Wednesday Video – 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan

In Honour of David Patterson’s talk tomorrow night (the First of the 2012 Winter lecture Series) our first Wednesday Video is a clip of 10th Mountain Division (in 2009) from the New York Times  in depth look at the US in Afghanistan ”A [...]

Thursday Night – Col. David Patterson talks about his experience with the 10th Mountain Division in Afghanistan

Inside the Surge: A Canadian’s Perspective on Transition in Afghanistan Colonel David Patterson will describe his experience in Kandahar as a senior member of the 10th Mountain Division staff at Regional Command – South during a critical time for the [...]

Why does Canada have a landmine foundation? Humanitarianism and the Movement to Ban Landmines.

For some, antipersonnel landmines (or AP mines) do not immediately invoke images of Canada. Fields scattered with hidden explosives, innocent civilians with missing limbs, and poverty stricken regions still feeling the heat of a battle fought long ago, are not [...]

A Review of Michael K. Carroll’s ‘Pearson’s Peacekeepers: Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956-67′ by Matt Symes

Michael K. Carroll, Pearson’s Peacekeepers: Canada and the United Nations Emergency Force, 1956-67 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2009). 254 pages. Reviewed by Matt Symes (Wilfrid Laurier University) Michael K. Carroll’s Pearson’s Peacekeepers: Canada and the United Nations Emergency [...]

7th Annual Windsor War and Memory Conference – Friday February 3rd and 4th 2012