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Yup, 1930. When the powers that be twigged to the fact that gentlemen across the Empire weren’t thrilled to have the post-nominal VD after their names and the Volunteer Decoration became the inspirationally named Efficiency Decoration. Fortunately by the time those letters themselves took on a...

Here's the actual news release: Minister Blair announces major investments in equipment and training for the Canadian Armed Forces in partnership with Canada’s defence industry - Canada.ca

There was supposed to have been a third tranche of six ships but they were sacrificed to the peace dividend after the Berlin Wall came down. Or I should say the second peace dividend after PET took one in 69-70...

Or HMCS Grilse?

This is the kind of thing that bugs me because it's so simple and straightforward. He is the King of Canada and has been for more than 18 months. We know he has both an RCN and a CA uniform (granted with Vice Admiral/LGen rank but I'm sure he has a tailor could fix that assuming as King he gets...

Yup ditto

Growing up we had three newspapers delivered to the house. Monday through Friday we had the Ottawa Journal, until it died and we started taking the Citizen, and the Montreal Gazette which you could get home delivered in Ottawa. Needed that for the coverage the Habs and Expos. Sundays we had home...

Having spent a career in communications/public affairs, both in government and the private sector, I can only imagine what it must be like.

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It seems that more often than not we throw away traditions in vain attempts to appear relevant and up-to-date in order to appeal to the next generation, and I don't just mean in a military context. My impression is that it seldom seems to work. It doesn't make institution X any more attractive...

I have no issue with "Canadianizing" the monarchy. Like @Kirkhill I don't understand why we didn't take the opportunity to update the styles and just use "King of Canada, Head of the Commonwealth." But I suspect that the whole thing was largely slapped together at the last minute and someone...

To your point, I give you the Canadian proclamation ceremony vs the Australian The Australians have a much more robust debate about the monarchy than we have ever had but still managed to treat the event with appropriate decorum and seriousness. At least that's my view.

WoMAN...

I was at the tattoo at the Civic Centre in Ottawa when the DEUs were revealed to the public for the first time on parade. I could hear someone behind me mutter that the navy folks were "all dressed like petty officers..."

I wasn't going to mention that...

Except for the odd decision to copy the wide black ring worn by US Army general's on their service dress back in the day, only in gold. When the CA reverted to unification rank insignia for generals after pips and crowns were reintroduced I could sort of see the logic in alignment of the maple...

Don't think we're disagreeing. I'd just argue that it was under PET that the perception really began to change, and maybe under the influence of 60's counter culture and Vietnam. But up until then, I think there was a fairly high degree of political consensus in support of NATO and NORAD and...

A case can always be made any new approach. I'm not one to argue the case for unification, but it seems some of our closest allies (US/UK/AUS) have over the intervening years experimented with different approaches to "jointness." While the UK has a joint helicopter force, the squadrons remain in...

I may be wrong, but despite carrying the name of their patron, they only very briefly ever had a "Royal" colonel-in-chief. Princess Patrica gave up her Royal status shortly after her appointment when she married a commoner, and was Lady Patricia for the rest of her life. And while Countess...

The Liberals won 4 seats in AB in the '93 election, the first time they'd won seats there since '68. All of them were in Edmonton...