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  1. Occam

    Swimming pool in Ottawa/Gatineau

    No...the PSP fitness facilities in the NCR are spread out over multiple workplaces.  They don't have a pool at any of them.
  2. Occam

    Swimming pool in Ottawa/Gatineau

    Tried the CF Appreciation website?
  3. Occam

    Borden Thread- Merged

    I agree; avoid the 401 like the plague if you can take the 407.  It's been a while (2008) since I drove it with out-of-province plates, but at that time they never sent me a bill for the 407, despite the signs saying that out-of-province plates would be billed.  It's worth it no matter how you...
  4. Occam

    Advice for women on BMQ and other courses [MERGED]

    Which one? I let a few slide as they were simply internet jargon, and because I didn't want to make it look like I was bashing you.  If you think I'm being picky here, wait until you get to basic training and they pick you up for things that aren't even there...simply to test your mettle...
  5. Occam

    Leasing a Car

    We just got rid of our 2009 Mazda 5 (air conditioning went, and didn't want to chase the problem), and bought a 2016 Mazda CX-5 - wife loves it.  I drive a 2012 Mazda 3 GS Skyactive for commuting 100 km round-trip daily, and it's been great too - until someone rear-ended me the other day. ...
  6. Occam

    Leasing a Car

    From personal experience, they don't care where you return the car to at the end of the lease, as long as it's one of their dealers. Leasing makes sense in only two situations, really.  One, if you can write off part of the lease payments as a business expense, and two, if you want more car for...
  7. Occam

    Retro Pay & Allow 1Apr 2014 - 1Apr 2017

    I do understand, and it wasn't that long ago I felt the same pangs.  Until a massive overhaul of the compensation & benefits package happens, and everything is delinked from the PS system, it is what it is.  The CF reaps the same gains and suffers the same losses. I promise nobody will dock...
  8. Occam

    Retro Pay & Allow 1Apr 2014 - 1Apr 2017

    Me either, but I would be willing to bet good money than of those civvies who do get severance, an extremely small percentage get it for voluntarily leaving their job; AKA end of a FPOS or a voluntary release on an IPS.
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    Retro Pay & Allow 1Apr 2014 - 1Apr 2017

    We've been through this before though.  When the government comes to the table and says "We're not leaving without your severance", what do you do?  You get as much for it as possible.  It's better than them legislating it away, and freezing everyone's severance as of a certain date like they...
  10. Occam

    Retro Pay & Allow 1Apr 2014 - 1Apr 2017

    Which benefits would those be?
  11. Occam

    Cable Snaps During Aircraft Landing on Carrier

    Ask and ye shall receive - 115 Volts - Deadly Shipmate (1960) And I'll throw in "Trial by Fire: A Carrier Fights For Life (1973)" for free.
  12. Occam

    Retro Pay & Allow 1Apr 2014 - 1Apr 2017

    No progress on negotiations.
  13. Occam

    Cable Snaps During Aircraft Landing on Carrier

    Obviously you were never in the Navy.  This video has been shown to new Canadian and American sailors for over three decades now.  You never turn your back on synthetic line under strain.  I have never once seen it snap and simply drop...when you see water being milked out of the line because of...
  14. Occam

    Gander - geographical boundaries

    The DWAN link for the geographical boundaries page is now http://cmp-cpm.mil.ca/en/benefits/geographical-boundaries.page Gander is attached.
  15. Occam

    "The Last Ship" tv series depicts USN AEGIS destroyer fighting global pandemic

    Ummm...I watched the two hour season premiere on Space last Sunday.  Tonight is Season 3 episode 3, or at least it should be...
  16. Occam

    Class Action Suit against NVC & "Govt has no obligation to soldiers"

    Where are you getting this cost estimate from, and over what period of time? I'm okay with figures from a napkin calculation for our purposes.
  17. Occam

    Crime of Bestiality, Limited to Penetration, Supreme Court of Canada Rules.

    You've been to Amsterdam, haven't you?  ;)
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    Crime of Bestiality, Limited to Penetration, Supreme Court of Canada Rules.

    From http://scc-csc.lexum.com/scc-csc/scc-csc/en/item/15991/index.do The dissenting judge should know that trying to read the minds of the legislators to read intent is a no-no; if they intended to widen the scope of the offence, they should've spent a little more time defining it.  6 to 1...
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    Crime of Bestiality, Limited to Penetration, Supreme Court of Canada Rules.

    The SCC doesn't make law; it interprets it or strikes it down.  It's up to the government to ensure law is current and relevant. The SCC arrived at the only conclusion they could have.
  20. Occam

    Retire from CAF and entering Fed PS [Merged]

    Read the competition poster several times.  Make a checklist of every essential criteria listed, and ensure you address how you meet every single one of them right in the cover letter.  If you're equating military experience to a civilian requirement, go into detail how that equivalency works...
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