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The recruiter was right. The initial phase course for Port Inspection Diver is identical to the Ship's Team Diver course, which is available regardless of trade. Since DONNACONA has a dive team, if they support your nomination to the STD course (which runs regularly and almost always has...

You are mistaken. Pensions can only be a liability in the current FY (to the department or the government at large) when they are not properly funded in the FY in which the pension accrues. That is not the case with federal pensions; thus, no savings in the federal budget's current FY can be won...

My understanding is that including pension benefits in the cost of contractors who are receiving pensions is a red herring. Because federal pensions are properly managed and fully funded (unlike many municipal pensions), the pensions are paid out of a separate actuarially managed fund, not out...

I believe the gentleman you're trying to shame hasn't been active on this forum in close to five years. What do we call that - a "necro-taunt"?

It matters because the stat perpetuates a pernicious misperception amongst the Star's readership that military service is correlated with low-functioning individuals who are, in effect, one small step away from being homeless. Alternately, it perpetuates the myth that if you join the military...

My sense is they could only change the pension scheme going forward, not affecting past service (which has already been paid for) - but how they would do this I have no idea. That being said, I suspect this is just a confused rumour involving the Part I.1 (reserve) pension, which is calculated...

The Log branch courses run at QC are delivered in a different format than those at Borden to accommodate a reserve training cycle. The QSPs deliver the same POs, but portions of them are shifted to DL and OJT, and a lot of the flex time is squeezed out of the in-house phases (PT and admin...

If we weren't buying ships at all it would also be enough. Remember: the NSPS has several goals and equipping the RCN and CCG is only one of them. Prediction: no discussion of this in government until after it gets its budgetary surplus in 2015 and a new electoral mandate. Then cabinet quietly...

If that's the case, it's a long overdue transition. The sextant was a two-person ass-pain.

True. On ships these days, you generally only see the sextant used to calculate the distance to the other vessel using masthead (or radar) height angle when doing replenishments at sea at ranges too close for the radar to help you. Not to contradict Weatherdog, but I'm certain there must be a...

Given that the structure of most reserve units is 8-10 full timers and 80-100 class "A" types, that would be pretty much every militia unit in the army.

Not to discount your opinion on this, but consider - you've just been paid a full salary (less R&Q) to be trained in a trade. A lot of older people retrain in the civilian sector at their own expense without salary. Something to think about.

Well, the alternative was crediting the dirty, dirty shads on the MCDV, so they were stuck between a bit of a rock and a hard place.  ;D

Not exactly: - http://goo.gl/maps/5V1l1 - http://goo.gl/maps/OM0On At best they can be credited for having subverted the custom by doubling the names of towns and War of 1812 battles.

So, what you're saying is that you think this process would have been made a whole lot more efficient by giving the people running it an incentive to take as long as possible doing it? That's Incentives 101.

Yeah, it's a real mystery why the NSPS Secretariat, whose explicit purpose is to develop Canada' maritime industrial infrastructure by providing a stream of steady work over the course of decades, wouldn't have recommended the government go with the buy-in-Japan option.  ::)

So... "spying on the Brazilian Ministry of Mines" was a theoretical example chosen to discuss the features of some programme? Weak.

The true moral arbiters of proper conduct, natch. The University of Patchouli's Human Security faculty called - they'd like to have their selective analysis back.

Sounds like you've carefully analyzed the original news report (available only in Portuguese) and all of it's source documentation (not available to the public) and are in a position to draw conclusions from it.

It is not possible. The current Naval Reserve basic training is delivered with 20 days of pre-instruction in-unit and eight weeks in Valcartier in the summer. I have no idea. It won't be an issue if you join the Naval Reserve.