Halifax Regional Police wants to add a new tool to its belt. At the Board of Police Commissioners meeting on Monday, HRP’s inspector Jim Butler quickly made the case for needing an armoured rescue vehicle (ARV) added to the HRP’s fleet. He said an ARV would give officers the ability to perform duties during high-risk […]
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Proud Boys are a microcosm of the unchecked violence in Canada’s military
The July 4 opinion piece in The Coast on the “Proud Boys” left out a small but important detail about the members of this fascist right-wing group: they are all members of the Canadian military, as confirmed by Royal Canadian Navy. As an Indigenous person with close ties to the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), I think that […]
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Paris to weigh heavily on Halifax International Security Forum
[IMage-1] Paris will be a hot topic of conversations this weekend when international government and military officials meet with academic and corporate leaders at the annual Halifax International Security Forum. As Stefon would say, this forum has everything: Peter MacKay, ISIS, a badass new Minister of Defence, wordplay, the military-industrial complex, Charlie Hebdo, New Brunswick […]