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Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA (MARKET WIRE) As the three-day Halifax International Security Forum today wrapped up its final sessions, the Honourable Peter MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister for the Atlantic Gateway, declared the inaugural event a success and invited the organisers to return to Halifax in future years. Some 300 international and industry leaders, academics, policy makers, and...
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oliver and gwens family (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
A lady Canadian libertarian wrote a lot of letters to the government, complaining about the treatment of captive insurgents (terrorists) being held in Afghanistan National Correctional System facilities. She received back the following reply: National Defense Headquarters MGen George R. Pearkes Bldg, 15 NT 101 Colonel By Drive Ottawa , ON K1A 0K2 Canada Dear Concerned Citizen, Thank you for your recent...
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Creekside (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
MacKay : "Not a single Taliban soldier turned over by Canadian forces can be proved to have been abused. That is the crux of the issue." Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission : "Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment are common in the majority of law enforcement institutions, and at least 98.5 per cent of interviewed victims have been tortured ." The independent...
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Helmand Blog - Afghanistan (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
Canadian soldiers have opened a new phase in their operation aimed at chasing insurgents from Panjwaii district, southwest of Kandahar city. A company has moved into the northern limits of Nakhonay, a town of around 2,000 people thought to be an insurgent stronghold. Earlier this week Canadian Forces joined an Afghan National Army unit in seizing the village of Haji Baba, which is located a short distance...
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Creekside (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
Commenter Stephen Phillips under this CBC poll has a question of his own : "What kind of a question is this? Mr. Colvin is a distinguished career diplomat under attack by a Government that has misled Parliament and the country about prisoner transfers and is now systematically blocking the work of the Military Complaints Tribunal. The real question is this: why is the Government trying to smear...
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War News Updates (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
This Israeli-built Heron UAV is similar to ones currently used by the Canadian Forces in Afghanistan. Photograph by: Provided, Handout Canadian Mlitary 'Drones' To Remain Unarmed -- Canada.com The Canadian military has decided against putting missiles on the unmanned aerial vehicles it now operates in Afghanistan. Defence Minister Peter MacKay was briefed in March by air force officials on the various...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Department of National Defence (DND) invites the public to vote for the People's Choice Award in the 2009 DND Photography Contest organized by Canadian Forces Imaging Services. Celebrating its 41st year, the DND Photography Contest received a record 1816 entries from 305 talented amateur and professional photographers in the Defence community.
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liberal catnip (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Via the CBC : Defence Minister Peter MacKay defended his government Thursday in the face of claims that detainees in Afghanistan were routinely abused by Afghan authorities after being handed over by Canadian soldiers. "There has not been a single, solitary proven allegation of abuse involving a transferred Taliban prisoner by Canadian forces," MacKay said Thursday in the House of Commons....
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JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
[JURIST] A former senior Canadian diplomat alleged Wednesday that the Canadian military was complicit in the torture of Afghans by their own government, during testimony before the House of Commons Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan. Richard Colvin, who represented the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) in Kandahar from 2006-2007 and is currently the...
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Command of Joint Task Force Afghanistan was transferred from Brigadier-General (BGen) Jonathan Vance to BGen Daniel Menard during a ceremony held today at Kandahar Airfield.
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Buckdog (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
"According to our information, the likelihood is that all the Afghans we handed over were tortured," said Colvin, the former political director of the provincial reconstruction team in Kandahar city. "For interrogators in Kandahar, it was standard operating procedure." He also said that when the Red Cross wanted to look into the treatment of detainees turned over by the Canadian...
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BBC News (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
A Canadian diplomat says many Afghan detainees captured by Canadian forces in 2006 and 2007 are likely to have been tortured.
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Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
As part of the bucket defence* they are deploying in response to Richard Colvin’s testimony on allegations of torture routinely inflicted on prisoners handed over by Canadian Forces to Afghan authorities, Conservative MPs are arguing that these prisoners were, after all, trained to tell tall tales about horrible treatment to attract sympathy. This is a [...]
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Creekside (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
A month ago, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Minister of Foreign Affairs at the time Peter MacKay , and Minister of Defence at the time Gordon O'Connor all denied ever seeing any of the 16 reports "circulated widely throughout the Foreign Affairs and Defence departments and also shared with senior military commanders in Ottawa and Afghanistan" warning that Afghan authorities were abusing detainees...
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Canadian Medicine (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Trying to make crack safer Vancouver may get a supervised crack-smoking clinic. PHS Community Services, which also operates the supervised injection site Insite, would like to set up the crack-smoking clinic but federal officials would have to provide an exemption to the relevant drug-control laws. [ Globe and Mail ] Needless to say, the idea is a controversial one. [ Vancouver Courier ] Emergency...
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