Security and Peace Conference in Halifax

Some of the most powerful political and military figures, including Robert Gates, Admiral Mullen, John MacCain and Military leaders from the EU will be descending upon Halifax, Nova Scotia this weekend. The meeting...

Hamid Karzai sworn in for 2nd Term, Vows to end Corruption

After a fraud ridden election, that accused Hamid Karzai supporters of stuffing ballot boxes and had his opponent Abdullah Abdullah withdraw from a re-run election, President Hamid Karzai was sworn in for a...

Canadian Troops out of Kandahar by 2011: Chief of Defence Staff

Canada's Parliament voted that Canada's military mission in Afghanistan would end in 2011.  Canada maintains a contingent of 2800 troops in Afghanistan, which consists of a battle group and a headquarters...

Cdn Defence Minister to Announce $5-Billion for Armoured Vehicle

The Canadian Minister of Defence, Peter MacKay will announce $5Billion in new funding for light armoured vehicles at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown, New Brunswick today.This is part of a pledge by the Canadian...

Don Cherry Says He Would Make a Great Prime Minister

CBC hockey commentator Don Cherry chimed in about Canada's current political crisis, saying that if he became Prime Minister "heads would roll".According to Cherry, he is constantly asked to throw his hat into the...

Stanley Cup arrives in Kandahar

Whether you support the war in Afghanistan or not, this is a meaningful tribute and support of the men and women who have been ordered into action. "Canada's top soldier, musicians and former NHL players took the...

May Day For MacKay

"Guts, chutzpah, strategic genius. All these terms apply to Green Party Leader Elizabeth May who announced on CTV Question Period this morning that she is running in Central Nova, Nova Scotia, Peter MacKay's...

No Travel Warning For Mexico

"Foreign Affairs still has not posted a travel warning for Mexico. Despite a new poll that shows Canadians want a travel warning issued. Especially those in Ontario where all of the Canadian tourists killed in Mexico have come from."The Canadian government issues travel...

Return of the Soviets

" Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay had an interesting slip of the tongue while being interviewed on CTV's Question Period yesterday. When asked about Putin's charge that American Unilateralism was responsible for increasing world tensions around nuclear weapons,...

Spring Romance?

"Condi is coming back to visit with Peter. It will be a week after Valentines day, but it's the thought that counts. After all he chased after her through out the middle east last month. And virtually repeated what she said word for word. They are like peas in a pod...

Landmines

"Canada opposes Pakistan's plan to landmine its border with Afghanistan, well we should since landmines have caused more deaths and injuries to our troops in Afganistan than the Taliban have."

Peter MacKays Child Bride

So Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay has made another of the governments surprise visits to Afghanistan.Being a single guy I wonder if he was looking for a child bride.

Knight Of The Long Knives

"This is from a Blogging Tory.... But what to do about Peter MacKay? It may now be safe politically for Harper to dump one of the weakest links in Cabinet, or if not to punt him from Cabinet, to shuffle him...

MacKay Gets Personal With Rice

"It's still a cougar twink relationship between Peter MacKay and Condi Rice. He begged, she relented. US Homeland Security secretary reviewing Arar case She just didn't show him their evidence. Naive...

Is Condi Reading NowPublic?

You can be damn sure that the people in Condoleezza Rice's office keep track of what the New York Times writes about their boss.  This morning they'll be tuning into NowPublic member plawiuk because his piece...

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