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Garrison Petawawa troops to come home from Ukraine mission within two weeks
Canadian troops from Garrison Petawawa, and other military installations, who are in Ukraine on Operation Unifier should be back home by mid-January. Up to 200 Canadian Forces personnel are in Ukraine as part of the training mission that is to run until early 2017. Lt.-Col. Jason Guiney, commander of the training task force, told Defence Watch...
Ukraine’s ‘hybrid war’ against rebels offers lessons for Canada’s military
The Ukraine army faces a “formidable foe” in eastern Ukraine, says the commander of the Canadian Forces training mission. It is the kind of multifaceted insurgency that is also teaching the Canadian Army some new tactics. …read more Source:...
Orthodox Christmas for thousands in Ottawa
Thursday was Christmas for thousands of Ottawa residents who belong to the Orthodox Church, and a two-hour liturgy service at Christ the Saviour Orthodox Church was one of the city’s celebrations. Father Maxym Lysack estimates there are probably more than 25,000 Orthodox Christians in the city, divided among Greek, Antiochian, Coptic,...
Petawawa troops wrapping up training mission in Ukraine
Troops from the Ottawa area have trained some 600 Ukrainian soldiers who are now on the front lines in that country’s battle with separatists. Up to 200 Canadian Forces personnel are in Ukraine as part of the training mission that is to run until early 2017. The bulk of those are from Garrison Petawawa in the Ottawa Valley although there...
Canadian trainers learn lessons of their own instructing hard-pressed Ukrainians
A fresh batch of Canadian military trainers is about to deploy to eastern Europe, and the outgoing commander says his soldiers took a lot of their own notes in addition to handing out assignments to Ukrainian troops. Lt.-Col. Jason Guiney, who is about to end his five-month stint, says even though their training bases are 1,200 kilometres away...
Orthodox Christian faithful mark Christmas in Europe, Middle East
For much of the Orthodox Christian world, Thursday is celebrated as Christmas Day. Believers in Russia, Ukraine, and parts of Eastern Europe and the Middle East flocked to churches for the holiday. …read more Source: CTV...
Fresh batch of Canadian military trainers headed to Ukraine
A fresh batch of Canadian military trainers is about to deploy to eastern Europe, and the outgoing commander says his soldiers took a lot of their own notes in addition to handing out assignments to Ukrainian troops. …read more Source: Global...
Canadian trainers learn lessons of their own instructing hard-pressed Ukrainians
OTTAWA — A fresh batch of Canadian military trainers is about to deploy to eastern Europe, and the outgoing commander says his soldiers took a lot of their own notes in addition to handing out assignments to Ukrainian troops. Lt.-Col. Jason Guiney, who is about to end his five-month stint, says even though their training bases are 1,200...
Matthew Fisher: North Korea H-bomb testing is another foreign policy failure for lame-duck Obama
From North Korea to Afghanistan, Egypt, Libya, Iraq and Syria, to Ukraine, eastern Europe and the South China Sea, Obama’s presidency has been a bust …read more Source: Vancouver...
U.S. Navy commander says nuclear force key to U.S. survival
Robert Burns of the Associated Press has this article of interest: In his blueprint for a stronger Navy, the sea service’s new top boss, Adm. John M. Richardson, is blunt about what he thinks matters most: nuclear punch. Battling terrorists is today’s problem, but in looking toward a farther horizon, Richardson wants a Navy built to...
