Recent content by guavadelic

National Post is reporting (and speculating) that Ottawa is leaning towards a mixed fighter jet fleet: https://nationalpost.com/opinion/john-ivison-sources-say-ottawa-considering-swedish-jets-over-f-35s-for-half-of-fleet

Trump is intending to sign a more expansive deal with China during his trip there in April, so the hypocrisy is obvious.

The German bidder for Canada's submarine contract, TKMS, is preparing a sizable investment package for Canada as they seek to improve their chances: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/germanys-tkms-seeks-investment-package-woo-canada-over-12-billion-submarine-2026-01-20/...

Conservatives +23 in the 18-29 demo is almost surreal.

Agreed, all the hyperventilating is crazy to me. Based on the coverage, you'd think Canada signed some new wide-ranging defense treaty with the Chinese instead of a targeted tariff reduction.

The Globe is reporting that a new auto policy is to be released in February that will give preferential access to automakers that build vehicles in Canada. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-to-give-foreign-automakers-who-build-vehicles-here-preferential/ Not sure...

Americans in border states when they see Chinese EVs for the first time....

Well informed video by Paige on the project. Raises some important questions and highlights some contradictions in the stated mission of the project. One is the exclusivity being granted to Cadence to operate the service (45 years) and how the lack of competition could affect affordability...

Bypassing Dorval would hurt one of their stated goals of reducing shorthaul flights in the corridor. Direct connections to airports would go along way to facilitate that. Also, it's interesting none of their official news releases mention Laval in Phase One. This could all just be from an...

Sheppard and Brimley could be a good location for a secondary stop. Station could be directly connected to a new Line 4 station at Brimley and its close proximity to the 401 would provide convenient access for folks driving in from Pickering, Ajax, Whitby etc. For a suburban station, its good...

Zero chance he stops angling for the Nobel. This was more about stroking his ego so he doesn't throw next summer's tournament into chaos.

The low fee for Canada to join SAFE (10million euros) is making some question the potential benefits of the program. For reference, the UK was being asked to pay between 4 and 6.5 Billion euros...

This Energy MOU with Alberta might just give the NDP the opening they needed to make a comeback. We'll see if they take advantage of it in the coming months. A lot is riding on their choice of party leader. Mckenna has spent the past week throwing barbs at Resources minister Tim Hodgson on...

DND folks seem to be circling the wagons to pressure the Feds stick with the F-35 order. The Carney government is in between a rock and a hard place in making this call. There will be political blowback in either option. They've been left holding the bag after this can kept getting kicked down...

Still early, but the rolling stock contract likely will be really scrutinized by the public in regards to domestic economic benefits. Folks will be coming out of the woodwork crying foul if the contract doesn't contain domestic manufacturing, even though it likely wouldn't be feasible to do so...