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You're right...perhaps it's a bit of a stretch to call Cyprus a "success".  But I would maintain that neither is it a bad thing for Canada to withdraw, if there are other, more appropriate forces to do the job (Bosnia) or if, as appears to be the case in Cyprus, an interminable "peace" has...

There's nothing wrong with winding down missions.  Pulling out of Cyprus, the Balkans and the Golan aren't bad things...eventually, we DO have to back out of missions when it makes sense to do so, because we simply can't maintain large forces in these places forever.  In Bosnia, for example, it...

There's simply no way that 9 billion people (using Nocera's figure) are going to have a uniform standard of living.  It's never been the case in human history; there has always been an affluent few at the top, who conspicuously consume most of the resources.  The far more likely scenario...

Very sad.  My condolences to their loved ones. 

The best way to deal with the likes of Mr. Juarez is the same way you deal with any behaviour you wish to extinguish...you ignore it/him.  I suspect that the peace movement has milked him for about all of the mileage they're likely to get out of him; like any news item, the moment he stops being...

This would concern--or, actually, even  vaguely interest me--if Dion had any chance whatsoever of becoming the leader of the Liberal party.  However, when there's no chance you'll ever have to be accountable for your position, you can say whatever you want.  At best, he's desperately trying to...

A dedicated cadre seems to be different than what the Marines do, however.  From the article: Using this model, we'd have a cadre of officers who are trained, whose secondary duty is notification and AO duties.  That could be do-able (because I don't think a military as small as ours can...

Don't forget, it's also a function of where the family is actually located.  A PPCLI soldier might be from, say, Thunder Bay.  In that case, the CO of the LSSR (or, possibly, another unit in TBay, but I believe the CO of the LSSR is "on first" when it comes to Army personnel) has the duty of...

Well, money is part of it, certainly.  But my experience with civil authorities is that they also believe that the military has an enormous capacity and is capable of heroic feats.  As a CO in LFWA, I was given the power to immediately provide unarmed assistance to civil authorities, on my own...

It's unrealistic to think that wind power will ever provide more than a relatively small portion of production.  The Hydro One limit of 5000 MW in Ontario represents about 20% of current provincial demand and about 15% of near-term future demand, based on a recent forecast report from the...

Well, there's two issues here.  About the water specifically, it's probably a combination of existing procurement contracts that NATO is forced to honour (potable water would be a multinational, rather than a national, responsibility, so it would be supplied through the multinational logistics...

Why is there this automatic assumption that large numbers of military personnel will be required for the 2010 Olympics?  The exact numbers, skillsets, equipment, etc. required will depend on the security estimates done, and the plans developed therefrom.  There may be several thousand personnel...

Mr. Juarez should, and probably will be a politician.  Consider the following statement: What does this mean?  What is Canada's "place in the world community"?  How is our current mission "out of step with it"?  This is the sort of content-light statement that politicians often make, because...

From the Scripps Oceanographic Institute, Carbon Dioxide Research Group, U of C, La Jolla, California A 19.4% increase in annual mean concentration of CO2 between 1959 and 2004 is not insignificant numerically.  It seems to fly in the face of the unattributed "Junk Science" numbers given in...

I like it.  Very Rube-Goldbergesque.  Although.... What would generate the electrical power for the launchers, I wonder?  Perhaps a great manner hamsters in wheels, connected to generators.  Mind you, then we'd have to deal with the climatic effects of massed hamster flatulence. More...

As you'll no doubt recall, Cpl Boneca was the young Reservist from the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment in Thunder Bay, ON, who was killed in action in Afghanistan in July.  Just a few thoughts about him from this past Saturday... On November 11, his mother was one of two Memorial (Silver) Cross...

Ah, yes....monetarism.  A marketplace free of distortions from regulation.  How much regulation would you remove--all of it?  Including workplace health and safety, environmental standards (and no, I'm not talking about climate change regulations here...I'm talking about regulations that control...

Hence my using the term "theoretically".  NATO, like most international institutions today, is evolving even as we speak.

Well, of all the WMDs, biologicals are the least reliable unless they're self-limiting like some types of weaponized anthrax or things that kill too fast to spread, like Ebola.  Choose the wrong one, and you've unleased a global pandemic that has no respect for anything except biochemistry.  Of...

Cool and all too plausible story.  The only flaw is the lack of the inevitable spasm of US nuclear retaliation.  Given such a scale of attacks, I rather doubt that the US would be inclined to hold back from incinerating Pyongyang, Tehran, and probably points inside Russia and China, since this...