Recent content by Blackadder1916

Sorry, I might have added to your confusion. I had assumed that the PSDCP (current employees incl CAF) was changing over on the same timeline as the PDSP (pensioners, I'm one of the old farts). A closer look at the TB FAQ kinda/sorta indicates that the dates were different, but IMHO it is...

Apparently the date for the change-over has been amended. https://www.federalretirees.ca/en/news-views/news-listing/january/new-pensioners-dental-services-plan-transition-date-nov-1-2024#:~:text=In%20June%202023%2C%20the%20government,date%20was%20July%201%2C%202024. I am not expecting them to...

Meanwhile in Canada . . . https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/royal-portraits/order-download-portraits.html He could send a selfie.

I'll adopt the standard response of "I don't know much about art, but . . ." The King's portrait is different from most portraits of previous monarchs. But it's not much different from previous works by the artist of other subjects (including one that was commissioned by the King when he was...

And then there are the people who develop food allergies as adults. While comparatively rare, it does happen. After I left the military, I spent a few years managing a multi-location family practice/walk-in group (doc-in-a-box). At the location where I had my office, there were two notable...

And meanwhile, in Yorkshire.

Visuals can raise questions. The "high fertility" countries are mostly located in central Africa. What other "high rate" is also associated with the region? Child (under 5) mortality rate, Infant mortality rate.

$8000.00, perhaps? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/boons-boondoggles-seen-in-p-c-baby-bonus-pitch-1.672839 But accounting for inflation (the Quebec program started in 1988), it might take nearly $18,000 to get those extra rugrats popped out...

Don't assume that a "Liberal" or a "Progressive Conservative" label in 1960s Newfoundland politics automatically meant that an individual embraced national party doctrine ideology (or platform). In some cases, being on the other side of the aisle simply meant personal opposition to Joey...

Most will remember Rex as a commentator, however for some Newfoundlanders of a certain age it will be his forays into politics that originally caught their attention. Firstly, in student politics at MUN during which his public criticism of Premier Joey Smallwood (of both his administration and...

And let's not forget this Nobel Peace Prize laureate and "leader of a notorious terrorist organisation" as described by the British Government who continued to refuse him a visa to enter the UK until the 1970s, only a few short years before he became the PM of Israel...

If you think that by becoming a resident elsewhere, you can avoid paying taxes on your pension, you have another think coming. And depending on the "chosen country", there may or may not be a tax treaty that acknowledges you've already paid to Canada. But be assured, especially with a CF...

A generation or two ago, if there had been had been such a slew of complaints from women, the counter-argument would have been because they were on their period.

Funny you bring that up. In some recent news, some locals got upset at the announcement that a military golf course will close. https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/final-season-looming-for-petawawa-golf-club-1.6868220