out to […]
Stephen Harper’s Libyan offensive
By Montreal Simon I just saw some video of Canadian jets refuelling at Prestwick Airport near Glasgow. I just saw tornado fighters from Lossiemouth, the RAF base next to the Scottish village where I was born, landing in the theatre of action. I’m glad the world is taking action to stop the degenerate dictator Muammar […]
Final Total for F-35?
by Eric Pettifor When buying an SLR camera, the price of the unit is not the entire cost. Will you need additional lenses? Tripod? Camera case/bag? Filters? Additional media? Apparently it’s the same thing when buying fighter jets. You can’t just buy 65 F-35 fighter jets and think that’s the end of it, especially if […]
Airshow Mackay and the Red Barons
By Alison@Creekside Frankly I don’t think we can be expected to write a whole new blogpost every time Flying Ace “Airshow MacKay” and his trusty sidekick Woodstock Kory climb up on top of the Con doghouse to fight off the Red Baron yet again in the Arctic, so this time we’re just going with what […]
DND on friendly fire: Wikileaks, US don’t know squat
By Alison@Creekside One of the Wikileaks war logs released yesterday contained a friendly fire report filed by the 205th RCAG U.S. military unit which states four Canadian soldiers were killed and seven other Canadians and an interpreter were wounded on Sept. 3, 2006, when a fighter jet dropped a guided bomb on a building they […]
Media mercenaries
By Alison@Creekside In a 2007 article entitled “The Conference of Defence Associations gets $100,000 a year from the Department of Defence,” CDA executive director Alain Pellerin told Maclean’s John Geddes: “We also have to write a number of op-eds to the press.” Asked if there is any aspect of Tory defence policy the CDA opposes, […]
The Colvin e-mails: so unimportant we can’t see them
By Alison@Creekside Over at the Military Police Complaints Commission, Department of Justice lawyer Alain Préfontaine is trying to prove that diplomat Richard Colvin’s emails flagging abuse of Afghan prisoners were so vaguely worded that the government could not possibly be held responsible for failing to understand what he was talking about. Colvin and MPCC chair […]
Canada’s next quagmire
By Alison@Creekside “After 2011, the military mission will end,” said Defence Minister Peter MacKay, repeating the Conservative government’s well-worn line. “What we will do beyond that point in the area of training, will predominantly be in the area of policing. And that is very much a key component part of security for Afghanistan.” Training the […]
Where were we? Oh yes. Torture.
By Alison@Creekside On Friday Justice Minister Rob Nicholson announced the government was appointing Frank Iacobucci, a former Supreme Court judge with no legal hold over them, to determine what documents pertaining to the Afghan detainee issue could be released without compromising national security, national defence, and/or international relations. The scope and terms of Iacobucci’s appointment […]
