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One thing I forgot to mention...  If you think that you may be be exposed to asbestos fibers, in any way shape or form, DON'T SMOKE. Smoking is considered to be a co-carcinogen for asbestos.  It damages the lung's ability to remove fibers and increases the cancer risk by an astronomical amount.

First off, I am not in Toronto on a 4 year post. Second of all, I have no kids and don't need to worry about schools. Third, I grew up in PMQs and know exactly what they're like. Fourth, Toronto is not Pet.  The housing market isn't even remotely similar. There are reasons why people choose...

Anyone aware of how many of the Oakville PMQs are occupied? I was considering moving there but picked William Baker instead.  Since my wife found a used hypodermic needle in the ditch while raking leaves, I'm wondering if the commute isn't so bad afterall.

Asbestosis, a form of pneumoconiosis, usually takes more than 20 years to manifest...same goes for mesothelioma. The greatest problem is that you CANNOT see the fibres that will cause damage.  The human eye can only see particles down to about 50 um (microns)...the stuff that gets down into...

I wish I had run into you during the recruiting process...it took me five trips into the recruiting centre to apply for Bioscience.  I even had a recruiter tell me the trade didn't exist, *after* I handed them an email annoucing the trade was open with a contact number for more info. Things...

The only *regular* opportunities for jungle or desert that I've seen come with a posting to CFSSAT as a SERE Instructor.  However, these slots are few and far between because they're piggybacked on foreign courses.  The ones that I remember included Brit AF desert in California, Brit AF jungle...

I don't know about 4 and 4 back-to-back, if that's your meaning.  I do know that you can do 4 years at a civvie U, apply for an Officer trade, then have the military pay for a trade-specific Post Grad degree down the line.  A yearly message comes out that lists all of the PGs and the trades that...

Through all of the coverage, I've been surprised at the number of people that seem to have adopted a "rescue me" attitude...people that will just sit there and do nothing until someone in a position of authority tells them to move. No mass exodus from the Superdome to higher ground. No squads...

Thanks for the link JJ...I heard about this event but hadn't seen any "proof" of cops involved with the looting. Hard to support that what they were doing was, "part of their job".  If they had a specific list of items required for the police (batteries, laundry soap, etc) and were upfront with...

Just left CFSSAT where I worked in SERE Flight. I can say that while I was at the school, I never heard this issue come up in any official capacity.  (Worked with a number of SAR Techs.) For those that aren't familiar with the term, SERE stands for Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape. ...

Only had one negative experience in uniform...happened in Victoria.  I was walking home from the bus stop after MILCON 91 and had some passenger in a car try to throw a half-full pop can at me. Despite having my ruck on and a duffel bag on top of that, they missed. My sister though had an...

Urban myth? #1: Another buried vehicle... At the tail end of RV 92 in Wainwright, I heard a rumour that a C-6 had gone missing.  They figured that it had been left (or buried) in the field, so the Grifs made passes over the training area with ground penetrating radar.  They didn't find the C-6...

A high level for a nondrinker of coffee.  What I find funny are people that act like drinking a Jolt or a Red Bull is giving them a 200mg+ dose of caffeine. The caffieine will depend on the size, brewing style and quality of bean.  The higher the quality, the lower the caffeine.  On top of...

Red Bull does not have a high level of caffeine.  In fact, it's only 80 mg, which is a little less than what you'd find in a standard cup of coffee. The other ingredients are taurine, glucuronolactone, sugar and a bunch of B vitamins.  Not sure if it still contains inositol.  Nothing really...

Did you actually see the size of the thing when compaired to a pen?  Calling that thing a "pipe bomb" is an insult to pipe bombs. More like, "scary homemade firecracker seized at Victoria ferry dock".  ;D

The Caprice theatre offered a Military discount on Monday nights back when I lived in Vic (2001).  Not sure if it's still offered, but it was good for yourself and 1 guest with ID.  The discount amounted to something like the Tuesday cheap-night price, but without the loud-mouth Tuesday clowns...

This is excellent news.  Now that I'm posted to Toronto, I can start not going to the games because I can't afford tickets.  At least I'll be able to go back to calling the Canucks a bunch of bums...

The list of possible Canadian targets is probably quite extensive...I'm sure you could name one or two in most of the provinces.  However, Toronto does have the two factors Al Qaida gets hot'n heavy over:  Major financial district and mass transit. Don't get me wrong...I hate thinking of TO as...

All the jungle and desert courses I've seen are done through foreign military courses.  SERE instructors at CFSSAT have the option of taking them after they complete their SERE indoc training (Cdn SERE and a foreign SERE course), along with a few other high-speed courses. As they are the rare...

Is 150K for a one hour "commercial" worth it?  ;)  Some of the fabrications are two episodes...notice that most of the theme bikes coming off the show lately are for major corporations?  (As opposed to season 1) That's a pretty reasonable price for some publicity IMHO.