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0 For Canadian soldiers back home from combat in Afghanistan and suffering from operational stress injuries, adjusting to the civilian world can be more than difficult. This group of veterans sought respite by banding together and going on a bike journey across Europe’s... -
0 Winston Churchill was wrong. Or at the very least, he wasn’t completely correct. Churchill once said that courage is the most important quality because it makes all the other qualities possible. That’s wrong though, I found... -
0 The polar bear has been running across the ice for more than an hour and she is tired; dead tired, it’s impossible to resist...
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1 There is no shortage of cruel irony in Haiti. Take the cholera epidemic which came on the heels of the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake. It killed roughly 7,000 and sickened more than 530,000, but the evidence strongly suggests it wasn’t homegrown, but imported by United Nations...
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0 The child in the bright orange T-shirt is looking at the crowd; his eyelids heavy over a slight smile. Next to him is a shorter boy whose serious face pokes above the half wall at the front of the orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. This is...
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0 “You know what it’s like,” says the Canadian, glancing up, watching as a group of 30 bored-looking Afghan recruits sit haphazardly on the gravel, chewing things or playing with their new caps. “It’s...” the Canadian soldier trails off and, still looking at the Afghans, he holds...
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Eye On Defence: May/June 2013
With the possible exception of the first two years of the First World War and the Korean War, governments of Canada have historically spared no effort to make sure its soldiers, sailors and airpersons went to war with the best equipment possible. We may bemoan the fact that the First Division went to war in 1915 with the inadequate Ross Rifle, but by the same token, Canadian battalions had far more light machine guns than did their British counterparts by...
