NAVRES has been running its own blended DL/DT/in-house BMQ serials during the peak summer season for a number of years, though to the best of my knowledge it's still possible for individuals to be loaded on fall/winter CFLRS serials depending on personal availability and open seats on courses.
Perhaps eventually things will swing around to the "How did something the military was dealing with for months end up on the front page of a newspaper followed shortly by a high-profile arrest, days after MND announced his anti-racism initiative two months before an election?" angle.
Nah, it...
None of the four beards in that photo are either outside the current regulations or unacceptable by any public norm - not sure why they're attracting so much negative comment. I would guess that folks who don't like change the new beard policy won't be satisfied with any objective standard that...
I guess the dress chosen was a concession to the reality that those folks had jobs they were doing before the VIPs arrived, and jobs to return to after they left. It's good to see that the days of spending a week (or more) doing nothing but preparing for low-impact turn-out parades like this are...
Okay, you've mentioned it enough times that I'm now genuinely curious: why is it that you regard tasks outside Canada as an unusual liability? You've acknowledged that the risk and hardship are subject to other allowances, so I gather it's the generally life-disrupting nature of the taskings...
I wouldn't say that's the case with organizations that operate at a comparable scale to the CAF (oil & gas supermajors, as an example, or UN agencies). There, the benefits packages for contractors tends to be more or less the same as whatever is currently offered for new permanent staff; the...
I guess you won't get any argument here - except perhaps to note that in general "time in rank" is a piss-poor way to evaluate performance and skill, and perhaps a less 1950s personnel management system would improve outcomes.
Very, very well-put. For my part, I’ve always been skeptical of the mathematical magic that goes into the “military factor”: it’s pretty clear that the paths leading to the Director level in the public service and the military are extremely divergent (grad school and a few years’ experience...
Good point. In practice the different theoretical time-in-rank requirements are patched over by the very common use of accelerated promotion to Cpl in the RegF, which is not available to reservists. But there’s no obvious reason to have differing policies on either point.
That was very much a restriction in place before we developed a capability to carry those sort of missions out. The tail was wagging the dog on that one.
But there are so many of us to choose from...
Ken’s claim to media fame is as a Dalhousie security studies prof. He’s one of relatively few on that beat who are naval officers, so I guess it was inevitable he might weigh in. I have to say I’m in complete disagreement with him, though.
The investigation and referral for charges happened under Bob Paulson, who was a Harper appointee. The issue seems to have been that the RCMP were only given one name to investigate by PCO out of the 72 PCO knew to have been able to leak the information. That’s where the political interference...
I was there - he was wearing his peak cap during the parade itself. If you look carefully that’s not a black RCN ball cap; it’s a blue veteran association cap that was given to him at the end of the parade (the clip is of him thanking the participating group for it).
Now why they had SIX...
That (the tweet) makes sense of what happened today. Remember that the prosecutor herself didn’t get to see the contents of the PMO emails until they were recently unsealed by the judge. As soon as she could read them, she realized the PMO had been interfering with witnesses and that it scotched...
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