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    CAN Secur/Int Committee: Time to Fix RCMP Federal Policing pgm

    Provinces are wondering if they should be seriously considering a Provincial Police Force (my headline)? https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-contracts-uncertainty-mass-casualty-1.7143722 To the Mountie members on this board, what is the rumour mill regarding this issue (7 years to go)?
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    Trudeau Popularity - or not. Nanos research

    This is very much an urban phenom. In my home town/area we ALL left. Some left for a few years, some left for ever. Some were farm kids who worked abroad (meaning Alberta LOL) and then came back to take over the firm, or town kids who came back in 10 to 15 years to take over the business of...
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    Trudeau Popularity - or not. Nanos research

    Actually Riel was fighting for Métis peoples rights to recognized by the GoC. He wasn’t fighting for an independent state that would have been swallowed up by Manifest Destiny Mad USA immediately.
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    Trudeau Popularity - or not. Nanos research

    Heaven forbid a kid has to leave Toronto to work in a remote hell hole like Orillia ON or even worse Dryden to make some money and start the process to become independent.
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    Canada doesn’t matter to the rest of the world - and it’s our own fault

    A view from the UK on the vapidness of "Soft Power" https://thecritic.co.uk/the-fallacy-of-soft-power/?mc_cid=80a249131f
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    2022 CPC Leadership Discussion: Et tu Redeux

    Mea Culpa from Matt Gurney. https://www.readtheline.ca/p/matt-gurney-what-i-got-wrong-about Best line: And that is happening elsewhere, including in the U.S. Men love Pierre Poilievre so much that there basically aren’t enough women voters left to counteract that,” he quipped. “And that was...
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    Trudeau Popularity - or not. Nanos research

    So a bureaucratic money shuffle then.
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    Trudeau Popularity - or not. Nanos research

    The Carbon rebate debate: Has this initiative changed your driving habits at all? Not really for me, and I think I'd be more supportive of the "Tax" if the money collected went towards public transit, train travel, nuclear energy production. Things that would actually go towards reducing carbon...
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    Trudeau Popularity - or not. Nanos research

    That`s the un-substantiated rumour I`ve started here in the NCR!
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    Canada doesn’t matter to the rest of the world - and it’s our own fault

    Just read that the feds cut funding to 4-H Canada. The liberals really hate rural kids.
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    Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

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    Updated Army Service Dress project

    Geez, my kids are millennials and Pokémon was/is huge in their lives. And didn't twerking start with you lot?
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    Updated Army Service Dress project

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    Canadian Surface Combatant RFQ

    And then the Dundas family would counter sue with a defamation of character and really fubar Toronto finances.
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    Base closures?

    I think you meant Dartmouth? Or Eastern Passage?
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    The War in Ukraine

    Another outstanding interview by Paul Wells. I think Mr. Thorsell is wrong on many fronts but he is right that we don't have vigorous debate in the public commons anymore. Its agree or socially die. https://substack.com/home/post/p-142563501?source=queue
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    Trust in our Institutions

    ^^ The lack of accountability in government and corporations is appalling.
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    Updated Army Service Dress project

    ^^ A little more Starship Troopers than Battlestar Galactica (ya colours reversed)
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    Trudeau Popularity - or not. Nanos research

    Lobbyists beware: Note to lobbyists: no, the status quo won’t cut it. Conclusion: And that’s because Canada of 2025 (or whenever the next federal election may be) will look different than the last time the federal government turned over. The next government will inherit a national debt so...
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    Updated Army Service Dress project

    ^^ When I worked for ADM IM, they gave me a command badge. I never wore it. Nobody said a damn thing to me. The badges are just another stupid thing to put a hole in your shirt and jacket.
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