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I agree, the likelyhood of violence from the carrier of the Kirpan is not great but its the ignorance of others that may become the problem. Wouldn't it just be easier to say "In Canada, no guns or bladed instruments of any sort are allowed in schools." In my opinion, if you move to Canada...

Yes it is. Its my opinion that the average junior high/high schooler doesn't have the maturity to understand cultural differences and the likelyhood of an incident occuring is great. With a country like Canada, we can't honestly say that every culture of the world will get along peacefully by...

Unfortunately at my current posting I work 12 hour shifts alternating night and day. This combined with the fact that I have a two year old daughter at home, I can not go for an out door run without getting a sitter. I am a huge fan of running outdoors versus treadmills but in order to stay in...

Your typical Canadian student will look at a Kirpan as a weapon simply because they are ignorant to its true meaning. What I am suggesting is that as Canadians, we need to draw the line somewhere. I recall a lady in Toronto (I think) who went to court because she couldn't get her drivers...

I am in no way insinuating that a person has ever or would ever used the Kirpan for violence but whats to stop another student from taking it away. In my opinion if the Kirpan was never in the school to begin with, the possibility would not exist. Although Canada is the result of many...

In order to avoid senseless comments I would ask that readers become informed on the Kirpan at http://www.sikhs.ca/kirpan/ before commenting. I would like to know what the opinion of others is on this subject and weather or not you think Canadian society will benefit or be hurt by religiouse...

Take lots of input from the senior Cpl's/Mcpl's and senior NCO's. If they see you are willing to listen, they won't steer you wrong as one day they may be working for you. Junior and Senior NCO's hate the persona of those that have a few months in and believe all NCO's are beneath them. In my...

Chinchilla. Their small furry, quiet and low maintenance. And as a bonus, if you didn't like your PER, they will eat it.

When I joined in 1990, my mother begged me to go officer. She is university educated and has spent her entire life teaching. She still to this day has no idea what the military is like or even what its purpose is. I can almost gurantee that the comments by your family/friends is based on the...

I think the big underlying issue can be traced to the fact that you can have a reserve corporal that has attended the minimum amount of parade nights to stay active, suddenly working side by side with a regular force corporal who has spent 10 years day in day out. I know alot of reservists...

It may offend islamics to see Mohammed portrayed in pictures, but it offends me to see televised beheadings. Maybee I should start a protest that incites violence.

Contact 2 RCHA in Petawawa, Ontario. They have supplied troops to DART for the earthquake in turkey, the tsunami and honduras.

Although we see many different portrayals of religiouse icons in shamefull pictures, I think it goes hand in hand with the freedom of expression. A burning cross or even the "jesus" character on familly guy may not be tops in Jerry Fallwells books but generally we are all mature enough to see...

CTV news just did a spiel on it and apparently in their defence, the Canadian diplomats had a canadian patch or sticker on their dash so they felt they were safe. I think even the most uninformed of Canadians knows that if they were to approach an armed american convoy, maybee a little eye...

At this base we have only civies working supply and the nice thing is she is a former CF member, married to a Warrant and believes she's a general. Im pretty sure someone convinced her that the items you are asking for are deducted from her paycheck, otherwise I wouldn't get comments like "what...

Its also interesting that society has evolved to the concept that its acceptable to use statistics when setting a bias in insurance rates, the above mentioned airline policy(not exactly based on stats), hiring practices of "visible minorities" to be politically correct, parental rights when...

What bothers me is that they would attend a soldiers funeral to "make their point". Soldiers are fighting for their country, they dont make the political decisions. Sure demonstrate all you want but do it on the lawn of the people pulling the strings.

It would be unproductive and illegal but it sure would feel good to inflict a little vigilanty style retribution on the assaulters.

Get into shape using the guidelines of what people have recommended in several "fitness" threads, and read up on what to expect using the search function. No civillian run boot camp will give you an edge, and anyway you dont want to "stand out" from the other recruits.

Bosnia 1994, Jean Chretien (with helmet on backwards) decides to use the radio in Canbat 2 to call out to the OP's. "Hallo dis is Canada one, how do you ear me?" An unidentified OP replies over the air "not too good, maybee you should buy us better radios"