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$123,194 by 2026. If you are 'front line' (i.e. general duties field) Cst. Sgt. then +3%, plus posting allowance if applicable.

Actually, applicants are now asked their (I think) five preferred postings, which is generally easy to accommodate these days given the vacancy rate. I don't know if they've completely abandoned the 'are you willing to serve anywhere in Ontario' clause. The Duration Posting Allowance is very...

Made all the more complicated for those who advocate to move CAF bases to urban areas because that's where folks want to live. I would imagine firing weapons in anger on Canadian soil who require a whole command structure behind the few folks who would have to pull the triggers.

So a cordial tete-a-tete with Putin but Zelensky gets a verbal beat down. Got it. Why no Vance? Too busy altering a landscape somewhere for yet another vacation?

Pigeon River isn't all that big and I doubt the ship would portage well at Middle Falls or at the Height of Land.

Not from my experience. More of learning that many of the people you deal with on a regular basis are often neighbours. In large urban services, unless they are frequent fliers, the chances of dealing with someone more that once in your career are statistically low. It's actually the same...

It's easier than trying to start a flood. ;) We nailed a member of a rural volunteer FD with multiple counts of arson a number of years ago. We never did determine whether the motive was response money or 'hero syndrome'.

Just when you think you've heard it all . . .

Food being handled and prepared in large batches poses particular challenges. Provided a street vendor takes at least minimal precautions their food will often be safe because of small batches.

Pretty tough to swallow (pun intended?) for the greatest negotiator in all of human history.

Sadly, they were the lucky ones.

It seems pretty non-specific. The two sections of their Fire Safety Act relate to the elevated fines that were linked are: Section 17 - Unless this Act or the regulations otherwise prescribe, every owner of land or premises, or a part thereof, and every person shall take every precaution that...

It always seems to take me by surprise every Spring when it seems about a week after the snow goes off the fields the grass fires start. The duff from last year's crop is dry and new, green growth hasn't taken hold yet. The township where we used to live got tired of the amount of fire call so...

We western observers often forget or fail to understand how the memory of the Holodomor informs the Ukrainian response to Russia. I know I do.

They should read the agreement. The words 'investigate' or investigation', or any manner of grievance enforcement, are not part of it. Besides, I find it humourous that a Republican would want to invoke 'international law'.

You'll have to forgive the Toronto media; it's . . . well . . . the Toronto media. There are always grass fires in Southern Ontario but I can't recall the last time there was a forest fire in Kawartha Lakes (one of them is outside of what the MNR considers its forest management area. At least...

I'm shocked. ;)

Then for consistency, maybe we should use the style of "Canada", "the US" or "the Catholic church". Perhaps the solution is to allow the oblasts with a heavy ethnic Russian population to hold a independently-monitored referendum and those residents who don't want to live with the outcome to be...

I guess I'm not following. How could Ukraine "might have reasonably prevented" Russia from seizing Crimea? How could it have "reasonably prevented" Russia from invading in 2022? Lie on its back with its legs in the air and 'think of England'? If it is "victim blaming/shaming" that Russia is...

Similarly, but obviously not on the same level, I have observed where 'big city' cops patch over to rural, deployed policing and bring the 'big city' mindset with them.