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Entries Tagged as 'War'

Another journey along Canada’s Highway of Heroes

November 17th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Two Canadian soldiers and their interpretor were killed in the early hours of the morning today. While we slept soundly here in Canada, Corp. Nicolas Raymond Beauchamp of the 5th Field Ambulance in Valcartier and Pte. Michel Levesque of the Royal 22nd were killed when their light armoured vehicle hit an IED. Three other soldiers [...]

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Tags: Canada · Good Citizen · History · War

I laughed so hard I ended up crying

September 28th, 2007 · No Comments

Do you hear that noise? That is Lester B. Pearson rolling over in his grave. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for his help in diffusing the Suez Crisis.

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Tags: Catpaw's Mad · History · Obnoxious People · Politics · Rants · Utter Stupidity · War

A film review & CN Tower no longer tallest building in the world

September 14th, 2007 · No Comments

More belly button gazing from people with nothing to worry about in their day to day lives. I suggest the feature writer of this silly drivel go see Buddha Collapsed in Shame by Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf.

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Tags: Justice · Movies · Politics · TIFF · Toronto · Toronto Film Festival · War

War in Iraq and fallout

June 29th, 2007 · No Comments

When the Iraq invasion began - years ago now - I was in the UK. The protests against UK involvement were enormous. Shortly after that I was in Barcelona the day after the Madrid train bombing and was lucky enough to see the protests there. I wish to hell they had succeeded. Soldiers [...]

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Tags: Pictures · Rants · War