Recent content by FJAG

So help me ... I like it. 🍻

I was a litigation lawyer for 25 and never saw any lawyer throw a case or even remotely suspected one of doing so. For eight of those years I served as a bencher on Manitoba's law society on the complaints investigation and later discipline committee and never once ran into a case like that. If...

Up to this point you are doing fine. At this point you've lost the thread of the argument in order to throw in a conspiracy theory or two. The issue with injunctions is that while the law is clear that a judge can issue one "when right and just" - the tests are open to flexible interpretation...

Red cabbage ...... Mmmmmm ........ 🍻

I think that this is now what the job of PA has to be. Find the channels that connect with the target audience be it the potential recruit or the serving member and push the selected message to them. Then audit the success or failure of that and adjust accordingly. Interesting static websites...

This! I'm old enough to remember getting the news from Walter Cronkite. I've watched the media change over the years albeit slowly at the start and then becoming a gallop in the last two decades as internet took hold and rather than choosing your information from between three or four talking...

The 2011 Transformation initiative was not about "major equipment purchases or budget increases for defence." It was about cutting waste and inefficiency and costs savings. His recommendations earmarked between 1 and 3 billion in potential savings. Leslie's tour as CLS ran from mid 2006 until...

That was certainly the case with Trudeau's first MND. Or perhaps its more accurate to say that he was at exactly the dep He had his hand in some key matters - The Leo 2, the M777 (the first dozen and the last 26), the CCV and LRPF (cancelled after him), the TAPV (even if some folks hate it)...

It's an interesting interview spoiled only by the amateurish interview. Considering that these PA folks are paid professionals, why is the standard of their work at the high school audio blog level. This could have been so much more than the giggle fest that it became at times. I'll reiterate...

A quick look at the last MND Mandate letter sets the tone. Just look at the top five priorities and then recollect that the SSE basically allocates much of its verbiage to the next four topics as well. 🍻

LGen (retd) Andrew Leslie on the Trudeau government 🍻

There are several major points to it. 1) one major point is to reorganize RegF existing RegF equipment and manpower holdings so as to increase the quality of leadership and training for the ARes; 2) another major point is to increase the number of deployable bde and bn headquarters so as to be...

Second part of the construct. We start with 6 LAV bns (18 rifle coys). 4 LAV coys go to Latvia (one LAV bn complete plus one LAV coy for the eFB bn) as prepositioned stock. The other 14 LAV coys are generally split up with one company's worth going to a 30/70 mech bn and two companies worth to...

36 CBG is a better performer than 33 CBG with some 1,600 v 1,200 pers. In my restructuring I take both 36 CBG (at roughly 1,600) and 37 CBG (at roughly 1,400) and have turned it into a single 36 light brigade (minus) operating out of Halifax. It consists of: 1) 30/70 8 CH recce regiment (a HQ...

33 CBG is IMHO a significantly under performing brigade. When I looked at it I concluded it needed repurposing as a 30/70 divisional sustainment brigade primarily supporting southern Ontario and I did the following: 1) move the brigade HQ to Borden as a divisional level sustainment brigade with...