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In my view Andrew Scheer didn't lose because he was a SoCon, it was because he ran a very poor campaign. Even so he still came close. I think that a capable, confident, compassional SoCon could win an election and I think Leslyn Lewis would fit that bill. That said, I think many SoCons would...

Signed my conditional offer of employment last week, after doing a virtual interview in February. SLOWLY inching closer, but unclear what the timeline is on remaining steps.

Great to hear the update and that you finally made it through the recruiting process. Do keep us posted. On the topic of "old guys" joining the reserves ... I myself signed my conditional offer of employment last week (albeit CIC officer, so not that physically demanding) and am now just...

I agree with pretty much everything you've written here, although I have zero optimism that the CPC will finally get it right after a crushing defeat next election. I hope I'm wrong, but the CPC seems much more likely to go for an even redder Red Tory because they seem to think that it's...

While this is certainly a possibility, perhaps even likely, I don't think anything will be enough to overcome the massive wave of support that will go Trudeau's way if Canadians are allowed outside to live relatively pre-COVID style lives. I have been predicting for a while a scenario similar to...

I completely understand and if I were in that room with the guy, can't say I wouldn't have felt exactly the same way and wanted to do the same. I am frequently impressed at the massive amounts of self restraint that LE generally display in such situations. ... doesn't mean I won't use it for...

I don't know about impossible, although I agree doubtful. It's true that the PPC will get little to no traction ... MSM indeed despises them, plus Scheer did a pretty good job of slandering them with the "racist" smear campaign during the 2019 election and this seems to have stuck. The fact that...

Dictatorship is a bit extreme, agreed, but I think you are 100% spot-on that we are not, and will not, move along a vector of increasing liberty. I wouldn't even add the caveat of "uniformly". A lot of the "advances in extending human rights" aren't really granting of liberty so much as awarding...

From my perspective as a criminal defence lawyer, the stuff I've highlighted in yellow likely played a large part in "[t]he crown's office [negotiating] something". Threatening an arrested person with bodily harm like that is pretty much automatic exclusion of his statement from evidence and a...

Unfortunately I have no idea ... Just posting because I'm interested to see what the answer is and therefore want to subscribe to the thread. I am a lawyer myself, so just curious, although I am applying for CIC not JAG (although I have considered it over the years). Just noticing your...

Yeah, something like that, but without the refractor field of sufficiently left of centre political positions ...

I'm not suggesting people can't have fun or alcohol and that's why I latched not onto the allegation of alcohol, but the use of the word "party" which by the dictionary definition is simply a "social gathering" but I think has a connotation of something a little more raucous and "unofficial"...

Shortest tenure ever for a CDS? I'm going to reserve judgement until there is more, but doesn't sound good. I know alcohol is generally involved in mess dinners, but when they say "party" it sounds like something a lot less formal and just asking for trouble especially as a captain.

Arguably, the very founders of the United States were one such group -- a group of men who didn't trust the government and took concrete action in the form of armed revolution against their lawful ruler. It seems to me that "right wing extremism" is baked right into the United States culture and...

You had me at "goodbye Toronto and Montreal" :sneaky: Seriously, though, the article you posted matched with research I've done. My family are big fans of William R. Forstchen's books about an EMP attack on the US and he posited over 90% of the population of the USA dying in such circumstances...

Looks like an interesting series, I may try at least the first one out. On the topic of good book series on a "SHTF" sort of theme, both myself and my children all greatly enjoyed the series by William R. Forstchen about an EMP attack on the United States ... One Second After, One Year After...

I consumed many many IMPs back during the phase training at CFB Gagetown 1999-2001. I have been introduced to MREs since starting with cadets. Frankly, I don't see much difference at all between them. I have found them to be similar quality flavour-wise, and the "after effects" are similar...

I believe the topic of the thread was "CIC Interview". Thanks for the reply, this is very helpful.

There used to be an excellent thread on the CIC application interview here: CIC Interview https://army.ca/forums/threads/47190.0 The link now appears broken, which is unfortunate because it had great information. I just scheduled my CIC interview today and was hoping to re-read that thread...

This is all very true. I don't think Supersonicmax suggested that Canadians (in general) do what he said is a good approach; I certainly didn't intend to suggest that. I would only say that I think that if people engaged in a respectful and empathetic way, this would be a good thing. The things...