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Turns out it wasn't just the UK that had issues with racism in the reporting and prosecuting of crime.

Clearly you're being sarcastic, but the reality is, selling more soy, canola, and seafood to China doesn't make them more or less of a threat to us. Allowing in a few thousand Chinese EVs isn't a massive security threat. OnStar is tracking my every move in the truck, and Googe does them same...

Now that we are back onto Army.ca's most important topic (army reserves structure), can we get some clarity on whether or not you need to wear gloves with your toque when the CAF reinvents itself for the next war?

My guess is that Canada is still seen by many as an "honest broker", so adding Canada adds legitimacy to the process.

Yeah, it seemed like a pretty poorly conceived idea from a person that hasn't ever actually flown economy. When I looked up a flight to Victoria from Ottawa, there was a 4h 35min leg from Ottawa to Calgary. Who in their right mind would want to spend that long crammed into a seat too small for...

Looks like WestJet will be reversing it's plans to make seats smaller in economy class, and re-fit the 21 aircraft it had already converted to the smaller seats. WestJet will reverse cramped seat configuration after widespread backlash Seems like it was a poorly thought out exercise by an...

It sucks for the individuals impacted by plant closures, but given the American administration was/is pressuring US automakers to bring all production back into America, it seems like a reasonable trade-off. On a national scale, keeping farming and fishing going strong in exchange for...

Not really... The world's most populous country hardly seems like "slim pickings", and Korea is an advanced manufacturing nation, with lots to off Canada, both in the civilian and defence sectors. There are non-EU European nations we could be looking to expand trade relations with as well.

Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, India, etc., and that's just in the Indo-Pacific. When you look toward the EU, and more broadly Europe there are plenty more nations. China makes some sense in that we are selling things to them, but we need to be very careful about what...

True, to a point. At this time Canada is too dependant on a single fickle trade partner. It's a single point of failure that is being used against us by an administration that likes to throw it's weight around like a schoolyard bully. By diversifying our trade partners, we give Canadian...

It really is a magical experience. I miss it now that I'm at NDMC packing a lunch like a peasant.

They are all parts of a system, but just like bombers changed war in WWII. They added to the other systems rather than replace them. Data links, and remote targeting add to capabilities, they don't replace capabilities. Without going into details, in my last job people spent a lot of time...

What presumes you're operating in a permissive environment against dudes in manjams. A peer enemy could deny or degrade your connections to those other sensors. When you have the required sensors integrated into the ship, the only way for the enemy to deny or degrade you sensors is through...

If you ignore that France and the UK operate carriers and SSNs, and Iceland isn't that far away...

This is the rational that led to France and the UK not intervening when Czechoslovackia was annex by Germany... It was in "their best interests" to let a democratically elected leader threaten, then annex a soverign nation. Not too long after they learned a very costly lesson about...