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I met a guy at my store who was working at BC Ferries who said the same thing though; I wasn't paying too much attention to his story, mostly because I was trying to sell him some steel-toe boots, but he said almost the same thing - that he had been forced to leave the RCMP because of his age...

One of my neighbours is RCMP who recommended not joining the force until later on in life, reason being that there is apparently a forced retirement after 25 years; afterwards many former members end up being the old guys you see patrolling malls. I got into a chat with one of the security...

My girlfriend had problems with Ikea. Now we are both Jysk converts. Who knew that smaller can be better?

The Australian Collins class subs have had their share of problems too... EDIT: ..and they cost about a billion each! http://www.ourcivilisation.com/decline/collins.htm

Well, at least we know who didn't sleep during drama class; you posses a rather tiresome flair for the dramatic. http://www.chez.com/dralloc/uboat.htm Here's a question; if a Canadian warship is attacked and sunk in Canadian waters by a foreign aggressor, doesn't that qualify as a "direct...

if it was deep enough underground, would there still be a nuclear signature they could see from space?

let's just hope it was planned and not an accident!

The balloon bombs only succeeded in killing people after the war was over though, didn't they?

Just to play the uninformed devil's advocate here, but aside from WW2, when has Canada ever been under attack? I'm not naive enough to think that that is because of our "international reputation" or anything like that, but isn't our lack of international importance kind of a mixed blessing? I...

I mentioned this to someone at the unit I am applying to, and he pointed out that it is, to the best of his knowledge, it is not retroactive. On another tangent, does anyone know when the fall training would begin for the CScots?

On the subject of draft-dodgers.... http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/9556221.htm

The procedure has evolved in the last couple of years though - PRK used to be done by an actual knife wielding surgeon once, and now they don't even need to have any foreign objects touch the eye. I'd be interested in knowing statistics based on current procedures.

That is pretty much my exact prescription, except I have slight (-0.77) astigmatism in my left eye. The eye exam I got for the forces form showed that my eyes had pretty much stabilized, only now wearing my glasses for months had caused one of my eyes to get slightly "better". I fell into the V3...

I dunno, looks like they've got some pretty intimidating "guards" Soldiers paraded a frightened captive begging for his life before TV cameras yesterday, as Russia began a period of official mourning for the hundreds of men, women and children killed in the Beslan school siege in North...

Demographic statistics perhaps - everyone loves those. It won't matter anyways, just put what you are and be done with it. Admittedly, I found it kind of confusing. I'm half Mexican and half Australian -does that make me Hispanic? Caucasion? Can anyone tell? If in doubt, put white.

Well, for starters, what good did Canada do last year? I'm not bashing the troops, far from it; but Afghanistan still sounds like it is a pretty dangerous, lawless country. What were troops doing patrolling Kabul, maintaining law and order? Wouldn't that be a job for an international...

Well, if the whole point was to draw attention to whatever their "cause" is, it worked. The thing I don't get is what they hoped to accomplish by negotiation; if a group of terrorists take over a school for shock value, then wouldn't murdering everyone inside be "even better"? Or was the whole...

How would you tell if something like this was a success? More hostages live than die? It's certainly not a video game :( I can't help but feel that Canada wouldn't handle something like this well - I mean, what, we just finished getting over what happened at Oka, didn't we? Reports and all?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/3616868.stm

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,987172,00.html? "Were you to glance up from the deserted beach below, you might mistake Tranquility Bay for a rather exclusive hotel. The statuesque white property stands all alone on a sandy curve of southern Jamaica, feathered by palm...