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If you read the third criterion for 2(a) carefully, you can see there's room to use it without a conviction: "By reason of unsatisfactory civil conduct, OR conviction by a civil court..." (emphasis mine). Maybe they won't go the 2(a) route, but my sense is that the nightmare isn't completely at...

Fairly certain the witch hunt will now transition to an administrative one, and that they will seek a 2(a) release.

Right, so what I'm reading here is a misunderstanding of how "policy debate" differs from "party policy". The fact that someone got the minimal number of signatures needed to introduce (say) abortion rights as a topic for debate at a policy convention in 2017 isn't what matters. What matters is...

The Conservative party position on abortion and gay rights has been amply clear for ages. Remember that time they ran the country for a decade and supported abortion and gay rights? What more could it possibly do to "rid itself" of "issues"? The continued existence of "issues" will continue to...

I have a mortgage on a $300K house and between the mortgage, property tax, property insurance and average monthly maintenance my total cost of ownership is about $2300 per month. And frankly I'm saving somewhat on maintenance by doing much of the work myself; if I were living in a condo of the...

EMBAs are really more like certificate programs in the strict sense that they don’t typically satisfy the hours requirements for a Masters. The use of the term “Masters” in the title is a legacy of how they originally developed as crash course “MBA essentials” programs for people who had risen...

Assuming you're asking about the "A", "B" and "C" lines, these refer to specific cases in the CBIs. In the case of 2Lt, pay level "A" is the ordinary case that applies to direct officer entrants (DEO, RESO and OCTP entry plans for the Primary Reserve). Levels "B" and "C" refer to cases relating...

NTOG is not a special force capability and its members do not get special operator's allowance. NTOG is a niche, conventional maritime capability force generated from naval tradespeople.

Both the Liberals and Bernier have a lot of to be concerned about in the by-election results, although the front-runners cut as expected in all three cases. For the Liberals, the early days of the SNC scandal has certainly taken it's toll: an increase of support since the last election on the...

Close, but I suspect perhaps something more like: https://pm.gc.ca/eng/news/2017/06/27/prime-minister-announces-new-ambassador-climate-change

Partisan yes, but one correction - Davie is in deep "Max Bernier Party" territory. If it were a Tory riding, giving a contract to Davie would be a way of swinging some support from the Torys to the Liberals. As it is, Justin is happy to sacrifice their limited chances in that riding to shore up...

Don't know the guy or what you're seeing, but the bio on this CBC article - https://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/universality-of-service-1.4363985 - says, "Tony Keene was a reservist in the Canadian Armed Forces for 40 years and completed multiple overseas tours of duty." Perhaps he served as an UNMO...

His point I think is less about fine legal distinctions and more about the obligations incumbent on leaders in the reserve force. The fact that the military justice system in this case (as in so very many others) fails to provide us the tools needed to help us do our jobs just means we have to...

All of the above is heartily endorsed. I'll also add that there's nothing especially unique to militaries in having a distinct "executive development" track. Large corporations (and there are many larger than the CAF) structure their HR along much the same lines: the career tracks for people...

I'm fairly sure anyone wanting to donate their time and knowledge has only to drop a line to their local unit or regional staff to find out how they can do so. If, on the other hand, what they really want to do is occupy a senior billet in a NAVRES unit's establishment in exchange for 10 or 15...

NAVRES' long-term formation-wide attrition trend is a very consistent 50% per five years (releases, CTs, etc, etc included). I'd guess your "missing" 25-odd people in the last three years are attributable to Big Idea CTs, though it's hard to speak to the demographic/economic trends at work in a...

Well, if Federal Fleet (as distinct from Davie, which is just the yard they work out of) can drum up more work to keep their private equity masters happy without slinging mud to try to derail existing procurements, then more power to them.

We fired the last government and the one before it. How's that working out for us?

On the basis of what? A couple of overheated op-eds? The NSPS procurements, like the F35, are huge-money contracts tendered out into a zero-sum business environment: every dollar that goes to one bidder is a dollar that doesn't go to another. These defence consortia have learned that the cost of...

Actually, they've gone elaborately out of their way to make clear to all applicants and members that they are NOT SOF.