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I think a long (even very long) period of accommodation for those trained useful people should be considered, for as long as they can work within their MELs. So they could stay employed within RegF on accommodation, without actually erasing the Universality of Service line in the sand (which IMO...

Did you miss reality? There are a lot areas that don't deploy at the rate that the Navy does - I've had 2.5 deployments  in 8 years, and if anything I actively seek to go.

We certainly ought to when the person being trained decides this just isn't for them, to the point of seeking escape to the JPSU. If we let them go slightly before that point, we might at least end up with a functional paper pusher.

As long as there's yelling, you're getting 90% of the training benefit. But seriously, this isn't MARS-specific. MARS is a good example, but certainly not the only trade training people medicalize out of when VOT/VR is blocked.

As an organization CAF just needs to be more flexible in VOT and, frankly, VR before contracts are over. Because you know what happens when we're not? These people medicalize and get out anyways, only with a med pension. There was nothing organically wrong with this woman, her life...

Aspirin is an OTC med - you don't need it prescribed by anyone, and for the most part its cost comes out of pocket (exception being CAF with our OTC cards and base pharmacies, the OTC coverage Native Canadians have, etc). Sure, it could be treated as an OTC. If Jarnhamar's example of how it's...

Ah. Yes, misunderstood. But being as we're less than 2 yrs under the doctor-"led" (as opposed to through Health Canada licensing of users) rx of MM, such reporting will take time. Right now there isn't even much guidance on what one should do. However, given the paucity of research and when...

Oh please. Civis falsely accused and then cleared (and also those found "not guilty", which of course is not the same as being cleared) are no more immune from reputational destruction than military folks. The presumption of innocence is for the legal system, not for how your coworkers and...

Check out the recommendations published by the College of Family Physicians of Canada (Authorizing Dried Cannabis (Medical Marijuana) for Chronic Pain or Anxiety: Preliminary Guidance), and compare with what even the VAC review says. For ex, that the prescribing doc should be primarily...

Not "a" future SurgGen. "The" future SurgGen.

You, ummm. Are posting a lot of bestiality-connected links for someone so taken aback by this ruling. Careful with that link to the "PhD thesis" thing - the homepage (fifine.org) is "Fifi's Page", and although my German is a bit rusty, it talks of the dream of a world where animals are "equal...

He was appealing on technical grounds, namely that the offence he was convicted of wasn't bestiality as legally defined by Canadian law. it appears, alas, that he was technically correct. I assume he had no grounds to appeal the child molestation convictions.

I love how the SCC's decision is the exact opposite of the "rule by Jurist" - the Court correctly interpreted the law as written, and invited the legislative branch to amend it as is properly their sphere. I have, btw, been on a couple of US-centric forums in the past few days. And indeed there...

Depends. Could be a homophobic killer seeking some kind of twisted glory by claiming the extremist religious connection, with the driver being the homophobia and the religious extremism a costume of sorts. That said, I'm not taking daddy's statement at face value, and am waiting on what the...

Full equilibrium isn't necessary, since the benefits and pension would be thought of as well; for ex, any MO who can do ER or hospitalist is not at equilibrium in the CAF, but docs fund their own retirement civi-side. So a CAF pension is part of the compensation consideration for anyone deciding...

Search and Rescue, or Search and Destroy?

I'm not arguing your second para, just making a point that there is a way to be an out of province landlord (my rental management agency communicates with me via email - I have never had to deal with anything in urgent real-time. That's what they're paid to do, after all - manage on my behalf...

BILL C-12: An Act to amend the Canadian Forces Members and Veterans Re-establishment and Compensation Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts. It had its first reading in March. Full text of bill here, if interested...

Rental management agencies. They take a cut to place a tenant and there's a (generally low) monthly fee. Now, that option might be place-dependent. I imagine they'd exist in places like Edmonton, Victoria, Halifax...not sure about Cold Lake.