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If there are profound mental heath issues at play, that link could be extremely tenuous and not particularly ideological. The trial location is an obvious focal point for media and the public, and anything happening there will get disproportionate coverage. Someone who is able to rationally plan...

No, probably not. What an awful way to go.

Alive? Jesus. I saw the video and thought he was definitely dead. I suspect there will be a massive mental health component to this.

That’s sad and tragic. The court has just empaneled the jury and six alternates. The trial itself will start on Monday.

Yup. Very few other employers have to contend with this. And spousal employment options may be limited at some bases. The navy probably has it the best in that respect, but on the flip side they also have Esquimault CoL. versus major army options like Gagetown, Pet, or Shilo that just don’t have...

I also read that some of the Iranian attacks launched from there. Might have been seen by Israel as a solid contender for a reprisal directly tied to Iran’s attack, but also a “look what we can do”?

This definitely will take a lot of work and fine tuning. I very much like the idea that regular rent payments can improve one’s credit score; that will help a lot of people. Counting rent goes right to the core of what a credit score is supposed to metricize. With a lot of people working to pay...

Seen anything firm up for what got hit? I’ve seen talk of a particular AFB and some missile sites that were involved in the attack, nothing solid about nuclear sites. So far the response seems surprisingly muted.

Joining the reserves as an officer can be tricky though. There are generally very few ‘off the street’ positions available for new recruits to come in as an officer. It may simply not be an option open to him now or in the near future.

I’ve been out for almost five years; my recollections and observations are dated. I recommend against releasing and re-enrolling; it’s not a shortcut. You could release on Thursday and reapply next Tuesday and the system would bog down verifying your former service. In the regular force, your...

Drones, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and proxies oh lots of the first two. Interesting Twitter source: Iranian focused reporter working out of Spain. Twitter has a useful built in translation tool. He’s reporting potential hits near nuclear sites and seems to be ahead of English...

In an urban PRes unit, figure half the junior troops are probably university students. I saw a few switched on young Cpls with 3-4 years who were able to make the jump to officer. Not saying it’s easy or likely, but PRes units have more individual freedom at unit level to fill their officer...

First 24 hour rule is in effect. Assume everything is bullshit unless independently and multiply corroborated. Remember that you’ll see 40 Twitter accounts breathlessly quoting “reports of…”, but they’ll all be plagiarizing the first report to hit, probably from a relatively unknown quantity...

Is there any reason not to just apply to join the reserves as an officer cadet in the officer trade that interests you? It’s normal in the reserves to have new officers who are still going through university on their own dime. Now, you would have to be competitive of course- but there’s nothing...

Be great to see Ukraine sneak some of these into the Baltics or the Med. Or even the Pacific if they could somehow pull it off. Make no Russian navy vessel safe.

The smoothest of brains, that one…

You’ve still ignored repeated questions about where you stand on Hamas’ attack of October 7th, and how it was conducted- that being the original subject of this thread. Silence can be loud when it speaks.

Yup. Easier said than done, unfortunately. Hamas and its mindset need to go- but it’s not realistic to make any future rapprochement contingent on this being completely or mostly accomplished before any reciprocal steps by Israel. The West Bank settler situation is the obvious low hanging fruit...

Classified briefings don’t muzzle; they merely cause you to need to do the work to speak within the limits or what’s classified and what’s not in appropriate fora. Thousands of Canadians working in national security and defense do this every day. Information is regularly sanitized, downgraded...

That doesn’t square with reality; by your reasoning no free society can possibly exist. Social consequences are implicit in any society, or any gathering of humans. You are free to both associate and to disassociate. If I’m, say, an employer, and one of my employees goes viral for some racist...