The sale of Canadian-made weapons, military vehicles and components can be linked to human rights violations from Wet’suwet’en territory to Colombia. “Military goods” are used in wars, but also by security forces in the repression of human rights defenders, civil society protests and Indigenous rights. The CANSEC arms show in Read more…
This year’s CANSEC arms show is expected to attract 280+ exhibitors, 50+ international delegations, and “600+ VIPS, generals, top military & government officials”. “74% of attendees have purchasing power”. Photo from CANSEC 2022 by Koozma J. Tarasoff. Over the last five years, Canada has exported more than $30 million in Read more…
Photo: Members of the Guatemalan Inter-Agency Border Unit. Photo from Military Times. Kelsey Gallagher from Project Ploughshares has reported: “On May 31, 2022, the Canadian government tabled the 2021 Exports of Military Goods report, providing details on reported Canadian arms exports and brokering of military goods for that year. The Read more…
Photo: Colombian police use what appears to be a Toronto-based INKAS-manufactured armoured vehicle to stop buses of delegates travelling to Cali for a popular assembly related to the national strike on July 17, 2021. INKAS Armored Vehicle Manufacturing will be at Booth 3108 at the CANSEC arms show being held Read more…
Photo: Shireen Abu Akleh remembered at protest against CANSEC, June 1, 2022. On May 11, Reuters reported: “A year after Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot while covering an Israeli army raid [in the West Bank city of Jenin], family and friends say her killers are yet to Read more…
Photo: Soldiers at the presidential palace in Quito, Ecuador following President Lasso’s dissolution of the Legislature. AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa. Earlier this month, the Associated Press reported: “The president of Ecuador dismissed the legislature [on May 17]… Armed soldiers surrounded the National Assembly in the capital after the move by President Read more…
Photo: The Philippines delegation at CANSEC, 2017. In December 2016, Reuters reported: “Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has threatened corrupt government officials with the prospect of being thrown out of a helicopter mid-air, warning he has done it himself before and would do it again.” Despite this admission, a Canadian government Read more…
Photo: General Dynamics-Bombardier aircraft. General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada and Bombardier will be holding a media conference on Wednesday May 31 at the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa. They are bidding on the Canadian Multi-Mission Aircraft Project that is expected to cost Canada more than $5 billion. The other major bidder Read more…
Photo: “Amnesty’s @AgnesCallamard, @ErikaGuevaraR and @mnavarromangado are presenting the findings in a press conference in Lima, alongside Raul Samillán, president of the Association of Martyrs and Victims from 9 January in Juliaca, Puno.” The Peruvian military attended the CANSEC arms show in Ottawa in 2014 and 2018 and is included Read more…
Duheme and Mendicino arrive at the RCMP 150 celebration in Ottawa, May 23, 2023. On Thursday May 25 at 1:45 pm, federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino will speak at the Change of Command ceremony for incoming Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Mike Duheme at the Charles-Michel-de-Salaberry Armoury, a Read more…