Recent content by daftandbarmy

No soup for you! Canada Post reassessing latest offer to workers due to Ottawa's announced reforms Crown corporation has cancelled plans to present workers with a new offer on Friday Any hopes for a speedy end to the latest postal strike were dashed late Friday afternoon when Canada Post...

Gord Johns and his petition to repurpose our 'left over' C-130s ;) Madam Speaker, it is an honour to table this petition on behalf of petitioners from my riding of Courtenay—Alberni, who are on the front line of wildfires this season. They highlight that the increase in intensity and cost of...

We are? Really? As China explores the Arctic, Canada's military is preparing for confrontation Beijing wants critical minerals. The North is rich in them https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-arctic-military-exercise-sovereignty-1.7632848

Don't panic.... Myth Debunked: Machines Create More Jobs Than They Destroy Do machines replace humans? Since the beginning of industrialization 200 years ago, we earthlings have been plagued by this fear. From the early uprisings of the weavers to the 1970s “job killer computer” slogan, and...

What's old is new again: dig to survive.... Dug In and Camouflaged, Russian Artillery Is 'Quite Hard to Destroy' On a drone-patrolled battlefield, mobile guns are much more vulnerable than buried ones are The Russian artillery corps learned a hard lesson as Ukrainian drones and artillery...

No, but revenge is a dish best served cold... or so I've heard: Why Donald Trump is obsessed with Portland Portland is the latest American city where Trump said he’ll send the military. But his fixation on Oregon is different. Five years ago, rioters in Portland set fire to government...

Hard to watch ;)

An operation regularly practiced by in-role parachute battalions, albeit not with HIMARS until now. Assumptions: local air superiority, and tea and medals on the objective ;)

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36% of those polled believe that AI is harmful? We're in alot of trouble, Canada... Views on Artificial Intelligence Canadians are divided: 34% say AI is good for society, 36% believe it is harmful, and 31% are unsure. Those results are similar to those of March 2025 (32% perceived them as...

The struggle is real... ;)

21 - 8 for England so far...

I'd have to agree with this decision ... FBI fires agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say The FBI has fired agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands...

This is why the 'Awkward Squad' Division will likely fail. When the CO turns up in rented SUV for an hour on the weekend FTX to yell at people for wearing a coyote dump bag, and then heads home in time to referee the kids' basketball game ...

I'm going with 'chin up competition' ;)