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View Article  Globemaster Number Two touches down Thursday

Canada’s second Boeing C-17 Globemaster will arrive for the first time at its home base of CFB Trenton on Thursday this week, the air force says. Exact arrival time is not yet clear but it will be on the tarmac there eventually where it will become CC-177.

 

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View Article  Australia and Harper

Giving a Throne Speech in prime time was a first for any government. The Conservatives, I am told, got the idea from the Australian conservative party which, as it turns out, is called The Liberal Party of Australia. The Canadian Conservatives have long adopted some of the tactics that ...   more »

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