The modern-day malady of modern-day veterans
Given the mental health struggles many veterans face, the truth is we continue to lose those who have served to their injuries, but it is not as easy to find the number after they’ve left the Forces.
Honouring the past in changing times
If remembrance is to endure, it must evolve from static commemoration to active engagement. Schools and youth organizations can play a critical role here.
Is our military ready to be a half a million strong?
Before looking to enlist hundreds of thousands more soldiers, the CAF needs to start taking proper care of those already in uniform.
Meeting feds’ ‘ambitious’ RCMP hiring pledge will require ‘imaginative’ ideas, says advisory board chair
The Liberals have pledged $1.7-billion to hire 1,000 RCMP personnel over the next four years as the force faces a vacancy rate of 7.7 per cent, representing more than 1,400 jobs outside of that hiring push.
Follow P.E.I.’s lead: Canada needs a national inquiry into China’s influence
P.E.I.’s call for an inquiry is proof that even provinces removed from the country’s geopolitical epicentres are feeling the ripple effects of foreign influence.
Carney government promises to spend $81.8-billion over five years on defence
The funding boost is a part of Canada’s commitment to meet spending targets set by NATO.
The CAF’s emotional apology for racism
The general consensus at the Oct. 30 ceremony was that this emotional apology is a starting point, not the closure of an historical chapter.
Douglas Roche: why ‘much of my public career has been marked by dissent, and [why] I’m not stopping now’
I dissent from the wild disproportion of what the world spends on arms and what it spends on development. I dissent from the anti-humanitarian policies of war for peace. I dissent from the perpetuation of poverty through the greed of the rich. I dissent from the despoliation of the planet by short-sighted industrialism. Most of all, I dissent from the fabric of lies spun by the proponents of nuclear weapons who would have us believe that these heinous instruments of mass murder make us safer.
Current and former MPs call for united front to fight back against Trump’s continuing threat to the country, but say House is too polarized
As U.S. President Donald Trump upends decades of progress in the world, it also creates an opportunity for Canada to show global leadership, says politicos. But Canada also needs to be united.
Veterans raise inaugural poppy flag on Parliament Hill
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