MILNEWS.ca News Highlights – April 10, 2015

Attacks on CF in Canada

• “Ottawa cops guard soldiers at National War Memorial”
• “National Sentry Program launches 2015 season at the National War Memorial – Canadian Armed Forces posts first sentries at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier”

#CANvsISIL

• Commentary  “Diplomacy sure beats war” – “Canadians support the war, for now”
• Internal Security
• “Omar Khadr lawyer in court for Alberta teen charged with terror offences”
• Commentary  “Hard National Security Choices”

Way Up North

• “Media opportunity with Associate Minister of National Defence about Canada’s Arctic sovereignty operations (this afternoon) ….”
• “U.S. Army, International Soldiers Conduct Arctic Training In Alaska“

Ukraine

• “Canada Grants Kiev Access to Sophisticated Satellite Imagery — Ukraine has gained access to Canadian satellite images that Ottawa’s own military forces could hardly afford; it still remains unclear how much the agreement with the Kiev regime will cost Canadian taxpayers ….”
• “NATO, Marines exercise response force aimed at Eastern European defense — Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Canada, Germany and the United States employed a NATO response force in the Baltic region during an exercise mirroring the need to defend Eastern Europe March 31 ….”

Other

• ” ‘She was able to cook the books’ :  Annapolis Valley woman gets jail time  for defrauding Greenwood Military Family Resource Centre” – “Federal time for Harbourville woman who defrauded Greenwood Military Family Resource Centre”
• “Mission completed for two naval reservists deployed as part of Operation Artemis”
• “Peter MacKay thought PM’s aide leaked embarrassing rescue helicopter story to the media, Duffy’s diaries reveal — ‘Peter MacKay tells MD (Mike Duffy) Dimitri Soudas ordered him to fly out of Nfld to do photo op — then leaked the helicopter story to the media,’ reads one entry ….”
• “The Company Formerly Known as Blackwater Is Training Canadian Soldiers — The mercenary company with a track record of war crimes is instructing Canadian commandos ….”
• “Petition · Minister of National Defence Jason Kenney, Navy League of Canada, Chief Cadet Bureaucrat Mr. Paul Bury: Force the Navy League and Quebec Cadet Region to Bring Back Rifle Drill for Cadets”
• “The US Civil War and the role 5 Canadians played in it”
• “Killer robots pose risks and advantages for military use”

Afghanistan

• “Remembering our fallen: Exhibit (in Regina) honours Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan — The Project Heroes exhibit launched on Thursday at Government House. Project Heroes is a non-profit initiative that celebrates the lives of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan ….”
• “Girl Power: Unschooled Afghan Refugee Is Now One Of Canada’s Brightest Lights”

World War Two

• “Terrace (BC) museum looks to update (1942) mutiny records”
• “This year’s CF-18 Demonstration Hornet pays tribute to “the few” “ – more on the Battle of Britain – more on “The Few”
• “Minister of Veterans Affairs honours Canadian Veterans of the Devil’s Brigade”

World War One

• “Vimy Ridge ceremony held at CFB Borden” – “CFB Borden launches Centennial Celebrations at a Vimy Ridge Memorial Breakfast”
• “Vimy Ridge, April 9, 1917: ‘Like a scene out Dante’ “
• “Government of Canada marks 98 th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge” – “Canada Remembers the Battle of Vimy Ridge”
• From the RCAF Info-machine  “Air power and the battle for Vimy Ridge”

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