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Given that the same could be said for literally any group task, I'm not really sure why this is being used as some sort of defence for drill and parades. Well... you see, it's the legalized violence in service of the country that does that. Not the walking around in formation. Hard to argue...

Snowbirds' primary utility is raising awareness / goodwill with the public, which can aid in recruiting and possibly stave off budget cuts (yes, I know the latter is perhaps wishful thinking). Family days help raise the morale of CAF members and their families, make said families feel like...

The difference being the degree to which those tasks can be tied to fulfilling the organizations' operational goals. No one likes doing unpleasant and boring tasks. But people really hate doing unpleasant and boring useless tasks. And large scale drill focused ceremonial events such as...

HODs are too busy with their actual job during a regular work day to also do OOD, thus they should get the Weekend duty watches. Give 'em a chance to catch up on paperwork.

I got it on the DWAN. Eh, there's a hell of a lot of difference in the level of effort to determine "do we need this to be an entirely different occupation" and "exactly how are we going to split up the work, move people, etc. The latter is a far far greater effort, the bulk of which would be...

Navy Public Affairs sent this out today:

It's not that she doesn't care about the milestone. It's that she's ailing too much to fully participate.

Just to be clear, when I was talking about minor infractions, I meant stuff like "being late", not anything that actually contributes to a toxic workplace. The problem as it stands is that we basically never fire anyone for creating a toxic workplace, unless they're also committing a crime...

It should be a victim's choice of whether or not the incident be reported officially. Many many people feel like the investigation only serves to re-victimize them. Simply confiding in someone that you were assaulted shouldn't ever take the choice of whether or not the incident is reported out...

We are indeed a lot less likely to fire people for minor infractions. Of course, given that we spend a couple hundred thousand dollars training everyone up before they're used for anything, I think that makes sense. The problem being is that also extends to us being less likely to fire people...

Well yeah, it's also not unique to RMC, this kind of crap happens in every CAF unit across Canada. Hence the thread.

I wouldn't be so sure about that "doesn't fly civvie side". There's a lot of terrible shit that goes on in companies across the country that likewise gets swept under the rug.

More of the usual Report calls on head of military police to apologize for how it handled investigation

Running a research program is basically the only way to run a decent undergraduate program, as otherwise you're not going to attract anyone decent in their field. Might as well be running a community college at that point. My issue with this is that of the four pillars of RMC's ROTP program...

Sounds like a good reason to unionize.

Seems to be working for the RCMP. Which isn't saying they don't have issues, just that said issues seem largely to stem from management decisions. You know what'll cripple the CAF for more than a decade? Continuing to do nothing to fix our ongoing retention crisis, making the burnout for...

Single action? Remove the QR&O banning unionization. I would expect most suitable corrective actions would flow from there. Point being? Issues that are systemic across the entire country will indeed affect the entire country, including the evaluation system for military personnel.

tl;dr Bigotry exists, a lot of people in the CAF are bigots, and thus that bigotry changes the way that certain people are "dealt with". The Canadian Armed Forces is a microcosm of Canadian Society, which is by and large racist. It in particular was set up by white Christian men, to suit white...

I don't think it does, it's just women are far more likely to take said leave than men do.

Probably best explained in the report