CNR Fan, 29 October 2020. In accordance with CBC News, dozens of workers at the Irving Halifax Shipyard refused work this week after a contractor from Quebec came in last week and did not self-isolate. Linda MacNeil, Atlantic regional director for UNIFOR, the union representing workers at Irving, blames Irving: […]
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Once deemed impossible now a reality, this cruise raises questions on the implications on Canadian sovereignty and also the implications for environmental protection. But that is not all. Many other related questions need to be addressed, such as: (1) Is this latest version of Arctic adventure travel really a safe […]
All this week, reports have been coming out from the federal government about closures and reductions in federal service programs. Up until the various announcements, Defence Department spokespersons repeatedly declined to comment where the anticipated 1,000 jobs would be cut, citing the ‘rights’ of ‘Defence Team members’ to be advised […]
Brian Stewart, Senior Fellow with the Monk Centre at the University of Toronto, has raised the spectre of an internal struggle within DND over how to allocate the capital portion of the defence budget. In his article entitled “$30B fighter jets just the start of defence-spending boom” (CBC News, 06 […]
Brian Stewart, formerly Senior Correspondent for CBC’s national news programme “The National” and now Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Munk Centre at the University of Toronto, filed a report on 10 February about the performance of the navy in response to the Haitian earthquake. You can read his report here. […]
A revealing story was published recently by Spiegel Online that detailed the aborted attempt of an elite group of German GSG-9 police to take back the German container ship, MV Hansa Stavenger, which had been hijacked by Somali pirates. You can read the lengthy piece of investigative journalism for yourself […]