Recent content by dapaterson

CBC is calling back to the CFSME incident at Slesse range in 1988. EDIT: Added CBC live update link: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/livestory/cfb-wainwright-fire-live-updates-9.7385537

MND statement https://www.cpac.ca/headline-politics/episode/defence-minister-provides-update-on-incident-at-cfb-wainwright?id=4fbdf85b-f572-4af2-bd00-879d741e498c

CBC is doing live coverage: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/cfb-wainwright-fire-strong-winds-9.7385505

Reddit reporting the U of A expecting 50-60 patients.

Lots of details not disclosed in this article; and those details are critical.

With a rational government in place, I would agree. But we are currently "living in interesting times".

Deputy AG of New Jersey has been arrested; police claim he generated AI child sexual abuse material and shared it on social media. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/10/thegentlemanpervert-producing-ai-csam-is-a-nj-prosecutor-say-cops/

How dare you.

Donald Jr Eric Ivanka Sounds DEI to me...

Douglas Adams wrote about BC politics. “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so...

Partner with real universities if there's a need for academic content and any degrees; keep military faculty and a limited number of academics for what those other universities cannot deliver. But the CFC model of "I have a PhD in Chemistry so I am the CAF expert in peacekeeping" is a farce.

Students at RMC routinely take action by themselves because they do not trust their chain of command. I've heard of barracks thieves being beaten up in downtown Kingston by other RMC cadets - so they learn to hide their criminality and graduate and become officers of the CAF, rather than the...

We have to remember that Harper lost in 2015 much more than Trudeau won. Note that that rejection of the CPC was the only time under Trudeau 2.0 that the LPC squeaked out a majority of seats in the House. Subsequent elections saw LPC minority governments despite CPC having greater national...

Only the best. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/us/politics/katie-zacharia-fired-press-secretary.html

CBC reporting that it took months for the MPs to seize and search electronic equipment from the alleged perpetrator, while the chain of command minimized the problem and failed to take administrative action...