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Any interest in the military police?

I'd like to meet one of these highly-paid public-sector workers.  In my profession (engineering) there's considerably more money to be made in the private sector.  (The gap between the two offers -- public and private -- from which I chose when I joined the civil service was about 14 per cent.)...

Very good advice.

I swore I'd never use this, but  ::).

One thing you should keep in mind is that there's no guarantee that you'd be accepted into JTF2, so you should pick a trade that you'd be happy in if you were to spend your whole career doing it.

Somewhere I got the idea that OLYMPUS was acquired for spares -- or was there another O-boat that was?

Agreed... but the proof, if executed, would be pretty grim!

If you have any interest in the navy, Electrical Technician might be a good fit (although I think that trade is closer to a civilian electrician than an electrical engineering tech).  Other trades you might want to look at are the Naval Electronics Technician trades and Naval Weapons Technician...

Do you mean a degree (from a university) in electrical engineering, or a diploma in electrical engineering technology?  There's a significant difference in the career options each would allow you in the Forces.

Members of the Naval Reserve do the full-time BMQ (13 weeks, or however long it is now) and I wouldn't be surprised if some of them went to St.-Jean.  They all went there before they started doing BMQ courses at CFB Borden.

Not in New Brunswick, although I understand that there's an agreement in place to transfer between the two plans.

No, I don't mean to at all -- but I certainly concede that it's not on the same level as the necessities of life or "peace, order, and good government". But I would add that I see the role of the CBC as including the protection and promotion of Canadian culture, which I see as a different...

Because the role of government is to do things that can't be economically done by individuals (or other entities) acting alone.

If it were all about market share then, in theory, advertising revenue would look after everything and we might well ask if there were any point to having public broadcasters at all.  But a public broadcaster presents programming that might not fit that economic model.  Seven per cent, if that's...

Is this correct, or just sloppy reporting?

Could be that as well.  There's no question in my mind that some of the best television in the English-speaking world comes from the BBC and PBS.  CBC has its gems as well, but I don't have a sense of what fraction of the broadcast day they occupy.  My gut says something less than would be the...

Why not keep it and allow it to operate on ad revenue, but without subsidy?  I'm not suggesting that that's the best course of action, but I was curious why you didn't include that option since it seems to be a middle ground between the two you did mention. (PBS, by the way, does get public...

Does ROTP not also cover the cost of living in residence?

Isn't it one of those trades that changes with rank, like stokers (mechanic-technician-artificer)? If so, could someone outline the progression please?

I read PA to mean physician assistant.