Canada and other nations are suffering a significant reduction in recruitment and retention of personel in their militaries. Canada’s authorized regular force strength of 67,000, currently has more than 10,000 positions unfilled. Canadian Army, Lt. Gen. Joe Paul, admitted his soldiers are feeling squeezed. This is due to a current shortage of personnel coupled with increased demands both…
Churchill Manitoba – Gateway to Canada’s Future All but ignored by Canada’s federal governments for decades. Churchill is a key to Canada’s future. The government did recently help repair the lone railway line to Churchill. But only after the old rail line was washed out cutting Churchill off from civilization for years. And yes in…
During the remainder of the 21st Century, Canada must address f0ur major issues: Military Security, Social Security, Population Growth and Immigration, Independence, and Trade Diversity. Failure to address any one of these issues will result in a Canada void of one or more of her current world advantages. The worst case could mean loss of…
Trudeau said the money saved by scrapping the F-35 procurement would go primarily to increasing spending on the Royal Canadian Navy. Just watched an interview with Canada’s Minister of Procurement, Filomena Tasi re Canada’s purchase decision to buy F35s. She certainly didn’t give reasonable answers to questions about how we wound up with an aircraft…
NDP resolution to Abolish Canada’s Military – An article by Robert Smol – Toronto Sun This once there may be some common ground between ‘Notes From The North’ and the NDP. Not that the birdbrained idea of abolishing Canada’s military has any level of sanity, particularly in the current world environment. Since Mr. Smol did…
Trudeau, who currently is as popular as a rat at a picnic, wants to ensure that we have to endure him for another 4 years. Desperately he is making a deal with the NDP. This will ensure that the overriding policy for the next four years will be spend, spend, spend based on an NDP…
Any Canadian who has been paying attention to Canada’s defence position is not the least surprised by either of the above headlines. Most Canadians live in a mythical world when it comes our military and our national defence. The first myth is that somehow the U.S. will defend Canada for us. This is simply not…
Lee Berthiaume – The Canadian Press: – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau opened the door on Monday to spending more on Canada’s military, but stopped short of any firm commitments. “We need to make sure that the women and men who served in the Canadian Armed Forces have all the equipment necessary to be able to…
March 10, 2022, CTV News.ca General Wayne Eyes, speaking at a defence conference in Ottawa says the threat of an invasion by Russia of Canada’s north is very low. Having been asked about Russians occupying one of Canada’s northern islands as they did in Crimea, he said the risk of that right now is very…
WHY? – NORAD By Their Policy ‘DOES NOT PROTECT CANADA’! A new CTV news article cites Vladimir Putins invasion of Ukraine as a reason for Canada to increase its funding of NORAD, the ‘North American Aerospace Defence Command’. What the article doesn’t say is that since 2017 it has not been the policy of the…