CAF’s fear of publicity shouldn’t trump justice
Kristen Adams’ courage has exposed how the military’s fear of media coverage overrode its sense of responsibility to its employees.
Tripling of boreal wildfire emissions since 2001 show ‘growing vulnerability’ of Canada’s northern forests: new U.K. study
Meanwhile, firefighters and wildfire survivors gather in Ottawa to call for stopping ‘the problem at the source’ by moving to clean energy and better forest management.
May calls for full-blown public inquiry a decade after Hill shooting
It’s ‘a uniquely Canadian thing that something that significant would happen and there’d never be an inquiry,’ says Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, while Kevin Vickers told the Ottawa Citizen he’s surprised there’s never been a parliamentary review, and that witness statements and security footage should be released.
Security clearance politicking reflects a minority Parliament on its ‘last legs’: observers
Many of the questions during an emergency debate on India’s alleged interference in Canadian politics turned instead to Poilievre’s refusal to seek a security clearance.
‘We stand on the shoulders of giants’: MPs pay homage to Cirillo, Vincent 10 years after Hill attack
On the 10th anniversary of that fateful day, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, NDP MP Charlie Angus, Bloc MP Louis Plamondon, and Green Leader Elizabeth May delivered statements remembering how the attack unfolded on Oct. 22, 2014.
Through their eyes, in their words: first-hand accounts from the day of the 2014 Parliament Hill shooting
‘I heard a thunderous boom through the Rotunda and saw people running towards me’: revisiting the accounts of the people on the Hill on Oct. 22, 2014.
Poor procurement won’t keep our soldiers warm at night
Army personnel are being left out in the cold after new sleeping bags fail to live up to the standards of their 1960s predecessors.
Samidoun designation a red flag for politicization of terrorist listings, says civil liberties group
Before a terrorist designation, Canada’s intelligence community collects information and makes a recommendation as to whether it meets the legal threshold in a ‘well established’ process, says national security expert Wesley Wark.
It’s hard for politicians to ‘resist the temptation’ of using intelligence for ‘partisan purposes’: ex-CSIS official
Both Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre failed to ‘rise to the moment,’ says former NDP staffer Cam Holmstrom.
Is the abolition of nuclear weapons really an impossible dream?
It’s certainly not a task for the faint-hearted. But I think Nelson Mandela got it right when he encouraged humanity to keep moving forward towards peace and justice: ‘It always seems impossible until it’s done.’
