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'This Is The Airplane I'm Gonna Strap On Every Day'

2013-04-09T22:50:13Z

The fight is definitely on at Eglin Air Force Base in the Florida Panhandle.
Here, the first corps of pilots to be trained on Lockheed Ma...

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Leaked F-35 Report Spurs Safety Concerns

2013-03-06T17:53:46Z

OTTAWA - Opposition parties say the Harper government should exclude the F-35 from its search for replacements for Canada's CF-18 jets after a new Pen...

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Yet Another F-35 Obstacle

2013-03-04T11:16:10Z

OTTAWA - The Harper government's plan to buy the oft-maligned F-35 fighter is expected to face another blow with a series of deep spending cuts about ...

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Murray Brewster: What Looney Tunes Can Teach Us About The Sequester and Other Things

2013-03-04T10:49:20Z

Isn't it amazing how almost everything in modern politics can find its inspiration, or be reflected, in a Looney Tunes cartoon?

As the sequestration ...

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Rachel Décoste: What Happened to Canadian Innovation?

2013-02-28T07:56:37Z

On Prime Minister Diefenbaker's Black Friday, it was announced that 14,000 jobs would vanish. The most sophisticated aircraft in the world, the Avro Arrow, would be dismantled and the pride of an entire country was slain along with it. I believe Canada has what it takes to produce another Avro Arrow.

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Meet The New F-35 Rival

2013-02-27T21:26:14Z

In a dogfight of defence contractors, the hunter can quickly become the hunted. It's happening now to the F-35.
The world's largest defen...

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Pentagon Grounds F-35s Due To Engine Blade Crack

2013-02-22T16:14:54Z

Flights of all F-35 fighter planes were suspended Friday by the Pentagon after a routine check exposed a crack on a turbine blade of an aircraft.
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Matthew Kellway: A Stealthy Manoeuvre to Keep the F-35 Alive

2013-02-14T14:24:34Z

"We will not be constrained by the Statement of Requirements," says the Minister announcing the (re)start of an Options Analysis. No kidding.

There...

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Harsh F-35 Criticism Edited Out Of History By Tory-Led Committee

2013-02-12T11:38:49Z

OTTAWA - Stinging criticism of the political and bureaucratic fiasco surrounding the F-35 by the country's budget officer and even the auditor general...

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Don't Want These? Lockheed Martin Wants To Chat

2013-02-08T17:21:03Z

OTTAWA - The manufacturer of the F-35 has been quietly trying to counter Canadian critics of its oft-maligned stealth fighter.Over the last few days, ...

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Tories Begin Probing F-35 Alternatives

2013-01-25T15:18:00Z

OTTAWA - A questionnaire meant to gauge what options exist to replace the air force's aging CF-18 fighters has landed on the desks of aerospace compan...

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Rachel Décoste: Harper's Seven Top Screw-Ups in Seven Years

2013-01-24T17:28:39Z

January 23 marks seven years since Stephen Harper was first elected Prime Minister of Canada. As the PM took the opportunity to pat himself on the back in tweeting his self-assessed greatest accomplishments, perhaps the seven-year itch is the right time to recognize PM Harper's biggest blunders.

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Alison Loat: Best Moment in Canadian Democracy: 2012

2013-01-14T12:24:02Z

Just before the New Year, Samara asked for nominations for the Best Moment in Canadian Democracy in 2012. Despite the cynicism that we all feel from time to time, these five serve as important reminders that there are democratic mechanisms at our disposal, and that despite Canada's imperfections we are lucky to live here.

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Ryan Painter: 2012: Winners and Losers of Canadian Politics

2013-01-09T10:58:26Z

The jet lag has passed and the Christmas decorations (for some of us at least) are put away in storage. With 2013 stretching out before us, let's reflect on the year that was 2012 in Canadian politics. The best and worst political stories, the best and worst politicians and the biggest sellout.

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Another Embarrassment For Harper Government?

2013-01-06T13:31:38Z

OTTAWA -- The navy's long-delayed, much-studied joint support ship program is expected to come under the political microscope within weeks in what is ...

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How Do You Like Him Now?

2012-12-27T11:00:19Z

OTTAWA - Stephen Harper, we hardly know you.Almost seven years after Harper led his Conservatives to office and ended more than a decade of uninterrup...

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Dr. Gerry Som: How to Prevent Political Scandals in 2013

2012-12-26T15:46:38Z

The year 2012 saw some scandals in Canada. There was the exposure of the multi-million dollar Ornge Air Ambulance scandal, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency scandal in Alberta, and the Robocall scandal. Did we spend a lot of time, money, and energy investigating and analyzing these scandals? Yes. Is there a sure way to avoid these problems for the next year, 2013?

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Ryan Painter: Harper's F-35 Promises Haven't Taken Flight

2012-12-17T08:17:13Z

There has been a flurry of cost figures for the F-35, ranging from the government's unwavering figure of $9 billion all the way to $45.8 billion dollars. First the government wants this plane, then they didn't, and now they do again. Canadians are being played for suckers in this little game of procurement bingo that the Harper Cabinet is playing.

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Randall Wakelam: What If the F-35 Was a Low-Budget Film?

2012-12-14T15:54:14Z

If a producer was to consider making a feature film about the F-35 procurement process she or he might, given the events over the past few years either go with one of two genres: Max Senate and the Keystone cops, or Federico Fellini for something a bit more surreal. Somewhere between those two extremes lies, I would think, the reality of the storyline.

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Scrapped? Canada May Very Well Still Buy F-35s

2012-12-13T20:14:07Z

Until recently the government has insisted that the F-35 is the only fighter aircraft suitable for Canada's military needs, and a expert in Canadian d...

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MacKay Has Good Reason For That Facepalm

2012-12-12T19:09:49Z

OTTAWA - And then there were two.After years of everyone from the prime minister to rookie Tory backbenchers staunchly and defiantly defending the pur...

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New Price Tag? $45.8 Billion

2012-12-12T15:29:44Z

OTTAWA - The Harper government insisted it's committed to looking at all the options to replace the country's CF-18s, but a detailed analysis of the c...

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F-35s Could Fall Off U.S. Fiscal Cliff

2012-12-12T04:30:07Z

OTTAWA - A detailed report crunching all of the numbers, contingencies and eye-popping price points of the Harper government's cherished stealth fight...

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A Pork Barrel Time Bomb For The Tories

2012-12-10T16:03:52Z

OTTAWA - Amid the avalanche of figures, statistics, estimates and soothing political assurances coming this week on the Conservative government's trou...

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Rae Suggests MacKay Has To Go Amid F-35 Revelations

2012-12-06T21:55:27Z

The government has consistently misled Canadians and is continuing to hide the true cost of the F-35 fighter jets being considered to replace the mili...

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