Just before the RCMP raid against Wet’suwet’en land defenders in February 2020, this march in Ottawa said “RCMP off Wet’suwet’en land”. Photo by Brent Patterson. Wet’suwet’en land defender Sleydo’ has described the Community-Industry Response Group (C-IRG) as a specialized group of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) that deal specifically Read more…
Photo: An F-35 at Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska. In this Globe and Mail opinion piece, University of Calgary political science professor Rob Huebert argues that Canada must buy F-35s given the threat of Russia’s military capacity and the “emerging battleground” of the Arctic. Among other actions, Huebert notes Read more…
Photo: CF-18 in Libya, 2011. On December 18, the New York Times reported on the U.S. airstrikes that have claimed the lives of civilians in numerous countries. Aljazeera summarizes: “The report, based on a trove of confidential Pentagon documents covering more than 1,300 reports of civilian casualties, undercuts the US Read more…
It is widely expected that Canada will select the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet in March/April 2022 to replace its current fleet of CF-18 Hornets. How much carbon pollution would these fighter-bombers produce? Two years ago, the National Interest reported: “Norwegian environmentalists are complaining that the country’s new F-35s, which Read more…
Photo: US Marines load guided bombs onto an F-35. Canada’s CF-18s intercept 6-7 aircraft each year 100-200 nautical miles from its coastline, but have conducted approximately 1,598 bombing missions over Iraq, Syria and Libya. This raises the question: What would be the primary mission of Canada’s F-35s? It is widely Read more…
The opening day of Parliament, November 22, 2021. Photo by Koozma J. Tarasoff. Pages 133-134 of the Alternative Federal Budget, produced by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, state: “Ending planned procurement of new fighter jets, withdrawing Canada’s participation in the U.S.-led F-35 fighter consortium, and cancelling the Aegis Combat Read more…
It is widely expected that the Canadian government will select the Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jet in the coming weeks. On December 1, the Canadian Press reported that Public Services and Procurement Canada has officially announced that the Boeing F/A-18 has been dropped from the fighter jet acquisition process. That Read more…
Filomena Tassi, Anita Anand On November 15, Ottawa Citizen reporter David Pugliese reported: “The three aerospace firms bidding on the fighter jet program were told in writing by the federal government that a decision would be made this month on a ‘down select’ of companies that would be allowed to Read more…
Photo: Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau talks with Colombian president Ivan Duque at the COP26 summit in Glasgow. The Canadian government announced this week that it will cut subsidies to oil and gas companies operating outside of Canada by the end of 2022. This promise is outlined in this joint Read more…
In May of this year, following the revelation of Indigenous children buried in mass or unmarked graves at former residential schools, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asked that flags at all federal buildings be flown at half-staff. Export Development Canada (EDC), an Ottawa-based public financing/credit agency wholly-owned by the Government of Canada, lowered Read more…