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    CF-188 Hornet, Canada's jet fighter

    Boeing Canada is contracted for the upgrades of the CF CF18A (CF188). DND planners are focused on the current operational fleet being in full inventory until 2017. There is to my knowledge no plan at the present time to replace them. On the other hand DND is a financial participant in the...
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    Halifax airshow

    The "Halifax Air Show" is in fact the Nova Scotia International Air Show, but it should not be confused with the long running, award winning and excellent "Shearwater International Air Show, (SIAS)". The SIAS was created in Ottawa by CAS with full approval of the MND in 1977. It was created to...
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    The War of 1812 Merged Thread

    American Military History, Army Historical Series, Office of the Chief of Military History, United States Army, Chapter 6 "The War of 1812" - "Origins of the War"  " The immediate origins of the war were seizure of American ships, insults and injuries to American seamen by the British Navy, and...
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    The War of 1812 Merged Thread

    I gave a small but significant insight into the War of 1812 from the perspective of a Nova Scotian who is very familier with the naval aspects of the War from the City of Halifax HRM, and access into many books and articles, plus discussions over the years related to the characteristcs of the...
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    Nationalize the Petroleum Industry? Only in Canada....

    No government in North America will ever consider "nationalizing" the petroleum industry - the fact is that the public thinks that the gas and oil merchants are screwing them - no government would want to be in the position of the oil companies, and their ever negative public relations. It...
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    The War of 1812 Merged Thread

    Thank you Michael, it was a little joke - there is a lot about the War of 1812 available - it is known as the "The War That Nobody Won" - but historians relalized that this is the War the shaped and created Canada. When the late Stan Rogers sang about the "last of the privateers" he was actually...
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    The War of 1812 Merged Thread

    You could be right, I did'nt see the ceremony, but it may be on an Air Guard Site. It was a substantial event. While I respond to this a little information about "Rogers Rangers" - Rogers and his Rangers fought in the Seven Years War, and came from New England. They raided Huron and Abinackie...
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    Nationalize the Petroleum Industry? Only in Canada....

    For details about the late Kenneth Colin Irving, and his co-venture partners, go on the net to the site "Irving" - it's all there. You will find that Irving Oil Limited has had and continues to have working partnerships - the LNGPlant under construction as I write this is a partnership between...
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    The War of 1812 Merged Thread

    War of 1812 started at sea. The United States Navy decided to defend their shipping and attacked the Royal Navy - consequently the British, who had a garrison in North America, throughout what is now the Atlantic region, Quebec and Ontario, were faced with a US invasion, focused on Upper and...
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    The War of 1812 Merged Thread

    A great deal of the history of the War of 1812 is focused on Nova Scotia, and the Ports of Halifax (Royal Navy Dockyard) Liverpool and Shelburne (Privateers). Author Thomas Raddall was an engineer at Bowaters, and a prolific writer and author. "His Majesty's Yankees" set in the Revoluntary War...
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    Nationalize the Petroleum Industry? Only in Canada....

    I live in Moncton NB, home along with Saint John of the Irving Empire, know them well. KC Irvings first partnership was with Exxon (Standard Oil Company of California) who provided Iriving Oli with needed capital, that is an historic fact. Irving did not experience regular steady growth until...
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    Nationalize the Petroleum Industry? Only in Canada....

    Liberal government of the period bought PetroFina, a Belgian controlled company which was an enormous error in judgement in the opinion of many, in and outside the petroleum industry. Petro Canada was created, and became a repository for political patronage appointees, who of course knew nothing...
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    Regent Park Murder, Army Reservists convicted in homeless man's death

    In Toronto, three young men, whose names and ages have been published will appear in custody in a Toronto based Provincial Court, for arraingment related to their part in an incident which has resulted in the application of formal charges under the Criminal Code of Canada Revised (CCCR).The fact...
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    News Service Histrionics During Crisis - Good or Bad?

    CNN have a lot of resources, very expensive to operate and maintain, but they have a variety of newspeople whose journalist training and expertise is simply not there; there are no Peter Jennings with CNN, and their standards are directed to a mass, semi literate audience, which is what their...
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    Free Trade and other Grimm Fairy tales

    Softwood lumber is not contained in the Schedules and Product Categories to the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).  Softwood lumber marketing is driven by supply and demand and in the case of softwood lumber, US politics. States in the south eastern US produce two mature crops of...
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