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Trump being who he is, Carney may have benefited from sounding like a high-end banker: a class of person DJT has actually had to make deals with, including as a supplicant, over the years. This came to mind listening to Carney on the radio, attempting to make campaigning noises: it feels like...

It's also relatively low-footprint. Want an easy way to spend a bunch of defence money? Establish skeet ranges all over the place, and also fund a) unit weapons training as a a priority item, and b) additional service weapon firing on existing rifle ranges. Start treating it in a manner similar...

If there's a need for a federal constabulary fleet that isn't RCN, why look at messing with the CCG, who're already a bunch of distinct fleets/missions with a common paintjob, and not just build out the RCMP's maritime capacity?

Wonder how unique their handling is, too, given the waterjet system.

Is there room within any of the developing defence arrangements to line the designers up with foreign work?

Perhaps only starting "up or out" after a certain rank (maybe PO1 and LCdr?), and exempting certain trades and career paths entirely?

Sole source?

Setting aside Russia's possible response, not sure why China would need to distract those countries who would care about Taiwan from a move in Siberia. Chinese administration would likely be an improvement, especially in urban areas and townships.

What would the odds be of Turkish military assistance of some form?

Gun tractors, guns, and some booms around the Legislature are just about tailor-made for public engagement. Shame the openings are usually (always?) during the week.

Don't say that too loud, or someone will want to double-hat the things as SPGs.

Only slightly more overgrown looking than the SLR/FN. Did a quick google: same length, more or less, but more than twice the weight.

Don't know how universal this is, but there's plenty of HH stores in BC in strip malls and very urban areas, including Davie Street in Vancouver. Davie Village Home Hardware · Vancouver, British Columbia Their lumber yard offerings, in locations where they have a yard, are much more variable...

Something to be said for all the openness and active inclusion from a security standpoint.

And that market consciously searching for new suppliers in (likely) every sector is a unique opportunity.

Had forgotten about that; thank you. Expect some of the same points re: shifts in workplace compensation, safety, etc. apply to urban work and urban life.

To quibble: there's lots of those in Greater Vancouver, and on Vancouver Island, along with a healthy contingent of young women who enjoy the same things. They also like living in or within easy reach of a major metropolis. What's really disappeared are the masses of young men doing hardening...

Wonder where the compounds-in-the-woods crowd land as far as alignment with a country whose federal security services make the US "Fed" of legend look like a nonintrusive, benevolent friend of the heavily armed and opted-out.

Setting aside, specifically, Trump, Russia waving their rare earths around sounds like a perfect reason to keep hammering them in Ukraine. If they're making noises about cooperative ventures now, they'll be even more willing after (hypothetically) getting knocked around in the spring. Can't...

For extra historical fun, I get the impression that, further back, "cruiser" was used as something of a catch-all description for naval vessels engaged in commerce disruption, though the vessels could be anything from 74-gun ships down to sloops.