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- Internal Security
- “Justin Trudeau rebuffs request from Quebec police union for army help in Kahnawake” (CBC News)
- “Trudeau rules out military intervention at blockades as Quebec police union head requests help” (Globalnews.ca)
- “Groups linked to oil companies funded Facebook ads denouncing the rail blockades”
- “L’armée devrait aider les policiers advenant une intervention, croit l’APPQ”
- “Kahnawake: les policiers recommandent le renfort de l’armée”
- “Kahnawake: l’armée devrait aider les policiers advenant une intervention, croit l’APPQ”
- “La barricade de Kahnawake maintenue jusqu’à nouvel ordre”
- “Kahnawake residents weigh in on whether to maintain rail barricade”
- “Demonstration at Sault Ste. Marie’s International Bridge over”
- “Protestors lift International Bridge blockade in Sault Ste. Marie”
- “From pepper spray to profiling: A look at how protests have been policed in Canada”
- “Via Rail resumes eastern Ontario routes following Wet’suwet’en solidarity blockades”
- “Majority of Canadians unhappy with Trudeau’s handling of blockade crisis: poll”
- “Federal Politics – March 4th, 2020” (Leger Marketing)
- “MPs call for parliamentary investigation as Canadian military and police forces confirm they’ve tried facial-recognition technology “
- “RCMP denied using facial recognition technology – then said it had been using it for months”
- #coronavirus
- “Canadian military starts initial preparations for responding to pandemic” (Ottawa Citizen)
- “Canada’s military ordered to begin ‘pre-pandemic planning’ ” (CBC News)
- “Canadian troops on alert as novel coronavirus outbreak spreads to Iraq” (The Canadian Press via TimminsToday.com)
- Russia-Baltics-Cold War 2.0/#OpREASSURANCE
- “Canada and the West are at war with Russia whether they want it or not: military experts”
- #Afghanistan
- “U.S., Taliban deal a ‘peace opportunity,’ former Afghan ambassador to Canada says”
- Way Up North
- “Rangers visit Cold War radar site on (James Bay) Coast”
- “Canadian Rangers Complete Challenging Northern Training Exercise” (DND info-machine)
- Veterans & Helping Veterans (or Not?)
- “Access to health care for veterans’ families can be ‘disjointed and irregular’: government documents”
- “$4 million upgrade at Veterans Cemetery in Esquimalt nears completion” (VAC info-machine)
- What’s Canada Buying?
- “IMP is hoping Canadian fighter fleet will be assembled in Nova Scotia”
- “Trade unionists organizing against the Canadian arms industry” (rabble.ca)
- Other Military News
- “Military judges rule they can’t be disciplined by chain of command, only by military appeal court”
- “Military judge’s court martial paused again over issues finding judge to hear it”
- “Federal Court slams prosecution’s bid to force military judges to preside over Dutil court martial”
- “L’affaire contre le juge militaire en chef du Canada, Mario Dutil, est de nouveau dans les limbes après que le juge Luc Martineau de la Cour fédérale a rejeté la demande de révision judiciaire déposée par le Directeur des poursuites militaires qui tenait mordicus à un procès dans le système de justice militaire. La Cour fédérale a refusé le 3 mars d’ordonner de nommer un autre juge militaire pour présider la cour martiale du juge Dutil, qui avait commencé dans sa propre Cour et qui avait vite avorté quand le magistrat devant présider le procès, le second du juge Dutil, s’est récusé …”
- “Analysis: After racist incidents spanning decades, Canadian Forces still can’t define ‘hateful conduct’ “
- “Curling club says DND rent increase will force it to close”
- “The terrorists are winning the ‘War on Terror’ “
MILNEWS.ca Highlights – March 4, 2020
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