Recent content by FSTO

There is a ton of abandoned ROW in the west as well. There is no intercity bus service on the prairies. Save for a couple of hap hazard outfits its impossible to get from Winnipeg to Calgary via bus. My dream would be able to get passenger rail up and running again. Yea its a pipe dream.

I think the current federal government knows this and wants to invest. I don’t know if the special interest groups are willing to help out.

Dedicated tracks for VIA is an imperative for HFR.

Because I couldn’t make up my mind, I waited until the last week before buying tickets to the Grey cup. By that time, tickets to fly from Ottawa to Winnipeg were crazy expensive and rare. So we decided to train to Toronto and fly from there. The experience was actually pretty good because we...

When I look at pictures of sailors and officers wearing the old cap I get a chuckle because of how small the old ones were. These ones are significantly more comfortable and better looking.

TBH I had read Wesley's substack before I posted. But I had questions popping up in my mind while watching the movie!

If TB is discovered on your farm, every animal, dogs and cats included are destroyed. If its a purebred herd, I think you got market prices for your animals.

I watched it. A great thriller and it kept you on the edge of your seat. But man there were a bunch of gaping holes big enough for an aircraft carrier to sail through. 1. Nobody? The Japanese, South Koreans, other nations satellite assets, nobody was able to give a better location of the...

I would love to see the same support of our wholly domestic amateur and pro leagues. That we genuflect towards US leagues over and above our own is disappointing to me. And yes, the NHL is a wholly US owned and operated league that barely tolerates having foreign franchises.

How Toronto of you that you just assume that all of Canada automatically supports a team located in your city.

So Maple Magas are NFL fans? 🇮

Decolonization debates are the purview of the idle riche and tenured professors. Folks who are actually trying to make a living don't give a shyte about these things. Prove me wrong.

When we replaced 4 Squadron with the simulators (I was a lab rat for the suitability of simulators as a group of us who had finished MARS 2 were sent to Rhode Island to see how we would function in a simulator). It was soon realized that the simulator couldn't replicate all the other...

That was the beauty of 4 Squadron (HMC Ships Yukon, Saskatchewan, Mackenzie and Qu'Appelle), pretty much all officer and NCM naval trades received their initial/advanced training on those ships. Seamanship, gunnery, engineering, bridgemanship, were all taught on those ships. My MARS 4 course...