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    Feb. 2025: HCMS Ottawa Skipper Relieved

    This seems ... rare.
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    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    So a small flotilla that can sail up the St Lawrence maybe all the way up the Ottawa to let folks sleep at night
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    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    The Irving's switched the Former Saint John Shipyard property to a wallboard plant. The Drydock is still there . And Dry.
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    Our North - SSE Policy Update Megathread

    I remember trying to check in to the Delta in DT St Johns and being surrounded by about twenty Americans in a collection of USAF, USN and Marine uniforms. One of the staff saw my astonished look and as Newfs are wont to do started a conversation and said that the Delta hosted American crews 285...
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    Reconstitution

    Lots of diversity among the Americans , the Brits were their pasty selfs and the Canadians looked very Ottawa.
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    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    Mother very upset but glad that Johnny finally learned how to swim
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    Maritime Coastal Defence Vessels (MCDVs)

    I think the Coast Guard has programs that incorporate young sailors to do just those jobs. Throw on a RCN reservist to man any weapons that would carry and POOF, interest in the Navy by osmosis.
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    Reconstitution

    Well not so fast . Civilian here with long ago Army reserve experience. I was a little shocked attending the Greenwood Airshow last August walking around an important Canadian base that had invited fellow P-8 Poseidon owners, namely the USN ( 3 A/C ) and RAF ( 1 A/C). The Canadians were morbidly...
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    RN Using Cruise Ships for Training

    I bet they ate very well
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    Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    How's the odds on us Firming up the two extra P-8 options? Throw in some Hercs to keep Lockmart happy.
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    Government hints at boosting Canada’s military spending

    A dividend spent over and over and over, so much so, that it feels like the Government has been trying to turn the Military into just another Public service department. With Boots.
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    Public service employment has grown by 31 per cent

    Same thing Happened at the IWK in Halifax. Paid off the Franchise fee in record time and the folks working there were happy. My Sister was one of the managers until the do good bunch felt that a successful business on Hospital grounds needed that Union touch. Timmies is now gone from the IWK.
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    Replacing the Subs

    Might that be a job , another job, for the AOPS fleet?
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    Trudeau Popularity - or not (various polling, etc.)

    You would like to think that real Liberals, especially from Ontario, would by now have learned that Telford and Butts should be retired. Both to NYC where Canadians Liberals all think they belong. Wasn't Telford in NYC the weekend Freeland launched Her Putsch? These two already Pooched the...
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    U.S. Annexing Canada (split fm Liberal Minority thread)

    You are being too kind with the BOZO moniker. Grade 8 Student Council, Eco Zealots living off Mom's Credit card as they ride their bikes.
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    Domestic and Arctic Mobility Enhancement Project

    So how many TAPV's should the Government donate to Ukraine, to replaced on a one for one basis by a new BV? Along those lines the Government should also send the serviceable Navstars to Ukraine and replace the 1300 with MACKS.
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    Domestic and Arctic Mobility Enhancement Project

    So the Oprah solution. You get a BV, you get a BV, you get a BV.
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    Trudeau Popularity - or not (various polling, etc.)

    Pierre Trudeau Prorogued 11 Times. 11.
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    Trudeau Popularity - or not (various polling, etc.)

    I think he means the 500+ Million spent to hotel Refugee claimants in 2022 ( last year that records indicate) while Canadian born down on their luck, Addicts, Veterans and other more worthy Citizens are living on Couches, if lucky, or cardboard and ten dollar tents. I hear a train a comin...
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