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Not only none within trucking distance, as Bruce said, but fact of life is that if our beef isn't good enough for the US, not many other countries are going to want to buy it.  Case in point: Japan banned Canadian beef when the Americans did.  Our options are limited: reduce the amount of cattle...

The cross-border beef (and lumber) dispute is nothing more than good old fashioned protectionism.   Since Canadian beef was banned from crossing the border, US cattle producers have been earning more on their cows than before: Economy 101 - Demand/Supply/Price.   On a radio newsshow this weekend...

I smell a lawsuit in the offing  ::)

A battalion is made up of several companies of approx 120 troops.  Para coys in the 3rd battalions are just one company among several, who each have different taskings.  I'll stop there since my previous life as an infantry type predates the light inf battlions & para coys and I don't want to...

Must be a local quiff.  The BMQ my sqn is running at my unit right now has a course senior - complete with the red slip on to mark him out as the DS' target - er, conduit  ;D

Para coys are in the 3rd battalions of each of the three reg force inf regiments.

Kirkhill - that approach would likely have a better chance of succeeding than the traditional one.  Appealing to self-interest will always trump appeals to patriotism or community spirit or the like  ;D

National service would be a fine thing to get the nintendo generation up and at it.  Ontario has its 40 hours of compulsory community service as a requirement for high school graduation - but remembering some of the shit storm that blew aound that one, my cynical self (which is in command on...

What I'm wondering about is why he's still in the CF.  A criminal conviction for a serious crime like arson sounds like a 2(a) release to me - especially with a weapons prohibition.  I'd be interested to know if his CO consulted his legal advisor at the time of the conviction.  I'll let the...

They should sink her as an artifical reef within scuba diving depths, with the top of the island starting at say 100 feet or so.  Now there's a way to preserve her for future generations to admire.

One per - just like the scale of issue of combat boots these days  ;D

Point taken.  The same applies directly to Iraq, obviously.

And in the atmosphere of knee-jerk anti-americanism which seems to pervade the intellectual/political/mediatic classes in Canada, this surprises you?  If anyone but GWB had made the demand, you would have heard applause all around.  Doesn't make sense, does it?  But then neither does spitting in...

Sadly, most sub-Saharan African nations would qualify - but there is an important factor at work in Africa that distorts the picture when compared to Arab nations.  Post-colonial African countries were artifical constructs with the borders drawn by colonisers without any sort of consideration...

Communists - with Moscow ties - were elected in various western countries, notably France and Italy, but never in such a mass that they could carry out the kind of putsch that is pretty much the only way to transform freely elected democracies into dictatorships.  The only country in the last...

No - you said forcing any type of government on anybody bad. The Allies forced democracy on nations that did not really want it. You cannot suddenly make exceptions when your argument is proven fallacious.  That's the problem with sweeping declarations - someone is bound to prove them wrong...

So by the same token, you would not have objected to the Soviets entering Chekoslovakia in 1968 to restore stability after the Dubcek government created a bit of "chaos" by wanting to go its own way? Then we should not have forced democracy on Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan against their will...

Who is this this "we" you speak about?  It would not, for instance, include the Lebanese - who have made their point of view vis-à-vis the Syrians quite clear and who would welcome US pressure to get them out of their country so that they can get along with being a democracy.  It would not...

It's well past time that our politicians get a public spanking from Uncle Sam - nothing else seems to be getting their attention.  The latest debacle on BMD - support of which would have cost us nothing - is yet more proof that our government is unable and unwilling to explain to Canadians why...

It's just you.  A one hour documentary is utterly unable to give you more than a pallid reflection of reality.  From everything I've seen and read about USMC training, I would have no hesitation to say that it is tougher - much tougher - than what we put our reservists through.  This might help...