Recent content by MacNav63

That was peak anti-nuke campaign time across the west. Massive protests in Europe against cruise and Pershing and back here against cruise testing. A lot of very naive stuff, like the City of Ottawa vote on declaring the city a nuclear free zone in 1982, championed by then mayor Marion Dewar...

Sadly I think it is. I worked there as a consultant and employee for six years in the late 90s and early oughts and it was clear then that the window was closing on doing anything to save it like privatization while it still had some enterprise value. Now that it's back on government life...

I don't think we disagree.

Unfortunately it seems to me that the CAF generally regards any activity in the community as requiring a news release "warning" the public that they might see the CAF at work. Even CF-18 flyovers for a game at Lansdowne Park require a news release that seems less about the "hey look up in the...

This. As someone who spent a career in communications, including in government, I've long bemoaned the state of comms coming out of the CAF/DND. It wasn't always so. Even in the bad old days of the 70s and 80s I remember pouring over every issue of Sentinel and the annual defence reviews...

As I've implied in a couple of other threads, the Canada wordmark as it's called drives me nuts, especially when it's so clearly overkill. The planes already have Canadian flags on the tail and RCAF-ARC on the fuselage. Oh, let's tell everyone it's Canadian by slapping the word Canada with a...

Which raises the question in my mind as to why continue to call the CMBGs brigade groups at all if their artillery and CS units are being brigaded elsewhere and they are all part of a manoeuvre division.

I'll admit I'm one of those who thinks buttons and bows can matter but I've never understood putting anything on DEUs that had to be sewn on and later changed if someone was posted. It always seemed to me an overcorrection from unification approach of trying to kill identity. Formation patches...

Hardly surprising. Without knowing what I know from this forum, I would assume there was a new regular force "regiment" in the CA and that the three 3rd battalions would be rebadging.

Ah, well I highly recommend it. As it happens they’re just wrapping up a 4-part series on Marius and Sulla, with the last episode being released this week, along with a couple of subscriber-only bonus episodes. It’s the only podcast to which I subscribe (which also gives me early access to the...

Hmmm, someone been listening to the latest series of the Rest is History…? :sneaky:

Yes, when he retired from active service he worked for a while for a regional air ambulance.

The Canada Wordmark enters the conversation...

See my post above about letting opponents define the narrative and missing opportunities. Alto is going to go through my riding. It is a hot topic for many people in and around my community. My riding is held by a Liberal MP. Received her latest householder last week. Mention of Alto? Not a...

To a degree Ottawa's problems are the result of political decisions that have created a city with an urban core surrounded by a greenbelt outside of which sit a collection of suburbs surrounded by a fairly vast rural hinterland, itself peppered with villages (aka bedroom communities) like mine...