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Walkom: So, what kind of people are we?
Kandahar :: Afghanistan | 1 day ago
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Canadian soldiers of the International Security Force watch a group of Afghan civilians being held for questioning near the site of an explosion in Kandahar, Afghanistan, May 12, 2008. A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of Canadian troops that day...
Tags: Richard Colvin, afghans prisoners, Rick Hillier, Afghanistan, Kandahar, Human rights abuses, Politics, Torture, Peter MacKay, Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal, War in Afghanistan, Maher Arar, Violence
Travers: It's not Somalia, but it's same story in so many ways
Ottawa :: Canada | 9 days ago
Credibility Rick Hillier, Canada's former chief of defence staff, says Afghanistan can't be compared to 1990s Somalia scandal. R ick Hillier, one of the powerful figures at the epicentre of the prisoner torture storm, has a revealing quirk. Question what happened...
Tags: Rick Hillier, Canada, Afghanistan, Somalia, Ottawa, Taliban insurgency, Taliban, Battle of Dahaneh, Helmand Province, War in Afghanistan, War Conflict, Human rights in Afghanistan, Hillier, Least Developed Countries, Human rights abuses, Politics
Hillier laments bureaucrats who make Canada 'small'
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility When he was Canada's top soldier, Rick Hillier commonly referred to Canada's new insurgent enemy in Afghanistan as a "bowl of snakes." But the retired general views the bureaucracy in Ottawa as an altogether different beast — a "boa constrictor" Hillier...
Tags: Rick Hillier, Canada, Ottawa
Vimy error slips into Hillier book
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Every author braces for the inevitable — finding an error somewhere in the text that they've laboured hard over. For retired general and former defence chief Rick Hillier, page 157 of A Soldier First: Bullets, Bureaucrats and the Politics of War, contained...
Tags: Rick Hillier
An ex-general and his blunderbuss
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility For Canada's government, Rick Hillier's memoirs are akin to those nightmarish minefields strewn throughout modern wars — any way you scramble to get clear you're likely to stumble on something that goes boom. Canada's former top soldier has very carefully...
Tags: Canada, Rick Hillier
Ex-top soldier Hillier fought Taliban, Tories
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 month ago
Credibility Canada's former top soldier waged war on many fronts during his long march to the post of Chief of Defence Staff. But the most intense were the counter-insurgencies waged on Parliament Hill against Conservative officials who wanted him silenced and bureaucrats...
Tags: Rick Hillier, defence staff, Afghanistan, Canada, Kandahar
Canadians have 'obligation' to step in
Toronto :: Canada | 12 months ago
Credibility From Monday's Globe and Mail December 1, 2008 at 5:01 AM EST Canadians are keenly aware of international events and are strong supporters of humanitarian intervention in troubled foreign countries, according to new polling data. Seventy-two per cent...
Tags: Rick Hillier
Tories Well Placed to Take Military Votes
Toronto :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility After being elected to office in January 2006, the Conservatives came out strong and bought the military plenty of expensive and much-needed equipment. Even more important, they reassured Canada's airmen, soldiers and sailors of the important role they...
Tags: Rick Hillier, HarperCollinsCanada, retired general, general rick
TD enlists Hillier for PR offensive
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Globe and Mail Update September 3, 2008 at 10:48 AM EDT The Toronto-Dominion Bank has recruited outspoken former Canadian Forces chief Rick Hillier for what sounds like a combination public relations and leadership-training role. TD said Wednesday that...
Tags: Rick Hillier, TD Bank
'Soldier's soldier' Hillier steps down Wednesday
Ottawa :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility Rick Hillier, chief of defence staff, was known as the "soldier's soldier." (Les Perreaux/Canadian Press) Canada's top soldier, Gen. Rick Hillier, officially retires on Wednesday, handing over the reins to his replacement in a ceremony in Ottawa...Walter...
Tags: Rick Hillier, Walter Natynczyk, Canada, Ottawa, Afghanistan, canadians forces
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