Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier overstepped himself Monday while speaking to reporters after a closed door meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. When reporters asked M. Bernier what President Karzai could do about corruption in the government he gave the specific example of the removal of the governor of Kandahar. Apparently Canadian ( Read more... )

More civilians killed by NATO in Afghanistan yesterday, causing villagers to chant anti-Bush slogans, and (not-so) oddly enough, the only thing the Canadian media can find worthy of reporting on in the country is the fact that there is now a hockey trophy there! We're also not hearing about how the UN is calling for an end to impunity for the ( Read more... )

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080220.wmanley20/BNStory/Afghanistan/homeI guess the Afghanistan mission is about to become a little more Manley-er (bad joke ( Read more... )

Are we heading to the polls? [Globe and Mail, Wednesday, February 6]How fierce are your convictions on the mission in Afghanistan?

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is prepared to put his minority government on the line over the future of the Afghanistan mission after he warned Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion that the Tories are preparing a confidence ( Read more... )

If you haven't heard about the blue-ribbon committee that Harper formed awhile back to review the mission in Afghanistan than you should go back under that rock that you came from because it will take awhile to play catch up ( Read more... )

CBC News has an excellent Speech from the Throne coverage. So good that I'll just copy and paste it here for our own needs.


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The Senlis Council recently released a report that's showed up in the media a bit about CIDA's role in Afghanistan.

Senlis are certainly not coming from an anti-war position, but when they went to check up on the projects CIDA has going to help the Afghan people, supposedly the reason we're fighting this war in the first place, they could not find ( Read more... )

Is anyone else getting aggravated by the lack of a strong, well-reasoned, ethical plan on the war from any of our national political parties?

I'm not asking for a bloodless victory. I'm not asking that we have everyone in the world love us: that's never going to happen.

I am asking for a government that cares about human rights abuses and is ( Read more... )

I heard something on the radio Thursday morning (680News Toronto) about Canada shifting it's focus in Afghanistan to training the Afghan army so they can take over from Canada in fighting the Taliban. I wasn't fully awake then, so I'm not sure on the details, but it said that it was a preliminary report or something like it. I got home after work ( Read more... )

So I was watching CPAC earlier and saw the tail end of a Q&A with Dion, then watched the full Q&A with Layton. The main topic that was touched on was Afghanistan and Canada's role there. Layton obviously talked about de-escalation of the military mission and wanting to pull out. One reporter talked about how it would give the Taliban the chance ( Read more... )