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We support our service-personnel, by asking the right questions, and by making the right decisions, before, and after, engaging them, in any field of activity.

Driving to the Cenotaph, vehicles backed-up all the way onto the highway; a mild and sunny day; the largest Remembrance in Canadian history.

Signs of things to come? Perhaps, perhaps not, but taking both climate change, and our propensity for war, into consideration, such a day may not be long coming.

Please write your Member of Parliament and let them know that you want to see solutions to climate change and that you want Canada to put an end to our military role in Afghanistan.

Our national symbols are the maple leaf (nature) and the Peace Tower (our commitment to peace).

Lets stand in remembrance of those too.

Write your Member of Parliament today.

Imperialists rely upon capitalism, blame and war-as-diversion to minimize the self-honesty required to be courageous.

Voices of reason are drowned-out by the noise of it all, and the hard-won benefits enjoyed by everyone, are often denied those who laboured to bring them about.

Many don't want to hear the truth, and few will support those who stand in the place of truth, but those of us who call attention to injustice, will remain steadfast in our being-of-who-we-are, for it is in our nature to do so.

Nothing more; nothing less.

Suicide Seeds: Beyond Fiction
Terminator gene: judgment day

"It is 5 minutes to midnight. The threat of a second nuclear age and the expected consequences of climate change push the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight."

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And if Canada is to award contracts for rebuilding, let those contracts be awarded to the people of Afghanistan, not foreigners. Our focus should be on provisions, not profit.

Seems to me that we'd all be alot better off if we brought our troops home and started sending out regular flights to drop-off provisions instead. We'd no longer be the occupiers, we'd be Canadian again.

Aid assistance poorly managed; half of all aid stolen

About 40 million people around the world have AIDS ... that's much more than the entire population of Canada.

You can help combat this terrible pandemic by clicking here to write the Minister of Health and your Member of Parliament.

The letters have already been prepared and can be edited to your liking.

All you have to do is follow the prompts.

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A poll commissioned by the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute was released last week by the Innovative Research Group indicating that Only 23% strongly support sending troops to Afghanistan, yet media reports were misleading the public with headlines screaming-out that the majority of Canadians support the Afghan mission.

This type of offensive and irresponsible reporting will not be condoned! We're at war and parents in both Canada and Afghanistan are being devastated by the deaths of their children, cousins, friends, husbands and wives who have lost their lives in Canada's war with Afghanistan.

In polls, the target-population and the questions are keys to achieving desired results. In this particular poll, a question used to interpret support for sending troops to Afghanistan, was: Do you support or oppose Canada sending troops to Afghanistan?

The question, however, is loaded to interpret support for sending troops to Afghanistan because it plays on Canadian misconceptions that our troops are in Afghanistan for nation-building, when in fact, the vast majority of our expenditure and focus in Afghanistan is actually used for war.

Since polling firms are interested in continuing to provide their services to organizations that commission polls, data is manipulated in ways to advance the goals of the organization commissioning the poll and presented in ways that will attract media attention. The media may then resort to sensational reporting to further their own political and monetary interests.

Since this particular poll was commissioned by the the Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, a lobbying organization that includes the sixth largest defence contractor in the world, see Wiki, I was not surprised to read news reports headlining majority support for sending troops to Afghanistan even though only 23% of respondents indicated 'strong' support to the loaded question.

The war on Afghanistan cannot be won, but if we stay, it will be lost.

Yesterday, I received a news alert from Ipsos Reid regarding a recent poll of theirs conducted on behalf of CanWest/Global News, indicating that half (51%) of Canadians support combat operations in Afghanistan, and immediately dismissed the report as biased and misleading.

What really got my attention, was the way Ipsos chose to manipulate the data to promote the report. Only 25% of respondents indicated 'strong' support for military operations in Afghanistan with another 27% indicating only 'somewhat' support, yet Ipsos chose to publish a report indicating 51% support for military operations in Afghanistan.

End Canada's occupation of Afghanistan
From peacekeeping to war; our welcome overstayed

Recently, our Members of Parliament voted to extend operations in Afghanistan by two more years in a narrow four-vote lead (149-145) which wasn't a lead at all because cabinet members are expected to support the governments position. The vote was also a political ploy as Harper stated his intent to extend operations by another year regardless of the outcome.