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While I acknowledge that the main push would be for CAF primary bases....assume you have triple the capacity within the medical section? I think there is a case for have a medical unit working out of a major center that covers three objectives: 1) provides a focus for enlistment medicals to be...

I could easily picture a rough road to allow route clearance. Start building a railway to allow for large scale shipments and add in the spurs/bypasses to create the laydown yards/staging areas/work camps needed. As the rail moves forward start building the road beside it. Place power...

It's also less lands involved (important to some First Nations), better overall access (3 projects = better road than 3 temporary access points), and allows for the response god forbid anything goes wrong. When all the routes go different directions its much tougher to respond to a...

I've been told St. Albert general hospital (suburbia Edmonton) has a significant military presence from the medical units keeping skills sharp. I had one unexpected visit there many years ago and was very impressed by how fast and well things went. The only concern is how many military...

I still think of doubling the CAF medical capacity...or tripling it. Heck quadruple it. Now base those units around major centers, but near CAF bases/reserve units where they can serve but have real life experience working via provincial hospitals....and for that matter let them serve in...

Grew up talking with the "old boys" of whom many had worked on the Alaska Highway/CANOL road or NORAD sites (Dew and Pinetree chains). Remembering asking one of them if the war years and rationing affected them much..."nope..not really. Any time we were short we just went to Dawson Creek -...

25 years ago starting out in this industry there was lots of talk about BC/Ontario opportunities and Europe was the role model in terms of volume produced/hectare. The New Zealand pine and Australian eucalyptus was moving to South America for high volume/short rotation plantation based mills...

I'm assuming you're in BC...but northern Ontario or parts of Alberta tell similar stories. In some cases it was we have a wood supply that spans large areas but only want to pay trucking for short hauls....so over harvesting of the close wood vs. even flow leads to ever increasing costs. In...

I'll be honest that I'm only peripherally involved with the oil and gas industry and even the forestry industry has so many variables it's not funny to try to figure it all out. There are projects that having the government run make for excessive costs. I watched the fiasco of Trans-...

Or....and here's a totally off the wall thought... 1)Take an off the shelf refinery design...or buy one if private industry doesn't want it any more. Here's the current ones. https://natural-resources.canada.ca/sites/nrcan/files/energy/images/Refinery-Map-Large-E.gif 2)Fund it through...

Random thinking last night of past times in Northern Ontario. What happens if Canada goes to the US and dusts off the old plans to expand the lock sizes for the St. Lawrence Seaway? This would be a bi-national win allowing for larger shipping direct into the US cities of Chicago, Milwaukee...

I've lost track of the number of "re-orgs" and/or layoffs that have happened in my career. Frankly you can almost visually tell the impacts by the age demographics (55+ due to 1995 layoffs) or 35+ due to extended hiring freezes. That being said...and having lived this in both industry and...

Seeing as how this is my profession I'll add a bit more. For most provinces there is a practical application period between applying to the provincial registration body before your write your exam that usually means you have 1-2 years experience + educational requirements. Differences in...

One of FDR's biggest employment programs in the 1930's was the reforestation of former farms/plantations abandoned to mostly pine forest. In the last decade that has been the biggest investment area for most Canadian companies buying sawmills in the SE states due to trade barriers/softwood...

Civilian side looking in but this is one area I wonder about two streams of AFV's....and what Canada can produce 1) LAV6. And I'm only choosing these as they are produced in Canada. Increase production so that you have not just Latvia fully stocked with spares but the entire Regular Force...

Well when you look at the development of the TransCanada railway there are a couple of things that still stand out to me: 1) one of the first acts was to buy a US railroad from Sault Ste Marie to Daluth to allow shipments to current day Winnipeg (and build both east and west from that point) 2)...

I sure as heck don't know all the ins and outs but I have been told alot also depends on the context of the money coming into the country. So if you are immigrating as an "investor class" immigrant which if I understand correctly was a minimum $100k CAD into a Canadian business then it makes...

This is the sort of success stories we need to both promote but also unfortunately highlights some of the behind the scenes legal crimes that has the US so upset. It also speaks to some loopholes that are being exploited that I view as legislatively difficult but also necessary as it needs to...

Part of the issue for me is that while there is a lot of talk about physical presence at the border - and I'll let the CBSA, RCMP and CAF argue on the best role to manage that piece what is not being talked about is the financial side. When I think of the BC report on money laundering by gangs...

TBM's were a mainstay across much of Canada - in multiple fleets - up until 2012 in New Brunswick at least. I last saw one in BC in the late 1980's. Big brutes of a machine that were set up for carrying torpedoes with a bay...and easily converted to water bombers. Forest Protection Limited...