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I read through the article and my initial thought was it was a recipe for disaster...and I'm pro CAF reservists getting formal training on Mutual Aid. The key arguments of using reserve units to man an area as: a) first on scene - if you don't have red and blue lights good luck beating police...

Thanks for the paper Svanen. It unfortunately tends to focus mostly on the overseas awards especially the confusion around Afghanistan service awards and the differences occurring depending on rotation, area deployed, Armed Forces served under and multiple changes to the award criteria mid...

I guess that's sort of what I was picturing. Something big enough to reach open water especially coastal islands chains like the West Coast, small enough to ship into the Great Lakes if needed, and still effective on a support mission like OP CARRIBE. Was thinking it was the sort of...

I don't know much about boats vs. ships other than some cost a crap ton of money and others make for better pirate ships than others. But to my limited mind I think of deep ocean RCN vessels which are the frigates and supply ships - I guess what some call blue water navy. And then I think of...

Here's a counter proposition based upon a recent civilian fleet purchase: https://www.daher.com/en/daher-aircraft-delivers-the-first-tbm-960-birddog-airplanesto-conair-in-support-of-wildfire-air-attack-missions/ Bird dog aircraft (the ones that guide in and direct the water bombers) usually...

As a rough planning area...sure. But I just measured...dual lane TransCanada highway + dual track CN mainline + TransMountain Pipeline (both pipes) + powerline utility corridor. 450m total width and they are not all adjacent to each other. Don't get me wrong it's enough to disrupt...

So being quite intimate with the joys of living in oil and gas boom towns....and crashes...I would also caution against "rushed" work. It's great to be able to mobilize 2-5,000 men to work on a job...but if it's only going to 9 months or seasonal work it's tough to build any sort of community...

Sigh...that's a fancy but small camp up there. Some are 9,999 person accomidations and multi-level. But shows what is potentially involved or able to be offered. Credit to the builders where those rooms are generally pretty decent to stay in and stay warm in -40 temps. They are however...

While I acknowledge that the main push would be for CAF primary bases....assume you have triple the capacity within the medical section? I think there is a case for have a medical unit working out of a major center that covers three objectives: 1) provides a focus for enlistment medicals to be...

I could easily picture a rough road to allow route clearance. Start building a railway to allow for large scale shipments and add in the spurs/bypasses to create the laydown yards/staging areas/work camps needed. As the rail moves forward start building the road beside it. Place power...

It's also less lands involved (important to some First Nations), better overall access (3 projects = better road than 3 temporary access points), and allows for the response god forbid anything goes wrong. When all the routes go different directions its much tougher to respond to a...

I've been told St. Albert general hospital (suburbia Edmonton) has a significant military presence from the medical units keeping skills sharp. I had one unexpected visit there many years ago and was very impressed by how fast and well things went. The only concern is how many military...

I still think of doubling the CAF medical capacity...or tripling it. Heck quadruple it. Now base those units around major centers, but near CAF bases/reserve units where they can serve but have real life experience working via provincial hospitals....and for that matter let them serve in...

Grew up talking with the "old boys" of whom many had worked on the Alaska Highway/CANOL road or NORAD sites (Dew and Pinetree chains). Remembering asking one of them if the war years and rationing affected them much..."nope..not really. Any time we were short we just went to Dawson Creek -...

25 years ago starting out in this industry there was lots of talk about BC/Ontario opportunities and Europe was the role model in terms of volume produced/hectare. The New Zealand pine and Australian eucalyptus was moving to South America for high volume/short rotation plantation based mills...

I'm assuming you're in BC...but northern Ontario or parts of Alberta tell similar stories. In some cases it was we have a wood supply that spans large areas but only want to pay trucking for short hauls....so over harvesting of the close wood vs. even flow leads to ever increasing costs. In...

I'll be honest that I'm only peripherally involved with the oil and gas industry and even the forestry industry has so many variables it's not funny to try to figure it all out. There are projects that having the government run make for excessive costs. I watched the fiasco of Trans-...

Or....and here's a totally off the wall thought... 1)Take an off the shelf refinery design...or buy one if private industry doesn't want it any more. Here's the current ones. https://natural-resources.canada.ca/sites/nrcan/files/energy/images/Refinery-Map-Large-E.gif 2)Fund it through...

Random thinking last night of past times in Northern Ontario. What happens if Canada goes to the US and dusts off the old plans to expand the lock sizes for the St. Lawrence Seaway? This would be a bi-national win allowing for larger shipping direct into the US cities of Chicago, Milwaukee...

I've lost track of the number of "re-orgs" and/or layoffs that have happened in my career. Frankly you can almost visually tell the impacts by the age demographics (55+ due to 1995 layoffs) or 35+ due to extended hiring freezes. That being said...and having lived this in both industry and...