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canada, Random World

Brig. General Jonathan Vance @ Queen’s U

I had a great opportunity to hear Brigadier-General Jonathan Vance speak yesterday via the School of Policy Studies (the folks who inhabit the bottom four floors of Robert Sutherland).  Given the nature of campus activism among under-graduates and media flamers in regards to the often touchy topic of Afghanistan and Canada, the talk was advertised [...]

canada, environment, grad school, Kingston, military, personal, queens, surp, travel, urban planning

Weekend Update

I’m currently munching my way through a multiculturalism planning paper so I’m a bit empty headed regarding posting concerns but I think I might post the paper when I’m finished as it is not very long and reads more as a narrative story rather than an essay. Some interesting things from this week: The Canadian [...]

politics

2009 Worst Country in the World?

Don’t worry, the Economist Intelligence Unit is on the case.  Personally, I would nominate Somalia as possibly the worse place in the world to be at the moment (and that’s probably not going to change in the next few months)….although Iceland did go bankrupt this year…. Previous winners include Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. The only prize [...]

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CF Videos

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Morale

military, politics

Exit, stage right

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Pass the Peacekeeping, Please

military

Voice from Afghanistan

canada, military

Should we be in Afghanistan? III

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Should we be in Afghanistan? II

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