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I would argue that it's not a loophole but it's actually fraud, but good luck proving it.

Medical evacuation is for sick people. If someone pops hot for COVID but are asymptomatic, isolated from their group and are being fed, why the heck would we spin up MEDEVAC? They're not "in the field". They're likely on that massive camp akin to a Mod Tent Kandahar that goes up every year...

No amount of heating is adequate when living in mod tents (without liners because we can't afford those) in Wainwright in May. Oddly, no amount of air conditioning works either when the weather changes from Alberta Winter to Southern Ontario summer in the span of 3 hours... If these folks had...

I didn't know showers and luxurious accommodations beat COVID, learn new science every day. Also hilarious that the troops are "checked on infrequently" but have the means to text their buddies that they aren't being checked on often enough. Send the sick home, great idea. We'll take COVID...

2020-2025 Strategic Plan - Royal Military College Saint-Jean (RMC saint-Jean) (History Para) Tories opened it back up and started the ball rolling to have it restored to degree-granting status, which was formalized in 2019 for a bachelors in International Studies. First graduates of that...

Holy crap, Altair and I agree on something. Normal people don't use variant numbers, they need common language names. The original SARS-COV-2 strain was discovered in Wuhan, it's the Wuhan Virus just as much as we have Brazilian, Indian, South African and UK variants. If there was a variant...

Had a good conversation at work today, and I'll mention what I brought up there. I submit that to actually have an effect at reducing sexual misconduct incidents, we need to see lots of Courts Martials for the next 5-10 years. A vast majority (80-95%) of sexual assaults in the greater Canadian...

It's hilarious, the opposition is giving the government an out by placing the blame on the PMs COS, but they won't take it. Maybe someone should tell them if you want to get out of the hole you're digging for yourself, start digging up as its a lot longer of a way out if you keep digging down...

Israel is a good indicator, they hit 50% fully vaccinated and cases plummeted from 5k per day to sub 300.

Obviously it would take a lot of legal scholars to make it happen, but there's also no law that a Cabinet Minister must be a member of Parliament (from a quick Wikipedia search) either. It would take cross-party support, and then numerous applications to turn it into a common-law convention. Not...

I don't think we need to go that far, but the process that vetted and chose David Johnston should be used for the CDS. That way, the CDS isn't beholden his/her job to the governing party, and that process was widely seen as non-partisan and produced a fantastic GG. There are 2 US systems I...

Depending on how they implement the character leader assessments, that'll go a long way. The elephant in the room is the toxic culture that seems to be emanating from the NCR, and perhaps the Officer corps in general. Mercedes Stephenson mentioning she was getting calls from Senior CAF Leaders...

Yep, especially after the inaction on Vance. How do we expect Senior CAF Leaders or any sort of culture change when the MND is part of the old boys club too? LGen Rouleau was Comd CANSOFCOM at the time Dawe wrote the letter. Presumably he was aware, so maybe we should fire him too. Did CO JTF2...

Then again, even if you do that and follow up with "It doesn't matter what the complaint was about" when your CDS was accused of sexual misconduct in 2018 and you failed to act for 3 years until the complainant went to the media, seems pretty hollow. Sajjan says nature of Vance complaint 'does...

He's leaving 2 months early, into a staff position he was already going to occupy. It won't placate the folks that have the pitchforks out, but it's something.