#govote2015

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Harper must be crying

my dad’s commentary during the election coverage

[togotheferret]

Heading to the polls! Don’t forget to vote #Canada 🍁! You still have a few hours left! #goVote2015 #elections #vote #elxn42 #BC #Vancouver #ferret #cute

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All of my fellow Canadians right now waiting for the polls to close like...

[torontostar]

Justin Trudeau walks with his son Xavier to cast his ballot in Montreal on October 19, 2015. #GoVote2015 #cdnpoli AFP PHOTO/Getty Images

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CANADIAN PEACEKEEPING: Proud Tradition, Strong Future?

May 29th is The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers and is commemorated each year to salute the men and women who serve in some of the world’s most volatile and dangerous environments to  manage complex crises that threaten international peace and security. According to the latest data from their website, in April 2015, there were 107,805 UN peacekeepers in operation throughout the globe.  \

122 of them were Canadian. 

            The Conservatives have turned away from peacekeeping,     instead spending billions of dollars on war-fighting. 

Retired Canadian general Roméo Dallaire, perhaps the world’s most famous face of peacekeeping, devoted much of his speech as he resigned from the Senate, to Canada’s shifting priorities. “Today, we point to the humanitarian aid dollars we’ve given, which are never enough, and proclaim we’ve done our part. Today, we have more sabre-rattling and less credibility, more expressions of concern and less contingency planning, more endless consultation with allies, or so we are told, and less real action being taken, and more empty calls for respect for human rights and less actual engagement with the violators.”   He said, “This is an outright abandonment. Any description that tries to minimize that is creating a falsehood in Canada’s position.” 

Peacekeeping has a place of pride in the Canadian national identity. The Canadian government has a strong mandate from the public to contribute to UN peacekeeping and a long-standing heritage to uphold.  

In the conflict-ridden world, there are both great challenges and new opportunities for a new Canadian government in 2015 to help the UN to develop a robust and more effective peacekeeping approach, and thereby regain its position as a leading UN peacekeeper. 

Find out which countries provide military experts, troops and police to UN Peacekeeping. You can sort contributions by type, or search individual countries for the most recent statistics.

http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/resources/statistics/contributors.shtml

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Here’s my first blog post in my new effort to spread awareness that we must Stop Stephen Harper!  I’m excited to be here.  Check this page out every day until October 19th 2015, to learn more about why we have to Stop Harper and how to accomplish that goal!