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Thinking about second phases of what I'd like: 1) RCAF fighter force to be at least 50% larger. But get the F-35 flying before alternate aircraft are considered. 2) P-8 fleet to be doubled. Long range surveillance, especially maritime patrol, should be a priority. 3) Artillery. I want...

Some initial steps in my world: 1) start with a massive upgrade process for northern airbases. Declare them DND assets and bring them up to fighter strip capacity in at least 6 locations in the NWT/Yukon/Nunavut. 2) I believe we have one artillery round producer for 155mm shells? Double...

Ah yes...the fun of the one slow vehicle you follow for the next three hours...in a convoy...due to lack of passing lanes, pulloffs, and towns. Even worse when you fill up and don't beat them out of the station and repeat the process. What is the right route? Not really sure...Kenora to...

Japan is really only interested in premium grade wood. Maybe #1 grade or Japanese Grade. Interest in the Chinese market varies in part due to availability of wood (legal and illegal harvest) out of Russia...some of which is different dimensions again. For comparison most of what I see in...

And as much as I want East/West pipelines across the country...start in Ontario with a bypass plan for Line 5 so that they are not economically dependent upon Michigan pipeline routes. Heck use the opportunity to twin the TransCanada highway starting from Manitoba. Fire up the dynamite...

There are some "wine" products from Alberta. Mostly fruit based wines vs. grape wines. It's mostly sold through smaller orchard type stores but there has been commercial scale wineries going back to the late 1980's/early 90's....mostly around saskatoon berry wine. Many products are also...

As nice as Google products - Google maps and Google Earth are... Sentinal Hub Playground /Copernicus Browser have them beat in so many ways that they've become a key tool for our work. Copernicus Browser Great tool for "good enough but timely" information vs. super high detail stuff (1m pixel...

What While I know it's the federal legislation involved with the operation and construction of lines (have dealt with it professionally and the NEB has no sense of humour) I'm still not clear what the federal powers are in the face of provincial opposition to build trans-provincial projects...

FJAG...you're bang on in regards to inter-provincial lines requiring federal approval. But internally it's just provincial law.

Your point about government borrowing vs. competing with private sources. I was trying to think of the implications of the loss of the Canada Savings Bonds being issues by the Government direct to Canadians...and now you fighting private capital return rates. To battle tariffs will need a...

As I understand the Norwegian wealth fund it also has a few different aspects: 1) most production is offshore in what we'd call "federal" waters. So from day 1 it was largely a national company working on developing it. Private companies also operate but they pay significantly higher royalty...

Still recall one of the first wildfire deployments and the Plans chief was doing the incident plan via a laptop of his pick up one page printing at a time while another member was tracing maps via a sketch from Ops on the situation taped to one side of a window and blank paper on the other side...

I read through the article and my initial thought was it was a recipe for disaster...and I'm pro CAF reservists getting formal training on Mutual Aid. The key arguments of using reserve units to man an area as: a) first on scene - if you don't have red and blue lights good luck beating police...

Thanks for the paper Svanen. It unfortunately tends to focus mostly on the overseas awards especially the confusion around Afghanistan service awards and the differences occurring depending on rotation, area deployed, Armed Forces served under and multiple changes to the award criteria mid...

I guess that's sort of what I was picturing. Something big enough to reach open water especially coastal islands chains like the West Coast, small enough to ship into the Great Lakes if needed, and still effective on a support mission like OP CARRIBE. Was thinking it was the sort of...

I don't know much about boats vs. ships other than some cost a crap ton of money and others make for better pirate ships than others. But to my limited mind I think of deep ocean RCN vessels which are the frigates and supply ships - I guess what some call blue water navy. And then I think of...

Here's a counter proposition based upon a recent civilian fleet purchase: https://www.daher.com/en/daher-aircraft-delivers-the-first-tbm-960-birddog-airplanesto-conair-in-support-of-wildfire-air-attack-missions/ Bird dog aircraft (the ones that guide in and direct the water bombers) usually...

As a rough planning area...sure. But I just measured...dual lane TransCanada highway + dual track CN mainline + TransMountain Pipeline (both pipes) + powerline utility corridor. 450m total width and they are not all adjacent to each other. Don't get me wrong it's enough to disrupt...

So being quite intimate with the joys of living in oil and gas boom towns....and crashes...I would also caution against "rushed" work. It's great to be able to mobilize 2-5,000 men to work on a job...but if it's only going to 9 months or seasonal work it's tough to build any sort of community...

Sigh...that's a fancy but small camp up there. Some are 9,999 person accomidations and multi-level. But shows what is potentially involved or able to be offered. Credit to the builders where those rooms are generally pretty decent to stay in and stay warm in -40 temps. They are however...