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I'm not sure we can agree that the intent is clear. The Booker was purchased to replace the MGS which was, effectively, an assault gun. The scale of issue, one battalion per division allows for one company per brigade and one platoon per infantry battalion. The debate then turns to should...

Would the Leopard 1 have been considered as an appropriate light tank for an Air Mobile Brigade? Leopard 1 Specifications Mass 42.2 tonnes (increased on later models from original 40 tonnes)[1] Length 9.54/8.29 m (gun forward/rearward) Width 3.37 m Height 2.39/2.7 m (turret...

I'd say it was worse than not pushing north. I'd say they retreated from the north in the 70s. Places like Hearst, Cochrane, Cobalt, Kapuskasing, even Sudbury, were active growth centres in the 50s and 60s. Our neighbour in Peterboro was an Ontario Hydro lineman who emigrated from Belfast to...

I'm guessing that this might have something to do with it.

You mean like harden the existing Moosonee and Churchill railways and use them to support the construction of pipelines in parallel to the existing rails? And improve the existing port at Churchill? I still think that a Moosonee terminal might be worth looking at, even if it has to be a few...

https://thenarwhal.ca/port-of-churchill-explainer/

From the above article.... That may be just about the dumbest excuse for not doing anything I have ever heard. More jobs for the locals on the Bay. Environmental spill response should be a local responsibility. Local crews and local vessels.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-funding-oil-gas-hudson-bay-1.6928302 Prior to the sale of Rupert's Land the major beneficiaries of trade were the Inuit and the Cree. The Inuit traded directly with the HBC. The Cree both traded directly from their own lands and also...

https://jpt.spe.org/concept-ice-resistant-offshore-terminal-arctic-lng-export

I will give you a word currently popular: Diversity. A healthy economy is a diverse economy. And a diverse economy is one that has many streams of income and access to many streams of resources. One rail line running from east to west is not indicative of a diverse, or healthy economy. It...

I apologize for the quality of the image - I couldn't seem to get the blurriness to disappear. In 1670 a couple of Frenchmen (Radishes and Gooseberries - Radisson and Groseilliers) got fed up paying taxes to the government in Montreal. They approached some French associates in London who...

Which came first? The people or the port? Most models tend to see the port being created and the people moving in after the fact. Fort William/Port Arthur, Sault Ste Marie, Detroit, York, Montreal, Quebec, Halifax, Victoria, even Iqaluit. All of them started as trading posts...

Too bad there is no mechanism to get the RCN, RCAF, RRCA, RCAC, RCIC all the other Royal Entities all working to the same plan.

Sometimes, though, it takes a 2x4 between the eyes to make the adjustment.

How much has been invested in, and continues to be invested in, the seasonal port of Thunder Bay? 16 locks on the St Lawrence and Great Lakes. Multiple harbours to dredge. Ice to break. Channels to mark. SAR to support. It all boils down to how much money can you make by exploiting those...

Inuit North - Nunangat Canada as well as Nunangat plus Alaskan and Greenland Inuit.

Looking at other countries with alternate systems do we want them to give away power? And how long does it take the power brokers to figure out how to game the new system?

WRT Churchill vs Moosonee Both. Moosonee first to establish market presence and trade routes, exploiting immediate demand. Churchill second, establishing a new northern power transfer corridor across the tops of BC, AB SK and MB. On the west coast there should be at least two full service...

A chap I met along the way, son of a friend and mentor, went from a NAIT diploma as an instrument tech and a job in a refinery to figuring out how to blow up refineries real good and a PhD with his own highly remunerative company.

Seen and generally agreed. The difference between Churchill and Moosonee is that Moosonee is about 700 km closer to the TC Pipelines Mainline. It is only about a 300 km push. Like Churchill the push would parallel an existing rail line to support construction.