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lol, the 250 celebration is now canceled, with it going to be a Trump hero worship rally, and a UFC event that is now banning even the normally MAGA, gun toting rednecks like Sean Strickland for criticizing Israel. Fox News just is ignoring the cancelation and criticism from right wingers, so...

Why? There were a number of upgrades that they would have done under their NSS bid that haven't been implemented, and they keep getting work anyway, so doesn't seem to be any driving reason to modernize and repair the yard. Especially if they get cost plus contracts; that actually...

PSPC still uses PWGSC in contracts and other official forms where things like FAA apply, so it's a weird situation where they acknowledge it isn't the legal name of the department, but probably don't want to have to change all the acts, laws, regulations etc that all grant them the various...

To a certain extent, but there are plenty of jobs that take years off your life on way or another (underwater welder comes to mind) so at least it was properly compensated. Plus as mentioned there was actually a lot of PPE as well as other controls in place to minimize exposure, so much less...

So just straight up overt prejudice then? They also declared the press office a SCIF, because apparently speech writers are regularly in there with classified info, so seems like they just admitted they regularly disregard secure document handling (and also have no idea what a SCIF is).

Some places openly acknowledge that; people that worked at the coke ovens in Stelco got extra time towards their pension (maybe 1.5 years per year) so they could retire earlier, on the assumption the job took years off their lives (which was valid). The other sad bit though is there are also a...

Yeah, and while I am onboard with his goal, and appreciated his passion and conviction, I don't think he ws the right personality to be in charge of any of it as he's too inflexible and seemed to lack all basic practical grounding. Sometimes having that big vision guy works out, but very...

Well, he was also arrested dozens of times for pretty high profile protests, was generally a bit of a zealot that ignored all reasonable attempts at discussion, and was his own worst enemy. I can not agree with someone's policies but not have a personal issue with someone, but even as a social...

Fault is a personal conclusion of mine, but he was the biggest and possibly sole driver behind the way the climate change policies and the carbon taxes were pushed, as well as likely a lot of ministerial foot dragging on various environmental assessments and other issues, where the focus was on...

I think his convictions were stupid, it was just refreshing to see a politician stand by them. But he's a pretty big outlier, so his leaving is hardly a reflection on anything (and frankly take him quitting as an MP as a sign things are going in the right direction).

Even as an MP and environment minister, plenty of the LPC faithful thought he was nuts, let alone the general population. I admire that he has convictions and is sticking by them I guess, even if I think he's a militant ideologue (with a questionable grasp on the real world) that is unable to...

A much better indicator of the global impact of extreme weather changes is the ocean temperature. Normal cyclical things like el Nino drive the weather across the planet for that year, but this is something that is more directly related to things like more extreme tornados and other storms. 0.9...

So, you are wall of text mad about the apocryphal scenario not coming through? The climate is obviously changing for the bad in all kinds of ways that are less hospitable in long term ways, so it's not good, just less bad than the worst case scenario. Are you nostalgic for the holes in the...

Does he realize that is a federal responsibility, and also that would require massive increase in funding for colleges/uni that the Ontario government offloaded funding onto foreign students, resulting in lot of programs just disappearing when they reduced foreign student numbers without an...

Good riddance, he was always an outlier, even if he was in the Green party. I think the environment is obviously hugely important, but he was far too dogmatic and ignored practical realities. They can eliminate all ICEs tomorrow, and the solutions will still completely rely on petrochemicals, so...

Aside from that kind of thing, there are lots of Canadian products that other nations might use for their own platforms; the RCN has some unique comms and platform control systems that are already exported (the new QE carrier IPMS is essentially the CPF one with a facelift), and lots of things...

That's interesting, thanks. Does that mean the class now has a green deck, or is it still ship by ship, with specific limitations? And out of curiousity, have they actually sealed the tracks yet, or is it still a gutter down onto the quarterdeck which would put any spilled fuel right onto the...

Uh, not really, most of that was the costs paid to shipyards for the design, build and delivery, plus sparing, significant IP considerations with the tech data (which isn't cheap) and some other things related to the actual ship. It also included development and delivery of training...

I think the LLs here are pretty easy; building and maintaining things in the Arctic is hard, and if you give someone a dime don't expect something that costs a dollar. The amount of money earmarked for the Arctic base expansion with all the announcements is in the 10s of billions of dollars...

It was a good idea that was executed with the extremely limited funding it actually received, rendering it not useful. The replacements they are talking about will be in other locations, but also cost far more now than if we did Nanisivik properly then. But at least the CCG is getting heavy...