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Dec. 11- Singapore announced the purchase of 66 (familar number) refurbushed Leo 2A4's + 25 more to be used as spares from German surplus. If this great military power can afford them ???? cheers

Not to be outdone Cape Breton is talking about Nation status also. Aren't native american tribes refered to as Nations. Get A life.!!

Polls are essentially popularity contests that change daily usually by the last headline or TV show. Why have elections , wouldn't it be cheaper and faster to simply have a poll. Cancel the hocky season , simply hold a poll of fans. There is a simple formula = length of mission x number of...

This is a very common theme in politics or in buisness for that matter, sons or daughters following in their parents footsteps. One shoudn't discount all their OJT at parents knee which makes them savy in the ways of their forebears. IE; Paul Martin Sr. & Jr , Conservative Foreign Affairs...

Where have you been hideing. Try a search of Hansard and you would see thousands of examples of Conservatives calling the Liberals a lot worse than that and vive versa as well.  You shouldn't take everything litterly , IE the Soup Nazi on Sienfeld Didn't mean to imply that he was a National...

At the time residential schools were in common use for natives they were also in use for non natives as well.  Try talking to a lot of peoples grandparents and you would find horror stories as well . What was acceptable bahavior in schools in that era, people would today be put in jail for. ...

I agree that the forces vote geographicaly so do civies.  GO says nobody votes Liberal in the west  while in N.S. the Conservatives ran a poor third in the last election . But in the next????  Who can say thats why they have elections. Toodles

Found the paper very interesting and the results surprising but I have to wonder if different parameters were used and numbers crunched would the results have turned out different. Second ,do the authors have an  agenda of there own, ie political. Thirdly I watched several football games lately...

Remember the Kingston Class were designed to be 1. a replacement for the old Gatevessels and as such were a quantiive leap forward. 2. A CHEAP limited capibility Coastal Minesweeper/Minehunter route survey vessel and as such only required a speed of 15-16 knots and did not require open ocean...

A typical Gov. dog and pony show trying to make political points.  This A/C has been around for years but as much of it's equipment fit was becoming outdated and requiring more & more maintenance hours (sound familar)  it was fitted with updated equipment after  getting several government dept's...

It should also be pointed out that in the CG things differ a lot from region to region so what Colin says happens on west coast may be totally different in another region.  In Maritimes region MCTS and Operations Officers were issued uniforms and for a time all wore them. Then a couple of people...

Some anchient history for you.  Once upon a time you had to be 21 to vote in Canadian elections. The only exception to this was if you were in the military who were alowed to vote at any age. The thought was if you were old enough to serve your country you were old enough to vote.  Service...

I guess this means that the allegeded rumour that Muskrat failed his sensitivity training course was in fact a vicious lie.

Points to keep in mind. 1. Latest poll out yesterday shows if election were held today Liberals would win a majority gov. 2. Almost all of the new kit in pipeline with the exception of the C-17 was already planned for by the Liberal gov the Conseravatives     only held dog and pony shows to...

AND!!! All things being equal it wouldn't take much to topple the present minority Gov. and it wouldn't be too much of a stretch for any new Gov. to be swayed by public opinion and yank Canada out toute suite. Cheers

Carefull what you wish for .  How many ships have ever been built in NFLD let anone warships. Fishing vessels yes , tugs & supply vessels but no ships let alone a vessel the size of JSS.  How many of the Navy's current fleet were built on the west coast, None. The last vessels built on the west...

If you guys get this excited about an Orca i'd hate to think what would happen if you saw a real warship. Toodles.

Well i have finally managed to wade through the entire 440 pages and would like to make a few points also IMHO. 1. The author certainly seems to have a serious axe to grind and must have put a lot of time into the project but the results are disappointing to say the least. 2. Some points are...

Of all the weighty subjects covered in this book, BC forrest fires, it would seem to me to hardly rate even a mention but that ,like the rest of the book is only the authors opinion and many points made are open to dissagreement but that maybe the authors intention , to foster discussion. Cheers.

Some years ago it was realized that when there were meetings between CCG and the USCG ,as happens a lot, there was no way to tell who the Canadians were. The USCG were all there loaded with ribbons and brass like third world dictators while the CCG were at these meetings in civies so there was...