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For context I think of 1991 Desert Storm but not unique to the Middle East. If Canada needs to deploy to support a Pacific country then we are looking at deploying a force...maybe that is the Latvia resources, maybe that is the training force units in Canada or in a totally messed up situation...

But only for very senior levels and ministers/MLA. Government employee rules have not changed and are quite strict.

Splashy media marketing aside for me the criteria is three fold: 1) Whatever unit needs to be present in large numbers elsewhere in the world (no orphan fleet) 2) Needs to present and active use in both Europe and Asia. Even in Latvia is the main focus today it doesn't mean threats exist...

Was thinking of the changes to international student enrollment and wonder if there is a window for RES (and possibly REG) members to attend and make up some of the missing enrollment numbers. In a nut shell ROTC for any enlistee, where tuition is also compensated with military service, and...

100% agree when as soon as you start passing North Bay/Petawawa areas in Ontario it becomes very rural and even more remote than much of the prairies. One of many reasons I'm no longer out that direction (although the fishing was great).

Canadian ridings as pulled from Government of Canada website: Federal Electoral Districts - Canada 2023 - Open Government Portal Population centers were pulled from census data and only the largest category selected:2021 Census Boundary files. Then took the large center subset and buffered...

The other aspect of the maritimes...who agreed do have many rural areas...is the much smaller size. When I visit Nova Scotia and everyone referred to everything being within 45 min of Halifax...except for Cape Breton....that's what I think of acreage subdivision around...

I've often thought on the differences in culture between Ontario and the west. Speaking of the context of family in southern Ontario and then living in mostly rural northern Alberta. 1. Size of the country. For rural, especially western Canadians, a couple of hour drive for something like...

It's been several decades since I drove that portion of MB so looked quick on Google. Looks like a small area of ~ 10 miles on the far east side of the province outstanding....also where the Canadian Sheild appears to start.

I would also hope they take advantage of the boom and try to create a MB version of a wealth fund to position the province for long term success too. Especially when dealing with non-renewable resources like minerals or oil.

As a guy who has never seen tanks in actual operation - just on trailers getting moved around the country or static display mounts I keep thinking of the WW2 debate - do we need the best tank...or enough of good enough. Do we need a new super tank or is 4,000 M4 Sherman tanks an acceptable...

BC Wildfire Service have some excellent trained wildfire investigators as well. I have to assume they are involved as wildfire investigations are not the same as structural house fire or vehicle fire. RCMP may have been asked to assist for scene protection, witness interviewing assistance...

nice west flank ? tanker retardent line. road to south and looks like another to the east by creek. Hopefully they can get a perimeter locked down on it pretty quick with the roads in the area. Sigh...wonder now if it's ground I've walked in past years. NE BC has had the stuffing kicked...

I was on my first fire in February this year...5 so far personally. Alberta has had over 200 so far. Live provincial stats here: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/0e45bd0ef9814d5e9ec3f87900a4cfe9 Note this generally only covers a portion of the province and there are many more...

To re-focus the discussion on what might be a source of funds for a sovereign wealth investment fund - not CPP - I've often wondered about the following: 1) Offshore oil and gas revenues in international waters - a portion of funds going towards it (looking at Sable Island/Hibernia offshore)...

I've found it quite interesting driving around this election cycle as the rural areas are heavily placarded by PC signage and are mostly what you visually see. That being said I have to give kuddos the NDP for the digital media ads and LPC for the social media ads I don't see the PC's doing...

There's also a few notices (crown land reservations under the Public Lands Act) in Alberta for possible hydro dam expansion too. Many provinces have these types of tools for dealing with public lands. Private lands get much stickier due to appropriation laws/compensation. You don't want...

The issue I think is more what you're protecting...and what you're walking away from. If the priority is to protect towns and communities....then that means 5-10 km of no forest, swamp, un-mowed grass. And I can't think of many towns let alone cities would be up for being exposed like...

Interesting drive today...through two rural ridings. First Riding: With a week to go there are large signs for all three major parties around the main town. Rural roads are still dominated by CPC though at probably 100 CPC :1 other. Second riding: Into a major town and it's a two horse race...

Another couple hundred of km's driven through some Alberta ridings. PC dominate on signage. And while I've been called and texted like crazy by them (and not on a mailing list) there has been no mention of meeting with constitutes despite these being some of the largest towns in the ridings...