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The former Chief of Defence Staff General Rick Hillier has been snatched up by one of the premiere law firms in Canada, Gowling Lafleur Henderson. Julius Melnitzer of the National Post comments, Gowling Lafleur Henderson has announced that the firm will be former Chief of Defence Staff General Rick

The Hill Times has a piece today on the looming battle in the riding of Central Nova, where Elizabeth May is taking on Peter MacKay in an interesting battle, with the NDP having a strong shot as well. This line in that article caught my interest: Mr.

CHANGING OF THE GUARD What $45 billion buck$. Canada is already broke - just like the US, but then we wait for both currencies to CRA$h. V The Post and the Citizen report on Canada’s new chief of defence staff, Lieutenant-General Walt Natynczyk, who will be sworn in today after the well-liked and charismatic General Rick Hillier steps down from the post he held for three-and-a-half years.

"Taliban swarm edges of Kandahar." Taliban fighters swarmed the doorstep of Afghanistan's second-largest city Monday, bombing small bridges and scattering landmines to keep Canadian and international troops at bay. A Canadian soldier provides a candid analysis: The fears were palpable among NATO forces.

WEEKEND ROUNDUP Must-reads: Rosie DiManno on female police in Afghanistan, and on American troops’ enemy-making skills; Scott Taylor on Kandahar prison; Daphne Bramham on the children of the FLDS: Lawrence Martin on Liberal incivility; Thomas Walkom on Roy Romanow; Dan Gardner on pesticides and science; Greg Weston on the lost promise of openness and accountability.

Is there anyone left who would dispute that in the matter of Harper v. the Parliamentary Press Gallery, the Prime Minister has thoroughly trounced the fourth estate? For all the bluster and angst, for all the projections of inevitable karmic comeuppance at the hands of aggrieved and all-powerful

Lieutenant-General Walter Natynczyk will succeed charismatic and outspoken General Rick Hillier as the head of the Canadian Forces, the Harper government has announced.

By Jerome Starkey in Kabul Friday, 16 May 2008 Secret Afghan death squads are acting on the orders of foreign spies and killing civilians inside Afghanistan with impunity, a senior UN envoy has claimed.

Must-reads: Barbara Yaffe on Insite; John Ivison on contraband smokes; Don MacPherson on corporate welfare bums; Graham Thomson on social funding in Alberta. Ol’ Man Harper, he’s set in his ways No drugs, no new ideas, no sassback—and put out that dodgy cigarette, you punk!

The rain is holding off in the great city of Toronto and we are officially in the short strokes until Matthew Good returns to Ontario and Massey Hall. This time he’s doing the full band thing, you’ve got to be looking forward to that. Keep your eyes peeled for another meet and greet prior to the show.