OTTAWA – A major, deep-reaching report about the maritime helicopter procurement has just been released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
“The worst procurement in the history of Canada”: Solving the maritime helicopter crisis was written by University of British Columbia political science professor Michael Byers, and Stewart Webb, Visiting Research Fellow at the Rideau Institute and Research Associate at the Salt Spring Forum.
International relations, peace and conflict
Canadian companies operating in Colombia are more economically powerful than ever before: they partly own and run Colombia's largest oil pipeline (Talisman), and they are its leading private oil producer (Pacific Rubiales) and its biggest gold mining company (Gran Colombia Gold).
OTTAWA – A new report, released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, calls on the government to replace the Canadian Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) fleet in a timely and objective manner, and proposes that a number of made-in-Canada aircraft be considered to fulfill Canada’s search and rescue requirements, especially on the West Coast.
This report, released by the Rideau Institute and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, responds to news that Treasury Board has granted “first-phase approval” of $3.8 billion for new search-and-rescue planes, and calls on the government to replace the Canadian Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue (FWSAR) fleet in a timely and objective manner.
Uruguay, a small South American nation located between Argentina and Brazil, has been carrying forth the Latin American Revolution for the last eight years, with impressive social gains. Two left-wing governments, both of the Frente Amplio political party (Broad Front—FA), have been ruling the country of 3.3 million people since 2004, having broken the long-standing right-wing domination of the political system.
“The deformed human mind is the ultimate doomsday weapon.”
—British historian E.P. Thompson.
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I was reminded of this stark warning while listening to one of Rex Murphy’s Cross-Country Checkups on CBC Radio last November.
Murphy was interviewing Terry Glavin, a B.C. journalist and writer for whom I have great respect, about Glavin’s latest book, on Canada’s so-called “mission” in Afghanistan.
In a display of astounding hypocrisy in mid-August, the Saudi Arabian government denounced the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad as “a killing machine” and recalled its ambassador from Damascus. Saudi Arabia claimed to be outraged by the slaughter of an estimated 2,000 civilian protesters by President Assad’s army aimed at crushing a public uprising against his dictatorial regime. Saudi Arabia itself, however, has also been engaged in killing protesters in neighbouring Bahrain, which its troops invaded last March.
No sooner had the popular revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia overthrown corrupt and repressive U.S.-backed dictatorships than Washington and NATO (led by a Canadian general) attacked Libya on March 19 with jet fighters and hundreds of missiles and bombs. The reason given by this coalition of the U.S., Britain, France, Italy and Canada (among others) for the attack was that they were protecting civilians from Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi. Considering that the U.S.
Finally, after years of delays and just a few hours after Japan’s horrifying earthquake on March 11, the Harper government finally released its latest deeply-flawed report on Canada’s military exports between 2007 and 2009. This timing ensured that the latest data on Canada’s participation in the international weapons trade was conveniently buried beneath a tsunami of news about Japan’s natural catastrophe.
The corporate media have not deigned to report on Canada’s new arms-export figures, let alone expose how the government’s report covers up far more than it reveals.
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