#Canadian Forces

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Canada aims to add more satellites to its flagship Earth observation program "as soon as possible" thanks to a fresh funding infusion, a senior space official said in an exclusive interview. The Canadian Space Agency (CSA) will receive substantial new government funding to extend the long-standing Radarsat satellite series, a keystone of the country's climate change strategy and international disaster response, not to mention military surveillance. The agency allocation is $1.012 billion CDN (roughly $740,000 USD) over 15 years, a substantial boost to annual spending.

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[rabbitcruiser]

World War I: Canadian forces successfully completed the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans on April 12, 1917.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

[whenrangersworeblack]

Pte Pierre Levesque on guard at the Sarajevo Airport during Operation Harmony, 1993. Fantastic shot of an M2 Browning with a starlight scope.

[canadachronicles]

[stormhavenmedia]

Liberal connected, Serving CF "Information Dominance" expert interfering in Alberta Elections

As the Alberta election approaches the attacks on Danielle Smith are intensifying. Since her assumption of the Alberta Premiership Smith has been the target of a highly coordinated political disinformation operation. That operation is now being openly joined by a serving Canadian Armed Forces Major who specializes in, and was decorated by the US war machine for service in the, ” ISAF Joint…

[valyrfia]

still not over the national anthem incident yesterday btw because max verstappen throughout his career has constantly been disrespected either by those he has been nothing but friendly and encouraging towards and it pissed me off a great deal that three world championships under his belt later some drivers still don’t respect that he is THE generational talent

can i ask what exactly happend, i turned off before the podium

Crowd started chanting “Lando” during the podium, which in itself is a little disrespectful but nothing we haven’t seen before (ie. chanting Charles during Imola). The national anthem started and Lando put his fist in the air cheering them on/encouraging them DURING the national anthem. Needless to say, Max and George gave him the biggest side eye. A lot of people have also drawn comparisons to Charles’ behaviour during Monza qualifying last year, where the tifosi booed Max and Charles told them off/shook his head.

Lando also went on to blab about how he would’ve won if not for the safety car, which a lot of Max fans were a little ?! about because Max’s skill definitely made the difference during this race. Also Max would have won Miami if not for the safety car, but you didn’t hear him say any of that directly to the press, instead he just praised Lando’s skill.

All in all it’s plain disrespect and immature as hell. I would NOT guess that Lando, George, Charles, and Max all fall within the same two year age range. Also it’s disheartening because this level of entitlement and general non-awareness is nothing new, lest we forget when he broke the Hungarian GP trophy last year (which takes like 4-6 months to make) and he said some pretty dismissive stuff about it forcing McLaren PR to go into overdrive, or him saying that Trump is his lucky charm after his Miami win. I’m sort of done making allowances for some rich asshole’s behaviour, especially because the media seems ready to glorify him. If a non-British driver had pulled that same shit during the national anthem you bet all English-speaking F1 media would be up in arms but no Lando gets a pass because the British are desperate to have a second coming of Lewis Hamilton.

[controllingdom]

Already a fucked up girl with trauma from your last rape?

Let me add more and do it again. This time even worse.

I don’t want you to ever forget our time together.

No amount of therapy will fix you after I’m done.

[theworldatwar]

A Canadian soldier carrying his Bren. Thought to have been taken shortly after the D-day landings - Normandy 1944 CREDIT : CupofJoe

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Senate committee studying a bill to establish a criminal offence with respect to sterilization procedures heard emotional testimony from a survivor of coerced sterilization on Thursday.

"It's like you wiped out a generation," Nicole Rabbit, a member of Survivors Circle for Reproductive Justice, an organization for Indigenous women who are survivors of coerced and forced sterilization, told the committee in Ottawa.

Bill S-250 an Act to Amend the Criminal Code (sterilization procedures) would make forced and coerced sterilization punishable under the Criminal Code by up to 14 years in prison.

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[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

[thestuffedalligator]

Whenever Canada isn’t depicted in post apocalyptic dystopia fiction, it’s doing a completely different type of post apocalyptic dystopia than the States.

If America’s doing Mad Max, Canada’s doing 1984. If America’s doing The Hunger Games, Canada’s doing The Walking Dead. If aliens come down to Earth and blow up the White House, the machines take over Canada and blow up Parliament Hill.

Both are equally bad and miserable to live in, but they’re just different enough for the Canadians to feel condescendingly smug.

[eyestothe-skies]

CF-18 Hornet, Royal Canadian Air Force

Source: Bernie C

[raapija]

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[livefastdriveyoung]

There is the idea of all press is good press, and then there's the reality of it, and Williams Racing is the prime example.

The Idea:

Alex and Logan Podcast

Alex and Logan Talk about their races

Alex and Logan Spin the wheel

Alex and Logan Track Walk

Alex and Logan food tasting in USA

We signed Logan to another season because we believe in him

The Reality:

James Vowles constantly saying the car isn't where it needs to be

Points previously were just out of reach

We have faith in our drivers, but don't look now, he's driving with a part from last year

Oh and he actually isn't the one who crashed a car but the one he's driving is heavier.

Logan's job is obviously on the line, we're talking to 4 or 5 people.

The fact is, when you open the door, the good and the bad both come, it's not a filter. James Vowles wanted to make his team more accessible, and frankly, that makes them more scrutinized. For all that we talk about Lewis and George dying, unless Toto is forced before a mic, he's not opening his mouth. I don't even know what Mike Krack looks like (also sidebar, he's not German people), but yet I can tell you exactly what James Vowles said on Friday because he posted it for the whole world to see.

There needs to be some boundaries, because the idea that points were tarnished by the fact that you have now twice admitted that key parts are not available for several races at a time is a problem. How does that happen when you finished higher last year than the year before?

I'm all for transparency. I'm not for no filter, no explanations just statements.