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Totally normal, healthy democracy. https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/25/politics/dictator-trump-supporters-analysis

If you only drive your Corolla 13 years you're doing it wrong ;)

Roe v Wade has fallen, Obergefell v Hodges is next. SCOTUS has abandoned stare decesis.

The CAF has gotten used to adding a hundred or so people in places like Halifax, Ottawa or Winnipeg (plus families). That sort of growth in Northern communities has a far greater second and third order impact.

So... Learned from IMP and Irving I take it?

In the late 1990s I recall reading a review of defence procurement that notes that one Canadian supplier was merely a drop shipper for an American manufacturer, with a 100% "Canadian" markup. The goal is to balance policy objectives with compliance costs.

That's the BC model; not all provinces do the same.

The main reason for the Feds to avoid entering into this space is to avoid having to decide what's more important - a fire threatening Halifax or a fire threatening Moose Jaw. Give resources to provinces, support inter-provincial cooperation - fantastic way for the feds to address the problem...

Nanisivik is abandoned. Trying to make a permanent installation without anyone to manage and operate it is a fool's errand.

We will reduce traffic by two thirds by the end of the year then.

And yet...

Not sure what else needs to be added beyond the thread title... https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/21/us/donna-adelson-murder-trial-dan-markel

And murder. Don't forget that.

Well, they started out by firing a bunch of JAG officers...

While cutting 50% of staff and $700m from the budget https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78mj2m85pno

What could possibly go wrong? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion

Why only people accused of home invasion? (By court costs I assume you mean the cost of a legal defence, which is easily in the low six figures if it goes to trial - or the mid five figures if it does not).

So we're at the "use the police to attack those formerly close to you" stage.

How many years ago was the JSS announced? How many more years will it be before a third could be built?

The biggest challenge for the CAF for the next decade or so is going to be to regain the ability to have ambition.