Eric Robert Reguly
@ereguly.bsky.social
European bureau chief, The Globe and Mail. Rome and beyond. Author of Ghosts of War: Chasing My Father's Legend Through Vietnam ericreguly.com
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@ereguly.bsky.social
I'm sure you've seen this already...
As you have suggested.....
"Arguing that a country of 40 million people “can’t” operate two fighter types and must use a single jack-of-all-trades aircraft is not a serious position."
I'm sure you've seen this already...
As you have suggested.....
"Arguing that a country of 40 million people “can’t” operate two fighter types and must use a single jack-of-all-trades aircraft is not a serious position."
This was a very interesting and fairly nuanced read:
Gripen E vs F-35? The Wrong Question to Ask
Mikael Grev is a former Gripen pilot and co-founder and CEO of Avioniq. In this column for Nordic Defence Sector, he compares the Gripen E and the F-35, arguing for a more nuanced view of fighter capa...
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November 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
@ereguly.bsky.social
I'm sure you've seen this already...
As you have suggested.....
"Arguing that a country of 40 million people “can’t” operate two fighter types and must use a single jack-of-all-trades aircraft is not a serious position."
I'm sure you've seen this already...
As you have suggested.....
"Arguing that a country of 40 million people “can’t” operate two fighter types and must use a single jack-of-all-trades aircraft is not a serious position."
My piece on @Saab courting Canada to produce warplanes. Trump may not like the idea, but Trump is not forever.
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Opinion: Sweden offers Canada a chance to revive its near-dead defence aerospace industry
Building Saab’s Gripen fighter jet and GlobalEye surveillance plane in Canada would create thousands of jobs – and infuriate Trump
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November 22, 2025 at 8:01 AM
My piece on @Saab courting Canada to produce warplanes. Trump may not like the idea, but Trump is not forever.
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Exclusive:
@Saab is so desperate for a Canadian partner for its military aircraft that it has offered to build the entire GlobalEye surveillance plane, which is based on a Bombardier biz jet, in #Canada The #gripen fighterjet too.
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@Saab is so desperate for a Canadian partner for its military aircraft that it has offered to build the entire GlobalEye surveillance plane, which is based on a Bombardier biz jet, in #Canada The #gripen fighterjet too.
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Sweden’s Saab offers to build entire GlobalEye military surveillance plane in Canada
Building the aircraft in Canada would create 3,000 jobs
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November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Exclusive:
@Saab is so desperate for a Canadian partner for its military aircraft that it has offered to build the entire GlobalEye surveillance plane, which is based on a Bombardier biz jet, in #Canada The #gripen fighterjet too.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
@Saab is so desperate for a Canadian partner for its military aircraft that it has offered to build the entire GlobalEye surveillance plane, which is based on a Bombardier biz jet, in #Canada The #gripen fighterjet too.
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Scoop: #Canada on the verge of building a munitions factory to meet NATO demand for explosives and propellants for artillery shells.
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New Canadian firm and France’s Eurenco plan explosives factory in Canada to meet NATO demand
The project has a potential value of US$1-billion over several years and would generate 500 direct jobs in Canada
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November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Scoop: #Canada on the verge of building a munitions factory to meet NATO demand for explosives and propellants for artillery shells.
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My piece: I had the scoop on the objects' return a few weeks ago.
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Pope Leo formally returns Indigenous objects held by the Vatican Museums to Canada
The items, including a rare sealskin kayak, are returning to Canada as part of the reconciliation process
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November 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
My piece: I had the scoop on the objects' return a few weeks ago.
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#COP30 is not getting much coverage. Too bad, because a novel plan to save the rainforests has been unveiled by Lula. Here, from afar, is my piece on it.
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Opinion: A novel bond fund that bets rainforests are worth more alive than dead is launched at COP30 in Brazil
If a public or private land owner can make a return on a forest by leaving it intact, everyone wins, especially the planet
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November 12, 2025 at 9:46 AM
#COP30 is not getting much coverage. Too bad, because a novel plan to save the rainforests has been unveiled by Lula. Here, from afar, is my piece on it.
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My piece on my crazy, wonderful determined friend who is trying to set the record to be the oldest man to bike around the world.
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How an American tennis coach set out to become the oldest person to cycle around the planet
Kevin Record’s journey through Europe just a part of a worldwide trek raising money for an Alzheimer’s charity
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November 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
My piece on my crazy, wonderful determined friend who is trying to set the record to be the oldest man to bike around the world.
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Haunting, beautiful pix from one of my fave photographers
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‘It’s been a cesspit, really, my life’: war photographer Don McCullin on 19 of his greatest pictures
At 90, McCullin has spent seven decades recording conflict and tragedy – while escaping snipers, mortar fire and capture. He reflects on pain, pride and regret
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October 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Haunting, beautiful pix from one of my fave photographers
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My piece on the fab new museum and pyramids' experience in Giza #Egypt #Cairo #museums
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Egypt counts on a new tourism dynasty as museum joins a revamped Giza
The Grand Egyptian Museum, decades in the making, hopes to show off a nation’s history on the biggest scale possible
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October 26, 2025 at 8:36 AM
My piece on the fab new museum and pyramids' experience in Giza #Egypt #Cairo #museums
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Son of Nero
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‘Dictator-for-life vibes’: our architecture critic on Trump’s bulletproof ballroom bling
He has already turned the Oval Office into a wrestler’s changing room. Now the president is building a place so gilded Nero would feel at home. Why did he pick an architect whose speciality is Catholi...
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October 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
Son of Nero
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My piece on the Pope's Kayak heading back home, to the Arctic, where it belongs.
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Indigenous artifacts at Vatican Museums heading back to Canada after repatriation campaign
The collection includes an extremely rare Western Arctic kayak and a two-metre-long wampum belt
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October 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
My piece on the Pope's Kayak heading back home, to the Arctic, where it belongs.
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@ereguly.bsky.social, one the Globe's best writers, has an excellent article on the Catholic Church's involvement in the response to the war in Gaza: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Two more generations before Jews and Arabs can live in peace, says Vatican’s top man in Jerusalem
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa says ‘the wounds are too deep’ and the healing process needs time
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October 11, 2025 at 5:09 PM
@ereguly.bsky.social, one the Globe's best writers, has an excellent article on the Catholic Church's involvement in the response to the war in Gaza: www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
My profile of the #Vatican man in the MidEast trying to keep the peace between Israeli and Palestinian Catholics: #cardinalpizzaballa
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Two more generations before Jews and Arabs can live in peace, says Vatican’s top man in Jerusalem
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa says ‘the wounds are too deep’ and the healing process needs time
www.theglobeandmail.com
October 11, 2025 at 11:21 AM
My profile of the #Vatican man in the MidEast trying to keep the peace between Israeli and Palestinian Catholics: #cardinalpizzaballa
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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