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Not in the dockyard area, but they are looking more down by Shearwater (which may need another firehall and other things). Will be a much better commute at least for a lot of people, and then hopefully surface ships won't be fighting for the same FMF resources and playing second fiddle to them...

Government time estimates are weird; if that was changed to Winter 2026 would be anywhere from Oct/Nov 26 to April/May 2027. Either way, that's exceptionally fast for what is shaping up to be the largest procurement in Canadian history as well as a strategic defence partnership.

2027 was mentioned in the CBC article; https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-germany-trade-security-submarines-1.7617600 as a decision date, but either way that's not much time for both companies to put in some detailed bids and also figure out contract negotiations for some of the critical...

The announcement for the subs is an absolutely massive one for DND procurement, and when you look at the timelines in kind of unprecedented for something that may be in the $100B range. Approval for something like that is within Ministerial/Cabinet approval levels, so they are still working...

There have been a few like that which were reviewed under 'Made in Canada' requirements that met the exclusion of no facilities existing to build something that size (or complexity, like aluminium fast ferries). There isn't consistent enough demand for things that big, and frankly even the NSS...

Should be interesting to see, especially as she's fighting back saying he has no actual authority, and SCOTUS has previously upheld the Fed needs to be independent from the Executive to be effective. But given the success they've had after stacking their decks, wouldn't be surprised if SCOTUS...

Thanks, I didn't know that, should be interesting to see. Hopefully don't learn any hard lessons from a disaster. Both ISI and VSY expcitly said they would meet the RCN/CCG schedules as well, which even the GoC knew wasn't going to happen as the schedule was for bidding and not realistic. The...

I'm not sure the LiB is actually an advantage, it's still a rapidly developing technology and the impacts when it goes wrong would be fatal for the crew. The safer versions 'only' release massive amounts of hot, toxic gases instead of burning, except the subs have no way to effectively vent it...

There are some pretty good reasons why they aren't working in their field; the actual labour market doesn't recognize a lot of their degrees, due to too many degree mills and may require some kind of retraining or additional proof of qualification , while the immigration program gives them...

I'm not sure, I didn't deal with that side of things, was just working on the controlled goods list and 50 years of accumulated spares. I'm on leave but if you give me a week I can email someone that would know and ask.

It already will be actually with a lot of the northern investments for the air force for NORAD; the amount of working going on around that part of Canada over the next 10-20 years is pretty staggering, and big enough that part of the discussion is major upgrades to city infrastucture to support...

I think we may have a different definition of sucking at it, but I doubt the average Palestinian cares about much more than not starving at this point, even if that means risking getting gunned down by the IDF at a handout. I'm sure a lot of others may also be taking up arms anyway, as if their...

Pretty hilarous the company name is Vaultek though. Have any of the storage requirements for handguns changed significantly within the last 20 years or so, particularly with them getting more restricted generally and banned in some municipalities? Still really not sure where I sit on any of...

Kind of an interesting one; global costs of orange juice went up due to weather impacts, but exports of Florida juice to Canada is plummeting. In the grand scheme of things it's going down from $12M to just under $6M, but can't remember even seeing Florida citrus for sale at all this summer, and...

I really fail to see any actual goal or plan to actually beat Hamas, and really seems more about punishing everyone in Gaza and killing as many people as possible. Their lack of any apparent strategy at this point only really makes sense if their goal is to wipe out everyone that lives there and...

Counterpoint to that, from my experience with the NSS, and some smaller contracts with IRBs and Value Proposition, it creates a massive bureaucracy to demonstrate and track all of that, and some of the policy goals to do things like create small and medium enterprises (confusingly using the SME...

Officially I think they were coming in through DHH, but we also got internal requests through the DWAN for the accountable items (ship crests, bulkhead number plaques etc) for the 280/tankers. As someone mentioned, they don't have bar rails in their mess, and can't think of anything in...

Curious to see where they start to put relics as the decommision them; the requests that came in when we were doing the 280 and tanker breaking was wild. Kind of neat that the IRO bow is at Carling campus, and I think the bridge of the Fraser is somewhere, as well as the odd anchor but there...

That's wild, imagine thinking you could murder your ex-son in law to resolve a bitter divorce and custody hearing and not be a suspect. How did someone have that much money but be so dumb and arrogant?

While also gerrymandering the districts heavily to increase the odds of winning in Senate and Congressional house seats. I don't think they are worried about SCOTUS at all anymore