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Maybe it's a new retention strategy; make VAC so unpalatable that you delay release because you don't want to deal with them. There have been worse ideas implemented!

Yup, like posh dictators. I find them okay, but do think the giant, flat brim looks very soviet and fee the urge to join a proletariat uprising, and also very top heavy so even though it's on tight it flops around and off fairly easily, so takes the jaunty tilt off the table. I found the old...

A number of them make some kind of donation to the legion, and when you think of what they actually make on a $1 donation or whatever for a poppy it doesn't have to be much. Plus you don't end up with tonnes of cheap plastic ones littering the ground because they fall off so easily, and the...

Perhaps, but it's a lot more real when you can literally see them. If we had Russia instead of US on our southern border, we would likely all have rifle lockups and well equipped armouries in near proximity, as well as a CAF very focused on defending territory on home soil vice deploying...

Sure, but Sweden and Finland have been working very closely with NATO, even leading working groups that feed into doctrine, system designs and tactics for decades. This was less about them wanting to join, and NATO stopping to pretend that keeping a neutral ring of unaligned countries on the...

That's a fair bit ancient history; frontier defence was generations ago and has been irrelevant for 100 years, and there was plenty of Nazi and Communist support in Canada and the US (and UK and other European countries). For most Canadians that threat dissapeared in the mid 1800s, and wars are...

One side effect of ITAR and how the US applied it in the past is we actually considered having ITAR equipment as a negative scoring factor for equipment selection on non-combatants previously. That didn't happen, only because the mid life refits on the MCDVs got cancelled, but we had enough...

Humming that while the ship is at emergency stations during a workups while sea training is there is not a recommended COA. Sub-Lieutenant Clive Carrington-Wood of HMS Sheffield starting to sing that while in the water with the rest of the crew watching the ship sink after having been given the...

Built in optimism? That tends to get taken to far though in risk acceptance, making Pollyanna look like Debbie downer. You can dependably make fun of them in the playoffs I guess when the Leafs choke I guess, but not really any real upsides. Plus if the Leafs ever win a cup again they will be...

That's a weird comparison; no one has had a butterfly infestation of a house that has caused H&S issues, and they don't pollinate anything. People regularly kill moths in their house, and those can be as cool looking as a lot of butterflies. These ostriches were being raised as food stock, so...

That's the downside of having lots of Toronto Maple Leafs fans in decision making positions.

Doesn't a pardon also imply they did something illegal? I thought a lot of those lawyers had been disbarred, but was for things like false claims, massive lies and other issues that were in at least some cases, libel, but nothing straight up illegal on the federal level (because the weird way...

Presumably there is at least two witnesses with his assistant, plus whoever else was in the area. Lot more credible of a claim then the CPC mean girls rebuttal that didn't actually address any of this. Also consistent with their tactics and complaints of harrassment leading up to and during the...

If you consider how stupid WW1 was in particular, and killed 100s of thousands of people and ruined the lives of millions, all because of essentially personal ambition of people in power, it's the human cost should be considered a huge political failure. I don't think remembering the people...

It dates back to 2019 when he was running as a candidate in Sydney, and looks like they didn't follow some of the rule with where it goes and some other things that have more to do with inexperience than malice (like making donations to his campaign that exceeded limits and using his credit card...

Not non-toxic, just PFAS free. It's still a hazmat, but whatever is burning will create it's own toxic soup anyway so why run off control is a concern. For infra, where we can we're moving away from any foam where we can, and there is a flooring system for hangars that basically catches any...

No surprise, the NDP and all the other parties are broke, so sure they will support it, and Bloc and CPC are counting on that so there isn't an actual fall of the government. Would be crazy if they become the power broker again without official party status, or if Elizabeth May can push Green...

Maybe they couldn't come up with a catchy 3 word rhyming slogan; Co-Pilot suggests the following; "Budget Smarter. Live Better. Amend the Budget." Huge fumble, they are turning into the Spilly McSpilly drinker of Canadian politics. Pretty crazy they would miss that one though, parliamentary...

Lot of CFHA work planned, and they are actively buying apartment buildings and fixing them up for some capacity now but from a strict dollar value POV those are a rounding error in the infra plan. Also should be a lot more money available for maintenance, but seems to vary wildly between bases...

It is absolutely inefficient from an LOE and a cost side of things, and drives me crazy as a taxpayer, but that's a systematic inefficiency vice worker skill issue. Coming from it with a industrial process engineering /Six Sigma side of things our bureaucracy is nuts. But if you tell a worker...