By Dave Markland, rabble.ca, April 15, 2010 Revelations don’t get much more explosive than this. On Parliament Hill Wednesday, the Afghanistan committee heard from Malgarai Ahmadshah, an Afghan Canadian who worked for the Canadian Forces as an interpreter. Here’s the…
Category: Canadian News
Don’t extend Afghan mission, Canadians say: poll
CBC News, April 8, 2010 Half of Canadians do not support the country’s military being deployed to Afghanistan, and 60 per cent oppose extending the mission past its current end date of July 2011, a new poll suggests. The poll,…
Canadian Peace Alliance News
Here are some news items compiled by the Canadian Peace Alliance. To get on the CPA mailing list, go to http://www.acp-cpa.ca/en/index.html. After 2011 – Why Canada Needs to Leave Afghanistan Canadian Peace Alliance March 31, 2010 At the G8 Foreign…
CBC publishes Afghan detainee documents
Who wants to read some Afghan detainee documents? By Janyce McGregor, CBC News, March 26, 2010 Reading, sorting, and analyzing pages and pages of documents (even though there IS an awful lot of the censor’s black ink) isn’t everyone’s thing.…
U.S. to press for Canada to keep troops in Afghanistan
By John Ibbitson, Globe and Mail, March 25, 2010 The U.S. government will ask Canada to keep as many as 500 to 600 troops in Afghanistan after this country’s military deployment in Kandahar ends in 2011. Sources inside and outside…
CMP calls for action regarding the storming of the Al Aqsa Mosque
CMP Action Alert: Lobby Attack on Al Aqsa Mosque By Canadian Muslims for Palestine, March 14, 2010 Canadian Muslims For Palestine (CMP), a national grassroots educational organization, denounces in the harshest possible terms the storming of the Al Aqsa Mosque…
Canadian Military Spending: Up is Down?
By Bill Robinson, Rideau Institute, March 5, 2010 (Ottawa) The new federal budget commits the Harper government to going ahead with its planned increases in military spending in both the coming year (fiscal year 2010-11) and the next, after which, Finance…
Justice for Abousfian Abdelrazik
Project Fly Home has launched a campaign on behalf of Abousfian Abdelrazik, the Sudanese-Canadian man who was wrongly imprisoned and tortured in Sudan in 2003 and prevented by the Canadian government from returning to Canada until last year. Documents obtained…
6,000+ Canadian Afghanistan vets on disability
Afghanistan veterans on disability now 6,000 Forces, Veterans Affairs reluctant to disclose casualty records after eight years of war By Tim Naumetz, The Hill Times, Feb. 8, 2010 More than 6,000 Canadian Forces members and discharged veterans who are receiving…
Global Research/AKASAN/CHAN raising funds for Haiti
Global Research, in collaboration with AKASAN (Haitians Helping Haitians) and the Canada Haiti Action Network (CHAN), is launching a Haiti fund raising campaign in support of Haitian grass-roots initiatives. The country’s institutions, including schools and hospitals, are in ruins. Income-generating…