Recent content by lenaitch

Just as a casual observer, place like the Annapolis Valley, esp. around Annapolis Royal, and the Baddeck area, don't strike me as all that inexpensive. Not Toronto-expensive, but not bargoons. A buddy lived in AR -lovely town and they loved living there, but it was the property taxes that...

I agree. Let's buy and sell as much stuff as we can from and to everybody else on the planet. For those tariffs that violate existing trade agreements, tie them up in whatever dispute mechanism there is.

I didn't analyse it that closely but there is fairly broad wording that includes a foreign country treating the US economy 'unfairly'. Provinces taking US booze off the shelves is used as an justification in one EO.

US Tariff Act, Sec. 338 apparently. It give the Executive unilateral authority to impose tariffs up to 50%. It's a long section - I didn't copy.

If I recall the Ontario MNR policy, they will 'monitor' only any fire north of 51* unless a community is threatened. There is virtually no timber value and much of the area is far too remote.

Looking at the image, so many, many comments come to mind. Seventy thousand dollars seems a lot, even for helicopter rates, but then again, . . .

Actions against the government by FNs is a lucrative industry. The defendant (the government) has deep pockets and the plaintiffs (FNs) have little to lose and usually win something, either by judgement or settlement. The most drawn out the process, the more billable hours. Most if not all...

Clearly, not enough testosterone.

Every single tornado that hits southern and central Ontario is spawned from a weather system that entered Canada from the US, primarily Michigan. And they don't seem to care. The rotters.

"Make sure the people suffering get compensated". Are some US politicians that dumb, or assume their public is that dumb, to not realize that people who are suffering will be the ones paying any tariff?

The Province of Quebec has a standing agreement with Los Angeles County for two CL-415s. https://skiesmag.com/features/calming-the-l-a-firestorm/#:~:text=A%20decades%20long%20partnership,Los%20Angeles%20County%20Fire%20Department.

Are you sure?

Maybe a quick stop at the paint shop to re-paint the aircraft red and white. Even if we have to do it with a brush or roller like the invasion stripes prior to D-Day. I like it when our electrical utility crews head south after a tornado or hurricane and they are flying Canadian flags in convoy.

If I recall correctly, the prototype acquired the nickname Monica Lewinski.

The problem with converted or re-purposed aircraft (or, alternatively, the advantage of the CL-x15 and Air Tractor) in the Ontario context and likely some other provinces, is they require airfields; whereas northern Ontario has lots and lots of lakes to scoop water directly from. Dual/multiple...