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To quote a great: I have lost all confidence in the CCFR based on their insistence that people won't be paid, when I and many others have already been paid. It comes across as a desperate fundraising attempt, particularly given this is based on a reddit comment.

Has anyone considered that the "planning" for an American invasion was most likely a two minute conversation about how we'd be hooped, and the offical government position would be "stand down" the CAF to avoid civilian casualties? Considering/planning for an event doesn't mean wishing for it...

It's almost as if despite 58 years of pretending we are one CAF, there are still distinct differences between the elements... Smarter people than me, have said for years that the CAF isn't one experience or culture. Even within Ottawa, there are vast differences in culture between commands...

Again, it's unfair to put this on consumers. Governments created the incentives for larger vehicles with the CAFE standards. It's cheaper for Toyota to make a larger RAV4 hybrid, than it is to make a modern Yaris. If we want smaller and more efficient cars, we need to push governments to...

It's not so much that car companies hate small cars, it's that the CAFE regulations make producing a small cars too expensive. The fuel economy standards are higher the smaller the vehicle's footprint, and SUVs/trucks have separate fuel economy standards that are far more achievable. Turns out...

How exactly? Ford works for the Ontario voters, not the PM. You mean like when he told BC to get on board, or the money and development would go elsewhere? As for the other A/C, have we already paid for them? Was there another competitor that met the requirements? Remember, the Gripen met the...

I had a Hyundai Kona with the "terrible" 2.0L engine. Never had a single issue with it, but I stayed on top of oil changes +/- 500km of the recommended intervals. Also, exceptions don't disprove the general rule that cars are better and more mechanically reliable than before. There were lots...

I'd add to that by saying many people don't operate their vehicle wisely either. I.e. never consider engine/oil/transmission temps before hammering the throttle. Some times you dont really have the option to warm everything before hitting the highway, but even then you can watch your...

How many people were driven into weird corners of the internet because having a rational discussion at that time was impossible. If you weren't 100% on the side of the government, you were an enemy of science and likely a racist... Maybe he was already in those weird corners long before it...

Apart from the fact Trump threatened annexation, and in doing so destroyed American credibility with many of it's closest allies... So he created extreme distrust of America, (to the point nations deployed tripwire troops) to achieve something that could have been negotiated quietly and...

My point was that the shooting was in Ontario, not Quebec.

Minor point, but Belleville is in Ontario. It's the closest city to CFB Trenton.

There is also the fact that some features are handy. I have OnStar in my truck, that allows me to see where my truck is at all times, will automatically call emergency services if my airbags deploy and I don't respond to their call, allows me to lock/unlock the truck remotely, call emergency...

I tell people it's my gold star for attendance. I showed-up every day on that tour and did my job. Just like 40K other CAF members did in that theatre. The thing that bothers me is when people judge your medals/deployments based on your DEU. I remember a FGH MCpl mocking my deployment to...

Well, one of the things you learn in Ottawa is that NATO is very limiting in what can be done in it's framework. For example, if we want weather products from our NATO allies, we need to be on a NATO operation. A Canadian ship sailing around Europe can't just get access to NATO weather services...

The A&W was pretty good when I stopped in back in 2010...

Ask America how the Iran "special military operation" is going... If we aren't willing to commit lives, we shouldn't be there in the first place. Drones, missiles, bombers, etc., create the illusion of "clean" wars. No war is clean, and no war worth fight is going to be "solved" by...

As a Corb Lund fan, I have been following it a bit. It all sems like a lot of foolishness...

That is a wildly inaccurate view of warfare since the early 1800s... Artillery was and has been the deciding factor. The only times it wasn't, were when artillery wasn't present in numbers to make it count. Again, inaccurate. The most effective tanks in WWI were the "female" tanks with machine...

Not really, you need room to conduct seamanship/shiphandling evolutions on the wings. Also, you'd lose forward engagament angles farther back.