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Fat chance. It's one of the most prestigious military sites in Canada. And it's the location where all of Canada's senior officers, generals and some senior public servants are educated. It's also place where we bring in foreign officers from around the world and expose them to Canada. That...

But it is surprising to a significant minority of Canadians who dislike the US and think it's all just terrible politics and violence. There's a significant minority of Canadians that could never imagine living in the US. And the projection of those views into our politics often means we get...

Leaders follow populations. And as we see with so many discussions in Canada and even on this forum, there's a lot of people that take democracy and our shared prosperity for granted and simply think we can maintain all of it without really contributing to collective deterrence and security.

Sadly, I think he could still get elected. His supporters are conditioned to think the courts are biased. Let's hope he gets jail time.

The stats were national. The article just happening to focus a narrative on Florida. Nowhere in the article do they say the majority of people moving to the US, are moving to Florida.

Meh. That's not really "rebuilding". They've lost most of their best troops and most experienced leaders. Their huge Cold War stock pile is being whittled down. Sure, things like artillery shells are easy to ramp. Aircraft? Ships? Not so much. They are not going to be coming out of this...

No ceasefire with Russia is worth the effort for the Ukrainians. All it does is let the Russians rearm. They learned their lesson with Crimea. Apparently a lot of the West has not. Let's stop with this idea that Russia is some invincible superpower. It's a country with the economy of Italy...

Can we stop with this WWIII fearmongering. Normalizing this fear simply helps the Russians. Next up they'll be threatening WWIII over the Baltics and you'll be calling to simply give Putin everything he wants. Nothing in Ukraine threatens the Russian homeland. Hard to make a case that they...

Imagine making Canada bad enough that emigration to post-Trump's America hit's peak in a decade. And it's mostly going to be the most talented leaving. All those medical professionals needed to take care of us and the technical professionals and entrepreneurs we hope to drive our economy...

Absolutely. But some ambiguity is better than none. And for the Europeans, French doctrine is particularly scary to the Russians. And that ambiguity and deterrence is still more than the rest of us could provide conventionally.

Exactly the pushback I've been hoping for. https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/canadian-militarys-ability-to-battle-forest-fires-will-be-limited-this-year-top-general-warns

Why? We count that spending now. And so do our other allies. Paying for capacity is a defence expenditure even if not used. I There's a specific sub requirement. The goal is to spend 2% on defence and 20% of the total defence spending on capital programs and R&D. Canada is unique in...

Even their manipulation of poverty definitions isn't covering up reality. https://financialpost.com/news/poverty-food-insecurity-rising-warns-food-banks-canada

Eventually jobs. But it starts with tasks and processes. And automating those automatically increases productivity which means there's simply no need to hire more, even we workload increases. But definitely jobs that simply involved a ton of data entry and analysis will definitely be reduced...

That's not even that impactful. How many actual translators are there? By comparison, I think of engineering projects I've been involved in, with everything from conceptualization to final design to permitting and I can actually imagine AI cutting more than half the people involved and...

In my lifetime, we've moved from four people in an airplane cockpit to two with automation, while airplanes have actually gotten bigger, more capable and gained range. Now there's debates in aviation about going to single pilot. And of course, there's drones, where one pilot can control...

The current AI hype is overdone. That doesn't mean the idea has no legs or won't have an impact. It may not reduce jobs right away. But the increasing productivity could drive down employment growth initially. If every lawyer in a firm is 10% more productive, you could use 10% fewer lawyers...

Here's an exact example of the mismanagement in our system. Algonquin College cutting a hairstyling and esthetics program because it's not a moneymaker that caters to foreign students. And it's a program that has a waitlist. I'd rather fund this than more BAs...

That's like when kids talk about making the NBA or NHL. Sure, it could happen. But not something they would bank on. Also, I'm going to guess that MA is not from some ordinary university (Oxbridge? SOAS?). And probably, being the daughter of a lawyer possibly helped with the networking.

Which is why pumping out more History and Psych majors and saddling them with $40k in student loans just so they can make $60k at a bank in a job that could be automated in the next decade, is not a solution. We should be getting ahead of the curve. But we won't. There's already plenty of BAs...