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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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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Blair takes early huge lead in Election
Looks like Tony Blair is well on his way to victory. The BBC has an excellent website up showing live results as they come in across the UK (remember it’s the middle of the night there now!). It is still early, Labour still hasn’t quite reached the the magic number of 324 seats needed for …