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Well, at least I didn't mention anything about Iroquois engines. ... Doh!

Or ask A. V. Roe to build us fith-gen Arrows.

Both. Some sections of the strait are very shallow, from a merchant ship point of view or a heavy icebreaker point of view. This is complicated by the fact that there are weird currents and wind effects in the strait due to very large tidal effects and wind tunnel effects, and finally, it...

Sorry. Didn't pick up on that. Then fire away. Sort of. We'd have to figure if the tubes and helicopter hanging points can be the same as the ones for NATO standard torpedoes. Otherwise, we could be setting ourselves up for having to have our own exclusive supply chain with in NATO countries.

No. Let's go over this again: Submarines use heavy torpedoes. Modern ASW ships use light toprpedoes. Why? because heavy torpedoes are near impossible to handle at sea in a surface ship so you would be limited to the ones carried in tubes, and no more. Also, the light torpedoes are the ones...

It's not quite like that. We all know that, in terms of shipping cost, expressed in ton per kilometer, shipping (by sea) is the cheapest, followed by rail, then trucking, and finally, air cargo as most expensive. So here is an example of the situation we are talking about: Hardware chain BMR...

Vancouver and Montreal are the two largest ports in Canada and they ship everything they are sent. There is only one natural resource the provinces where they are located object to: Oil and Gas. and it is connected to GHG emission concerns of the environmental lobbies, not to concerns over port...

Better check your numbers: The US has about 22,000 personnel in Alaska + about 4 to 5 thousand national Guardsmen. That's way less than the total CAF. Moreover, the largest part are found at Elmendorf-Richardon Base, in Anchorage. They are USAF for the most part and the largest part of the...

The economy of shipping is, as is right now, to ship from Montreal and Quebec City. The simple reason is that most of what is shipped - vehicles, construction material such as dimensional wood and lumber, steel beams and sheets, insulation, cements, processed and prepackaged food, refined fuels...

My point was merely that the Arctic resupply route doesn't go the way Humprey's map shows, then pointing out the similarity in distance between posting a ship there or St John's (which is the Coast Guard's main base for the Arctic - with support from Quebec City). I am not saying that we...

Just one point, Humphrey: You can't go that way for the Arctic Resupply route. The way you show can only go to Iklulik. The passage between that route and Baffin Island is unnavigable, so the Arctic resupply route still has to go around Baffin island. That is the reason why St John's is as good...

I hope so. But it is the US we are talking about: If it does not involve an American, it doesn't exist.

Jeff Rath is about as much of an ignoramus on economic matters as the trump administration is. I usually listen to him so I can get a good laugh. He is in the group of Albertans who think that because they have oil in Alberta (whose profits are mostly exported to "other" countries, BTW) they...

Perfect name for the job. I know that the GG is also going to Norway, Denmark and Greenland. In Greenland, she'll fit right in and will be one of the few foreign VIP that can actually speak with the local population in their own language. I'd say it's a Good Show all around for Canada.

Good God. I remember that! I also remember the time we would be paid cash at sea by the Log O, only to keep a few dollars for canteen purchases and hand back the cash to the Log O for safekeeping in his safe until we hit shore where we could deposit it at the bank. Good times! :)

2026: We are still using pay sheets!!!!

FTFY. If we can't get how our constitutional system of governance works right, we can't get anywhere.

More like a nightmare, if you ask me.

Why would we want to do that? Trump is bitchin' about the Arctic. We're up there with naval vessels. He ain't! Put up or shut up. And I know he can't put up. not for a while, And not while pissing on the two Western countries that can actually build and deliver on Arctic capable "warships".

As Spock would say: Fascinating!