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Good thing I'm not in your CoC, otherwise you'd be on extras for the next year.

So you're saying never sail with you?

"Shit Happens" is not a thing in most circumstances. "We ignored issues until shit happened" is a thing. Unfortunately, a military attitude that ignores problems until shit happens, then blames the CO when shit happens, instead of holding prior COs to account for permitting shit to happen is...

A promise kept after the 2015 election was to return OAS eligibility to age 65 instead of 67. Unfortunately. I suspect the most politically palatable option would be to freeze the rate at which reductions to the benefit occur (rather than indexing them to inflation).

Look on YouTube for "Looking for a job in Quebec" by The Vestibules.

Exactly. Canada needs Twin Otters with an infantryman door gunner with a shotgun.

Every thread is an Army Reserve restructure thread...

Who knew that billing for over 100 hours of work over three days to a single client might be viewed negatively? https://www.afr.com/companies/professional-services/law-firm-billed-client-more-than-30-hours-a-day-in-10m-fees-dispute-20260330-p5zjv9

Monstrous but unsurprising.

One to ten?

FAFO. "We can just buy aluminum from other suppliers instead of Canada".

Throwback: somehow seven years later the backlog is 216,000. And the ADM responsible for the Phoenix replacement just suddenly quit. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-services-procurement/services/pay-pension/pay-administration/pay-centre-dashboard.html

Last production 34 years ago. The Trump administration cancelled then reinstated the replacement program, currently funding two aircraft for potential 2027 delivery (Boeing E7A). Low density high cost fleets are prime targets, whether on land, sea or air.

This is internal to the union politics, not political party politics. There are allegations of senior RCMP union leadership paying themselves significant benefits our of union funds, an RCMP member wanting to run against them in the upcoming union election, and the incumbent Union leadership...

What do you call a Prime Minister who reduced defence spending below 1% of GDP? Harper.

What do you call a Prime Minister who increased defence spending 25% over his predecessor? Justin.

Their allegations are not foreign interference, it rather union interference. It's an interesting read; the allegations they make might .ore properly land in the "police behaving badly" thread.

Plot twist: PSP Investments, responsible for the CAF, RCMP and federal PS pension investments, own big chunks of long term senior residences.

Funded in the broadest possible sense of the word.