Recent content by daftandbarmy

That's him. Yep... we're probably doomed ;) Dalton McGuinty He has nine brothers and sisters. His younger brother David has represented the riding of Ottawa South in the House of Commons of Canada since 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_McGuinty

Another thing to add to that order from South Korea ;) https://www.facebook.com/reel/542309695617463

Well, he has a degree in Agriculture so I assume he's an expert in dealing with BS ;) Apart from that, he seems like a vanilla 'Steady Eddie' long time Liberal MP who probably needed rewarding in some way. My uneducated guess is that he'll be awful ;)...

Smells a bit of desperation...

They don't like it up 'em! ;) UK to launch new 'Home Guard' to protect power plants and airports amid rising global threats The UK may see a return of the famous WW2 fighting force to combat attacks on important domestic facilities A ‘Home Guard’ defence force could be established to protect...

Or ramp up the 'Partners in Peace' program and threaten to speed up the Stans' application for membership in NATO ;) https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_50349.htm

That makes a nice change from dental conventions ;) https://www.biv.com/news/economy-law-politics/behind-scenes-bcs-first-covid-19-superspreader-event-two-years-ago-8267089

That's been the SOP here for years since the NDP got in but, of course, they tend to pass on the blame... Frustrations boil over in B.C. legislature as more catch-and-release criminals reoffend Vaughn Palmer: Conservatives hammer at B.C. NDP, but NDP notes crime and bail outside its...

What they really need is the ability to excel at maneuver warfare, which is a little more complicated than just using bigger/ better bombs unfortunately...

Meanwhile, in expansion-mode, the Township of Langley gets their own RCMP detachment separate from the City... https://www.langleyadvancetimes.com/local-news/township-announces-takeover-of-langley-rcmp-detachment-8000572

They'd better be vaccinated before coming to Plague-berta... Soaring number of Alberta measles cases worries health officials in both Canada, U.S. Fourteen new confirmed cases of measles over the past 24 hours means the number of cases in Alberta has now climbed to a total of 409. A large...

Following independence, I can imagine the internal Alberta-stan discussions playing out something like this ;)

That's how they want you to think supply and demand works, because it's easy to understand in a short sound bite on TV uttered by a new politician with beautiful hair and a lousy track record with housing, but it doesn't always work that way. It might take 40 years to increase housing supply in...

They do a year long course at Lympstone, which is quite difficult with a high failure rate, that prepares them for a troop commander job in a rifle company in one of the Commandoes. After their first tour as a troop commander, sometimes as short as a year, they must declare a 'SQ': specialty...

He's a Royal Marine Officer that was posted to Commando Log for a bit. The Commando Logistics Regiment is staffed, mainly, by Army members (REME, Log, EOD/ATO, Doctors/Dentists, Finance/Admin etc) who have completed the All Arms Commando Course and are serving for a couple of years with 3 Cdo...