News sources are reporting that Canada intends to send 150 military personnel to help the AU in a peacekeeping mission in Sudan. They will also be lending some old equipment for the African troops to use (god knows we have plenty of that lying around). 150 doesn’t seem like much… but at least it’s something. …
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Truth in Numbers
Don’t you just love it when you see real statistical numbers that go completely against “conventional wisdom”… or at least what some would have us believe us “wisdom”. This is from My Blahg. The 2nd highest unemployment rate, 11.1%, in 2003 belonged to Prince Edward Island, despite the fact that it had the 4th highest …
Canada investigates sending Troops to Darfur
Looks like they could be there by September. The head of Canada’s military returned recently from meeting with leaders of the African Union peacekeeping force that Canadian units would support. Well it’s about time there was some action on this. Too bad it seems as though Canada is going in spite of rather than in …
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