Mark Collins – Canada’s Surging Immigration from Asia

A tweet: Lots more at StatsCan. Mark Collins, a prolific Ottawa blogger, is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute; he tweets @Mark3Ds

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Mark Collins – 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US Imagery via NGA

The US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), the ultimate successor to the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center (NPIC), publishes a summary with pictures–one below…

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Mark Collins – US Intelligence and Insider Threat: NSA Contractor Maximum “Holy Cow!”

Further to this post, this is manque de sérieux ridiculous–who’s on the security ball (including in Canada?)? The Gray Lady does like understated headlines: N.S.A. Appears to Have Misse…

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Mark Collins – ISIS, Islamism and Pakistan’s CT Failure

The very knowledgeable Pakistani author Ahmed Rashid (pieces for the NY Review of Books here) excoriates his country’s government: Viewpoint: Pakistan’s Quetta attack blame game The att…

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Mark Collins – Sublime Erdogan the Magnficent Pushing his Syria/Iraq Turkish Delight

The ever more maximum president is certainly making things difficult for POTUS and many others: Erdogan reasserts Turkey’s role in wars in Syria and Iraq Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said…

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Mark Collins – F-35 JPO PEO Goes to Ottawa

Lt. Gen. Bogdan pays us a visit: U.S. pitches F-35 jet to Ottawa as Liberals aim to replace fleet The U.S. Air Force made a last-minute pitch [the general actually represents the whole Pentagon] to…

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Mark Collins – RFP Finally Issued for RCN Canadian Surface Combatant: “eye-watering” Details Wanted

Further to these posts, RCN’s Canadian Surface Combatant Will be Foreign Design [Nov. 2015, matter long settled–post lists competitors then] Irving Halifax Has Lead Evaluating RCN Canadian Su…

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Mark Collins – China: Top Dragon Now “Core” Leader

Further to these posts, Xi is Top Dragon to the “Core” China: Top Dragon Really Unfolding His Ascendant Wings the Chicom party leader and country’s president sure is feeling his wontons–…

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Mark Collins – NATO: “Albania, Italy, Poland and Slovenia will contribute to the Canadian-led battalion in Latvia”

Further to this September post, 455 Canadian Troops to Latvia with NATO Spring 2017–Italians Too? the Italians are indeed in along with others–company-sized contingents from Canada and the re…

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Mark Collins – CETA, or, Ronnie and the Walloons

Late October 24: CETA deal cannot be signed ‘at this stage,’ Belgian PM says, but EU and Canada still hopeful As Wallonia blows it out: “Wa-wah, Wa, Walloon”: Mark Collins, …

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