Recent content by Neill McKay

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Both of those refer only to TV, and only to prime time.  What you said originally was that only "something like 8% of Canadians watch/listen to the CBC on a regular basis".  That's not at all the same thing, is it?

I find that number hard to believe.  I would have thought that that Radio alone would exceed that. Do you imagine that there are no crown corporations doing useful work?

I wonder if you could explain this in a bit more detail.  Do they just drive around the way a police car would? Somewhere I got the impression that ambulances do this in my area, and I've always wondered what the advantage is.  Even when it's on the road, it's still in only one place at a time...

Maybe one day before it's due?

One expects a certain amount of that from the Opposition.

If this really is your understanding of our system of government, you can save yourself a lot of grief by doing some reading on how a constitutional monarchy really works.

I'm the last person to advocate going cheap on anything to do with the Governor General, but this does strike me as being outside of the scope of the taxpayers' responsibility. However, I think a case could perhaps be made for DND to provide support for work relating to her role as...

There's some very good advice above. My last unit had a system of defaulters.  Every PO2 and above had access to a supply of short forms they could use to report any disciplinary issue, and they were encouraged to make liberal use of them.  They left them in the XO's mailbox and he'd review...

Thanks, guys, this is exactly what I was after. In a sea cadet corps there are normally several divisions, each with a PO1 or PO2 as the divisional petty officer.  I'm looking to implement a similar concept for the army cadet corps, but obviously in keeping with their elemental, branch, and...

I've just started working with an army cadet corps that has an armoured affiliation (after spending the last twelve years with the sea cadet programme).  They're a small unit without a defined structure so I'd like to look at organizing them into sub-units, mostly to provide leadership...

I remember reading that the average annual attrition in the P. Res. was 35 per cent, which suggests an average career length of about three years, so I think you're right.

But the press is not a single entity; individual journalists, or at least individual media outlets, act somewhat independently.  I hope they'd react to a changing picture as information becomes available. That's certainly a fair point, but the commercial air travel system is one of the last...

I don't think it's meant to be.  But, I see that you're a former RN member so I guess offence is in the ear of the beholder!

I'd add that it's important for someone who is considering joining the CF to look in detail at the various trades.  I first joined before there was any significant CF recruiting presence on the web so I walked into the recruiting centre more or less blind, with little more than a notion that I...