CAF Cpl Karine Blais was blown to pieces when the vehicle she was in struck a hidden IED on the front line north of Kandahar City, Afghanistan on Apr-13-2009, while apparently doing sweet fuck all for the United States of America.
She was just 21 years old. ๐
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More than 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces members served during Canadaโs mission in Afghanistan. 158 never came home, and many others returned carrying physical and psychological wounds that continue long after service ends.
Today, and everyday, we Remember those who made the ultimate sacrifice, we honour the courage of all who served, and we stand with the Veterans and families who live every day with the lasting impacts of that mission.
As an organization committed to supporting Veterans of all eras, our focus remains on Remembrance, respect, and support โ for the fallen, for those who served and returned, and for their loved ones.
To learn more about Canadaโs longest war and the people who served, we invite you to explore this interactive story from Legion Magazine: https://t.co/GKpkAyGpF5
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As a Canadian, let me be crystal fucking clear: we didnโt ask for this, we donโt want this and weโre not your imperial side quest, you fucking delusional sack of shit. Now fuck all the way off, sideways, and take your bullshit empire fantasy with you.
๐ธ๐ช Saab offers Canada 72 Gripen fighters and six GlobalEye aircraft as Ottawa reassesses the F 35
Saab has presented Canada with a proposal for 72 Gripen fighter jets and six GlobalEye airborne early warning aircraft, positioning the package as a full air power alternative while Ottawa reviews its longer term F 35 plan. The bid is being framed as a large scale offer rather than a symbolic purchase, with Saab also highlighting industrial participation and jobs as part of the overall package.
The timing is shaped by politics as much as procurement. Canada has already committed to an initial batch of F 35s, but the broader program has been under review, and that reassessment is happening while the United States under President Trump has floated expansionist rhetoric toward both Canada and Greenland and has used tariff threats as leverage. In that context, Canadian debate has increasingly focused on resilience and dependence, not only performance and price.
The underlying question is operational sovereignty: how quickly, and on whose terms, Canada can keep aircraft flying in a crisis. Any fighter ecosystem that relies heavily on U.S. controlled sustainment, spares, software pipelines, or contractor support can become vulnerable if political relations deteriorate and assistance is delayed or withheld.
Saabโs Gripen plus GlobalEye offer is designed to look like the safer bet in that scenario, by pairing fighters with a national surveillance layer and an industrial footprint that can be anchored in Canada.
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