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Alberta has done the same in past. However it's a measure of last resort in part due to needing sufficient law enforcement presence to ensure only pre-authorized people are in the closure area (usually limited to industry assuming liability for actions). It's also further compounded by bad...

If I just think airfields then I think of three ring circus situations. 1) If a C-130 departs CFB Trenton (for lack of a better starting location) how far can it fly before it needs refueling? Is there a current large scale airport in place that can handle this task (Thunder Bay, Ontario for...

Foremost is another one that logistics type might love but also might not have seen: https://www.foremost.ca/foremost-mobile-equipment/wheeled-vehicles/ Most of the ones I know are used for specialized hauling in the oil patch. I see these occasionally used on domestic responses as they can...

100% understand the argument made. I'm just thinking back on the many different previous purchases where only the bare minimum "combat" type vehicle was purchased for the needs of the day and there was no surplus of available units to account for attrition or loss. And one thing I've learned...

100% agree there is a large component that can overlap domestic operations. But I'd rather the CAF purchase for possible overseas options rather than civilian needs. Hence why I think of only buying armoured versions. Total overkill for many missions...but then the machine is there if...

I'm pretty familiar with the Bv206's as they're a common site for crew transport on wildfire. None of the operators are mechanics...often just a farm kid tossed into the machine and told to go to work. It's the simplicity of the design that attracts my attention as much as anything. The...

Or you go to the updated version of Bv206 Hagglund which is smaller to fit better into a C-130 but still armoured and has a turret gun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BvS10 Key for me is that is being used by multiple European countries and the USA and in some larger number purchases. There...

That's a higher spread differential than I've been told by clients ($100/m3) but it is a significant difference. A few clients work both sides of the border and it's always been an interesting coffee discussion.

As I understand it the biggest employment scheme under the US Civilian Conservation Corps during the great depression was tree planting. Mostly in the SE states due to cotton and tobacco fields lacking nutrients and unable to grow food crops well. Yellow pine was a preferred species (native...

Part of the issue is that overall employment per mill has decreased drastically in the last 30 years. Same within the logging front. And trucking front. When I started my carear a log truck often only hauled 40m3 of wood....now I'm looking at 10 axle B-trains hauling 60m3 summer weight...

To be fair to Jasper National Park... The preferred mechanism would be prescribed burns...and they did conduct many low intensity burns primarily north of the community. Unfortunately due to the challanges and risk of prescribe burns this was not an option on the west side or east side to...

Oh I'm fully aware of the size of the 6 Nations vs. many bands out west. I often deal with bands of 2-300 people which create major challenge due to size of community and support needed as any community that size struggles unless they are part of something bigger. And decades of fighting...

It's funny as some of the worse days I remember growing up were due to fires in Siberia blanketing western Canada. I sit here with 4 nations working to support this wildfire...including USA resources...and there is at least a 5th on export elsewhere in Canada. But one of the barriers to doing...

That there is an excellent summery of many of the challenges. And it's the same conversations when I talk to the US, Australia, and any Canadian Province peer over futures. My Spanish isn't good enough to talk specifics with other agencies and I don't know any Afrikans. Think of it this...

Except Ontario can't staff the existing tankers they have and Conair (the contract provider for the new Saskatchewan Q-400's) didn't have certified pilots avaiable either so they almost lost the one plane in La Ronge without completing a single mission. To be fair the plan was to use the...

I'm working on a wildfire as we speak dealing with First Nations. Some are doing okay....others are in pretty rough shape. A lot is dependent upon local priorities and in some cases creating alternate income streams. Unfortunately the local economy is very depressed in this area and...

Bombers don't work when you have crown fires rolling. Only on initial starts are they very effective or maybe the rear/flank areas. But the fuels driving the fire are a very complex situation from both management, long growth cycles and politics (i.e. what do you let burn if you can?)...

So one of the great issues with the Indian Act of Canada is that Treaty lands can not be split into private ownership. So in a nutshell...as a status person living on reserve...you can NOT own your own house. This also has huge implications as it affects not just the land ownership but also...

My biggest concern is that riding is a very right wing area. Blue rocks might be called liberal for getting their way. So now you have official opposition leader dependent upon a far right riding to keep his seat...when it's not a direction for the rest of the country. To PP's credit he...