H4860 Gen(Ret’d) John de Chastelain
Reprinted from the Summer 2010 edition of Veritas magazine H4860 Gen(Ret’d) John de Chastelain REFLECTIONS AT A FUNERAL I spent part of the afternoon on Saturday of the Victoria Day weekend at the Beechwood National Military Cemetery in Ottawa attending the funeral of a Canadian soldier killed recently in Afghanistan. He was a young man…
H7543 Senator Joseph A. Day
Reprinted from the Summer 2010 edition of Veritas magazine H7543 Senator Joseph A. Day 3528 General(Ret’d) Paul Manson, in his article in the Spring 2010 issue of Veritas, calls upon Canadians to be more informed about why Canadians are in Afghanistan and why we should not be leaving in July of 2011. On 13 March…
S151 Senator Hugh Segal
Reprinted from the Summer 2010 edition of Veritas magazine S151 Senator Hugh Segal My statement in the Senate in April, and the subsequent op-ed in the Toronto Star served to underline the strategic imperative for Canada to maintain a tactical military presence in Afghanistan after any withdrawal from Kandahar province in 2011. The reasons are…
17481 Dr. Sean M. Maloney & LCol Ian Hope
Reprinted from the Summer 2010 edition of Veritas magazine 17481 Dr. Sean M. Maloney The influx of American reinforcements and development monies into southern Afghanistan is welcome relief for Canada’s hard-pressed forces in Kandahar Province. The nearly three-year holding action is now over and Kandahar City and its environs did not fall under enemy control…
3139 Ted Kolber, Senator Colin Kenny & Canadians want to end Afghan mission by 2011, poll shows
Reprinted from the Summer 2010 edition of Veritas magazine 3139 Ted Kolber General Manson’s (Veritas, Spring 2010) words arguing against Canada’s decision to end its participation in the war in Afghanistan seem more rhetoric than substance. The so called war is more of a non-war, only scattered skirmishes – the casualties coming from soldiers on…
Paladin hockey player heading to the NHL Habs
Paladin hockey player heading to the NHL Habs Ken Morin, a mainstay on the 2009-10 Paladin hockey team and a RMC MBA student, has been hired by the Montreal Canadiens to work in their hockey operations department. His appointment was announced last Tuesday (27 July) by Habs general manager and executive vice-president Pierre Gauthier. Morin,…
Postcards & Virtual Tour of Fort Henry – Kingston’s Bastion
Postcards of Fort Henry – Kingston’s Bastion By: 11415 Michael Smith (RMC 1977) Several eVeritas issues ago, I presented a brief history of Canada’s Royal Military College (RMC) using a selection of postcards showing the College grounds and some of its more important structures. One of the postcards I didn’t use in the article shows…
Glenn MacDonald Stepping Down as VP – RMC Foundation
Glenn MacDonald (photo left) has resigned his position as Executive Vice-President of the RMC Foundation. Other Foundation staff are unchanged. Glenn’s resignation takes effect at the end of July and is being made for personal reasons unrelated to his job. He will return to Calgary. Glenn joined the Foundation in April 2009 and will assist…
Hockey Coach Knows The Pyrimid Of Success
Adam Shell Looking Forward to the Start of the Hockey Season Adam Shell will be starting his fourth season behind the Paladins hockey bench this upcoming season. A native of the Toronto area, Adam served as an assistant coach at McGill for two seasons prior to arriving in Kingston. He is the 19th head coach…
Profs Making a Mark Beyond RMC
Participants at Kingston Symposium, 20 June, photo credit: Sandra Semchuk For more information on the CFWWIRF please go to www.internmentcanada.ca (the Kingston Symposium NATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON INTERNMENT OPERATIONS HELD AT QUEEN’S UNIVERSITY On 17-20 June 2010 the Canadian First World War Internment Recognition Fund’s Endowment Council sponsored a weekend-long symposium in Kingston, Ontario at Queen’s…
Clearing the Way: Combat Engineers in Afghanistan
“Stories from the Combat Roads” By Capt. EJH Stewart “Stories,” writes author Tim O’Brien, “are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were, to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased.” Over 34,000 Canadian Forces members have been deployed to Afghanistan…
Remaking West Point
xxxxxxxxx Fernando Lujan is an Army special forces officer and former assistant professor of politics at West Point. He is currently participating in the Afghanistan-Pakistan Hands program. The opinions expressed herein are his alone and do not represent the official position of the Department of Defense or the United States Army. I graduated from West…