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Fat lot of good your work ethic does when your unions insist on getting blood from a stone from a troubled auto sector while your electorate guarantees you'll have fiscal mismanagement and corruption by voting for socialists every chance they get. Equalization has become little more that a...

As a reservist, if I'm not signed in and don't identify myself as a member of the military what's to stop me from expressing my informed opinion to a newspaper editor or a radio talk show?  If there is a problem then in my case I'm afraid it's years too late. All I can say for this specific...

A carbon tax, as it is set up under green shaft and the Kyoto accord, is nothing more than a transfer of funds.  Under the green shaft, it would go to end up in spending such as was seen in the HRDC scandal.  Having recently visited BC and having spent an extra 22 cents per litre in Golden than...

For better or worse, we are stuck with high gasoline prices for a while.  However, any political interference other that ensuring there's no collusion or illegal activity would be economically or politically disastrous.  The last time that was tried in Canada, over 200,000 people practically...

elecgitarguy, At more than one point in your training you will reach a low ebb where you will be tempted to pack it in.  Whether it's the PT, the routine, the inspections, the sleep deprivation, something will get to you.  I hope you will remember what you've gone through at home to help...

Personally, nothing makes me feel more tired than following my wife around through a fabric store or out shopping for clothes for her. I would suggest setting up your home to look like a fabric store, then have your wife take you around and force you to look at the fabrics, ribbons, etc.  and...

You mean ones mentioned in the credits for I, Robot?  Yes, I acutally checked last time we watched it.

Admitting to nothing, yes. Who's this?

I am planning a memorial motorcycle trip (cars are welcome but you just might find the fuel stops somewhat arduous) to pay some respects to MCpl Ray Arndt, formerly of the Loyal Edmonton Regiment, who was killed in Afghanistan in August of 2006. I would like to keep this low-key and not have it...

My first instinct would be to say that I'm in favour of a flat tax but only if equalization were drastically changed if not eliminated altogether.  That program is nothing more than a patronage program, and if we're going to re-tool the way taxes are levied then the methods for spending have to...

Well, you thought wrong.  Any other bits of uninformed insight you care to pass on?  Since you asked, not only did I pass the damn test but I did it at an ATS so I wasn't saving my rounds for end.  I was  also the RSO for a PWT range on the same ATS earlier this spring.  Funny, the people who...

First things first - KEEP THE WEAPON OFF THE GROUND.  Very counterproductive use the magazine as an improvised bipod.  Don't do it, and feel free to slap anyone who you see doing it or suggests doing it.      What everyone forgets is that you can get 15 easy points on PWT 3 with the first two...

The articles in question show just how many in the national media think.  It's a fact that most faculties or arts departments overwhelmingly consist of aging boomers looking to wave their freak flag once more before dimensia starts to set in. It should come as no surprise that there have been a...

I'm going to fire up my snowblower to deal with this outbreak of global warming we're experiencing right now in Alberta, IE the -15C wind chill and 30cm of snow that fell since April 18th.  BTW, I'm intending to plant a saskatoon bush or two this year, does anyone want to by a carbon credit?

I would hope that if you can be employed as an NCM instructor on a course, then you should be entitled to a bypass.  That would be the most logical thing.  I would pull up the course/staffing MSExcel file they put out and use that to advance your case.  For example if a MCpl can instruct on the...

I wonder what kind of slant they're going to have and how they're going to skew their interviews, footage, and "findings" to further it

Well, at least you get to go to the USA.  The last time 41 Bde tried, they fudged the paperwork so that we couldn't take weapons across the border.  That was almost three years ago, and they haven't tried again since.   

Of course not. What's the use?  They've had people coming up to them conferences saying there needs to be movement on the tac vest issue and there's been all sorts of lessons learned data come in.  It just seems to me that this is a way of perpetuating a bad idea.  People are voting with their...

Criticism and introspection are good things, but let us also remember that we (the Canadians) are sitting on the Taliban political heartland.  We do have troops out in amongst the locals (and with the ANP etc).  I agree, of course.  I like the USMC, especially their approach to basic training...

I agree with Lone Wolf Quagmire, there has been enough of info from lessons learned to ignore the issues with the tac vest and other items of kit for there to be no further excuses.  Too bad that intelling the emperor he has no clothes, you usually loose your head. I cornered a luminary in...