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The only good thing is our potential opponents corruption and incompetence so far seems to greatly outweigh our own.

Generally it isn’t that they don’t want them to become ticketed, it is rather a few scummy companies will dangle the apprenticeship over some people but never actually provide it. That is far from the norm however. Most just don’t want apprentices because of a few factors 1) Training is time...

Another part they don’t mention is the carbon tax is killing the company. When I started they said the amount paid was around 100 million a year and it has only gone up since then. These electric furnaces use 70% less carbon emissions (though we have to buy the steel from elsewhere first to...

I can tell you from being directly involved, most those cuts were coming no matter what. Switching from the blast furnace to electric arc is a substantial loss of jobs. The only jobs which are being cut which are temporary are in the Cold Mill and DSPC, those jobs are being laid off due to...

If your referring to Algoma those job cuts were coming either way. Without that 500 million there wouldn’t be any jobs as the whole place would have gone under. Context matters.

And the natives had to wait until 1960. Universal suffrage is fairly new.

We wanted to fight those wars, the reality was Canadians at that time considered themselves British mainly not Canadians. Keep in mind the Brits were also the only reason we were able to retain our sovereignty. Without them the US would have annexed us so it isn’t like we received no benefit...

Alternatively we have Canada where our trades certificators/organizations refuse to allow people who have been doing the trade for many years to challenge the tests to become formally certified. Let alone allow foreign certified tradesmen become certified. It doesn’t matter if they try to get...

I just remember on my QL3 the base commander couldn’t get one sailor off rations even though he had a wife, kid, and was drowning in debt. It really sounds to me like there isn’t nearly as much power consolidated at that level as there should be to effectively manage the base.

The UN is useless intentionally. A lot more would be able to get done if those vetos were removed allowing the worst bad actors to be held to account.

It is, how many people do you know who go to jail if they fail to show up to work? Or refuse to do something? Or even just tell your boss they are a idiot? How many people have a boss who can order to travel/move across the country or the world in a instant without your consent? It is a...

Unions love apprenticeships, it is companies who don’t. The companies more or less stopped training apprentices in the 80s as it was cheaper and easier to just hire a skilled tradesperson from elsewhere. Add in Europe sending skilled tradespeople here as the jobs were drying up in Europe at the...

The plus side to British vehicles is it makes really good technicians out of you

It’s a matter of will to make a solution happen. Not saying it is easy or instant, I suspect it would actually be quite difficult. Everyone is happy sticking their heads in the sand and pretending there isn’t a problem. We have done it so long that it is now reaching critical levels. This...

It’s like the company I work for. They fight tooth and nail on principle as they are already paying the lawyers anyway so might as well drag it out when it isn’t in their favour. Every large group does the same thing. They have to pay you, or the contractor, or the place they ordered the goods...

Yes but if the CAF wishes to grow and wants to be more family friendly, it would be a step in the right direction. Plus since they would be CAF members they could get posted elsewhere if the demand drops too low for the area. To me it is no different than having a military hospital or housing...

And likely to effect them and their friends as opposed to the plebs.

Maybe it is time for it to become a military trade then. Then they can impose whatever solution they wish/is needed as it would fall under Federal not Provincial. Domestic support worker or some such title. Throw them in under Log.

If they were smart they would use the environment to prop up the economy. It isn’t mutually exclusive. For example supporting Canadian manufacturing is environmentally friendly as the alternative is producing said products in foreign countries with less environmental controls and then shipping...

They allowed it to decline because they were attempting to save money in the short term (decade of darkness) as a lot of military housing was needing tons of work. They pretended it was in the interests of the members but at the end of the day it was always about saving cash and trying to get...