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  1. Oldgateboatdriver

    Supreme Court delivers landmark decision on Indigenous offenders and victims

    Pretty well, yes. In the reverse, however - she kills him - as last resort while he is in a coercive fit , she likely gets charged with manslaughter.
  2. Oldgateboatdriver

    The Fifth Generation Air Force

    Some? Some? Most would be more appropriate. From the "Veterans for Peace" in Canada, the UK and the US, with their white berets at Remembrance days, to the "Better Red Than Dead" European movements, through just about every "peace-nicks" of the time, the major funding was coming from the...
  3. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    Actually. There is no requirement for more law: The US Senate voted only this summer, 86 to 11 in favour - which is as close to bi-partisan as you can get - of the Lindsay O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026. The House then passed it 262 to 159, again, pretty bi-partisan. The act...
  4. Oldgateboatdriver

    Liberal (Minority/Majority) Government 2025 - ???

    FTFY Exhibit A. Period. There is a requirement in Canadian law that before you undertake civil proceedings (which this would be since it is based in contract law), you have to put your co-contracting party in default by way of notice. this is what this letter does, regardless of whether it...
  5. Oldgateboatdriver

    Who needs sailors anyway?

    Seems to be a bit of overkill to me. We have systems already that can drive the ship on a steady course from a physical input, called auto-pilot, and that can maintain position to the nearest foot (or 30 cm for most of the world) called Dynamic positioning systems. Both of these types of systems...
  6. Oldgateboatdriver

    Iran Super Thread- Merged

    @brihard, didn't you know that @HavokFour is with the fake news media?
  7. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    Well, at least as far as he can remember.
  8. Oldgateboatdriver

    The Capital Punishment Debate

    Very messy, and someone has to clean after. Personally, I think we should use hyper-baric chambers in reverse: put the inmate in, seal, and very slowly reduce the oxygen content until the person naturally passes out. At that point of unconsciousness, quickly remove all the oxygen and wait 30...
  9. Oldgateboatdriver

    Canada to Spend $5.0Bil on AEW Aircraft (Saab Globaleye)

    It would make little sense to move assembly of six airframes somewhere else than the plant that already builds the average 40 airframe a year that the type assembles. In any event, even if assembly is there, last I checked, about 55% of the components were built in Quebec and another 20% around...
  10. Oldgateboatdriver

    Quebec Election

    Right now, no party has a majority in the Asemblee Nationale. It's 59 seats PQ, with a "no-referendum" bloc made of the Liberals (40) and the Conservatives (19), for another equal 59 seats. The only problem: The balance of power, so to speak, goes to the socialist Quebec-Solidaire party with 9...
  11. Oldgateboatdriver

    The RCAF's Next Generation Fighter (CF-188 Replacement)

    And I think that coast folks do understand what some of the jobs of the Aurora are, at least the commercial fishermen, because they know that when the Aurora's, or in the old days the Trackers and Argus' come buzzing on them it's because they are watching them as part of fisheries rules...
  12. Oldgateboatdriver

    Army Reserve Restructuring

    But it lets the militia /reserve units concentrate on the recruiting and training of the soldiers and sailors, not the officers. And the Universities divisions provided officers for both the reserves and the regulars, with the advantage that they had trained together to commission.
  13. Oldgateboatdriver

    Iran Super Thread- Merged

    I thought in Blazing Saddles, it was Howard Johnson that always spoke. The running gag being that right after, someone would exclaim: "Howard Johnson is right!", because the motel chain named Howard Johnson's publicity catch phrase at the time was "Howard Johnson: Always Right".
  14. Oldgateboatdriver

    Army Reserve Restructuring

    But, FJAG, would you be against universities running University Training Divisions type of training during the fall/winter semesters, with summer indoc and DP1 training at army /naval / air bases in the summer and having them join militia/ reserve units after commissioning only, as was done in...
  15. Oldgateboatdriver

    Trump administration 2024-2028

    Because rockets are the cutting edge of technology.
  16. Oldgateboatdriver

    Joe Rogan and Pierre Poilievre interview

    @ArmyRick, there are no trade "tariffs" between provinces. You have trade barriers, which is quite different, and they usually arise out of the exercise of proper Provincial powers, but with side effects on the other provinces. It's a feature, not a bug, of our constitution, which is not to say...
  17. Oldgateboatdriver

    Iran Super Thread- Merged

    He is certainly being treated in a compassionate way: Barely anyone brings up his declining faculty, be it in the party or the press. Compare that to the way President Biden's every small slip, lapse or misstep was treated both by the Republican, the press and in the end even his own party...
  18. Oldgateboatdriver

    New RCN Fleece

    Which is what makes me glad I was MARS. :LOL:
  19. Oldgateboatdriver

    New RCN Fleece

    Problem would be solved, at least for the RCN, if the CAF followed Halifax Tar's advice and got rid of purple trades: Then the RCN would have Storesmen (Storesperson) instead of Supply techs. :)
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