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I only recently learned of the passing, of natural causes on August 1st 2023, of Alex Graf, retired sergeant who served with the Royal Canadian Hussars, then the 8th Canadian Hussars, followed by the Lord Strathcona's Horse, saw service in Bosnia and Kosovo before retiring in 2014. I am sure...

Another News Era came to an end this morning when Chuck Todd signed off for the last time as moderator of Meet the Press. I will miss Data Download and am real curious to see where the new moderator will take the show. It is a newscast I always try and make sure I watch every week.

In 1923, with a fledgling RCN under threat of disappearing, Admiral Walter Hose elected to park most of the fleet alongside and use the funds to create a network of Naval Reserve Divisons and Half-divisions across the country to keep the Navy in the public's eyes. It provided the main framework...

I just strikes me as a little ironic that, on this beautiful Saint-Jean-Baptiste day here in Quebec, all Quebecers are united ... in rooting from the Canadiens. ;)

The local St-Jean radio station here is reporting that CMR will go back to being a full fledged university. Anybody heard anything about this from other sources?

So the RCN just announced the next phase of it's rebranding of the ol' MARS officer. To go along with the "Naval Warfare Officer", they are also redesigning the position of Combat Officer onboard ship. From now on they will be called "Senior Naval Officer - Warfare". The RCN figures everybody...

I didn't see anything posted anywhere else. Yesterday, the French forces in Mali lost three more soldiers. RIP, Hunters (chasseurs). https://www.tvanouvelles.ca/2020/12/28/trois-soldats-francais-ont-ete-tues-en-operation-au-mali

In a little less than twelve hours (at 5:02 EST tomorrow morning), we will have completed yet another one of our journeys of 940 million kilometres around our little star and the days will start to get longer again, in the Northern hemisphere. To our pagan friends, I say: Noel! And for those...

Saw this post by FSTO in the Army Reserve Restructuring thread and thought we could expand a bit here on the naval aspect: I'll start by disagreeing, a bit, with FSTO. What nearly destroyed the NRD's is not the original concept that the MCDV's were reserve only ship's, it was the Regular Force...

As we all know, Trudeau jr. agreed four years ago not to reside at 24 Sussex so that the National Capital Commission could finally carry out the renovations they have long wanted to do. To this day, not much has been done, other than finding out that the place is in worse shape than it first...

MSC Zoe after an Atlantic storm: http://www.seatrade-maritime.com/news/europe/video-damage-to-containers-on-the-msc-zoe.html She is a Post-Panamax vessel - to quote the president, a "HUGE" vessel - And the sea, she still wants to kill us all. :nod:

ENGLAND! ENGLAND! ENGLAND! What else needs saying! :nod: :nod: :nod:

Actually, T6, I would not have phrased the question as you did. The use of "lacks" would presume that one is required, which in Canadian politics, is not the case. We don't have one, and we don't need one. And, as was indicated above, religion plays no part in our politics and we couldn't care...

For info for those who knew him: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/montrealgazette/obituary.aspx?n=john-henry&pid=188640903 Condolences to the family.

You can't make stuff like that up: President of the American Heart Association suffers heart attack ... at a heart health conference he was attending. http://nationalpost.com/news/heart-association-president-has-heart-attack-during-heart-health-conference

I wasn't sure if this should be here or Navy General, but it seems more appropriate as history. According to the Montreal Gazette, the real hero of Dunkirk ,the Canadian (Montreal) born Lcdr who stood on the pier at Dunkirk for four days to coordinate all boarding activities, will be honoured...

Ladies and Gentlemen, the iconic Kandahar Canadian Hockey Rink will be coming home, for display at the War Museum, and possibly at the Hockey Hall of Fame. I know many of you will have fond memories of it when seeing it again. :cdn: :salute...

Dateline Mirabel, Qc - Bell Textron today announced that its latest incarnation of the Bell Ranger, the Bell Ranger X, designated as the Bell 505, has obtained it's flight certification from Transport Canada, with FAA certification expected to follow very soon. Bell Textron, in Mirabel, already...

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CTV News Montreal just announced that former Alberta premier Jim Prentice was just killed in an airplane crash in B.C. He was not nicknamed Gentleman Jim for nothing, having refused to do dirty politics his whole life. He will be missed. Condolences to the family and friends.