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Prison break

Well, that's one way to close the Afghan detainee file.

Reports that Canadian law professor Amir Attaran has criticized the Taliban for not filling out the 1,005 copies of prisoner release paperwork correctly are, unfortunately, completely untrue.

Alberta fascism

What Levant said. I don't believe the values a lot of Albertans fought and died for in the wars are very evident in that province anymore. In Canada, it seems, the government can tell you what you must think. Well, here's what I'm thinking: fire them all.

In the company of intelligence

"There's never been a debate in Canada that I am aware of on running an intelligence company out of the Canadian Forces."

--NDP defence critic Dawn Black.

What Colby said. For the record, last time I looked there were 4 military intelligence companies in the Canadian Forces: 2 (Toronto), 3 (Halifax), 4 (Montreal), and 6 (Western Canada). All 4 have been pushing a steady stream of reservists overseas for the Afghanistan mission, as they did for other missions before.

Perhaps the reason that Ms. Black doesn't recall a debate being held on the establishment of organizations specifically called "intelligence companies" was because that momentous event occurred in 1948. Obviously, of course, there was a Canadian Intelligence Corps long before that, though... as Romeo Sabourin or Frank Pickersgill could have told her, if they had not, unfortunately, been executed in Buchenwald.