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One of the reasons we used rubber track pads was to protect "our" road network, especially our logistical lines of communications road network, so that it would be ready for war. The West Germans, in the 1950s and '60s, still had more than enough construction/reconstruction projects on the go to...

This, by Gary Mason in the Globe and Mail, is an issue with which both provincial and the national government must deal in the not too distant future: ---------- We can’t ignore the fact that some mentally ill people do need to be in institutions GARY MASON NATIONAL AFFAIRS COLUMNIST...

OK, 🪖 on ... In the 1960s we, the 🇨🇦 Army were getting a lot of new kit: especially new APCs, new SP howitzers and new radios. Our leaders told us, on parade after parade, that money didn't grow on trees and so we would also have to make do with some pretty old kit, too. We used 15+ years old...

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Precisely, Jim! Who our 🇺🇲 friends elect matters a whole helluvalot to 🇨🇦 but we don't have any say in the mater. We can be partisans for any number of reasons and I can see a few merits and many, many more demerits to both candidates but, in the final an analysis we must wait until the...

It was that way under Harper, Martin, Chrétien, Mulroney, Clark, Trudeau, and, I suspect, even Pearson and Diefenbaker.

I think the BQ (and PQ) party faithful are still committed separatists, but I also think that they know that the majority of Quebecers are afraid of full sovereignty so that will settle, for now, for some sort of 'sovereignty within a seriously weakened Canada.'

CKLB Radio, Yellowknife, reports that Pierre Poilievre makes some specific promises on a range of issues (my emphasis added): ----------- Pierre Poilievre unpacks parcel of promises during Yellowknife stop Axe the Tax rally also heard the Conservative's Opposition leader's plans for housing...

Hmm ... what's that old line about rodents and sinking ships? From today's Good Grey Globe: ---------- Five chiefs of staff set to leave the Trudeau government ROBERT FIFE OTTAWA BUREAU CHIEF MARIEKE WALSH SENIOR POLITICAL REPORTER OTTAWA, NANAIMO Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is...

As I've already said, elsewhere in Army.ca, this is a dangerous path for the Liberals. Many, many Liberals in the progressive wing of the party were content with a CASA with the NDP. But many of those people are also staunch federalists. It will be a blow if their party aligns itself with a...

I think this is a good move for the BQ, better, I suspect, than it was for the NDP. Prime Minister Trudeau is desperate (not too strong a word) for support for a few months while he tries to turn things around. But it is a double edged sword for the Liberals: allying themselves with the BQ will...

It might look like it did 50 or even 35 years ago when there were, generally, three "partners" in any project: A PD from the then Directorate of Land Plans, one of a half dozen LCols for projects likely to be above a certain dollar value, a few million in those days; A Tech Staff Officer...

One can make the case that the NDP, and its predecessor, the CCF, never, not even under Jack Layton in 2011, really aspired to become the government of Canada. It's aim, it's self-appointed role, was twofold: to advance the progressive and socialist causes, especially by pressuring/influencing...

Mark Carney is a very smart, very accomplished guy. He might be an excellent prime minister for a G7 country ... might be if he was leading, say, the Conservative Party. But the party he wants to lead and with which he appears, to me, to be most closely aligned, has been in power for nine years...

And, just yesterday, in Canada, from the Globe and Mail: ---------- Pakistani citizen arrested in Canada for allegedly plotting attack against Jewish people in New York COLIN FREEZE AND FRÉDÉRIK-XAVIER D. PLANTE PUBLISHED YESTERDAYUPDATED 3 HOURS AGO U.S. federal prosecutors allege that a...

Part 2 ---------- UNSETTLING SHIFTS Elections to the European Parliament took place in early June. Populist parties such as the Freedom Party in Austria, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) in France, the Alternative for Germany, the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands, and Giorgia Meloni’s...

Another useful article from Foreign Affairs, this time by Francis Fukuyama: Part 1 ---------- The Year of Elections Has Been Good for Democracy But the Biggest Test Will Come in America By Francis Fukuyama September 4, 2024 Liberals have engaged in a lot of catastrophic thinking during this...

I think a well managed CPC government can produce two solid majorities and then a minority before it runs out of steam, i.e. 25-29, 29-33 and then say, 33-35. My only concern is: is Mr Poilievre a good enough political manager? Can he manage a clear, well planned policy agenda and a fractious...

The House of Lords is a historical artifact of the Westminster system, it's more of a bug than a "feature." Canada's constitution was the first draft, if you like, of constitution writing for the officials in Whitehall; they had precious few models. They got progressively better at the task...