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Should Canadian ships sunk in war be considered war graves?

Legion Magazine — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:30:19 +0000

Sunken vessels have always lured the adventure-minded since people first went to sea in ships. That grew exponentially after Europeans began travelling to the Americas in the 16th century and boatloads of treasures, in both coin and raw product, plied the Atlantic Ocean giving rise to the age of piracy. Pirates may be mostly …

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Should Canadians continue to pay tribute to the Boer War?

Legion Magazine — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 19:01:09 +0000

Carla-Jean Stokes says No Back in 2014, The Canadian Press obtained records outlining concerns bureaucrats raised to the Conservative government about its efforts to commemorate the 110th anniversary of the end of the Boer War two years earlier. The deliberations noted the “sensitive” nature of several aspects of the conflict. The 1899-1902 war was waged in South …

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Face to face: Did, as Charles Stacey wrote in his official history of the Canadian Army in the Second World War, Canada fail to make the most of its opportunities in the Normandy Campaign?

Legion Magazine — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 19:50:01 +0000

Mark Zuehlke says No The lack of battle experience undoubtedly had its due effect,” historian Colonel Charles P. Stacey concluded in his analysis of Canada’s army during the Normandy Campaign. “They did well, but they would certainly have done better had they not been learning the business as they fought.” Stacey’s disappointment with First Canadian …

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Should Canada replace its military as the first line of response to domestic disasters?

Legion Magazine — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 14:25:52 +0000

Tom MacGregor says No All of Canada’s provinces and territories have had devastating forest fires to deal with in the past year. In late August 2023, the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre reported 1,069 active fires; more than half were listed as out of control. In many cases, the Canadian Armed Forces were called in to …

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Face to Face: Should Canada meet NATO’s funding minimum?

Legion Magazine — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 13:33:13 +0000

Aaron Kylie says No In the councils of government, we must guard against…the military-industrial complex,” said U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address in January 1961. Yes, the famed general, Second World War supreme allied commander in Europe and supreme commander of NATO himself warned of the perils of the relationship between a country’s …

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Should Canada have nuclear submarines?

Legion Magazine — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 21:12:06 +0000

Canada should not follow Australia’s decision to acquire U.S. nuclear-powered submarines because they are a sovereignty-undermining, murderously expensive, nuclear proliferation stimulant, the procurement of which risks entangling Canada further into America’s aggressive and short-sighted China containment strategy. Canada, like Australia, is a non-nuclear weapon state party (NNWS) to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, …

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Face to Face: Should Canada allow foreign citizens to join the Canadian Armed Forces?

Legion Magazine — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 18:26:07 +0000

Aaron Kylie says No When Canadians went to fight in the First World War, they were initially led by two British generals, Edwin Alderson then Julian Byng. It made sense. The country had almost no military then. And it’s hard to develop a professional armed force if a nation doesn’t develop its own. Fortunately, opportunities struck for …

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Face to Face: Was the Korean Armistice Agreement a success?

Legion Magazine — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 14:20:33 +0000

David J. Bercuson says yes The Korean War grew out of the failure of the Soviet Union and the U.S. to unify Korea after defeating Japan in 1945 at the end of the Second World War. The Japanese annexed the peninsula in 1910 and the empire’s WW II loss raised the question of Korea’s future. The …

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Is it a good idea for Canada to join the U.S. global missile defence system?

Legion Magazine — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 15:45:39 +0000

Ernie Regehr says No The U.S. ground-based mid-course missile defence system, known as GMD, is deployed to protect the U.S., and potentially all of North America, from nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missiles—it’s the system Canada is considering joining. The first thing to understand about GMD, however, is that it’s not intended for, or capable of, defending …

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Face to Face: Should Canada continue to participate in peacekeeping?

Legion Magazine — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 15:44:39 +0000

Aaron Kylie says No Fifty-five. That was the number of Canadian personnel on UN peacekeeping missions in September 2022. While more than 125,000 Canadians have served as international peacekeepers since the late 1940s (an average of about 1,600 per year), the latest stat shows that the country is no longer invested in the program. It’s …

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