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Keith Baldrey's opinion is that she's the leader the NDP would most like to face off against (being the most "right" of the 5).

Unless the navy is quick off the mark with marine naval base defence organizations.

...raising the question of whether the burden of proof is on those claiming "climate change is an existential threat", or on those claiming "climate change is not an existential threat". I could probably imagine a large number of climate change scenarios that would be existential threats. But...

The more entangled our trade with the US, the more disruptive for them any military action would be. Those disinclined to take this principle seriously may refer to Hormuz, Strait of, for examples of disruptive effects of military action. Those advocating disconnect from Trump's America are...

Some convictions cost real people real time and money. Some people can afford the friction, and some cannot, and for the latter it makes their lives difficult. Convictions are not necessarily admirable. All sorts of people have convictions. In Guilbeault's case, his convictions were...

Yep. Absurd and disappointing. Horgan is worthy of something being named after him, but not that particular thing.

You do Op Lentus every year because provincial governments have grown increasingly accustomed to having their pleas for federal assistance (including money) met. Sure, if it makes economic sense. If it made economic sense, subsidization and other gimmicks wouldn't be necessary.

House has to vote to override with 2/3 majority also.

Optimism and cynicism are perpetually at war within me.

So we pay the fees and our guarantees that Canadian companies will actually get any action is...what, exactly?

How much of that last year (total government spending), and what exactly did it pay for?

Also do not underestimate the importance of deliberate simplicity, pre-war industrial planning, delegation of authority to "make things happen" to private captains of industry, focus on a few proven systems, etc. The factors which account for the war production differences between the US...

Sure. The audience is always laughing at him, not with him.

Prosecutors play a role in deciding what to charge (and whether to over-charge, which is common in the US in order to produce plea bargains), and in asking for sentences. Not innocent. All kinds of rioters walk home from riots without being taken into custody, though, let alone charged.

He made a joke. He can't make jokes now?

I can guess a couple of the topics at the top of the list are "cost" and "vulnerability", which I doubt have changed since the Golden Age of aviation (Vietnam war), leaving aside the "which branch controls it" parochial/practical discussion. On pg 52 of "The Rise and Fall of an American Army"...

We might have to cede some of the usual ground here to secure the assets against sabotage and other attack. I would rather place large areas completely off-limits than expend a bunch of resources trying to find ways to fit dual-use in without compromising security.

Defence expenditures aren't nation-building; they're nation-preserving. The necessary and sufficient conditions for a society are the means and will to defend it.

I am certainly more interested in any mention of Ebola surfacing than I ever was in COVID, or in hantavirus. There is much less margin for subordinating the medical risk to political exigencies with this one.

The premise of that discussion is that corruption isn't already normalized, which is not the case. At the same time people are working to uncover and oppose corruption in the Trump administration, some of them are also working to protect the long-established pathways by which corrupt abuses of...