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“This Remembrance Day I’ll wear two poppies: one red and one white”

November 11, 2015

First posted on Ceasefire.ca on 11 November 2014, we are grateful to share this poignant commentary again this year. Malcolm French, a veteran who served for 25 years with the Royal Canadian Navy, discusses on CBC Radio why he wears both a red and a white poppy on  Remembrance Day: Last year I wore two […]

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Staples and Naqi op-ed: Who will be watching over the shipbuilding program?

August 2, 2012

By Steven Staples and Mahmud Naqi Published in the August 2012 issue (Volume 19 Issue 7) of Esprit de Corps  From the Cyclone helicopter to the F-35 stealth fighter, defence procurement problems have been dominating the headlines. However, the federal government’s planned $35 billion National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy is bigger than both of these combined. […]

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