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...injured. A total of 14 Canadian soldiers have been wounded in accidents, suicide bombings and other assaults so far in 2006. And as Canadian Forces began a major push last week into villages north of Kandahar, a roadside bomb exploded 800 m from Chief of the Defense Staff Rick Hillier, who was meeting with village elders. Hillier, who commanded an earlier Canadian deployment in Afghanistan, shrugged it off. "It was a day in the life of this mission," he says...
...Behind the political posturing, however, is a growing national anxiety that Canada's military is heading into risky, uncharted territory and talking more brazenly about it. Defense chief Hillier warned last year that Canadian Forces would be involved in killing "scumbags" as they ramped up their participation in the global war on terrorism. David Fraser, the tough-talking new commander of the multinational brigade, pushed the envelope even further when he asserted this month that the Canadian mission in Afghanistan was part of the "evolution" of the nation's military toward the "harder side" of peacemaking. "We're going into...
...does it do foreign policy? The prospect of an Afghan trip says more about Harper than about his approach to international affairs. At the defense briefing, he peppered Chief of the Defense Staff Rick Hillier and other officials with questions about what Canada's projected 2,200-strong force in Afghanistan needed to do its job. "He wanted to know how it could become more efficient, what sort of equipment was necessary to keep the troops safe," reports a Harper adviser. A prime ministerial photo op with troops in the field would help establish Harper's credentials as a national...
Students living in Currier who already have access to the wireless signal, such as Anne J. Hillier ’06, are finding it to be a helpful amenity...
...running events, co-captain Ashley Furst and freshman Anne Hillier were solid in the 400 meters. Hillier placed third in the event at outdoor HEPS...