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Knowing the area only by map, I suspect the nearest centre with resources and capacity to handle both the degree of trauma and the number of casualties would be Edmonton, 200-ish kliks away. By the sounds of things, sending most of the injured to other local hospitals probably wouldn't help much.

I'll leave the political science analysis to others, but it has been noted several times that Congress bills regarding trade, tariffs, sanctions, etc., have either had stipulated provisions for the Executive (President) to unilaterally override, end or change what Congress has said or, in some...

The RM of Wainwright is about 5000 people, so they will likely have a volunteer fire service of corresponding size. I can only assume the surrounding rural municipalities would be similar. Most VFFs have standard level first aid/CPR training. According to WIki, SARTECs are trained to 'primary...

Except that US governance has slowly moved towards a more 'top down' model. Over the years, Congress has devolved some of its powers to the Executive, both legislatively and de facto. Some of it has been in place for several years but the current Executive has weaponized it.

A number of our guys were pressed into morgue assistants at the old Woodbridge arena. It was a couple of years before my time and the closest I got was going through the OPP file many years later. A long time friend was the second car into the farmer's field.

Just going from media and memory, and admittedly, I don't follow Montreal news, the 'funny pants protest' went on for something like three years and I don't recall hearing about a groundswell of discontent from the locals - and certainly not the politicians because it took them three years to...

No doubt. The series doesn't really touch on that aspect, simply mentioning 'victims' or 'bodies' leaving gentle viewers to assume they would be intact. I knew a few guys who responded to the AC621 crash in now-Brampton in 1970 who described a similar type scene.

It's all the "nasty" media's fault; she was treated badly and he suggested to her that she didn't have to put up with it.

I tend to agree. All parties have migrated to a type of cult of personality: 'the Mark Carney government', 'the Poilievre Conservatives', etc. and any announcement or letter opening larger than something completely minor and local needs to have the leader and maybe a minister, with the local...

I wouldn't be completely surprised if she wasn't replaced. I suspect he is convinced he is his own best spokesman, and if the Republicans do poorly in the midterms, direct contact with anybody outside of the base (rallies, etc.) may become rare.

I'm not convinced the public universities and colleges are producing viable adults either, but perhaps the DND shouldn't be trying to compete with them. The crap we see with 'homecoming' at places like Queen's, Western and Guelph makes you wonder. The university our daughter attended used to...

Being unionized probably had the most to do with that.

I just finished this six-part Netflix/BBC collaboration on the aftermath and investigation of the downing of Pan Am flight 103 in Lockerbie Scotland. They admittedly compressed some of the events and characters, but I thought it was a compelling and credible telling of the story. There was a...

Yes, poor muffin. She has endured so much. The absolute nerve of the press to ask questions.

This altered sentence is also true. They are all the same.

I started to reply to this discussion but decided that my anecdotal experience growing up in Toronto 50 years ago would add little. I often look curiously at people who state that they would have no intention of leaving the city under any circumstances, then recall that I grew up with people...

Ha. Head up all the way. I love how people rush to his aid.

CTV is being rather generous tagging him as a 'constitutional lawyer'.

Fair enough. When we know virtually nothing of the people on the other side of the screen, we are left to interpret the words used.