A new year — a new chance build a better world, to learn from past mistakes, to get on the right track. Of course, this is the year we expected to welcome our troops home from Afghanistan. Fully and finally. Canada’s been in this war for nine years now. Six of those in a major [...]

What’s a promise worth? Well, it depends on who is making it. If it’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper, apparently it doesn’t mean very much.

Take the case of the war in Afghanistan. Canada is just about to mark the 10th anniversary of having combat troops in that country – that’s longer than our commitments in both the First and Second World War.

But that’s not what Prime Minister Harper promised.