War
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties. The scholarly study of war is sometimes called polemology ( POL-ə-MOL-ə-jee), from the Greek polemos, meaning "war", and -logy, meaning "the study …
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UCP: University of Calgary Press · 15 January 2025 English
Every culture and society has read stories in the night sky. From the careful attention of astronomers across all times and all parts of the world to the search for …
been a critique of the motives behind the Cold War space race, undertaken when there were far more … centre of desire. A decade later, the Cold War provided the impetus for the grand expedition of … had not been victorious at the end of the Cold War. In the ideological vacuum left by the cessation … less critical as an ideological weapon in this war, and for over fifty years there were no further plans … treated badly and discover that Endymion is at war with Phaethon, the king of the Sun, over who gets …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 14 January 2025 English
“Sharply observed, fiercely researched, starkly revealing, written with wit, verve, and insight, making room for the tragic ironies without ever taking its eyes off the comic ones, Catch a Fire …
of 1996, was already a veteran of Canada’s drug war. He was dazed and confused when the police arrived … college kids reading the Beats and protesting the war. This was human rights. This was Jim Wakeford speaking … the Vancouver riots that helped kickstart Canada’s war on drugs. It was three days after Vancouver’s fires … transformative times. In 1914, Canada entered the First World War and embarked on what was the bloodiest conflict … arrival of the Spanish flu. Between the flu and the war, Canada lost more than one hundred thousand lives …
PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 22 December 2024 English
cent of food aid organizations did not receive government support to meet the needs arising from the war, and 70.9 per cent reported a decrease in donations. [...] An Association of Palestinian Arab Canadians …
examines the socioeconomic repercussions of the war on Gaza. According to the report, millions of Israelis … benefits have been significantly affected by the war: 44.6 per cent in terms of academic achievements … government support to meet the needs arising from the war, and 70.9 per cent reported a decrease in donations … will be "slower and more challenging" after the war. High living costs, combined with an economic slowdown … vegetables, and meat twice a week, stated that since the war began, the organization's activities have more than …
PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 22 December 2024 English
persons/refugees, and war criminals, and the setting and evolution of these policies from World War II to permit a better understanding of how the present situation with regard to the war criminals 14 cam. …
Names of Suspected War Criminals Given Refuge in Canada • About the Lists of Suspected War Criminals from … girls and two-spirited people but shields Nazi war criminals and collaborators. Monuments to many worthy … Canadians who gave their lives as cannon fodder in World War I and in the fight against German Nazism, Italian … Italian fascism and Japanese militarism in World War II. This includes those whose countries were occupied … aggression, occupation and torture regimes since World War II. But no, now it is unveiling a virulently anti-communist …
C.D. Howe Institute · 20 December 2024 English
That would have given Canada the fiscal dry powder the departed finance minister said we need to face the uncertainty and potential trade wars looming under the incoming president of the United States. …
given Canada the fiscal dry powder the departed finance minister said we need to face the uncertainty and potential trade wars …
CIDP: Centre for International and Defense Policy · 19 December 2024 English
Examples of previous crisis in the Canadian civil-military relationship include the two conscription crises during the First and Second World Wars, and the actions of the Royal Canadian Navy during the …
Somalia,” in Peace Operations Between Peace and War: Four Studies, edited by Erwind A. Schmidt 11 (September … engulfing the country in the summer of 1992. A civil war led to the destruction of much of the country’s agricultural … personalities and to the stresses of crises and war [or operations].”9 Christopher Ankersen has also … our values, were running amok…The Canadian way of war – and peacekeeping – did not encompass tattoos, Confederate … evolve to meet the challenges posed by a post-Cold War paradigm, and ultimately help build the foundation …
CDA: Conference of Defence Associations Institute · 19 December 2024 English
Executive Summary In 2022, the Department of National Defence (DND) published the Canadian Armed Forces Digital Campaign Plan to chart a path for the digital transformation of the CAF in …
by Software Vendors leverage cloud platforms and war fighters and administrators every day in the AI to … ingrained mindset of not trusting veterans to declare war on a third country to do so. That is once they are …
FCPP: Frontier Centre for Public Policy · 19 December 2024 English
banning the production of oil and gas energy essential to the nation’s economy, to flood the nation with millions of third world migrants, and to give billions of taxpayer dollars to support foreign wars …
firearms to Ukraine: 2 “These are not weapons of war. Ukraine wants cruise missiles. They don’t want Canadian … thing I’ve ever heard. If the guns were weapons of war, they wouldn’t have been allowed into Canada…They’re … civil liberties in Canada in 1970 by enacting the War Measures Act during the FLQ Crisis in Quebec. As …
Yellowhead Institute · 18 December 2024 English
ON DECEMBER 4, 2024, amendments to the Community in the province, the only safe consumption site in Thunder Care and Recovery Act within Bill 223 received Royal Bay is set …
BRIEF #160 | DEC 18, 2024 Safety for Whom? Ontario’s War on Safe Consumption Sites is no Act of Care by Brianna … colonial harm Balaban. “Safety for Whom? Ontario’s War on Safe Consumption Sites is no Act of Care” It is … inhumanity in policy and practice are whom-ontarios-war-on-safe-consumption-sites- rooted in the colonization …
CSLS: Centre for the Study of Living Standards · 18 December 2024 English
In emerging been periodic surges – such as the US turn- and developing economies, MFP growth of-the-century bounce widely attributed to has been in negative territory for most of the …
al. analyzed 6,410 adverse events worldwide, including climate disasters, biological disasters, geo- physical disasters, wars … In India, labour productivity The risk of intergroup conflicts includ- in manufacturing firms declined by 4-9 per ing wars … In Canada, Sawyer of all adverse events, with external wars re- et al. found that by 2025 Canada’s annual ducing TFP by 10 …