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perhaps a heated discussion between a political decision process vs. a utilization one?

that would be very hard to do because we need everything. There is an argument to be made however for some very poor choices, i.e. The Kingfisher, some helicopters and some top heavy armoured vehicles with a tendency to roll over.

very few teenagers appreciate the difference between a Tudor and an F16. In fact, most appreciate the show they put on far more than the ones done by the newer equipment simply because the show stays right in front of them. The intricacies of a square loop of a vertical climb to 15000 feet is...

Enough is enough. Why are you making your replies conditional. Jarnhamer made sense so just do it and stop your own petulant comments. Everyone here, without exception, is quite happy that the money is flowing. End of story on that one. But we do want to see it spent wisely on things we...

pardon me for being dumb but the reason there is no project proposal is because it has been proposed and continuously shot down. Why is the government limiting itself to only projects that it has already backstopped instead of getting down in the dirt and going for something known, needed...

it wasn't in Carney's top 5 and he has never pushed the notion. He might be forced into accepting a line to Churchill but I wouldn't bet on another BC pipe. The natives won't agree and the oil companies won't pay the taxes and the ships can't get to the terminus. He might push for more...

in how many decades? We have ordered new frigates but the last of them won't be delivered for 25 years. Nothing else is even on the books yet our local fleet is going to be totally gone in just a few years. Even if we wanted to spend the money quickly, the F35's can't arrive in any numbers...

Bull. We couldn't begin to afford the numbers of aircraft and patrol vessels required to guard our coastlines but we do have the ability to guard the logical approaches because there are only a few of those. The U.S. can't do that, which is why they don't. All of their coastline is...

doesn't depend on BC. Carney has to step up to the plate. He has already built in his 'sorry no can do' excuse: everything is tied in to carbon capture which is a bottomless money pit. that is coupled with the carbon tax and the tanker ban. All of these issues are federal. But then again he...

We may have a very long coast but aren't there really only 4 areas to really be concerned about? I find it hard to envision any attack focusing on Labrador and the western approaches are blocked by Vancouver Island. So Port Hardy and Sooke would cover the west with Louisburg and St. Anthony...

there are thousands of similar anecdotes so tell me again why it is necessary for people to accept and be forced to use a system that is convenient (at times) but certainly not contributing to any real improvement in lifestyle. There are dozens of 20th century inventions that have improved our...

and there are those of us who prefer to leave the phone at home so having it attached to the wall is not an inconvenience. Every time we go into a restaurant or ride public transit we are astounded at the way people are glued to their cells instead of appreciating what is going on around them...

many of the folks in the hotels are illegals and I am not justifying keeping my entitlements I am simply saying that when the government is spending precious borrowed dollars to harbour a criminal (they have crossed the border illegally) it is not possible to justify removing a benefit from...

its the tactile that gets to me. Those silly little virtual keyboards are impossible and every computer keyboard seems to put the cap button in a different place.

Toronto was putting immigrants/refugees up in the Novotel which at today's rates is 298 per night. At 300 a night that is 9000 a month (except February). The going rate in a subsidized senior's home the last I heard was 2400. So even if the Novotel gives them 2/3 off that is still more than a...

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maybe, but as long as Ottawa is paying more for illegals than it is for seniors.....

we have done it to ourselves and now we can't afford to pay the piper. Without getting into the arguments re: the destruction of the family and family values, government is the least efficient manager of money that there is. Visit any mennonite rural community and you will see a dottage...

and the equipment to do both with and it would appear that both systems need to be present and available for use simultaneously.

With the proliferation of ground to air systems and their enhanced accuracy, even with so-called stealth a/c what are the odds of either side in a peer conflict really establishing superiority? I can visualize it on the approaches, behind the line of advance but not otherwise. From observation...