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Mike, in your experience, who's responsible for sending that massive million dollar pumper and its four man crew that's making life so miserable for the OPP officer ? The OPP and the Fire Department are at war ??? Does the officer honestly believe that firefighters are plotting to take over the...

It sounds like they're having a real go-'round with those fires. A news report I read yesterday said there were already two thousand firefighters working on that. Yesterday morning, it was so smoky here in Thompson that we were all wondering if we had a good fire burning just outside of town...

I suspect this will be a very interesting read -and not just for us "Brock-philes". I can attest to the high quality of the books from Robin Brass Studio. I discovered Field of Glory by Donald Graves more or less by accident in a library in Northwestern Ontario (of all places) and when I...

That was a very enjoyable read. I've only recently gotten back into reading firearms publications (and learned that every gunmaker in the known world is now making either a 1911 clone and/or an AR15 clone -last time I checked, everybody was making peacemakers and lever gun replicas). Your...

Correct. It was one of a series of patriotic movies being aired, presumably to get the Russian people in the mood for war.

It's almost getting creepy. More and more I see people everywhere either sitting or standing completely motionless and staring fixedly into a little rectangular black box. It's like something out of a Stephen King novel (and I'm not referring to Cell). One guy at work was actually standing in...

Cabelas lists 7.62X39 soft point ammunition on their website. http://www.cabelas.ca/index.cfm?pageID=71&&section=1187&section2=1280&section3=1464&ID=27683 Shipping costs can be prohibitive though, if you're not handy to Winnipeg.

There are far too many really good movies to be able to name one favourite. I was recently pleased to be able to get a DVD copy of an obscure, early '80's, made-for-TV movie called WWIII. It stars David Soul, Rock Hudson, Brian Keith. It's about Russian paratroopers landing in Alaska with the...

Sounds like the author got things mixed up with the Winnipeg Rifles' nickname: "the little black devils".

The income he receives from investing the remaining money leaves Fick eligible under federal rules for food assistance of "far less than $5,000 for the year," Wilson said. I don't think this is referring to how much he gets from his investment (which may indeed be poor), but rather how much he...

I remember reading the article BG45 has linked to when it first appeared. My original impression was that it referred largely to people who, at the end of April, did not owe anything to the government. This is reinforced by this quote from the article: after a U.S. study found 69 million...

Figured I'd post this here, given that the Telegraph was the most credible source I could find covering this story. Reproduced under the Fair Dealings provision of the Copyright Act: Giant asteroid heading close to Earth A giant asteroid weighing 55 million tonnes will just miss the Earth...

Amen! I honestly did not expect this. The Captain Morgan spiced rum is flowing in celebration.

Granted.  Nobody anywhere wants anything at all to do with you. I wish I could meet the gorgeous, sexy, green-eyed redhead of my dreams.

The one that gets me the most riled up is when Canadians actually boo the American national anthem at sporting (or other) events. These disgusting episodes seem to crop up from time to time. Aren't we supposed to be famous for being the most -if not the only- polite people in the world ?

Did you happen to notice, in the episode where they arrive at the CDC, a Russian DShK in a sandbagged emplacement ? (actually, according to the IMFDB, it's a Browning .50 tarted up to look like the Russian weapon) It begs the question: Why ? Sure the DShK might look a bit more "sexy" than the...

So if I'm reading you right (dapaterson), every infantryman over quota equals another tradesman (ie: Navy signaller or Airforce weapons tech or even an Army whatever) who cannot be hired ? This makes more sense now.

I've noticed a number of comments that suggest an over-recruiting of infantrymen. I've been out for a long time. My reading over the years suggests that our infantry battalions have been chronically understrength (hence the use of reservists to round out deployed forces -the Medak Pocket comes...

I have to admit to having mixed feelings when my friend first suggested them to me (comic books -at my age??!) but I am a real sucker for post-apocalyptic stories and I did find the writing and story line pretty compelling. Unlike movies made from novels -which invariably wind up cutting...

"Anyways, where do you think those survivors are headed for the start of the 2nd season? Maybe a rendevous with the black man and his child?" The first season took a major departure from the books when they went to the CDC in Atlanta. My theory is that it was written that way in case the...