Canada exported over $21 million in military goods to Israel in 2022, including over $3 million in bombs, torpedoes, missiles, and other explosives. Weapons companies across Canada are making a fortune off of the carnage in Gaza and the occupation…
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Vintage arms industry documentary seems contemporary
Escalating F-35 fighter jet price tag + future defence plan costs = election issue
By Kimbal Cariou, rabble.ca, April 1, 2011 Last June, I wrote an article for the Georgia Straight in B.C. about the skyrocketing costs of purchasing new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter jets from U.S. munitions giant Lockheed Martin. At the time,…
Diplomatic cables raise concerns of US influence in F-35 jet campaign
F-35 Stealth Fighter: A bad deal for Canada
By Michael Bueckert, Program Coordinator, Project Peacemakers As you may know, this past July, the Conservative government announced what could be the single largest military procurement in Canada’s history when it declared its intention to buy 65 F-35 Lightning II…