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Dick Field

Dick Field, editor of Blanco's Blog, is the former editor of the Voice of Canadian Committees and the Montgomery Tavern Society, Dick Field is a World War II veteran, who served in combat with the Royal Canadian Artillery, Second Division, 4th Field Regiment in Belgium, Holland and Germany as a 19-year-old gunner and forward observation signaller working with the infantry. Field also spent six months in the occupation army in Northern Germany and after the war became a commissioned officer in the Armoured Corps, spending a further six years in the Reserves.

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A Look Back at the Reform Party Blue Book

Years ago it always drove me crazy when the opposition Liberals, Progressive Conservatives and NDP cooperated to smear the Reform Party as having a “hidden agenda.” That agenda was neither hidden nor an evil manifestation of so-called Western red-necked Neanderthal racism.
- Sunday, April 1, 2012

The Architects of Canada’s Devolution

The Liberal Party of Canada is struggling to identify itself. They know the Conservative Party of Canada is not what Canadians really want. After all only 39.6% of Canada’s voters voted for them. They seriously contemplate resurrecting their former coalition with the National Democratic Party (NDP). They even reach in desperation for Bob Rae that tired old NDP loser as their messiah of resurrection.
- Monday, March 19, 2012

The Ghost of P.E.Trudeau smirks again

Last week on Thursday, February 2, 2012, I sat nearly six hours straining to hear (bad acoustics) an appeal to the Ontario Appeal Court concerning the legal right of a small town in Eastern Ontario named Russell, to issue and enforce a bilingual sign bylaw requiring private individuals and corporations to display any of their business signage in French and English.
- Wednesday, February 8, 2012

The High Court of Parliament – The Supreme Court of Canada

On October 1, 2011 the Supreme Court of Canada once again overstepped its powers. This abuse of our freedoms must stop. It is time that Canadians who care about our fundamental laws and values brought this unelected body of elitist lawyers to heel.
- Monday, October 10, 2011

Quebec has lost any Right to Special Treatment

It really shouldn’t be more than common sense that our representation of MPs in Canada’s parliament ought to reflect the number of voters in each province and by electoral district within each province. The system has been grossly out of whack for generations. To put it simply, my vote should be equal to yours and visa versa in respect to our influence on any election of MPs. However, the actual process has always taken into consideration a myriad of historical and political factors.
- Friday, September 23, 2011

Multicultural hatreds promoted in Canada

It doesn’t seem to matter what paper you open today or what source of news is your favourite bad medicine, there seems no end to the divisive rhetoric been thrown around by the purveyors of hate. If it isn’t the senseless gunplay in our major cities by our drug infested minority youth or the unpleasant anti-Jewish ambiance of practically every university across Canada, it’s the deliberate separation of Canadians into superior or inferior classes of citizens by the official (government) forced bilingual policies.
- Tuesday, August 9, 2011

The Battle of Groningen – Holland April 1945

This battle completed the drive north of the Second Canadian Division in which I was a participant. The battle is well described in the reference I gave at the end of my previous article however; all war stories can only describe general conditions and the framework of battles with very few close-up personal experiences of individuals. Even then for every small story hundreds of others much more intense than mine will never be told.
- Saturday, July 2, 2011


A Day in April 1945 -North to Groningen

When we left the last scene of our story we were about 22 ¾ hours into our day, a very long and exhausting one. Our infantry was at our start line lying in tall grass waiting for our barrage to commence at 5:00 AM when the attack would begin. All was silent. We could hear the enemy talking, laughing and unaware of our presence.
- Thursday, May 5, 2011

A Day in April 1945 – North to Groningen

The largest city in eastern Holland and the farthest north is the city of Groningen. My previous tale of the Kangaroo and the Badger occurred while on the way to liberate that city. The actual liberation of Groningen occurred a few days later and was the end of our drive and our Regiment’s fighting in Holland. My story of that liberation will be told later because it produced quite a few more adventures before the fighting ended.
- Wednesday, April 6, 2011

A Moral Dilemma for Conservative Voters

Over the last five years the Conservative Party of Canada’s government under the leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has proven be the only party that could possibly have governed as successfully as they have, particularly given their minority status in parliament. It has proven to be fiscally responsible in a time of world-wide financial crisis. The opposition parties clearly showed that they would have imitated Obama’s USA policies had they been in office and spent billions more than necessary.
- Wednesday, March 30, 2011


Political Islam - a Government of Hate

Islam is a plague that has been visited upon struggling humanity since its founding in 622 AD by the prophet Mohammed. His specter is again arising sword in hand in the misguided attempt to rule the world.
- Friday, March 4, 2011

The Kangaroos and the Badger

imageThe cold weather has set in and although the calendar has been very packed, I thought I would tell you about another adventure of mine during WW 2 in Europe that ties in with a very interesting story of our famous Canadian Kangaroo Regiment written by Chuck Konkel last August 8, 2010 and published by Canada Free Press The Kangaroo Regiment was famous to everyone in the Canadian and British Army but not too many in the allied forces or the world generally would know who or what they were and what they did. These Kangaroos weren’t the Australian hop around variety but just the same they carried living beings in the protective custody of their steel pouches.
- Monday, January 31, 2011

Merry Christmas 1944 – World War 2

Today is exactly 56 Christmases from Christmas 1944. That long ago Christmas is still vivid in my memory. We were Holland somewhere close to the lower Rhine called the Neder Rhine. Every three weeks or so my artillery battery left its regular winter gun positions and traveled to a more forward temporary gun position called a Harassing Fire position (HF). The purpose was to shell the enemy from several different positions over the course of the winter, thus keeping the Germans off balance and at the same time save our more permanent positions from heavy return fire.
- Sunday, January 2, 2011

Insidious Forced Bilingualism Destroying Canada

I am sure the preponderance of Canadians care about Canada. However, given that the main means of our understanding of what Canadians are supposed to think and believe has been primarily in the hands of a very biased Liberal-compliant mass media, particularly the government financed the Canadian Broadcasting Commission (CBC) it has been impossible not be in constant conflict between ourselves and our governments.
- Sunday, December 19, 2010

Western World Leaders Buffaloed by the Islamic Religion

Islam is a religion of conquest by any means. Islam teaches that the only true road to universal peace is when Allah, the universal one God and his laws as revealed to Mohammed, reigns supreme throughout the world. That universal peace according to Islam includes only the true believers of Islam. All the rest of the people of the world, especially Christians, atheists and Jews will be scarcely tolerated and then only provided they pay special financial and other penalties, abide by Sharia law and do not dare to criticize Mohammed or the religion of Islam under pain of death.
- Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Census Long Form – a Racist Document – Changes are necessary

Politicians and the media have very short memories. The Conservatives would not propose canceling the document because a few thousand super-sensitive souls are worried about the government asking how many bathrooms in their home. The Conservative Party of Canada (CPC) has a much more important goal in mind. I suspect that goal is to promote the real meaning of being a Canadian citizen.
- Thursday, July 22, 2010

G20 Anarchy reflective of Government Behaviour

Canadian democracy is increasingly weakened by government bad behaviour and their toleration of violence as a political weapon. That bad behaviour began with the Province of Quebec and the Federal government’s despicable behaviour in not clamping down hard on Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ) violence when it began. The rationale of the FLQ was that they were the considered the “# of the North” by the English and were therefore fighting Anglo-Saxon imperalism to establish a socialist and independent Quebec.
- Friday, July 16, 2010

A Mercy Killing – Captain Robert Semrau

A Canadian court marshal in Petawawa Ontario is about to pronounce judgment on Captain Robert Semrau, an infantry combat officer who is suspected of carrying out a mercy killing of a seriously wounded Afghan enemy insurgent fighter.
- Friday, July 9, 2010

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