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You can't spell "Shit hole" without "Shilo".It wouldn’t be an army base if it wasn’t!
Canada moves to 2% GDP end of FY25/26 - PMMC
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Shilo's great, its Brandon that's the problem.
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Shilo has always been one of the army's best kept little secrets. Being a base with major combat units free of any BGens or Cols and their RSMs and other staff probably has a lot to do with that.
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Can confirm. I spent a month there one week.
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Shilo has always been one of the army's best kept little secrets. Being a base with major combat units free of any BGens or Cols and their RSMs and other staff probably has a lot to do with that.
Ifs offset by being beside possibly the most mediocre town in Western Canada.
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Kamloops would like a few words.You mean Medicine Hat, right?
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Do they still run the weekend shuttles to Winnipeg for leisure?
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Kamloops has access to multiple ski hills, great weather, a walkable street down town, non chain restaurants, and its a quick drive to the Okanagan.
Brandon has an Applebee's and is a top 2 city in a top 10 province.
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Atleast med hat has decent housing prices. Albertas transportation plan also calls for a passenger train from Calgary to med hat. This could benefit the military if they put a station near suffield.You mean Medicine Hat, right?
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And Canada's banker PM has got himself a new bank to manage.
Out with the Net Zero bank
In with the Defence bank.
www.theglobeandmail.com
It's all just money.
Funny thing about bankers. They love indebted customers.
Out with the Net Zero bank
In with the Defence bank.
Canada selected to host new multinational defence bank, sources say
Bank will provide long-term, low-cost financing for defence projects undertaken by participating countries
www.theglobeandmail.com
It's all just money.
Funny thing about bankers. They love indebted customers.
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As an outsider reading this, it doesn't sound like good news.....
I'm not as concerned about the title as I am about the snippet of info I'm clipping below.
“These initial platoons were also made up of candidates with as little as three months residency in Canada, leading to a significant culture shock as candidates had not yet acclimatized to Canadian society, let alone Canadian military culture.”
He cited an example of one French-speaking platoon with permanent residents that had a graduation rate of 48 per cent. Lt.-Col. Kieley said it was plagued by allegations of racism and infighting between cultural groups within the unit, such as people from Cameroon “against those from Côte d’Ivoire.”
I pray that this sort of stuff doesn't result in some 'blue on blue' conflicts during a live fire exercise.
Lt.-Col. Kieley said a significant number of permanent resident recruits had unrealistic expectation of life in the Canadian Armed Forces, including the likelihood they might be posted outside their hometown. A “surprising number believed they would simply go home after basic training.”
He cited other cultural issues, particularly among officer training. “For some, it is also the first time they have been expected to treat women as their peers.”
“Most recently an ordained Anglican minister was enrolled as an artillery officer, leading to questions about what career counselling was provided” to this person. They were “ultimately unsuccessful” at officer training ”due to their discomfort with handling the service rifle," it said.
Wow - how was this person not steered toward the Chaplaincy or HR/Counseling or an Admin role? Its like assigning a Vegan to the Abattoir section.
Success rate for basic training in Canadian military drops, report says
I'm not as concerned about the title as I am about the snippet of info I'm clipping below.
“These initial platoons were also made up of candidates with as little as three months residency in Canada, leading to a significant culture shock as candidates had not yet acclimatized to Canadian society, let alone Canadian military culture.”
He cited an example of one French-speaking platoon with permanent residents that had a graduation rate of 48 per cent. Lt.-Col. Kieley said it was plagued by allegations of racism and infighting between cultural groups within the unit, such as people from Cameroon “against those from Côte d’Ivoire.”
I pray that this sort of stuff doesn't result in some 'blue on blue' conflicts during a live fire exercise.
Lt.-Col. Kieley said a significant number of permanent resident recruits had unrealistic expectation of life in the Canadian Armed Forces, including the likelihood they might be posted outside their hometown. A “surprising number believed they would simply go home after basic training.”
He cited other cultural issues, particularly among officer training. “For some, it is also the first time they have been expected to treat women as their peers.”
“Most recently an ordained Anglican minister was enrolled as an artillery officer, leading to questions about what career counselling was provided” to this person. They were “ultimately unsuccessful” at officer training ”due to their discomfort with handling the service rifle," it said.
Wow - how was this person not steered toward the Chaplaincy or HR/Counseling or an Admin role? Its like assigning a Vegan to the Abattoir section.
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I'm really hoping that those examples are the only ones - that they found all the worst ones and dumped them all in 1 article.
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I'm waiting for the currently unpublished, highly probable, sexual assault cases to hit the courts, amongst other negative impacts from what seems to be the worst management decision ever made in the CAF Recruiting world.
I'm sure no one will lose their jobs over it though because: tradition
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Its almost like the CAF recruiters need to show that video that the Dutch put together a number of years ago for their refugees/asylum/immigrants about what 'life is like' in The Netherlands and then asked them their thoughts on it. Those providing the 'wrong' answers were basically shown the door......I'm waiting for the currently unpublished, highly probable, sexual assault cases to hit the courts, amongst other negative impacts from what seems to be the worst management decision ever made in the CAF Recruiting world.
I'm sure no one will lose their jobs over it though because: tradition
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Well managed immigration processes result in high quality people from around the world helping to build countries.
Regardless, there's no excuse for a CAF recruiting system, what should be a thorough selection gateway, to lower standards for anyone (recent immigrant or not) to the extent that we are apparently seeing here.
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Is this a recruiting system issue, or a political control issue ?
For all we know someone advised this being a bad idea, but the political picture is worth more than results. With our current and former Gov I tend to believe their political picture is more valuable than results and effect. Who knows, I could be wrong.
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I have no personal knowledge of the situation, but I'm going with both ...
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When top line numbers are incentivized over everything else, things like this tend to happen.
