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Russia no ‘paper tiger,’ warns Norad commander

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While China poses a “long-term, long-pacing challenge,” the head of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or Norad, says the current primary military threat to North America is Russia.

“Right now, what I would say from an information space and a cyber domain, [China and Russia] are certainly peer competitors,” U.S. Air Force General Glen VanHerck told the annual Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence on March 9.

“But the true threat, I think the military threat right now is Russia…because they have the kinetic capability, the nuclear capability, the power projection capability in their bombers, their submarines as well.

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Quebec City’s bloody weekend: the Easter Riot of 1917

STORY BY PAIGE GILMAR

On May 18, 1917, Prime Minister Robert Borden dropped a bombshell when he introduced the Military Service Act, a conscription law that would require all male citizens between the ages of 20 to 45 to enlist.

Little did Borden know just how severe the impact would be.

“Borden had implemented conscription because he believed the war had to be won and that Canada must play its full part,” J.L. Granatstein wrote in Maclean’s. “To achieve these ends, he almost broke the nation.”

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