CM Maier

[This is the last post of 119,836 names of Canadian Armed Forces members who died while serving, bringing to an end this online roll call that began on Remembrance Day 14 years ago. Thanks to everyone who followed.]

1 Sept 1967, Siegfried Sassoon CBE MC, poet, writer & soldier, died, aged 80. Served with Sussex Yeomanry & Royal Welsh Fusiliers. 1917, invalided home. Wrote public protest against #WW1. Wrote war poems: The Old Huntsman (1917) & Counter-Attack (1918). 1957, became a Catholic.

The Defender of the America’s Cup, the RNZYS, represented by Team New Zealand, and the Challenger of Record, the RYS Ltd, represented by Athena Racing, have signed the Protocol. americascup.com/news/3827_THE-…

Yes. And this double standard, this focus on certain wars and, in this case, the erasure of #Sudan is the scandal of scandals, the most appalling of injustices. @WSJopinion @IsraelWarRoom

Conservatives have long supported a two-state solution - one that allows a future Palestinian state to exist in peace and prosperity alongside the State of Israel, and one that is the result of a negotiated settlement between Israelis and Palestinians. But a Western democracy recognizing a Palestinian state in the aftermath of the October 7 attacks sends the wrong message that violence and force are effective tools for a terrorist group to achieve its ends. #cdnpoli

How 26 countries successfully torpedoed ceasefire negotiations and ensured a continuation of the war & humanitarian crisis. A 🧵

Personnel who were killed in Afghanistan after answering the U.S. call for assistance under NATO's Article 5. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 457 🇨🇦 Canada: 159 🇫🇷 France: 90 🇩🇪 Germany: 62 🇮🇹 Italy: 53 🇵🇱 Poland: 44 🇩🇰 Denmark: 43 🇦🇺 Australia: 41 🇪🇸 Spain: 35 🇬🇪 Georgia: 32 🇷🇴 Romania: 27 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 25 🇹🇷 Turkey: 15 🇨🇿 Czech Republic: 14 🇳🇿 New Zealand: 10 🇳🇴 Norway: 10 🇪🇪 Estonia: 9 🇭🇺 Hungary: 7 🇸🇪 Sweden: 5 🇱🇻 Latvia: 4 🇸🇰 Slovakia: 3 🇫🇮 Finland: 2 🇯🇴 Jordan: 2 🇵🇹 Portugal: 2 🇰🇷 South Korea: 2 🇦🇱 Albania: 2 🇧🇪 Belgium: 1 🇧🇬 Bulgaria: 1 🇭🇷 Croatia: 1 🇱🇹 Lithuania: 1 🇲🇪 Montenegro: 1

Exclusive: Inside B.C.’s Cultus Lake Narco Corridor — How Chinese State-Linked Syndicate Sam Gor Seized Strategic Ground on America’s Doorstep thebureau.news/p/exclusive-in…

Yesterday, Lieutenant Francis Hemsley was reinterred at the @CWGC's Loos British Cemetery after being identified by the Canadian Armed Forces’ Casualty Identification Program.

🇪🇸 Reuters: Spain vows to meet NATO spending goal of 2% GDP in 2025 Spain spent just 1.28% of GDP on defense last year, per NATO figures. A 0.72% increase in just 1 year is a very significant jump. This is going to make the other NATO deadbeats (🇸🇮🇱🇺🇧🇪🇨🇦🇮🇹🇵🇹🇭🇷) look quite bad.

Ex-captain says mouldy Canadian navy warship made him sick, but class-action lawsuit was denied nationalpost.com/news/canada/cl…

Breaking: Liberal Candidate Peter Yuen Reportedly Attended 2015 Beijing Military Parade Hosted by Xi Jinping thebureau.news/p/liberal-cand…

King Charles won a standing ovation, two actually because they thought he had finished when he hadn’t, for a speech to Parliament in Italian and English emphasising the close ties between Britain and Italy.

1/2 #OTD, we remember the 3,598 Canadians who fell at Vimy Ridge, during a critical battle of the First World War. The Canadian National Vimy Memorial, standing as a solemn tribute, honours their sacrifice. The names of the fallen are enshrined in the FWW Book of Remembrance.

A lucid and articulate expression of legitimate concern and a call to action. Opinion: The urgency is upon us: We need to defend Canada - The Globe and Mail Thanks Wayne for your leadership. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

#OnThisDayInCanadianHistory 30Mar1972: Canadian sailors receive their daily rum ration for the last time, ending a navy tradition dating back to 1667.

Listen as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre reacts to news that Liberal Leader Mark Carney is defending Paul Chiang. Chiang is the Liberal candidate who suggested that a Conservative candidate, Joe Tay, be grabbed and taken to the Chinese Consulate in Toronto and handed over.

Principles aren't a matter of convenience. What was the difference in the Chandra Ariya case that made it a firing offence, but not the Chiang case? One is borderline if not actually criminal the other was convenient. @kinsellawarren @JamesR_SJNB

Aerospace engineer. Conservative family-focused leader. Ready to rebuild Canada from the ground up, and bringing real-world solutions to real-world problems. VOTE COOL & meet Grant at our next event: grantcool.ca #cdnpoli #Saanich #Esquimalt #Sooke #CPC #ESS

'Mark Carney has been prime minister for all of a weekend, and he already can’t be bothered with the conventions of Canadian democracy' nationalpost.com/opinion/carson…