Canadian Officer killed in Afghanistan - SW of Khandahar City

another good man lost

Thank You for letting us know about this brave man

Thank you Amy and marianmo for your comments.

A solution to this problem has to be found fast. US, Canadian military deaths will not end with Late Lt. Boyes.

I can remember the feeling of Sri Lankans when the 1st Army officer was killed by the LTTE in 1986. Since then, over 30,000 military personnel were killed by the terrorists.  That's a lot.

"Little drops of water....................................................."

Thanks for commenting lalith.

Tragedy, but self made. i simply cannot understand this conflicting approach of finding solution.

This is just so sad !  My thoughts and prayers are with the family of Lt Justin Garrett Boyes , I dream of the day that , we shall shed less tears , dream that peace will be near , God Bless Canada ! I'am YouTube's Orphan Gordie    

Thank you for recommending and commenting politisite.

Out of Afganistan! The army is to protect Canada - not to impose regimes in wars of aggression! This is Harper's War: not Cretiens or Martins & everybody knows it, or SHOULD know it! Bush is gone, but SOME lapdogs remain!

Thank you Mr. Harper for your continuing war crimes. how much more canadian blood will be spilled in this illegal war, a war that can never be won. when the day of the big pull out comes all the lost lifes will be forgotten.no, i do not support the troops, not if they invade an innocent country with depleted uranium filled bullets.the best thing to do is to send all the politician over there and give them baseball bats.

Thank you to all of you from keja keras adala energi downwards.  

I.ll address a couple of comments though.  This is not just Mr. Harper's war, although he bears the responsibility of conducting it.  This war was sanctioned by the Canadian Parliament by both the Minority Conservative and the Oppostion Liberals voting for it. That having been said you are entitled to your opinion.

I also want to stress you have this freedom of speech because somebody paid for it with their blood during the conflict between 1939 and 1945.  So you can thank a soldier for it.  Although I find your comments offensive, I respect that you are entitled to them as I am to mine.

I just hope that none of you are ever placed into a position where a soldier has to save your butt. 

God Bless Canada. 

albertacowpoke wrote:  "I also want to stress you have this freedom of speech because somebody paid for it with their blood during the conflict between 1939 and 1945."

that's hilarious albertacowpoke! With all due respect, you suffer from historical amnesia. Looks like I have to give you another history lesson.  Exactly whose freedom of speech did those soldiers die for between 1939 and 1945? Yours and your family and friend's for sure. "Freedom of speech" or for that matter any freedom did not extend to "Canadians" of Chinese, South Asian, and especially Japanese descent (remember the Japanese internment camps!?). These people did not get the right to become "Canadian" until 1949. First Nations did not get these rights until much later!

Your characterization of WWII as a war for freedom against tyranny is laughable. Are you forgetting the colonies that Britain, France, Italy, and America ruled over across the world with an iron fist?...the millions that suffered and died under these racist imperial SOBs well after the end of WWII? And now continue to do so under the guise of globalization, free markets, the IMF, and WTO? No, I think that in order to forget something you must have had known about it...clearly you never did and I suspect never will.

As for our beloved KKKanadian soldiers...might I remind you of the Somalia Affair , when "our" soldiers at a pre-deployment pissup were caught on video tape shouting "we gonna kill us some niggers."

The only good KKKanadian soldier is a dead one.

god damn your KKKanada

Apparently you like living in my god damn KKKanada.  In any case I won't get dragged down into some racist slur contest. 

...is that you excuse for not addressing the other issues that I brought up? For example, your hypocritical statement about WWII being fought so "we" could enjoy our freedom. Why sidestep that topic? Or the fact that Asians, Blacks, Jews, and non-white christians could not become citizens of Canada until 1949. How about the Japanese interment? Or the war crimes committed in Somalia.

I had relatives that fought in WWII for the allies. At the same time their people in Asia were being oppressed by the same ones they fought for.

I wonder if you will address these topics....

You still refuse to address the issues I brought up! WHY? Your parents may not have been treated well up arrival in Canada...BUT their bad treatment was not institutionalized in government, schools, jobs, and everywhere else in Canadian society. They could become "Canadian" more easily than someone from India, China, or Africa. These people would always suffer form the hyphenated-Canadian syndrome (something that I cant stand). The Canadian military has always been an imperial army. It did after all conquer western and northern Canada for the whiteman...did it not? Thus I don't salute these people and I don't wear a poppy. What good have Canadian soldiers done around the world? They are an imperial force that is occupying another country.

admiral akbar you seem so full of hate for canada and the western countries....if you feel so negatively , please feel free to enjoy living somewhere else............a lot of terrible things happen in times of war, or in the past   .......it is time to put hate aside and if you can not do that please find another society to live in....i hate racists and people bashing please stop