Search results

“America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair,” Arnold J. Toynbee

Some Deputy shuffling, including some moves in Defence: Carney shakes up senior ranks of the public service Kevin Brosseau, who was named Canada's fentanyl czar in February 2025, is keeping that role but is also being made the senior associate deputy minister of national defence and...

That should help ;)

The British have similar issues to our cadets, with pressures to avoid streaming them directly into the military. They even have two kinds of cadet corps: ACF and CCF. The Army Cadet Force is more like our cadets, with unit affiliated corps. The Combined Cadet Force corps are all embedded with...

That explains it.

The US, and other countries, has no equivalent cadet program to ours and yet they seem to do OK with recruiting. Just sayin' ;)

A buddy of mine married a teacher. It was fun going over to their house for BBQs etc from time to time so I could tune up my knowledge of communist political doctrine, picked up initially through intelligence briefings with various militaries as well as history courses as university, by talking...

F-35's first air-to-air kill... Israel says fighter jet took down Iranian warplane, the first shootdown of its kind Israeli air force commander tells pilots 'historic' milestone demonstrates military strength as war continues...

It's kinda like "Conscription if necessary, but not necessarily conscription." I hope that clears things up a bit ;)

Federal government boosts scrutiny of businesses claiming to be Indigenous-owned Indigenous Services Canada is promising stricter enforcement against businesses falsely claiming to be Indigenous-owned in order to gain preferential access to billions worth of federal government contracts...

So you've been to Victoria and Vancouver then? ;)

Given the political leanings of most teachers, staff and school boards these days, you'd get more traction if you gave them the opportunity to stand up the Komsomol Youth Pioneers again. Always ready! ;)

Doesn't happen anymore... not after all the injury claims ;)

Well, the Venezuelan operations are a mess, so I'm guessing they're working with a hand tied behind their back...

Meanwhile, Repsol is doing a great job in Venezuela ;) The boss of Spanish energy giant Repsol said Thursday that his company could boost oil production in Venezuela by more than half over the next year after Washington reauthorised its operations there...

Well, we just cut the Army into two silos so I’ll assume that’s no longer a corporate policy ;)

Compulsion will not endear anyone to military service, of any kind. Good marketing, advertising and recruiting to attract people willingly to a well led and equipped force structure? Much better...

Brian Urquhart enters the chat... "The episode was described by Cornelius Ryan in his book on "Market Garden", A Bridge Too Far. In the film version, directed by Richard Attenborough, Urquhart's character (portrayed by Irish actor Frank Grimes) was renamed "Major Fuller", to avoid confusion...

Asia is going to hurt the most.... https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-oil-trade-through-the-strait-of-hormuz-by-country/?mc_cid=282f484bb9&mc_eid=68bfce1e0a