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Except of course there were defections including NSA employees. The two highest profile were Martin and Mitchel.

He joined the US army as a volunteer in a program that directly leads to the Special Forces. No idea where your getting conscientious objector from.

Larger image for one of the red/white/blue aircraft color schemes (Boeing CH-113 LABRADOR): Source: http://www.canadianwings.com/Aircraft/aircraftDetail.php?LABRADOR-170 Myself I like the new color scheme, if you are going to use color vs a drab monochrome paint job may as well update it...

Telecommunications surveillance is a tool and how it is used matters. In countries where insulting the leader is a crime it has a different outcome than in countries with free speech. I see it as a waste of resources myself as like "defense everywhere is defense nowhere" I see "all data is no...

Google street view amazes me when I use it to see the locations described in news articles. The phones I see are in a open area between two bus stops so others may have seen the person making the call or walking around the area. Search Google maps for "Spring Garden Road and South Park Street"...

Trudeau reminds me of the wisdom in Voltaire's observation: "To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered." It easily applies to all superficial qualities.

People care most about government actions and policies that effect them or the causes they support. The school yard fights inside parliament don't resonate with all Canadians nearly as much as they do with political junkies or the parliamentarians themselves. This is the trap the Liberals and...

Fat Man was the more complex implosion design and used Plutonium. Little Boy was the gun design and used enriched Uranium. Out of the ground Uranium is 99.27% U238 and 0.72% U235. Increasing the % of U235 is called enriching which can be a little for reactor grade (3.5%) and a lot for weapons...

The article fails to mention the failures that gave the impetus to running government more like a business. It wasn't like things were going so well before. If I want to get 90%+ on a test, am getting 60% so I change my approach and get 75% my new approach has failed to reach my goals but is...

Idle no more reminds me of a cranky child at dinnertime who declines all offered food and complains they aren't being fed while asking to eat candy instead. They want 'something done' or 'changes' then proceed to shutdown any and all changes that aren't just wheelbarrows of cash then complain...

What specifically do you think is missing and should be disclosed? There is a fair bit already available. Parliament of Canada - Board of Internal Economy - Member's Expenditures Reports Parliament of Canada - Board of Internal Economy - Financial Statements of the House of Commons Senate of...

All that PDF does is show the unfunded liabilities if the current historically low rates of return persist. They won't just as periods of high rates of returns don't.  Averaging or smoothing over a longer period will likely be a more reliable estimate of returns over multiple decades and prevent...

Within a course some terms might have specific meanings they don't necessarily have in wider use or knowledge might be assumed to be limited vs more extensive. Questions in homework or exams are meant to be done in the content of the course and outside of it might be confusing. This can skew our...

Mr Trudeau needs to go back to grade school to learn plural and singular forms of nouns as he thinks "Albertans" can be singular. He is now saying he really meant an Albertan and specifically Mr Harper. Spineless and dishonest to backpedal an attack on all Conservative Albertans to one just...

ED 209's 'incident' in the boardroom pretty much killed off autonomous killer robots without the need for a treaty. We won't even arm static defence robots where the situation can be a lot more controlled as we don't trust them. YouTube video (warning: graphic content): ED 209 Just Won't Stop

Mitt.  Obama over promised and under-delivered the past fours years which has really hurt the enthusiasm for his "brand".

Not sure how separation makes sense economically. Taking the more socialist and therefore lower growth route works when equalization payments prevent them from falling behind the more growth orientated provinces. After separation they lose that. The rest of Canada, and especially the high growth...

Apolitical in this context means apathy or disinterest towards political affiliations. It doesn't mean they don't have an opinion on political issues or that they don't express them. Not sure what your second point is as all it does is state the obvious about all such events. The success or...

A good quote from "Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy by Thomas Sowell": The general idea applies to a lot more than just governments.

Waste of resources and a very poor showing for what is after all a professional police force that is expected to be competent. The public loses a lot of respect for them when 'professional' public workers act so stupidly from the teachers, administrators, police officers on up to the police...