Flit"endearingly macho" --Mark Steyn "wonderfully detailed analysis" --John Allemang, Globe and MailGREATEST CANADIAN SOLDIER- May 7, 2004 Against my better judgment, I've gotten sucked into this "Greatest Canadian" contest. It's certainly an eclectic list the CBC has offered up for us to choose from... any list that puts Canada's one political assassination, D'Arcy McGee, and Sarah McLachlan...http://www.snappingturtle.net/flit/archives/2004_05_06.html BERNARD CORNWELL ON CAMPUS- May 5, 2004 Bernard Cornwell, author of the Sharpe novels, is at U of T today, at Innis Town Hall at 7:30. I may drop in for a spell; I've liked the novels rather less as the years go on (and the TV...http://www.snappingturtle.net/flit/archives/2004_05_05.html INTERESTING AMBIGUITY- May 5, 2004 Foreign jihadists and terrorists may still lurk, but local populations are more likely to turn them INTO a security force whose presence they consider legitimate. --Fred Kaplan, today. I know what he means, that they'd "turn them in TO a...http://www.snappingturtle.net/flit/archives/2004_05_04.html BOTP 0401: ALL THE BEST, GUYS- May 3, 2004 One of my duties the last two years has been overseeing the first part of the Toronto-area Basic Officer Training course, which takes new army reserve officers from the street and tries to get the baseline military stuff into them,...http://www.snappingturtle.net/flit/archives/2004_05_03.html |