NATIONAL NEWS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY / SOMMAIRE DES NOUVELLES NATIONALES
ADM(PA) / SMA(AP)
October 06 2011 / le 06 octobre 2011
MINISTER / LE MINISTRE
Halifax Entrepreneur Named Honorary Colonel
Coverage noted that Halifax entrepreneur Barb Stegemann has been selected by Defence Minister
Peter MacKay to be an honorary colonel for the Canadian military (E. Barnard: HCH E2).
ASSOCIATE MINISTER / MINISTRE ASSOCIÉ
No related coverage. / Aucune couverture pertinente.
CDS / CEM
No related coverage. / Aucune couverture pertinente.
CF OPERATIONS IN LIBYA / OPÉRATIONS DES FC EN LIBYE
Possible End to Air Campaign in Libya
NATO allies are weighing when to call an end to the air campaign in Libya now that the forces of Col
Moammar Gadhafi are surrounded. A senior NATO official said a decision to announce an end of the air
campaign could come later this month if current trends continue (Staff: EJ A19).
CANADA IN AFGHANISTAN / LE CANADA EN AFGHANISTAN
Integrated Human Risk Solutions
A profile of businessperson John Proctor noted his time in Afghanistan with Integrated Human Risk
Solutions (C. Freeze: G&M N42).
Afghan Training Mission: Interview
The Globe & Mail included an interview with Canadian MGen Michael Day, who is leading NATO’s
training mission in Afghanistan (S. Verma: G&M A16).
Afghan Training Mission: Comment
Globe & Mail editorial: The 950 Canadians taking part in the NATO training mission in Afghanistan are
doing more than helping a war-torn country build a reliable security force. They are investing in Afghan
society by teaching officers literacy and numeracy skills, by including women in their ranks and by
promoting ethnic integration. This form of nation-building could be Canada's greatest legacy in the
country (G&M A18).
PROCUREMENT / APPROVISIONNEMENT
No related coverage. / Aucune couverture pertinente.
OTHERS / AUTRES
SAR in the North
Analyst Robert Kokonis said three recent fatal air crashes in Canada’s North should put pressure on the
federal government to create more search-and-rescue capacity for the region. He said: “It’s inexcusable
for our country to rely upon search and rescue (resources) located on the shores of Lake Ontario … when
there’s so much more happening (elsewhere).” In the First Air crash in August, the three survivors were
fortunate that Operation Nanook was being conducted in the area when the plane went down (B.
Bouzane: EJ A14, Gaz A17, WFP A8, SJT D4).
Use of Government Aircraft
CTV News learned of a $24,000 trip by a government Challenger to New York to pick up off-duty air force
captain Terry Hunter, who was injured on vacation. Mr. Hunter said he did not ask for the VIP jet. A
spokesperson for the military says it was appropriate to deploy the Challenger. The military reportedly
claimed it was cheaper to fly Captain Hunter home than have him stay at an expensive American
hospital. Liberal MP Marc Garneau called the flight unprecedented (CTV News 11PM).
U.S. Defence Secretary on Need for NATO Resources
U.S. Defence Secretary Leon Panetta warned NATO allies that they can no longer depend on the United
States to make up for the type of military shortfalls witnessed in the Libyan and Afghan wars. He called on
European and Canadian allies to work closely to pool resources (Staff: SSP D5).
PTSD
Alberta’s Lieutenant-Governor Donald Ethell revealed he is on medication for mental illness related to
PTSD from his time in the military (J. Sinnema: NP A10, EJ A1, CH B7).
Brandon Wheat Kings Visit to CFB Shilo
Wheat Kings forward Mark Stone spoke about his time at CFB Shilo where the team took part in a variety
of military-related activities earlier this week (J. Bender: WSun S12).
Use of Drone Technology: Comment
Heather Roff, assistant professor at the University of Waterloo and Bessma Momani, senior fellow at The
Centre for International Governance Innovation: There is general consensus behind the effectiveness of
drones as weapons of war – they are relatively cheap, accurate and avoid having to put boots on the
ground. Even Canada's DND has claimed that it is interested in acquiring such technology, assuming the
“right balance” can be struck between enhanced robotic autonomy, potential costs and issues of legality
and morality. The ethical debate about morality, law, and war is a concern of jurists, ethicists and the
public at large (NP A16).
100th Birthday of the Barrack Green Armoury
CF members from 3rd Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery (The Loyal Company), 37 Service
Battalion, 722 Communications Squadron, 1st Battalion, The Royal New Brunswick Regiment and 35
Field Ambulance took part in a number of events to mark the 100th birthday of the Barrack Green
Armoury (Staff: NBTJ C5).
Section: ArtsLife
Byline: Elissa Barnard Arts Reporter
Outlet: The Chronicle-Herald
Illustrations:
 Singer Carmel Mikol has won a grand prize in the 2011 John Lennon Songwriting
Contest.(Ted Pritchard / Staff)
 Nova Scotia filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald's Cloudburst, starring Olympia Dukakis and Brenda
Fricker, continues to rack up film awards, most recently winning Best Canadian Film Award at
the EdmontonInternational Film Festival.
 Halifax entrepreneur Barb Stegemann, here holding a bottle of her Afghanistan Orange
Blossom perfume, will share the stage with Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, and Danny Williams
on Saturday in Saint John, N.B.(Peter Parsons / Staff)
Headline: TATTLERS
Page: E2
Date: Thursday 06 October 2011
East and west, 81-year-old Olympia Dukakis has been charming audiences across Canada as a
foul-mouthed lesbian in Nova Scotia filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald's romance Cloudburst, also
starring Brenda Fricker and Nova Scotia's Ryan Doucette.
The film won the Best Canadian Film Award at the Edmonton International Film Festival on
Oct. 1 and was also voted a runner-up for the Edmonton People's Choice Award.
Cloudburst won the Cinefest Sudbury International Film Festival's Audience Choice Award in
September in Ontario and the People's Choice Audience Award at the Atlantic Film Festival in
Halifax.
Fitzgerald also picked up an Atlantic Canada Award for Best Screenplay. The film ended a twoweek Canadian festival tour in Vancouver on Sunday.
Keith McPhail has been appointed to the newly created position of general manager of the
Maritime Conservatory of the Performing Arts. He will guide the conservatory's daily
operations, and support program delivery to the students, collaborating with the deans of the
schools of music and dance, the Kindermusik department and the board of governors.
McPhail's experience includes management positions with Neptune Theatre, Neptune Theatre
School and Halifax Dance, and he was a program officer at the former Nova Scotia Cultural
Network.
Heemin Choi of Halifax is one of eight young performing artists to receive grants of $10,000
each from The Hnatyshyn Foundation to pursue their studies.
The grant winners were adjudicated anonymously by expert juries from among applicants
nominated by educational and training institutions across Canada.
Choi receives the classical music grant for orchestral instrument (strings). An 18-year-old
violinist, he is in his first year of a bachelor of music degree at Dalhousie University.
The Hnatyshyn Foundation is a private charity established by the late Right Hon. Ramon John
Hnatyshyn, Canada's 24th governor general. Its programs are funded by donations from
government, foundations, corporations and individuals.
Halifax-based Carmel Mikol has been awarded a grand prize from the 2011 John Lennon
Songwriting Contest in the Folk category. Twenty Something Girl is the winning entry from
Mikol's sophomore album Creature, released Aug. 9.
The international contest is open to both amateur and professional songwriters, which allows
them to submit entries in any one of 12 categories. Mikol is one of 12 winners who will now
contend for Song of the Year.
A triple East Coast Music Award nominee in 2011, Mikol also took home Great American Song
Contest and International Singer Songwriter awards in 2010.
Her next Nova Scotia date is Monday at the North River Community Hall, as part of the Celtic
Colours Festival.
Cape Breton University student Kyle Capstick received second place in the Playwrights Guild of
Canada National Post-Secondary Playwriting Competition for his play, I Miss, Not Just, Your
Eyes.
Capstick, a bachelor of arts (honours) English student who is also completing his Theatre Arts
Certificate, won one of two top prizes in the national competition for full-time students at any
Canadian institution.
The play is a memory play about intimacy set in a hotel room somewhere in Cape Breton. The
script for I Miss, Not Just, Your Eyes was originally written for production in last year's Atlantic
Fringe Festival, and was further developed through the Playwriting II course at CBU.
Halifax entrepreneur Barb Stegemann will be sharing the stage with Donald Trump, Rudy
Giuliani, and Danny Williams on Saturday in Saint John, N.B., as emcee of SPARK, an event
designed to encourage people to try, risk and dare to be different.
The event, being held at Harbour Station, is expected to attract over 6,700 people from across
North America.
This year Stegemann became the first woman in Atlantic Canada to seal a deal on the CBC TV
show Dragon's Den. She received a 2011 Woman Innovator of the Year award at the APEC
Women and the Economy Summit, hosted by Hillary Clinton, and was named a national finalist
for Chatelaine's Women of the Year competition.
She has been selected by Defence Minister Peter MacKay to be an honorary colonel for the
Canadian military and has launched her third perfume, Vetiver of Haiti.
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Section: News
Outlet: Edmonton Journal
Illustrations:
 Karim Sahib, AFP, Getty Images / A Libyan National Transitional Council fighter sports a
bullet-riddled helmet on the outskirts of Bani Walid.
Headline: Air strikes may end in Libya; Warplanes no longer right tool to go after Gadhafi
loyalists in hiding
Page: A19
Date: Thursday 06 October 2011
Dateline: BRUSSELS
Source: Agence France-Presse
NATO allies are weighing when to call an end to the air campaign in Libya now that Moammar
Gadhafi's forces are surrounded and often beyond the reach of Western warplanes, officials said
Wednesday.
Forces loyal to the deposed dictator are encircled in Sirte and Bani Walid and hiding among the
local population, rendering NATO fighter jets less effective and raising the risk of civilian
casualties, officials said.
"The effect of air power is not necessarily the right tool with these kind of threats," said a
Western source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Gadhafi's loyalists, who had once rolled across open desert in trucks and tanks, are no longer a
natural target for NATO aircraft as they shelter in built-up areas.
"You can't hit something that's not there," the official said. "A sniper on a rooftop - that's not
really something we would go after (with air power)."
Reflecting a shift in the war, the number of NATO air strikes has dramatically declined in recent
weeks, with only one bombing raid reported on Tuesday, compared with about 15 to 20 air
strikes a day earlier in the conflict, NATO officials said.
NATO defence ministers meeting in Brussels on Wednesday and Thursday are discussing how
and when to call time on the six-month campaign, which has been credited with turning the tide
in the conflict and forcing Gadhafi into hiding.
Allied air strikes began in March when Gadhafi's soldiers had rebels on the run, and helped tip
the balance in favour of a loose coalition of Gadhafi opponents who overran the capital Tripoli in
August, winning international recognition.
Supreme Allied Commander Admiral James Stavridis offered his assessment of the air war as
NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he was "encouraged by progress" in the
campaign.
Rasmussen said the decision to halt the operation would hinge on the ability of National
Transitional Council (NTC) forces to maintain order and not the fate of Gadhafi.
"The termination of the operation is not dependent on Col. Gadhafi," he said.
"We will carefully assess the security situation and in particular, of course, take into account the
capability of the NTC to protect the civilian population effectively."
Officials said the alliance had to make a political judgment, balancing the need to prevent attacks
on civilians while avoiding the impression of meddling.
"It will be a political decision, which will involve the UN and the NTC and it will be a question
of an international concert of opinion that the time has come," said a senior NATO official.
"The big risk is that one day we stop and the next day there is a massacre, in which case we
would have failed."
Senior military officers overseeing the operation from Naples, Italy, were increasingly eager to
call an end to the effort given the retreat of Gadhafi's troops, officials said.
But alliance members are waiting for a clear conclusion to fighting in Sirte and Bani Walid,
where NTC troops are trying to finish off Gadhafi loyalists.
A decision to announce an end of the campaign could come later this month if current trends
continue, he said.
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Section: Report on Small Business Magazine
Outlet: The Globe And Mail
Byline: Colin Freeze
Headline: Risky Business
Page: N42
Date: Thursday 06 October 2011
John Proctor had just finished the first part of his lecture when a familiar thump shook the
Canadian embassy in Afghanistan. ``Everyone knows what it is,'' Proctor recalled. A car bomb
had gone off and hit an American convoy on the route the former soldier had just travelled in an
armoured sports utility vehicle. It was 2009 and Proctor had come from Ottawa to give survival
tips to a room full of diplomats in Kabul.
Without missing a beat, he made the explosion part of the presentation.
The envoys, many of them young bureaucrats on their first overseas assignments, had plenty of
in-house security - but this lesson was about what to do should they ever be captured outside the
wire. ``We explained that a car bomb is often just a precursor to something else,'' he says. ``Once
the bomb goes off, everyone just leaps out of their cars - you're vulnerable now. It doesn't mean
there aren't other people out there who aren't going to grab you.''
Potential threats occur on the streets of Kabul about as often, and as quickly, as Proctor can come
up with ways to mitigate them. He served 20 years in the British and Canadian military, devoting
much of that time to imagining worst-case scenarios for top brass and senior bureaucrats.
Though he's no longer a soldier, Proctor is still doing it today.
Last year, the 44-year-old father of two started his own security consultancy, which brings a
different set of risks than the ones he faced in the field. Integrated Human Risk Solutions (iHR
Solutions) helps companies prepare their employees to work in an increasingly volatile and
dangerous world.
Headquartered in Ottawa, iHR's six-person team complements Proctor's military expertise with
business knowledge, selling lessons in how to deal with overseas crises to clients with employees
all over the world. He won't disclose financials, but he says the consultancy is breaking even and
poised to grow after only a year in business. As Proctor points out, it's not only concern for the
well-being of their employees that motivates companies to seek his services - legal liabilities and
insurance premiums skyrocket when workers are sent overseas without adequate training.
You need only to look at recent headlines to see how fast the situation on the ground can change
in a hot zone, he says. With relatively little warning, for example, the revolution in Libya
prompted Ottawa to evacuate hundreds of Canadian workers from the country, though many
decided not to wait and fled on their own.
``The markets opened up,'' Proctor says. ``Suddenly people are interested in having training [for
a situation] that goes beyond what they thought it would.''
Former soldiers have always traded on their expertise to sell safety where anarchy reigns. But
even the most battle-hardened commandos are humbled by the challenges of starting a company.
Running a small business is not for the faint of heart. Security is a crowded, competitive field
that forces ex-soldiers to navigate market niches with an agility that wasn't often needed in the
bureaucratic leviathans from which they hail. Trying to find ways to stand out from the
competition can seem counterintuitive, given that their past bosses prided themselves on
stamping out individualism. And how do you market yourself when, in many cases, discretion is
a necessity? To say nothing about acquiring a new set of business skills and jargon.
Clients can be more demanding than drill sergeants, a realization that doesn't come easily. ```So
you can jump out of an airplane at 40,000 feet. So you can kill people with six different weapons
and blah, blah, blah. ...I'm a mining CEO. What are you going to do for me?''' says Alan Bell, a
British special-forces soldier turned entrepreneur, mimicking the typically skeptical reaction he's
had from clients that he eventually won over.
Bell says his line of work is nothing like serving in an army. He recalls being on the ground in
Afghanistan recently, working with local security forces to safeguard infrastructure-construction
projects. ``You're on your own,'' Bell says, bluntly describing the difference between military
and private work. ``If you haven't brought all the ammunition you need to fight your way out of a
situation, you're going to die. And because you are dead, your company is going to crash and
burn.''
An established player who's now something of an industry in his own right, Bell has spent the
past 20 years building his brand, Toronto-based Globe Risk Management, after first cutting his
teeth with another security contractor. Bell started out in the 1990s by training bodyguards for
Arab royalty and putting together security teams to guard far-flung mines. After the Sept. 11,
2001, attacks in the United States, he started advising nuclear power stations and airports on how
to shield themselves from terrorist threats. Lately, he's been busy devising strategies to protect
shipping vessels from pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
``I don't have to go out and beat the bushes any more. It comes to me,'' Bell says of his success,
though he hastens to add that he's at his computer at all hours putting together business
proposals.
Bell remains his own best marketing tool, though over the years he has surrounded himself with
other ex-military types whose ranks rise and fall with the workload. Given the elasticity of
demand in the industry, there's no need to keep a standing army of staff around - security can be
a multimillion-dollar sector when times are good, but for many players it is feast or famine.
``Some guys who get a lot of cash flow, you know what they do? Buy houses. Ferraris. Go to
Club Med,'' Bell says. ``So they piss all the money away, instead of accumulating for the
downtime.''
``While a military career teaches many extremely valuable skills,'' says Wayne King, a professor
at Memorial University, ``marketing, managing finances and the processes involved in starting a
business are generally not among them.'' To get around these deficits, his business school has
launched a program that teams entrepreneurially minded soldiers with chartered accountants.
At a wedding a few years ago, while he was still in the military, Proctor found himself talking to
Chris Skaarup, a serial entrepreneur, about the likelihood of private citizens being kidnapped in
war zones. Compared to the Canadian bureaucrats and soldiers to whom he was teaching
captivity survival at the time, independent workers in hot spots such as Pakistan, Afghanistan
and Somalia were actually in greater danger. What's more, journalists, diplomats and charity
workers often fall into the trap of thinking their professions shield them from risk, and are averse
to travelling with a lot of security. Proctor saw an opportunity - he believed more could be done
to prevent such scenarios.
``If you can do better, there's a market for this,'' Skaarup told him. ``He had to explain this to
me,'' Proctor recalls.
Not long after that, Proctor quit the military to try his hand at teaching civilians about safety and
captivity survival, and he brought in Skaarup as his company's CEO. Partnering with a business
veteran made it a lot easier for Proctor to concentrate on the core consulting work, which he
describes as ``soft skills for a hard environment.'' iHR Solutions now has several clients. Some
are in the public sector: Proctor walks government aid workers through role-playing exercises on
what can happen after they've been dispatched to dangerous places. He's also courted privatesector clients who, to date, include at least one bank and some industry associations, as well as
mid-sized businesses.
Transformix Engineering, a 90-employee company based in Kingston that hired Proctor to train
its workers, sells specialized assembly-line machines around the world. ``Because our team
travels to South America, I was quite disturbed by what I was reading - stories about the safety
aspect of international travels,'' says Peng-Sang Cau, the company's president. She says that after
meeting Proctor, she brought him into the boardroom for a day's worth of employee seminars.
His lectures are far more about street smarts and diplomacy than teaching anyone how to be
Rambo. One recent session for a government client was enlivened by the attendance of a
Canadian government employee who had been held hostage for months by a terrorist group
overseas. The man recounted to the group how his captors ``were very happy that he prayed, and
respected him for it,'' Proctor says. ``He said that if he had been an atheist or agnostic, he would
have been killed.''
While iHR Solutions is hardly the only company offering such lessons, Proctor says that the
years he spent within the federal bureaucracy give him a leg up in the Canadian market. ``The
key feature, I felt, for our organization was our knowledge of the Canadian system,'' Proctor
says. Too many Canadian companies, he explains, learn captivity survival from American
contractors who try to shock-and-awe their clients by staging fake ``abductions'' at the first
opportunity. Proctor dismisses the competition as hopelessly behind the times.
``Where's the mental coping mechanisms?'' he asks. ``The bag-on-the-head, shout-at-people stuff
- that went out 12, 15 years ago.''
Spoken like a true businessman.
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THE LAW OF THE LAND
Businesses, take heed: If employees are hurt while working in the field, you could be liable
The Westray Mine law In 2003, Canada's Parliament passed legislation holding business
executives criminally liable for negligence leading to injury or death. The law was inspired by a
1992 disaster that saw 26 miners perish in an explosion.
Not-so-good Samaritans? A U.S. aid worker who was kidnapped and held for more than three
months in Darfur is suing her organization for exposing her to danger. Flavia Wagner claims that
Samaritan's Purse failed to provide adequate security and training.
Night moves An Australian bureaucrat is suing her government after she was hit by a falling
light fixture during vigorous sex in a motel room. Because the injuries occurred while on a
business trip, she claims they were sustained ``during the course of her employment.''
*****
IN HARM'S WAY
Canadians working abroad are increasingly landing themselves in trouble, encountering armed
groups, natural disasters or shifting political situations. In 2008 alone, Canada was confronted
with four hostage crises in five months.
Baghdad, Iraq, 2005 Two Canadians were among the members of a Christian charity who were
kidnapped by an armed faction. An American in the group was killed; the rest were released six
months later.
Lebanon, 2006 Ottawa arranged ships to evacuate an astonishing 15,000 Canadians after an
armed conflict broke out between Israel and Hezbollah.
Mogadishu, Somalia, 2008 Canadian freelance journalist Amanda Lindhout was abducted along
with an Australian co-captive. They were released 15 months later, after a private ransom was
paid.
North Waziristan, Pakistan, 2008 Beverly Giesbrecht, a Muslim convert from B.C., was
kidnapped while trying to make a documentary on Islamist insurgents. She is believed to have
died in captivity.
Niger, 2008 Career diplomats Robert Fowler and Louis Guay were kidnapped in the Sahal region
of Africa. A British national captured at the same time was beheaded by an al-Qaeda faction,
before the others were released following payment of a secret ransom.
Kabul, Afghanistan, 2008 CBC journalist Mellissa Fung was kidnapped after leaving a refugee
camp. She was released a month later.
Haiti, 2010 The Canadian government arranged 49 flights to assist in the evacuation of 4,620
people after a powerful earthquake devastated the island nation. Fifty-eight Canadians died.
Ghanzi, Afghanistan, 2010 A 26-year-old Canadian, Colin Rutherford, was kidnapped. In a
video taken by his captors he claimed to be a tourist while a Taliban faction accused him of
spying. He remains unaccounted for.
Nigeria, 2010 Newfoundlander Bob Croke was among several oil workers abducted from a rig
and held for 10 days. Croke, who was shot in the foot during the abduction, was held in a jungle
near where government forces were heavily shelling rebels.
Colombia, 2011 Twenty-three Colombian oil workers employed by Talisman, a Canadian
company, were briefly held by guerrillas. One escaped and the rest were released.
Libya, 2011 Several hundred Canadian oil workers were placed in jeopardy as the country
erupted into revolution. The Canadian government sent military and civilian planes to facilitate
their departure, an operation that was widely criticized for being too slow.
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Section: International News
Outlet: The Globe And Mail
Byline: SONIA VERMA
Headline: Afghan troops are `applying the lessons'
Page: A16
Date: Thursday 06 October 2011
As the 10th anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion that ousted the Taliban is marked on Friday, war
continues to rage in Afghanistan as Western troops begin to draw down.
Building Afghanistan's national security forces to the point where they can effectively protect the
population has become the key measure by which NATO's victory will be judged.
Canadian Major-General Michael Day is leading NATO's training mission in Afghanistan as
Deputy Commander Army, overseeing the recruitment and training of the Afghan National
Army.
The former commander of Joint Task Force 2, Canada's elite special operations team, spoke
about how the Afghan security forces are shaping up to meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai's
ambitious goal of Afghanistan assuming sole responsibility for its security by 2014, when
Western forces are set to leave.
Will the Afghan National Security Forces be able to protect the Afghan population by the
deadline of 2014?
It's too early to tell. We are two years into a five-year journey. Every indication we have is that
we are on the right road, progressing at the right speed to get there. We're on the right path.
In 2009 there were 22 Afghan army units that were able to act independently. In 2010 - a year
later - there were still only 22 units. That indicates some kind of a problem in terms of having
these units able to plan and carry out an operation, doesn't it?
If the intent was to quickly transfer responsibility for them to be independent, it would be a
problem. We're not at that point. We've made no attempt to make them independent at this stage
because we still want NATO and the Afghan army to work hand in glove. We won't get to them
leading their own operations until the latter part of 2014. Our aspiration is not to get there
immediately. We would rather get there slowly.
There's been a series of brazen attacks on Kabul, the assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani, the
attack on the U.S. embassy compound. Are those attacks a sign of the Afghan security forces'
failures?
The attack on the embassy itself was isolated within four hours. Even though it took 20 hours to
end completely, that was a very deliberate decision by the Interior Minister to manage it like that.
After the immediate threat was gone, the decision was made to wait until daylight before ending
it. It is always reported as looking at the inadequacies of the security forces. It's not. These kinds
of attacks could happen anywhere in the world. I am trying to give Afghans the capacity to
handle the violence. After the embassy attack I asked myself, ``Are they better this time than last
time?'' I looked at the Intercontinental Hotel attack and compared it to the Green Zone attack.
They applied about 50 per cent of the lessons learned. They are better. They threw a SWAT unit
at the building. They made an inner and an outer perimeter. They cleared a series of floors. They
brought in a secondary from outside Kabul in six hours and they finished the job. Afghans need
to tell that story better.
Are there enough trainers in Afghanistan right now as part of the NATO mission?
We have some shortages but there are probably enough. We lack in some areas. Certainly we
would like to see more air trainers and more medical trainers. However, I have not had to stop or
delay any training activity because of a lack of trainers.
NATO is working toward building an Afghan Security Force that is 352,000 strong. Some
people think that's not enough. Other commanders have ball-parked that 400,000 is needed. How
would you assess it?
A lot of work went into modelling what is needed for Afghans to be able to assume
responsibility for themselves. We are not building them an expeditionary military capability. We
are not building them a regional military power. We are building them a security force that is
able to deal with a counterinsurgency. I'm confident that 352,000 can get it done. That number is
predicated on a couple of things happening. The insurgency is being very significantly
suppressed in the south. North and west, there's still a threat, but not a huge threat. The east is
still problematic given the border with Pakistan. If you assume progress I do believe 352,000 is
sufficient.
Let me ask you about the Haqqani network. Some analysts say they are particularly good at
impersonating Afghan security forces, which is why we've seen an increase in these kinds of
attacks recently as they become more powerful.
All your analysts probably don't know what they're talking about. I've unpacked those 33
instances that we've had attacks involving people impersonating Afghan security forces. There is
not necessarily a predominant Haqqani nexus to these. I don't mean to diminish the threat they
present; it's just that I wouldn't have drawn that conclusion. There have been 33 events and
actually we don't have a single case of infiltration that we're aware of. What we have are cases of
impersonation. We have cases of people being turned once they join. There are at least three
cases that were just battle stress, where they just snapped. So infiltration for us is not an issue.
You're never going to have an airtight system.
You said not a single one of the 33 attacks was a case of infiltration, meaning the attackers didn't
join the Afghan security forces with the intent to cause damage from the inside. But the attacks
do show some sort of measure of collaboration. How do you root that out? A collaborator is not
as apparent as a suicide bomber.
I think that's tremendously difficult to root out. That's something only the Afghans can do.
This interview had been edited and condensed.
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Section: Editorial
Outlet: The Globe And Mail
Headline: Guns and alphabets
Page: A18
Date: Thursday 06 October 2011
The 950 Canadians taking part in the NATO training mission in Afghanistan are doing more than
helping a war-torn country build a reliable security force. They are investing in Afghan society
by teaching officers literacy and numeracy skills, by including women in their ranks and by
promoting ethnic integration. This form of nation-building could be Canada's greatest legacy in
the country.
Of course, the obstacles are many. ``We have no other option than to build an army and police
for Afghanistan. We are on the right road and going at the right speed,'' said Major-General
Michael Day, a Canadian and deputy commander for the NATO training mission. ``But 1,001
things could speed us up or slow us down.'' To build an army of 320,000 by the 2014 deadline
for NATO withdrawal is a daunting task - especially while also waging a counter-insurgency
campaign against the Taliban. Moreover, there is the challenge of poor infrastructure, corruption,
a cultural chasm and a society that excludes women and has extremely low rates of education.
Generations of young people have only ever known a country at war.
Nevertheless, the standard by which success should be measured is not a cessation of terrorist
attacks, but an improvement in the Afghan National Army's ability to deal with these incidents.
The army is seen to have handled last month's Kabul attack on NATO's diplomatic compound
and the U.S. Embassy better than it managed the attack on the Intercontinental Hotel just three
months earlier.
Another positive sign is the unabated flow of Afghans who want to join the army, with about
4,500 to 6,000 new recruits a month, according to Maj.-Gen. Day. There are 254 women
soldiers, and a female officer cadet school run by a female Afghan major.
This reflects not just a desire to earn money and get an education, but also an appetite to
contribute to lasting peace and security in a country which for so many years has known only
conflict, stalled progress and a lack of hope for change.
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Section: News
Byline: Bradley Bouzane
Outlet: Edmonton Journal
Headline: Ottawa urged to boost Arctic rescue capacity
Page: A14
Date: Thursday 06 October 2011
Source: Postmedia News
Three recent fatal air crashes in Canada's North should put pressure on the federal government to
create more search-and-rescue capacity for the region, an analyst said Wednesday.
Although the crashes may simply come down to bad luck with no apparent common safety link,
Robert Kokonis said the incidents continue to highlight the need for permanent rescue resources
in the Arctic.
"My wish out of all this - with three incidents so close together - just like the Harper government
has talked about boosting our presence in the North from a sovereignty standpoint ... I would
also hope that we finally come to the realization that as we are developing the Arctic more ... that
we need to have at least some type of enhanced search and rescue capability in the North, which
we are simply lacking," said Kokonis, managing director of Air-Trav Inc., a Toronto-based
airline consulting firm.
"It's inexcusable for our country to rely upon search and rescue (resources) located on the shores
of Lake Ontario ... when there's so much more happening (elsewhere)."
The Joint Rescue Coordination Centre at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario is responsible for
covering most of Canada's Arctic.
Tuesday's crash south of Yellowknife - which killed a pilot and one of three passengers on board
- comes after a crash closer to Yellowknife two weeks ago killed two people and a crash near
Resolute, Nunavut, on Aug. 20 claimed 12 lives.
Kokonis said that while answers are muddied as the crashes remain under the microscope of
Transportation Safety Board investigators, that action should be taken to protect travellers in the
region.
"I think we all have to stop and take a breath and let the (TSB) investigations run their course,"
he said. "If there's some common thread between the incidents, we'd want to jump right on that ...
but I doubt there's anything common between the three. With what's an otherwise bad situation,
we hope that the findings from these incidents will give us good information so we can improve
safety going forward."
In the Resolute crash in August, the three survivors were fortunate that
an annual military exercise was being conducted in the area when the First Air Boeing 737 went
down.
Officials said that if there had been no training exercise, it might have taken hours, instead of
minutes, for emergency equipment to arrive and rescue survivors.
Following the Resolute crash, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said that it would be "impossible"
to keep the entire Arctic region within a stone's throw of rescue resources.
"Part of the drill here is how quickly things can be moved up and deployed from the south as
well," Harper said at the time.
"We have to be realistic. There is no possible way in the vastness of the Canadian Arctic we
could ever have all of the resources necessary close by. It's just impossible."
More than 1,100 Canadian Forces personnel were at the emergency exercise, dubbed Operation
Nanook, that has been conducted every year since 2007.
Kokonis said flying the Arctic presents a unique set of challenges pilots rarely face in more
populated areas. "One of the challenges in the North is that you can have 1,000-plus kilometres
between usable airports," he said.
"Some of the airports don't have the same degree of sophistication in air navigation equipment.
Some of the airports have non-precision, radio-based navigation where you're homing in on a
signal, whereas if you're landing in Toronto, the pilots will have a much more precise approach
to the runway."
There is no indication the location of airports or technology available at the facilities played a
role in any of the three recent crashes.
On Sept. 22, two pilots were killed in a Twin Otter plane crash in Yellowknife after the 19-seat
float plane clipped power lines and struck a building.
Tuesday's crash, which took place about 200 kilometres south of Yellowknife, killed the pilot
and one of three passengers on board, said TSB spokesman Chris Krepski.
Krepski said more details could emerge later Wednesday as investigators are able to evaluate the
crash scene.
The plane crashed 32 kilometres from Lutselk'e, a community on the eastern end of Great Slave
Lake.
Ray Griffith, the band manager for the community, said at least two of the four people on board
were from the community.
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Section: News
Outlet: The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon)
Headline: Canada, Europe need to pay more NATO bills: U.S. defence chief
Page: D5
Date: Thursday 06 October 2011
Dateline: BRUSSELS
Source: Agence France-Presse
The U.S. defence chief warned NATO allies on Wednesday that they can no longer depend on
the United States to make up for the type of military shortfalls witnessed in the Libyan and
Afghan wars.
With the U.S. military facing its own major budget cuts, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta called
on European and Canadian allies to work closely to pool resources at a time of austerity biting on
both sides of the Atlantic.
"As for the United States, many might assume that the United States defence budget is so large it
can absorb and cover alliance shortcomings - but make no mistake about it, we are facing
dramatic cuts with real implications for alliance capability," he said in a speech in Brussels.
Panetta delivered his warning just ahead of talks with NATO counterparts, centred on the
missions in Libya and Afghanistan as well as the weaknesses the alliance experienced in the
conflicts.
Although U.S. defence spending far exceeds European budgets, Panetta said American military
leaders were facing $450 billion in cuts over 10 years, which he called tough but "manageable."
But if the U.S. Congress fails to tackle the country's deficit this year, the Pentagon "could face
additional cuts in defence ... (that) would be devastating to our national security and to yours as
well."
The cuts contemplated by the Pentagon would reduce the size of the force and curtail some
weapons programs, but the gargantuan U.S. defence budget - at nearly $700 billion - still dwarfs
that of the 27 other NATO members combined.
NATO defence ministers agreed to focus on multinational co-operation to make better use of
resources and the alliance will identify projects at a summit in Chicago next year, said NATO
Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere, however, said it would be tricky for Europeans
to make up for "what the Americans can't afford any longer for our common security, but we
must concentrate on what is really necessary."
"The important thing is - even if it sounds difficult - to become smaller but more effective," he
said.
U.S. officials have long urged European allies to shoulder more of the burden of the alliance.
Panetta stressed that a new era of austerity would require member states to co-ordinate budget
cuts to ease the impact on NATO.
"We cannot afford for countries to make decisions about force reductions in a vacuum, leaving
neighbours and allies in the dark," Panetta said at an event organized by the think tank Carnegie
Europe.
"Security in the 21st century will not be achieved by each nation marching to its own drummer,"
he said in his first speech in Europe since taking over as defence secretary in July.
Panetta struck a gentler tone than his predecessor, Robert Gates, who delivered a harsh rebuke to
the alliance in June before his retirement.
While Gates painted a bleak picture of an alliance on the verge of "irrelevance" after failing to
invest in defence, Panetta praised NATO for its "extraordinary" performances in Libya and
Afghanistan.
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Section: Canada
Byline: Jodie Sinnema
Outlet: National Post
Illustrations:
 John Lucas, Postmedia News / Alberta's Lieutenant-Governor Donald Ethell launches the
Lieutenant-Governor's Circle on Mental Health and Addiction on Wednesday in Edmonton.
Headline: Viceroy battles mental illness; Alberta's Lt.-Gov. launches program
Page: A10
Date: Thursday 06 October 2011
Dateline: EDMONTON
Source: Postmedia News
EDMONTON . Alberta's Lieutenant-Governor revealed Wednesday that he is on medication to
help him deal with mental illness.
Lt.-Gov. Donald Ethell made the admission at the announcement of a new Alberta program to
combat post-traumatic stress disorder.
"Mental health, in my opinion, is a crisis in this country," said Mr. Ethell, 74.
In a 38-year military career, Mr. Ethell served in 14 peacekeeping tours in such places as
Lebanon, Egypt and the Balkans.
After his discharge, Mr. Ethel said he went through a period of drinking, gambling and carousing
to deal with the symptoms of PTSD. He became stable and healthy after seeking professional
counselling.
"My role in the infantry was 'close with and kill the enemy,' so I used that thinking of closing
with and killing the enemy of PTSD and I did," Mr. Ethell said.
On Wednesday, Mr. Ethell launched the Lieutenant-Governor's Circle on Mental Health and
Addiction, the first of its kind in Canada. Made up of 12 experts, the team's goal is to reduce
stigma and educate the public on mental illness and recovery and treatment programs around the
province.
"This is at the peak of Alberta society," said Dennis Anderson, a mental health advocate and a
former provincial Cabinet minister.
"It's the first time we have seen somebody with the kind of stature that the Lieutenant-Governor
has admitted to a mental health problem and offer to lead it.
"There is a screaming need for more to go into ... psychiatry and psychology and continued
research," said Senator Romeo Dallaire in a speech at the announcement.
A retired general, Mr. Dallaire has spoken openly about his horrific experience as commander of
UN peacekeeping forces in Rwanda in 1993 and 1994, when Hutu extremists waged a genocide
that killed more than 800,000 people in a matter of weeks.
Mr. Dallaire attempted suicide four times in the years following the mission, and even today, he
fears he could spiral down at any minute. He's had 14 years of therapy and takes nine pills each
day. Yet mundane moments can still traumatize him.
This spring, when his first granddaughter tripped and fell on the carpet at a family function,
everyone but Mr. Dallaire leaped to their feet to comfort the crying toddler. That moment swept
him back to Rwanda, and replayed for him images of thousands of babies who were abused and
mutilated.
" PTSD is chronic. It doesn't go away. It can't be cured. You're going to have it. You've got it for
life," said Mr. Ethell.
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Section: Sports
Lead: The captain of the Brandon hockey battalion enjoyed the squad's trip to the Canadian
Forces Base in Shilo where they took part in a variety of military-related activities earlier this
week.
Headline: Wheaties' Stone sparkling After being sent down by Sens to hone skills
Page: S12
Byline: JIM BENDER, WINNIPEG SUN
Outlet: The Winnipeg Sun
Illustrations:
 HandoutStone has led the league in scoring and was just named both CHL and WHL Player of
the Week.
Date: Thursday 06 October 2011
The captain of the Brandon hockey battalion enjoyed the squad's trip to the Canadian Forces
Base in Shilo where they took part in a variety of military-related activities earlier this week.
"That was pretty sweet," Wheat Kings forward Mark Stone said from Brandon on Wednesday.
"We learned a lot from those guys and we really respect what they do ... It is one of the cooler
things we get to do."
The Winnipeg lad is soldiering on this season after his most recent disappointment. After signing
an NHL contract with the Ottawa Senators, Stone was sent back to junior to further hone his
skills.
Some players in that situation would have to play themselves out of a funk. Not Stone. He has
simply sparkled at the start of the WHL season. In fact, he led the league in scoring with 13
points after five games and was just named both the CHL and WHL Player of the Week.
"Obviously, it was disappointing to be sent down from Ottawa," said Stone, 19. "Now, I'm just
trying to improve on last season and so far, so good."
The 6-foot-3, 196-pound veteran scored 39 goals and 106 points last year, which tied him for
third in the WHL.
"They (Senators) just said it was good time to go down and dominate juniors," he said.
It was a little easier to take because the Senators did sign Stone to an NHL pact.
"Obviously, they were showing interest in me," he conceded.
Stone did take a passing interest in the fact that the Winnipeg Jets recently signed 18-year-old
Mark Scheifele to an NHL contract, with indications that they do not plan to send him back to
junior.
WORKING ON SKATING
"Obviously, he's playing well and no, that doesn't bother me at all," Stone said. "I know I'm
going to be here in Brandon and I'm going to concentrate on what I have to do here, and I think
we've got a pretty good team here."
Stone has already started working on his skating.
"Skating's been an issue for me for a number of years, and I've been given the tools to work on it
by Ottawa," Stone said. "It's always been a flaw of mine that I need to improve on."
The Senators set Stone up with Mark Power, a power skating instructor, over the summer.
"I believe that I'm already faster and a little bit quicker," Stone said.
That should bode well when Stone takes another shot at cracking the national junior squad. He
already spent time at their development camp during the summer and hopes to be invited to the
tryout camp.
"I did really well there, I scored a lot of goals," he said.
Brandon was in second spot in the East Division of their conference before last night's games
with a 3-1-01 record.
"We had a great stretch at the end of last year and I think we've carried that momentum into this
year," Stone said.
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Section: Issues & Ideas
Byline: Heather Roff And Bessma Momani
Outlet: National Post
Illustrations:
 Warner Bros. Pictures / A Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 hunter-killer robot, from the sci-fi
film Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
Headline: The morality of robotic warfare
Page: A16
Date: Thursday 06 October 2011
Source: National Post
The U.S. military killed alQaeda propagandist Anwar al-Awlaki last Friday, in a drone strike in
the deserts of Yemen. While much of the American public discourse has focused on the dilemma
of whether al-Awlaki's U.S. citizenship should have entitled him to due process of law before the
assassination, there is another ethical debate that needs to be raised: Where are drone attacks
leading the future conduct of war?
There is general consensus behind the effectiveness of drones as weapons of war - they are
relatively cheap, accurate and avoid having to put boots on the ground. The U.S. government is
attempting to further increase automation in warfare by pursuing the creation of lethal
autonomous robots (LARS). This pursuit of full artificial intelligence and autonomy for weapons
is thus leading some researchers and academics to ask whether it is possible to make such
automated robots act ethically. Even Canada's Department of National Defence has claimed that
it is interested in acquiring such technology, assuming the "right balance" can be struck between
enhanced robotic autonomy, potential costs and issues of legality and morality.
Much attention is starting to be paid to the question of whether computer programmers, software
designers and engineers can build a fully autonomous robot; one that is artificially intelligent and
can make moral judgments, as well as act in accordance with the rules of war without a human
being's directives. These digital pioneers believe that they will be able to do so by successfully
programming grand moral theories alongside the laws of armed conflict and rules of
engagement.
Unfortunately, this seems at best hubristic and at worst dangerous. It is hubristic to think humans
can program machines to act ethically when we cannot program ourselves to do so consistently
and it would be dangerous to unleash weapons that cannot, ultimately, be controlled.
The consensus among roboticists seems to be that the most desired programming tactic for future
LARS is to mix "top-down" and "bottom-up" programming. Top-down programming, crudely,
consists of designing a set of algorithms that match commands, for instance, "never harm noncombatants." Contrarily, bottom-up software design allows artificial agents to learn through
experience. The robot works through a set of rewards, seeks patterns, and thus learns.
Both approaches, roboticists agree, have their limitations. One limitation for top-down
programming is that software designers would have to foresee every possible situation and code
an algorithm accordingly. Another is that such rigid systems might encounter conflicting
commands and leave the machine without a clear directive. Bottom-up approaches also have
their worries. Mainly, it is that, just like human beings, robots can "go bad." If an artificial agent
learns that a particular behaviour can pay off, then it might continue to act in this way, even if
the action violated laws of war, morality or simply common sense. It is impossible to predict
how an artificial intelligence would perceive the world we leave in, especially so in a combat
situation.
The solution, the experts feel, is a hybrid of both techniques: The machines will be allowed to
learn, but they will also have programmed commands to forbid them from certain actions.
A recent report compiled for the U.S. Office of Naval Research argues that this hybrid approach
should take on the contours of vir-tue ethics, where the morally right act is defined as what the
virtuous person would do, all things considered. LARS should be programmed to have "moral
character," and in particular the "ideal character traits of a warfighter." This raises ethical issues
for the human programmers as well - would a human-designed robot, with moral agency, be a
slave if programmed to only act within a narrow range of options?
Human beings are attempting to codify the set of ideal characteristics, virtues, moral commands,
moral dispositions and even the capacity of judgment into a set of algorithms to then impart to a
machine. However, for thousands of years, humanity has not only questioned what morality
requires, but also correspondingly attempted to create good people, without much success.
In the worst case, the push to create fully autonomous lethal robots and to impart these weapons
with artificial morality flirts with an unknown danger. Aside from the Hollywood-type fears,
profitably shown in television programs such as Battlestar Galactica or films such as Terminator,
that these deadly robots will threaten the human race with annihilation, there is a serious worry
designing ethical, and effective, software programs for these robots will prove impossible.
Choice involves, even at its most basic level, more than one option available for the agent, be it
human or robotic. If governments truly want to place machines in human soldiers' stead on the
battlefield, then there is no guarantee that LARS will act ethically, despite assurances that the
laws of war will be enshrined as commands.
The ethical debate about morality, law, and war is a concern of jurists, ethicists and the public at
large. Anwar al-Awlaki is just the beginning.
- Heather Roff is an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo. Bessma Momani is a
senior fellow at The Centre for International Governance Innovation and an associate professor
at the University of Waterloo.
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Section: City
Headline: Armoury celebrates 100 years
Page: C5
Outlet: New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal
Byline: Telegraph-Journal
Date: Thursday 06 October 2011
SAINT JOHN - Members of the Saint John Garrison participated in celebrations Saturday to
mark the 100th birthday of the Barrack Green Armoury, located at 60 Broadview Ave.
Canadian Forces members from 3rd Field Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery (The Loyal
Company), 37 Service Battalion, 722 Communications Squadron, 1st Battalion, The Royal New
Brunswick Regiment and 35 Field Ambulance took part in a number of events throughout the
day.
An open house was held, giving the public an opportunity to visit the armoury and see military
displays and equipment.
The Brigadier-General P.W. Oland Memorial Games also took place, and Canadian Force
members competed in events like tug-a-truck, tent set-ups, a stretcher relay race and a chain of
command race, which were also open to the public.
The Barrack Green Armoury was built in 1911 as part of an enhancement project of the militia
by Sir Sam Hughes, minister of militia. Today, the armoury is home to 3rd Field Artillery
Regiment, RCA, (The Loyal Company) and 37 Service Battalion, 722 Communications
Squadron and 1st Battalion, The Royal New Brunswick Regiment.
Reserve recruiting has begun and anyone wishing to learn more is welcome to come to attend a
Thursday training night from 7 to 9 p.m.
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