MILNEWS.ca News Highlights – July 13, 2015

Forest Fires Out West

• Updates:  “Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre Inc. National Wildland Fire Situation Report″  – “Wildfires in Northern Saskatchewan”
• “100 army reservists to join firefighting effort in Sask.” – “Army reservists join Saskatchewan wildfire fight” – “Moose Jaw reservists join firefighting effort in Sask.”
• “Military personnel receive firefighting training in Prince Albert”
• “Evacuees to return to parts of Saskatchewan”
• “Helicopter fighting forest fires crashes in northern Alberta; pilot survives”
• More via Google News search

#CANvsISIL

• “Canadian Fighters Strike ISIL Positions In Iraq”
• “Minister Nicholson Makes Statement on Latest ISIS Developments”
• Commentary  “Canadian bombing mission against ISIS misfires”
• “A Canadian-Israeli who was the first foreign woman to help Syria’s Kurds fight Islamic State has left the front lines and returned to Israel, citing the spread of Iranian influence in the war zones among her reasons ….” – “Israeli Women Returns Home After Fighting with Kurds in Syria” – “Israeli-Canadian woman returns to Israel after fighting ISIS” – “Israeli Woman Who Joined Kurdish Militia Returns to Israel” – more via Google News Search
• Iraq Situation Report July 09-10, 2015 (via the Institute for the Study of War)
• “Military airstrikes continue against ISIL terrorists in Syria and Iraq” – “Airstrikes Continue in Iraq, Syria” (via the Pentagon Info-machine)
• “Martin van Creveld says: To understand ISIS, see its history”

Ukraine

• “Canada’s embassy in Ukraine used as pawn in 2014 uprising”
• “Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Fredericton returns from Operation REASSURANCE” – Op REASSURANCE Backgrounder – “HMCS Fredericton returns home after seven-month NATO deployment”
• “PM to welcome Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk to Canada”
• “Ukraine PM to visit Ottawa as trade deal set to be signed” – “Yatsenyuk hopes Ukraine will sign free trade agreement with Canada soon” – “Ukrainian PM To Visit Canada For Economic Talks Amid Financial Turmoil” – “Poroshenko sets up delegation to participate in FTA talks with Canada”

Internal Security

• “Shadow of G20 security tactics loom over Pan Am Games protesters”
• “Canadian Senate Committee Calls for Scrutiny of Muslim Brotherhood” – “Register your imam, senators say” – “Senate report leaves bitter taste with Canadian Muslims”
• “Alleged Aboriginal terror twins’ father breaks parole doing drugs, blames terrorism charges”
• “Trudeau’s support of C-51 has some Liberals seeing orange”
• “Oka Crisis: Mohawk claim to pine forest never resolved” – “What have we learned after the Oka crisis?” – “Behind the lines: Invisible scars left by Oka Crisis 25 years later” – “Revisiting the Pines: Oka’s legacy”

What’s Canada Buying?

• What’s Canada NOT buying …. “Canada’s CF18 bases won’t have radar units replaced as $55M deal cancelled”
• “Harper Government Announces Two High-Value Contracts Under NSPS”

Way Up North

• “US to Develop Arctic Military Strategy – Chiefs of Staff Chairman Nominee”

Veterans & Helping Veterans

• “Veterans Affairs Canada has been struggling to answer the thousands of phone calls it receives from current and former military personnel each month because of technical glitches, staff shortages and poor planning, newly released documents show ….”
• “Ex-soldier says Veterans Affairs ignoring his pleas for help”
• “Exhibit examines veterans’ reactions to office closure”
• “Vets, first responders with PTSD paired with service dogs”
• “Wrapping veterans in hug of appreciation”
• “Government of Canada participates in Royal Canadian Legion Initiation Ceremony”
• “Minister of Veterans Affairs announces Government of Canada support for Canada Remembers Our Heroes “Tribute to Veterans” air show”

Other

• “Manitoba Native Becomes Commander of Canadian Forces Base Halifax”
• “Sharpshooting female soldier beats best Brits but fails to take home top Queen’s Medal” – “The Best Military Shooter in the World: My Daughter – The Truth About Guns”
• “Lafontaine woman brings creative mind to army reserves”
• “Teen with Asperger’s promoted to honorary captain on HMCS Montreal”
• “Canadian and US Army Reserve join forces”
• “New Canadian detachment commanding officer joins (NORAD) Western Air Defense Sector”
• “McMaster engineer explores concealed weapon detection in NATO project”
• “Rules of engagement: The role of the Canadian Army’s top lawyer”
• “Skybound with Canada’s Snowbirds”
• “US soldiers opposed to war now find Canada less hospitable”

Big Mother Statue

• “Mother Canada project managers seek more public funding”
• “A (partial) defence of the Mother Canada monument”
• “Lessons in authoritarian monument building”
• “Canadians disapprove of grandiose memorials”

Afghanistan

• “Did Canada fund Afghanistan’s ‘ghost schools’?” – “Ghost Students, Ghost Teachers, Ghost Schools”
  
• “Second trailer for Manitoba-shot war movie ‘Hyena Road’ released”

World War Two

• “Book on Battle of the Atlantic lacks depth”

World War One

• “New Chinook building named for Canadian First World War hero” – Andrew Edward McKeever (Wikipedia)

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