Recent content by Colin Parkinson

Thanks to a grievance in Ottawa from some twit who complained that people in the regions were getting a "deal" because of free parking at the rural sites, they were going to ban free parking at all Federal sites regardless of location. A grievance from the techs that looked after the Loran radio...

Listening to my coworkers who had an office downtown Winnipeg, it was that way long before Covid

Are they issuing free guns or bear spray, for the run from the carpark to the office door?

You paying 1.75L, I wish, ours peaked recently at $2.10 and now at $2.01

I am going through my daughters recent experiences at elementary and High School, they are whitewashing FN history being taught to remove any potentially negative associations. FN culture is a huge part of ever subject now. Funny enough my oldest was dating a FN guy from the Reserves and even...

I am fine with teaching warts and all. but in context. They don't teach the kids that the FN here were happily fighting each other, wiping out different tribes and taking territory. They also don't teach that they took slaves. If you taught that , then it adds context to why there was support...

Almost all cities charge a business a significant amount more in taxes and fees for everything than they do for residential. My friend ran a internet business out of a small warehouse in North Van. He had himself and two other employees, his sewer bill was 4 times that of his house in the same...

Worried about the current reliability of the military I wonder?

Your not supposed to notice that bit......

Rather than trying to build future ghetto's, it would be better to invest Federal monies outside of the major centre to make the smaller centres more attractive for people to move there and businesses as well. That means fiberoptics, roads, railway, water, power and sewer upgrades. That is...

Perun just did a good video on drones, UAV, FPV's https://army.ca/forums/threads/perun%E2%80%99s-videos-thread.145236/post-1940625

I was just there last night, crawling around the Wilfrid Lauier doing a fire watch. They plan to launch her very soon, although there will still be a lot of internal work to be done prior to her sailing.

Sadly I think my COA is more realistic.