Unpublished Newswire

In recent years, Canada has conducted major Arctic exercises to reinforce its sovereignty over the North. Those operations tend to reveal the same fragility: specialized equipment dependent on foreign manufacturers and logistics chains stretched across borders and oceans. The flag may be Canadian. The infrastructure, often, is not. Prime Minister Mark Carney has said repeatedly that the future of national defence depends on building domestic capability and diversifying our defence partnerships. We have made commitments to meeting our NATO defence spending targets, and we have signed onto...

A Turkish citizen who lost his refugee status in Canada after allegedly depositing counterfeit cheques at a Canadian bank and moving home for nine years has won another shot at regaining his status here as a protected person. Musa Durmus was granted refugee protection in Canada in January 2001 “based on his fear of persecution due to his political activity and Kurdish identity,” according to a recent Federal Court ruling out of Toronto. After over 12 years in Canada, Durmus returned to Turkey, where he bribed a judge to change his first name, remained for about nine years, married...