Recent content by shiska

The expertise and facilities exist in Winnipeg for a rocket factory. Magellan/Bristol was building CRV7 and Black Brandt here not too long ago. I dont imagine it's THAT much of a stretch to scale up to larger weapons

I'd love a gritty Master and Commander style movie about the seven year's war that follows somebody through the North American campaign. Wolfe maybe?

The floor at minto encourages strong ankles.

Brutal. Remaking the classification system is definitely them bannning all semi auto outright. Probably also anything with a detachable mag. Feels particularly stupid given that if they had publicly backed off they might have been able to drag some conservative voters over who are spooked by PP...

Name them the "freedom" class HMCS Sovereign HMCS Dominion HMCS Independent HMCS True North HMCS Confederation Etc...

From what I'm hearing, this might be getting better soon. They've got a handful of swiched on NCMs at Minto who are begging for more autonomy and from speaking to them there's some optimism that some of the barriers are coming down.

This is no different that the red white and blue-land bill from down south we were all laughing at. Performative and insubstantial but indicative of political climate..

I aint no language-ologist but... ¯\(ツ)/¯

Funny you should mention that. I was at the Canada summer games for Lax and the CAF had a booth setup. That was my first exposure to anything military and I've been hooked ever since.

Yup same experience for me as both student and staff. UofM is very military friendly.

FWIW I work at post secondary institution that is currently dealing with a protest. The main person behind it is a well known activist (aka shit disturber) who just jumps from cause to cause on a whim. I dont believe for a second that theres some scary financial cabal or whatever behind this...

Sligtly different for me, I grew up distantly aware of the military but never really considered it for myself. Then Afghanistan happened and I decided I wanted to get involved. I left when that mission ended because I figured there'd be nothing to do and I hated the idea of being in a military...

Gosh you could even have a nod to the fact that theyre amalgamated. Maybe call them a tactical group?

I work in tech and though I'm not invovled directly with any aquisition, I've seen us move from having litterally several dozen products and vendors all manually tied into each other to just a handful of vendors (mostly Microsoft). The 99% perfectness of a bespoke solution just became too...