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These are the words that the Chief Electoral Officer had about long ballots. Like most activity of Elections Canada, it concerns itself mostly with the legality and mechanics of conducting elections. In the last election, it was very evident during the poll worker training (I was a Central...

Technically, none of the "regimental fund" is spent on maintaining the Ceremonial Mounted Troop. There is a separate foundation. From the regimental manual. ARTICLE 3504 - CEREMONIAL MOUNTED TROOP FOUNDATION 1. Through the efforts of many dedicated Strathconas and the generosity of its close...

Rory Fowler usually has an informed analysis of military legal matters. He doesn't disappoint with this latest controversy. https://roryfowlerlaw.com/something-must-be-done/ By the CAF's police agency? Probably not - they don't seem able to properly police the CAF. But, should...

Ooh, salty.

One of the scariest experiences was crouching/laying on the deck of a mikeboat that was attempting to exit the well deck of an LPD (USS Cleveland LPD-7) off the northern end of Vancouver Island. We'd already been through a few days of rough weather coming up from San Diego (one USN sailor on...

Apparently not an unusual occurrence. https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/boys-are-adopting-andrew-tates-misogynistic-views-and-bringing-them-to-class-study-finds

Wait for it. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/artificial-intelligence-robotic-arms-construction-1.7414299

Generally, we treat everyone equally (no wonder others have this impression of Canadians being nice). If a citizen/PR is not required to show proof of vaccination to enter the country, then newcomers who cross the border with the intent to remain (hopefully in a legal status) would be in the...

They apparently are involved. Not the first time they've played in the immigration detention and transport space, both in Canada as well as the US - with mixed results. https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/07/03/alligator-alcatraz-desantis-cdr-maguire-gardaworld-contractors/

They've been here all along. At first they tried to find about us by individual contact/abduction and "probing". But as they found it inefficient to compile a database in that manner, they introduced a more efficient and surreptitious method - colonoscopy. From initial use in 1969 to the...

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Yeehaw! At least they got the $9.98 cowboy hat (they look like the current Walmart special) on right way round. https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/calgary-stampede-military-display-busy-federal-funding-announcement

"Texas, its like a whole other country" has more than one meaning.

In 93/94 was still in Lahr. The MWO at the clinic had received a phone call from a medic MWO in Croatia (a mutual friend, we'd been cpls together and he'd been my CSM in the fd amb a couple of years earlier) requesting that we fax him a reference document. He thought that his guys were being...

While looking to see if there were any online photos of 1990 flooding to illustrate my personal tale, I came across this. https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Comfort-flood-claimed-10-lives-thirty-years-ago-11293761.php Flooding is so common in that area that 1990 was considered...

Pancakes and politics. You can't swing a dead cat in Calgary during Stampede without hitting a politician (of any stripe) in a cowboy hat flipping pancakes. The bigger names will have their own events (how else will you raise funds); the lesser politics lights will be attending any church...

I spent some time in that neck of the woods hill country many years ago, though not specifically in Kerrville. I've rafted the Guadalupe River when it had been at height, and had an exciting night when a storm blew through the area while we were under canvas at Camp Bullis (the ex, MUSIO -...

They may be a small subset but unfortunately there are well placed individuals who, even if they are not genuinely separatist, will continue to fan the flames in order advance their own agendas. Those agendas are not necessarily based on getting a better deal for Alberta. That may be a...

FTFY . . . or did more than one British general tell Clark to go f**k himself?

A couple of articles from 2003 (Slate and Al Jazeera) which reference the claim that was made in a book by Clark. At the time Clark was seeking the nomination as Democratic Party presidential candidate (he withdrew from the race and supported Kerry)...