Recent content by Navy_Pete

Will have a bit of a lead time, but just the infra side of some of these projects is absolutely staggering, and if we pull off even a part of it will be a generational reinvestment in bases that was probably last done in the 1960s for the Cold War or even WW2. Things like completely replacement...

From what I understand CG budget got rolled under larger DND, they are keeping separate reports to the MND and their own projects, and still TBD what (if any) integration we do on the operations side, or for things like managing/sharing infra. I hope they can keep their own PMOs for...

The same guy that criticized Trudeau for being 'just a drama teacher', when he wasn't even qualified to teach. Also the same guy that has taken jabs at rental property owners, after having a lucrative rental property setup, particularly targetting MPs in Ottawa on their allowance, and generally...

(completely off topic) Yeah, no kidding, but seriously, the Japan goes really hard; one of my favourite Art Nouveau artists is Alphone Mucha, and they've immortalized his most well known calendar art in manholes; Then they also have what looks like enameled manhole covers; Also lots of...

@Czech_pivo that's cool, thanks for sharing! The name is terrifying, but there is a reddit thread called r/manholeporn that is just snapshots of manhole covers around the world, which has some amazing examples of some of the crazy ones in Japan in particular, as well as ones people paint and...

I feel like you can care about the financial state of Canada, while still hate PP for being a know nothing, professional politician who is only in it for personal power and adoration, and will flip flop with whatever opinion he thinks will get him elected. He cares less about financial state of...

That's wild, thanks. It's kind of impressive when you see really old lines get replaced and they are something like wood pipes with oakum seals. What's crazy is some of the really old victorian area pipes are still in use in the UK, but they are these really well built brick masterpieces with...

I wonder if this is the fracture of the CPC back into Reform Party and PCs? It more or less worked under Harper as he ruthlessly oppressed the outliers and didn't pander to them, but I think for PP it keeps biting him in the ass, and likely why he fumbled what should have been an easy layup.

A significant chunk is a reinvestment in core city infrastructure like water mains and sewers, which is critically needed and has been a massive under investment for decades, and I think a generally really good example of useful major public works program at the federal level that does a good...

Maybe PP will allow an open vote on the budget because he can't find anything that rhymes with deficit. Don't forget their policy included changing all pensions to defined contributions, not defined benefits, which would have really fucked over everyone in the CAF that is counting on that.

There are some technologies that let you do some airdrops from standard rear ramp planes and helos, but more intended for fire breaks and hotspots, vice actively burning fires the tankers hit. Would make sense to look into that to augment provincial resources when we're getting called in, but...

C'est une demande reasonable, et la project de replacer les produits de PFAS et la decontamination c'est une enorme defi a la FAC.

I know some people are chomping at the bit for an election, but I think the snap back against NDP and PC would be signficant. There is also the Bloc, but doubt they would face any political backlash from their constituents. With all the large projects they are looking at in different regions...

Don't need to believe me, you can see the photos US border protection provided to BBC back in 2018 at a migrant detention center. The camp in the middle of the swamp was too extreme for even Florida judges that shut it down. Trump migrant separation policy: Children 'in cages' in Texas The...

I've lost track, have they finally got a date to start training the replacement HT stream? RCD combat survivability concept relies on that skillset starting at the DCPO and at the section bases, at a higher level than what we meet with current MARTECH (because they killed HTs, realized it...