Attacks on CF in Canada
- “Blaney’s use of “terrorism” to describe acts based on RCMP Paulson’s statement”
- ” ‘Explosive cocktail’ of mental illness, drug addiction and extremist ideology behind Cirillo shooting: minister — Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney told a security conference that Canada must be vigilant about the threat posed by people who become radicalized ‘for whatever reason’….”
- Commentary “Bullet holes have no place in Parliament”
#CANvsISIL
- From the Info-machine: “CF-188 Hornet fighters conducted 18 sorties; CC-150T Polaris aerial refueller conducted four sorties, delivering some 208,000 pounds of fuel to coalition aircraft; and CP-140 Aurora aircraft conducted five reconnaissance missions.” – Info-machine pix here
- ISW Iraq Situation Report: November 4-5, 2014
- ISW Syria Update: October 29-November 4, 2014
- “Western Security Services May Be Turning IS Militants on Russia: Ex-Intelligence Officer”
- Analysis “Islamic State: The Counterproductive Nature (Of) The Coalition’s Current Strategies”
- Commentary “ISIS and Boko Haram’s barbarism against women must not go unchallenged”
- More on Canada’s Operation IMPACT here, and on news from around that part of the world here (list of links) and here (Twitter list)
Internal Security
- Oopsie …. “CSIS kept judge in the dark on foreign spying”
- “Security agencies fail to spend millions from budgets”
- “How CSIS tried to recruit me at a security trade show”
Way Up North
- “Former Norwegian MFA Thorvald Stoltenberg has called for increased Nordic security and defense cooperation” – more
Ukraine
Ebola
Other
- Good question, from the “Annual Report 2013 – 2014 – Veterans Ombudsman”: “…. I believe that all of the elements are now available to make VAC’s programs and services work, but the system needed to effectively deliver them is not. It continues to fail some of our Veterans for two reasons. The first is addressed in my Report on the NVC and highlights the shortcomings in three program areas: financial, vocational rehabilitation and assistance, and family support. The second is a complex, multilayered and outdated service delivery process/model. Therefore, since parliamentary committees have recognized that the current way of doing business is not generating the results needed to resolve the problems facing Veterans and their families in Canada today, is it not time that we change our vision of VAC’s service delivery approach? ….”
- “Dealing with PTSD a daily struggle for war veteran”
- “Bell Let’s Talk and True Patriot Love announce 2014 grant recipients — $250,000 going to mental health initiatives for military families and veterans ….”
- “Canada can do more to help veterans find work after the military: Poll” – “Canadians Believe Ensuring Jobs For Veterans Is Our Obligation”
- “New Appointment to the Veterans Review and Appeal Board Announced”
- “Five Eyes Naval Flag Officers Gather for Staff Talks”
- From the RCAF Info-machine on when things don’t go as planned “Mitigating risk: Flight safety and accident investigation for the Canadian Armed Forces”
Remembering ….
- “MP’s bill to make Remembrance Day a national statutory holiday gets support of Harper Government” (so far)
- “Preserving history for the next generation”
- “No Stone Left Alone ceremony to honour fallen soldiers”
- Manitoulin Island remembers “Military policeman Les Osborne shares recollections of years served” – “Canada’s newest veterans join in a hallowed history of service” – “Captain Jeff Caselton of Manitowaning shares his military story” – “Soldier’s family requests photo be removed from Wall of Honour”
- Ontario Info-machine video on YouTube “One day when we all remember”
- “Local WWII veterans should apply for special pin: Norlock”
Afghanistan
- “Afghan war monuments to cost Canadian communities up to $20K each — How the cost of Afghan war memorials–up to 250 over three years at up to $20,000 each–is expected to be covered “at no cost” to Canadian taxpayers ….” – LAV III Memorial Community Application page – FAQs
- Douglas Craig Blake, 1972-2010, R.I.P. “Craig Blake’s name added to Norfolk War Memorial”
World War Two
- “Sydney veteran recalls horrors of the Second World War”
- “Canadian WWII vets awarded French Legion of Honour”
- “Matthew Halton: Canada’s Voice at War”
- “Plaque honours Devil’s Brigade”
World War One
- “Remains of Winnipeg soldier identified, 96 years after his death in WWI — A 100-year-old love story has helped a Manitoba family say goodbye to a soldier killed in First World War action ….” – “WW I Canadian soldier’s remains identified” – From the info-machine “Another Canadian First World War Soldier Found in Hallu, France, Identified”
- “World War 1 remembered in Elgin”
- “For black battalion, not all fights were on the battlefield — “Honour Before Glory” is Anthony Sherwood’s tribute to the No. 2 Construction Battalion. “When the First World War broke out, black men who had been born in this country, who were second and third-generation Canadians, wanted to fight for their country, but were refused simply based on the colour of their skin.” ….”
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