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Almost like continually surging to get sea days and ignoring unsexy things like training schools, maintenance facilities and similar at the institutional level in the name of 'operations' in peacetime undermines your resilience and ability to get up to speed quickly if you need to build. All...

There is no coherent plan to address the myriad personnel shortfalls that even the most optimistic projections show will impact us running up to 6 AOPs, 2 JSS and 15 RCDs, plus 8-12 subs on just the people on the ship side, let alone the 2nd line maintenance, 3rd line maintenance, LCMM etc side...

No, it absolutely isn't, when a very significant portion of the crew takes 5-10 years to train (with senior people in the 15 year timeframe), infra takes 5-10 years to build, and ships take 10 years to design, build and deliver. The lead time for building ship capabilities is much longer then...

WTAF is wrong with these people? I hope they get sued into oblivion for slander by the people that have the actual Tylenol brand name. Aside from the raging stupidity and total lack of actual proof, this is what happens when you let a geriatric narcissist put a bunch of unqualified conspiracy...

Why must we in this case? If coastal continental defence really is a must, I think we'd get much better bang for our buck with drones, mobile batteries and other things and not combat ships that are much bigger than the MCDVs we just got rid of (because we don't have people to crew them)...

So they want an artic ice capable small combatant built in Canada and delivered in a decade, not asking much really. I'm sure by then we'll have fixed our recruiting, training and retention issues and the trades at sub 50% PML will be all filled and growing to take on even more hulls.

Does anyone happen to have an update on when the updated payscale will be implemented? Kind of expecting Oct/Nov but haven't seen actual updated pay tables or any kind of updates on the timeline (unless it was on one of the mass DWAN emails I skimmed and deleted). Updating the monthly pay rates...

There are some really good case studies with the AUS Collins class programme, and how sideways that went. Not that we couldn't develop our own industry, but it's taken us about 15 years to develop the NSS and that's basic surface ship building, which is no where near the level of expertise and...

To be fair to BC Ferries, this is actually a completely regular contract, and they didn't buy in Canada because there isn't a shipyard that could build it, let alone be competitive. NSS isn't meant to build an industry to make every kind of ship, just develop shipyards that can build ships...

So are they going to occupy Bagram as some kind of counter to a nuclear threat now? That is pretty random, is China the new Epstein files distraction?

People who wanted change still didn't want PP in charge.

Well the are using it as justification for blowing up a boat full of people they claim are part of Tren de Aragua instead of arresting, them, so based on their actions to date, think ignoring fundamental rights, extrajudicial actions and otherwise ignoring basic rights and Constitutional...

That's a bit of a false equivalence though; Japan has an incredibly homogenous population, and very tight controls on work visas and tourists. The US has always been a mixed population of First Nations, immigrants, slaves, and Mexicans who became Americans when the borders changed. Their...

They were being Latino at work. This is widespread government intimidation, but absolutely nothing to do with distracting people from runaway inflation, job losses or other significant impacts from stupid Trump economic policies drafted in crayon, or the Epstein files that now are fake news, but...

I haven't actually heard anyone come up with a realistic approach for this, as people just shifted to a company buying it as an investment instead of in their name. Most rental properties are now owned and run by businesses, so going to hard over could impact that. The measures to tax vacant...

Material prices and labour availability have been through the roof as well, with a 10-15% annual inflation rate, so lot of things impacting build rates, as well as contracts, where the builder can no longer afford to make it at a price from years ago when the project was delayed.

Timeline for the federal government to address things is years, as most of the problems are things that have been building for decades, impacted by things outside of the country (and their control). Similarly, their fixes are top down and can have massive impacts, usually unforeseen because it's...

There is also some intentions for bail reforms as well, see what the details look like but seems like reasonable updates. I'm sure PP will be full of criticism regardless of the content. Some of the things Carney did was right out of their platform and somehow still had complaints that it was...

I thought that CBC article was excellent, and a really interesting example of using technology in investigative journalism.

The CPC never did ask the multiple questions I asked via multiple venues on whether the change to the pensions (from defined benefit to defined contributions) would impact CAF and RCMP members, but that would be a huge impact, and in my opinion a breach of contract. Despite buying a bunch of...