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For reference, a cruise ship ran aground in the Canadian Arctic in 2018 but managed to free itself. It apparently only had 162 POB. https://www.highnorthnews.com/en/arctic-cruise-ship-runs-aground-canadas-northwest-passage

They’re coming, just with insufficient capacity to deal with the problem.

I worked with those PJs in my OUTCAN, the jumpers can be ready pretty quick and they’re happy to jump out of anything, I’ve dropped PJs from a Canadian C130. Getting a plane to go with you’re looking at 24-48 hrs minimum plus any diplo delays. I don’t think this is something JRCC normally deals...

this one I can answer. 2 hours to launch out of Winnipeg with as many SARTechs as you can get in that time, you can get most places in the arctic within 5 hours. Trenton has a MAJAID kit that’s supposed to launch within 24 hours with more STs and some generic jumpers for GDs. The much, much...

“The government” doesn’t change interest rates, the BoC does

This is just the first one that came up but there are plenty of different sites with similar charts, beef is always near the top by a large margin. So you think that if people don’t have a freezer full of meat that they’re going to make a separate trip to the grocery store for every meal, just...

It’s unfortunate for you but I wouldn’t call it a boondoggle with the argument that it’s doing exactly what it’s designed to do. Driving 2-6 hours? High carbon. Eating copious amounts of beef? High carbon. Your argument is that you don’t like it because it’s working.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the ever-expanding needs of the bureaucracy.

Then there’s no point in you going downtown, you should be exempt.

In case there was any illusion why federal workers need to return to the office: Downtown business owners await federal workers as unions fight return-to-office plans

I thought there was a % cap on how much you could pay for a Q? 25% of your gross salary?

Yeah, I think some people are hoping that a recession will save us again but this one will be different in that there will be plenty of jobs available.

The decline in workforce participation since 2019 is entirely people over 60. And it’s only going to get worse. https://beta.ctvnews.ca/national/business/2022/12/11/1_6190043.amp.html

Unemployment isn’t the issue, the boomers are all retiring and no longer in the workforce, thus not unemployed. We’ve known this was coming for 50+ years and didn’t do anything about it.

We’re also short labour and you can’t have it both ways.