Clare Laking died today at the age of 106. Laking was a private with the Canadian Field Artillery, 27th Battery, 4th Brigade. He is considered the last remaining veteran of the Great War who saw action on the front-lines. He served in France for two years, stringing telephone wire for field telephones along the trenches. …
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DefenseTech has posted an excellent article out of the tragedy of the death of Canadian Soldier Pte. Braun Scott Woodfield when the LAV he was riding in flipped over on the road between Kabul and Kandahar. There has been plenty of talk in the media about the “tippiness” of LAVs (and the US equivalent “Stryker”). …
A question for the Leaders of our Political Partys (this includes the Greens once the election gets rolling) Over the past year, the imminent decline of global oil resources, or “peak oil” as it is commonly known, has come to the forefront of public discourse. This inevitable occurence is only 2 or 3 electoral “terms” …
