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    2026 FIFA World Cup

    Watching the game, may the best team win, but if they don't, congratulations England.
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    2026 FIFA World Cup

    If Britain wins they keep the Falkland islands, but the final will decide if they have to give back Gibraltar.
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    Unpaid family labour - particularly elders providing no fee child care - isn't measured as part of the formal economy but certainly contributes. There's nuance.
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    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    I was thinking of this story: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2024/09/03/how-navy-chiefs-conspired-to-get-themselves-illegal-warship-wi-fi/
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    Lawyers Allegedly Behaving Badly

    Lots of very expensive things are very mediocre ;)
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    Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

    That's a question for the Chiefs and POs, not for the engineers or designers.
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    Lawyers Allegedly Behaving Badly

    The problem is that partners in big law have very expensive tastes in wine, sports cars and ex wives.
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    Ontario Government (Conservative majority), 2025-29

    And two more cabinet members plus another MPP all playing the same game. https://globalnews.ca/news/11965872/ford-government-peel-region-mpp-hotels/
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    Iran Super Thread- Merged

    Nor is it good for Russia, if it pushes India more into the western orbit.
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    Lawyers Allegedly Behaving Badly

    There are elements of both - his delays in providing accounting for the account did not win him any great trust (no pun intended). Backstory on the 20% / $1.5M fee foud to be excessive is at: Alberta judge overturns $11.5M contingency fee award for Indigenous benefits settlement
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    Trump administration 2024-2028

    Finally a chance to use the phrase "Trendsetters in Saskatchewan..."
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    Ontario Government (Conservative majority), 2025-29

    If you have a driver and a car, and live 5.9km away from the legislature, how much public money should you be spending on hotels in Toronto? If you're a cabinet minister, apparently it's $16K. https://globalnews.ca/news/11964297/stan-cho-hotel-expenses/
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    Police Folk Allegedly Behaving Badly

    Illegal search and detention by CBSA means charges tied to $13M cocaine smuggling get tossed. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/drug-smuggling-charges-stayed-charter-rights-violated-9.7261646
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    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    Canada has also been a contributor under the technology development program, and is a member under the PSFD. So even with a reduced purchase Canada is a program participant.
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    CH-149 Cormorant

    OCdts don't sign up to be pilots for a specific platform. Platform selection (and transition between platforms once qualified) occurs deeper into the training pipeline.
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    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    Yeah, look at the kind of folks who settle in BC...
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    Sam Neill, 1947-2026, R.I.P.

    The day he met Princess Di. Jeff Goldblum's response is 10/10, no notes.
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    Iran Super Thread- Merged

    How long before he starts issuing letters of marque to PMCs to enforce it?
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    Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC

    Sovereign defence production capacity is in many ways more important than the standing peacetime CAF. Our pers gen doctrine (MOB MOCs for the win!) tells us we can create sailors / soldiers / aviators with a focused skillset more quickly than we can start turning out equipment and materiel; the...
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