Recent content by Blackadder1916

Only 72? Would have thought he was older, if I gave it any thought at all. Saw him perform live once, fifty-one years ago at the Thomson Student Centre at MUN. The tickets were $2.50. (Edited to add) Some things from The Muse, student paper at MUN, Mar 1971

I would hope that Canadian military families would be treated better than Americans for 'this' health care issue. While both American and Canadian military pers will (usually) have abortion services provided by other than military medical treatment facilities (MTF), the difference is that...

What's that book? The Rock Barracks version of Tinder?

Yes, it is my opinion that their view is unacceptable to me. I usually have no problem with people who believe abortion, homosexuality, transgenderism and non-traditional marriage is wrong. I have a simple way of dealing with them; I ignore them. However, when "their view" is that they intend...

Unless they snuck in a pro-choicer while I blinked, this is the CBC piece in which the interviewee referred to the PM as "virtue signaling". She is identified as being with the Campaign Life Coalition, a group which, according to its website, is anti-abortion and also has very "traditional"...

Nor would that CAF doctor do anything (clinical) for a dependent in DC . . . or at least that was the way it was. The medical det at CDLSW is (or was) primarily functioning as the medical admin/financial hub in the USA (there is/was a similar arrangement in Europe). Channeling back some 30...

I hadn't thought about that aspect when I posted. Perhaps someone should ask the question to an appropriate authority . . . maybe one of these guys. (their phone numbers are listed in the Welcome Book) https://cdlsw-elfcw.ca/wp-content/uploads/Welcome-Book-2022-1.pdf...

I must have missed that. However, there was a very vehement Canadian "anti-abortion" activist on the program who used the expression "virtue signalling". Her hope was that eventually (and soon) abortion would be outlawed in Canada as well.

A microcosm of the wider debate on the Roe v. Wade reversal is the effect in the US military. While the provision of abortion services in US military medical facilities has long been restricted, service members (and dependents) could (with varying degrees of availability) access such services...

Noticed the painting was cropped in the ABC article. Here's the full view at the Australian War Memorial site. https://www.awm.gov.au/napier-waller-art-prize-hub/2022-napier-waller-art-prize/promotion

While only tangentially related to the CPC leadership race, an interesting wrinkle. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/patrick-brown-rempel-garner-ucp-leadership-1.6498054 The loss of Brown's campaign manager (and Michele Rempel Garner as co-chair of his campaign) will likely have no...

But a more important opinion.

This was some of the "squeeze". Worth?

"So we felt like it was our duty as the world's most iconic ketchup to rally our passionate fans and champion change for the age-old issue of unequal buns and wieners packs." Ketchup on a hotdog is not iconic. It's like wearing socks with sandals. Then again, Wonder Bread is so suburban...

Casualty clearing was, in my experience (years and years past), the primary justification usually put forth as the "military" requirement for continuing to have stewards on Canadian warships. Yes, all the functions above listed could be handed off to other trades but the sense I get is that a...