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0 There’s an interesting story by Christie Blatchford out today on the long and fairly unsuccessful political effort to increase the size of the Canadian Forces reserves. Blatchford’s article is centered on a newly released report prepared for the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute by...
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0 Well, the first day of competition is in the books and your correspondent at the Canadian International Sniper Concentration officially has no idea which of the 27 teams is currently winning — but nor is that really the point, actually. The competition is not the...
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0 It was a long day at the range this Wednesday in Gagetown, N.B., where 27 teams from across the world were working to get their weapons zeroed (made accurate) in time for the competition’s kick-off on Thursday morning. Seeing so many varied sniper teams lined...
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0 Live (sort of) from CFB Gagetown in Oromocto, N.B., it’s the first night of the 15th Annual Canadian International Sniper Concentration and some of the most highly skilled military and police shooters from across the world spent the evening…..well, mostly shopping and drinking beer. The event,...
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0 While there are still more than 1,000 Canadian Forces members currently in Kandahar working to pack up and ship home five years worth of war-fighting equipment, there is no doubt that the combat mission is now over. And what a difficult mission it was. In...
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1 When the phone rang just before Thanksgiving, 11-year-old Alisha Perreault of Petawawa, Ont., thought nothing about answering. She had no idea the call would change her family forever. After picking up, the unfamiliar voice asked for her mother,...
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