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Ambassador Kevin Vickers is also a former member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, who stopped the 2014 attack on the Canadian Parliament.

As the training progressed through the day, the troops split into pairs and practiced minefield extraction techniques in separate lanes and set flags to mark potential threats as they proceeded down their individual routes.

Canadian special operations forces have taken on the mission of training the Peshmerga in Erbil, Iraq

A swirl of smoke, then the screams. Two men drop to the ground, “blood” squirting from wounds. Orders are barked in Kurdish as Peshmerga soldiers rush to the aid of the fallen. At this military outpost in Northern Iraq, it’s all a drill run by Canadians, a mock mortar attack to test Peshmerga on their […]

The Islamist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG), hidden in jungle redoubts on southern Filipino islands in Sulu, beheaded John Ridsdel, a Canadian hostage yesterday.  “Ridsdel’s head, which was placed in a plastic bag, was dumped by motorcycle-riding militants Monday night in Jolo town in impoverished Sulu, about 950 kilometres south of Manila,” CBC News reported. ASG […]

Cold Response 2016 is held in the Trøndelag counties in Central Norway. The main exercise phase included approximately 15,000 soldiers from 14 nations participate. This year, the following nations participate in Cold Response: Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Latvia, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, the USA, the United Kingdom and Norway. In addition, there are […]

Canada’s military will keep wearing their uniforms in public, the country’s top officer said Tuesday in the wake of a stabbing attack that wounded two soldiers at a recruiting centre in Toronto. General Jonathan Vance, the Chief of the Defence Staff, issued a statement praising the courage of the military members who neutralized the attacker. […]

Editor’s Note: Canada’s Defense Ministry announced that Canada will send about 100 Royal Canadian Air Force personnel and four CF-188 Hornet fighter jets to train with the Romanian military. As we all know, NATO has been stepping up its presence in eastern Europe, as a response the Russia’s resurgence and activities in Ukraine.  Canada will send […]

Canada will increase troop numbers in Iraq and keep air assets in the region.

Forced or assisted assimilation of Muslim migrants will only create resentment and hostility on both sides.

As we go to press, Iraqi Special Operations Forces are entering the city center of Ramadi to liberate it from ISIS.  Despite the daily frantic reports in the media, ISIS is perhaps the most over exaggerated threat of our time.  In this case, they have around three hundred fighters inside Ramadi, many of them reputed […]

We look at why the Canadian military is far too extended to back any action resulting from the Harper/Putin staring contest over Ukraine.