Canada’s north at risk from Putin
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Canada’s north at risk from Putin

We at ‘Notes from The North’ came across two articles on the BBC website, “Is North America’s Arctic vulnerable to Russia‘ and ‘ Trudeau strikes deal to stay in power until 2025’. The connection between these two stories is that until 2025 nothing of value is going to take place in Canada’s north. At least…

Justin Trudeau
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Canada chooses F35

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…

A Solution for Jagmeet Singh
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A Solution for Jagmeet Singh

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…

Canada definitely isn’t but could be prepared to defend itself
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Canada definitely isn’t but could be prepared to defend itself

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…

Freedom

Freedom

Lately there has been a distinct call for freedom. Freedom convoys of like minded truckers in Canada, the U.S. and other western countries have been vocal in their indignation at their governments for taking away their freedom. Even in small towns like Huntsville Ontario, supporters stand on the side of the road with posters and…

Justin Trudeau
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More Spending for Canada’s Military

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…

Threat of Russian Invasion of Canada ‘very low’
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Threat of Russian Invasion of Canada ‘very low’

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…