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  1. kratz

    CDS General Eyre announces retirement

    Lovely COB pre-weekend announcement to bury the headline before next week.
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    6 B.C. search and rescue leaders pen finger-pointing letter to provincial government

    So none of the BC paramedic services pre-1980 had a collective agreement to protect them from provincial interference?
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    Trudeau Popularity - or not (various polling, etc.)

    Unlocking the discussion, with a remind to maintain the site standard for respect and decorum. Kratz Staff
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    Canada doesn’t matter to the rest of the world - and it’s our own fault

    Based on my working with graduate students from Royal Roads and York, the situation is not much better.
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    BGRS Hacked

    Is the email from a legitimate source or a phishing scam? The version we received looks like a Canadian government letterhead form letter, but the email address was not from BGRS or a gc.ca email address. Of course, I may be too cautious on this particular example.
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    Army Reserve Restructuring

    The NAVRES Port security experiment (2006-2013) was canceled mainly due to: Optics / Public perception, Liabilities (when, not if), and Seriously under-resourced, unsupported. Without those concerns being properly addressed, the ARres would not fare much better.
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    The Mess

    The trade is removed June 2025, I had the privilege of extending their utility, training their QL6 and QL3 as First Responders and fist aid instructors.
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    The Mess

    Which is why Hiller's merge of the tri-services failed. The Steward trade has entered the chat.
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    WSIB in Emergency Services

    Sadly, I do not want to be right. I prefer to support your arguments, but I do not see a path based on what is presented.
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    WSIB in Emergency Services

    Welcome to the CAF being reduced to non-union public servants.
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    The Mess

    Messes are more than just a bar. As PMC, I have successfully argued to reopen a mess space, sans bar IAW punishment. Units / bases utilize messes as flex spaces for meetings, townhalls, training ect...if these operations are closed, that option adds another restriction to CAF operations. I...
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    Climate disasters will be part of defence update as strains grow, minister says

    Blackadder1916, FEMA 2016 continues to use the same framework today:
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    WSIB in Emergency Services

    While it may he easier to encourage RCMP member cooperation with this arrangement, how would PSAC members respond to this? I don't see it merging well.
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    Climate disasters will be part of defence update as strains grow, minister says

    MGen (Ret'd) Seymour, B.F. (2023), former DCO, CJOC, argues that the CAF is only one part of the country's emergency management system, where provinces hold primary jurisdiction over their respective areas. His key argument is that the success of Op LENTUS obscures available local capabilities...
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    Constraining Canadian Federal Budget during Post COVID Downturn

    The agreement was to split the Atlantic Veterinarian College at UPEI in Charlottetown while the Agricultural College was established in Truro, NS. It's only the past 10 years (???) that Dalhousie University absorbed the Ag College.
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    Canadian Forces service members living in cars, unable to afford groceries

    SCAN seminars insist that Pre-retirement planning begins at recruitment. Living here prepares our sailors for retirement living. ;)
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    Saluting the PM

    DB, Common...! I'm in the room here. 😅
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    Directives to military chaplains urge expunging God, religion from Remembrance Day, public ceremonies

    An unwritten rule for most lower deck messes, the door was always open for the Padre, no need to request permission to enter, though most did so anyway. The Padres rarely invoked rank, preferring to address sailors one-on-one. I have not observed a Social Worker extended similar courtesies.
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    Some of the bought & paid for media

    I know it's FOX News but if the news report is correct, I understand why our national reporting is so dismal.
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