Dan Dugas 🇨🇦
@drdugas
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Joined February 2011
“For Ottawa, the outcome of the conflict will therefore matter not only for regional stability but for the credibility of the alliance system on which Canadian security depends,” writes MLI Senior Fellow @josephbvarner on the war in Iran. Read full Inside Policy article here⬇️
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"Anybody who's struggling with something, I hope they see me and don't give up. Just keep fighting." Gary Woodland hugs his wife with the fans chanting his name on the 18th green. An inspiration to everyone. 🥲
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Tiger Woods has now officially secured his position on my personal Mount Rushmore of terrible drivers alongside SpongeBob, Mr. Bean, and Toonces. Legendary.
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“If Vanier believes there are people on campus who pose a threat to a Holocaust memorial, then the question is not whether the event should go ahead. The question is why those individuals are there in the first place, and why they are being accommodated instead of confronted.”
Vanier College’s decision to cancel its annual Holocaust memorial is a disgraceful act of capitulation. Let’s speak plainly. When a Holocaust commemoration is deemed a “security risk,” that is not a reason to cancel the event, it is proof that something has gone deeply wrong. In
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110-year-old Turkish grandma shares her secret to a long life: "i never once used Microsoft Teams"
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Zero celebrities speak out.
Iran publicly executes a teen champion wrestler for participating in protests against the Khamenei regime. https://t.co/htlhOmknCA
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Always remember. Somebody out there has it worse than you. Be thankful for what you have.
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This afternoon, I’ve instructed my Attorney General to pursue an injunction against the Al-Quds Day demonstration planned for Toronto. Hate, violence and intimidation have no place on the streets of Canada and our government will fight it however we can.
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Today marks exactly four years since Putin started his three-day push to take Kyiv. And that says a great deal about our resistance, about how Ukraine has fought all this time. Behind those words stand millions of our people, immense courage, incredibly hard work, endurance, and
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The history books quietly bypassed is that Barack Obama, during the most pressure-saturated nights of his presidency, would retreat alone to the Treaty Room on the second floor of the White House residence — not to strategize, not to take calls, but to handwrite personal letters
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After a week of media unnamed sources, leaks and repetition of Carney's Defence Industrial Strategy PR, Peter MacKay offers a reality check "But the big question that's missing in all of it is how do we pay for it?" "It's either massive cuts to current government programs and
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🔴 Ukraine gains 78 square miles of terrority in just five days as Russian battlefield communications in disarray Find out more ⬇️ https://t.co/mujlGgojFE
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I fully support Ukrainian skeletonist Vladyslav Heraskevych. The @iocmedia decision to ban him from competing with images of his dead comrades and to allow 13 Russian citizens to compete, who are advertising the 🇷🇺 war and 🇷🇺crimes, is reprehensible. OG are advertising the 🇷🇺 war
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British National Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison – tantamount to a life sentence for a 78-year-old. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper’s statement ⤵️
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The dates for the next Halifax International Security Forum have been announced.
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“Democracies Demand Decency,” says Peter Van Praagh February 9, 2026 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – HFX is proud to announce that the 2026 Halifax International Security Forum will be held...
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"We will never have true strategic independence, absent our own nuclear deterrent." Canada should keep options open on acquiring nuclear weapons, former top soldier says /via @globeandmail
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Retired general Wayne Eyre told an Ottawa crowd that developing a nuclear deterrent is not an immediate concern, but should be an option
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“We are a great country, and shall become one of the greatest in the universe if we preserve it; we shall sink into insignificance and adversity if we suffer it to be broken”. A great op-ed from @jdmstewart1 to mark Sir John A Macdonald Day today. 🇨🇦 https://t.co/VVolaPzWlU
theglobeandmail.com
He should not be venerated as some sort of infallible mythical hero. But Canada’s first prime minister was undeniably a visionary leader
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