Further to this January 2016 post (with links to the two companies involved), this rubber sure continues to have a rocky time hitting the road: Troubled procurement won’t affect delivery of new Can…
Source: Mark Collins – Canadian Army Truckin’ at Last (whiff of porc?)–Not So Fast! Good Grief Section
John Robson (he tweets @thejohnrobson) lays out the obvious case for the benefit of our new government–which is unlikely to pay much attention: The Chinese government is not Canada’s friend. …
Source: Mark Collins – “China’s government is not Canada’s friend”
Further to this post, a telling piece at Vanguard magazine-the new government even worse than its predecessor: Canada’s cyber security deficit The Canadian government, businesses, and individuals h…
Source: Mark Collins – Time For Canadian Government to Get Really Cyber Serious–But It’s Not
Will be out of town visiting family so… Mark Collins, a prolific Ottawa blogger, is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute; he tweets @Mark3Ds
Further to this post, Tide Turning vs ISIS in Iraq/Syria? What About Iraqi Government? we’ll just have to wait and see how well this turns out–at Foreign Policy’s “Situation…
Source: Mark Collins – Fight to Retake Fallujah from ISIS Begins–Iran-Backed Shia Militias (plus Syria)
Canada at end of the post. Further to this July 2015 post, The US and Vietnam: Containing China Together? A Visit to Washington don’t you believe the nicely diplomatic President Obama (with v…
Source: Mark Collins – A Hanoi/Washington Axis, or, as the Dragon-Facing World Turns (Canadian angle)
Keep in mind that the Afghans are almost totally dependent on routes through Pakistan for seaborne trade, and that the Iranians are no great friends of the Paks (Shia vs Sunni, Iranians see themsel…
Source: Mark Collins – Indian Great Game to Bounce Paks in Afghanistan (take that Dragon!)
