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April 19, 2013
Written By Scott Taylor
Last Tuesday, on the 96th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, QMI Agency—a national newswire run by Quebecor Media, which owns and operates Sun News Network—blew up its own storm of controversy by re-publishing a six-year-old blog post by Alexandre Boulerice, an NDP MP from Quebec.
In his post, Boulerice described the First World War as “a purely capitalist war on the backs of the workers and peasants.” Given the left-wing slant of the blog, Boulerice also praised the communist activists of the day who opposed the conflict.
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April 12, 2013
Written by Jason McNaught
Esprit de Corps magazine and Nexter Systems held a reception at the Rideau Club on Wednesday, to unveil the new name for Nexter’s armoured infantry combat vehicle (VBCI). On hand for the event was Mike Duckworth, Senior VP of Nexter, David Pratt, former Minister of National Defence and representatives from the French Embassy.
Esprit de Corps conducted a nationwide naming competition for the VBCI, running ads in their magazine and website, before turning the entries over to a panel that included Lieutenant-General (ret’d) Andrew Leslie, Queen’s University Professor Douglas Bland and Major-General (ret’d) Clive Addy. The VBCI is in the running for the Canadian Army’s Close Combat Vehicle (CCV) program.
The panel narrowed the names down to five contenders for the VBCI: Polar Bear, Wolverine, Scorpion, Grenadier and Muskox.
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April 7, 2013
Written by Scott Taylor
Last week, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird visited Bahrain during his extended tour of the Middle East.
When the so-called Arab Spring wave of unrest first began in 2011, Bahrain was one of a number of states rocked by protests and violence, with the large Shiite majority staging massive protests and demanding the ouster of the ruling Sunni monarchy.
Similar public demonstrations led to rapid regime changes in Egypt and Tunisia, while in Libya and Syria they morphed into bloody armed rebellions.
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(United States Secretary of State John Kerry with Afghan President Hamid Karzai - Associated Press/Jason Reed)
March 31, 2013
Written by Scott Taylor
Last week proved to be a bittersweet watershed for the Syrian opposition forces.
First came word that the Arab League was recognizing the National Coalition as the legitimate government of Syria and no longer recognizing the envoys representing embattled President Bashar al-Assad.
The news was quickly tempered with the announcement that the recently appointed leader of the Syrian opposition was resigning from the post. Moaz al-Khatib was chosen last November to lead the coalition at a United States-brokered summit meeting of the various Syrian rebel factions.
Although seen as a relatively powerless umbrella group for those militias actually fighting in Syria, the National Coalition remains the U.S.’s last best hope to formalize a legitimate post-Assad governing body.
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