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Roger all. Maybe I am a dinosaur (Ok, well....I AM a dinosaur...) but to me it is shocking that any Army officer would consider writing a syllabus or delivering a training course with such a fundamental deficiency as ignoring or weakening nav training. Now, I took a long time to become useful...

I recall this. This was not a particularly smart move by the Republicans, but its not unknown for govts to take money away from institutions or groups they fund, who don't toe the Party line. It's usually blatant, quite transparent and doesn't really do what the government hopes for, but...

Well, maybe. If they are repeat offenders, chances are they were either in a Provincial jail or a Federal prison at some point. Apparently the first exposure didn't work. That said, I do see that there are those who while not quite bad enough to be executed, need to spend the rest of their lives...

I agree in general with what the US Army is trying to do, and I wonder if the CA isn't having its own issues with the sort of people it recruits. It would be interesting  to hear from our posters who are dealing at the coal face on this. Caveat: historically, every adult generation thinks the...

A big post to try to reply to: I won't attempt a line-by-line response. My views on what reasonable gun control laws are are pretty much what I said a few posts back. In other words, about what we have now, although I am ceetainly open to things such as transport, ownership of fully automatic...

Sooooo.....a bottle of good single malt would be like a five year retainer...?? :whistle:

Thanks very much FJAG. Send me the bill....

I guess it depends on what we mean by "burden", but yeah, that's it  more or less.,

:goodpost: Well said. My thoughts exactly.

Thanks very much for posting that. A fascinating read, and one that many people shooting off their mouths on both sides should consider. One thing is very clear: Gerald Stanley very clearly had reason to be afraid for his life and that of his family. Second, that the young people in that car...

I clearly remember the protection of hockey players. I recall one company merit board in the early 1980s  when we had to rate a hockey playing NCO nobody had even seen in the last few months. He was given a good score. This was resented at company level as unfair and illicit, but grudgingly...

I certainly agree that gun laws alone don't deter  crime. This is true of any of the instruments we deploy as a society to try to deal with crime: the courts, jails and prisons, the police, probation officers, social workers, social programs or the public education system. All of them have good...

Most of what you say makes sense, but the argument that since criminals will break gun laws anyway, there is no point in having such laws doesn't make any sense to me. The logic underpinning this argument is self-defeating. If the fact that criminals will break a law  makes that law invalid or...

But, Ecole Polytechique was not prevented: 14 dead, more than a goodly number on that list. Nor was Mayerthorpe nor Moncton, in which armed police officers were gunned down. I believe in reasonable gun control laws: they are part of a civilized society. We control the sale and use of...

Ahhh. Just like in Ontario, where I am pretty sure they will never, ever, come back again. Good intentions but not very good execution. But, then, what about Alberta...who could have called that one? The Devil must have been calling up clothing stores to issue winter kit...

Ouch. That stings.

Right. But what's wrong with striking a balance? We need oil and gas products, for sure (and we will for years to come), but we also need clean air, clean water and clean soil, or we'll be dead or quite ill.

Despite my slagging off of NDP earlier,  I was relatively happy under the Provincial NDP in Manitoba in the period 2002-2005. I thought they did OK, but then I wasn't really there all that long.

Here is an old quote, variously attributed but usually to the Roman Gaius Petronius: "We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing; and a...

Three reasons: First, because of what seem to me to be systemic problems in our political system, the Tories were sinking into the swamp of what I call "Second-Term-itis". This pathology (IMHO) affects all parties in Federal power in Canada, regardless, and the Liberals are absolutely no...