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Just breaking… At least 4x active shooters in a concert hall, many dead, building on fire. Lots of video including of the shooters actively firing into groups of people. This is awful on its own, and could also have tremendous ramifications depending on who Putin blames.

This is just breaking over the last few hours; Ottawa police are at a homicide in Barrhaven, and have reported six dead including four children, and one person arrested on scene. No clear info yet on what happened. Looks like a normal residential street...

I figured this is well past the point of meriting its own thread, if others agree? The Red Sea stuff right now is getting partly buried in other threads.

Sharing this because I suspect CAF members may have been disproportionately impacted: for years Canadian Blood Services has had a ban on blood donations from those of us who lived or spent lengths of time in the UK, France, and some other areas in the 90s during the ‘mad cow disease’ scare. That...

Not much info beyond what I’ve seen on Facebook, but it appears Cpl (Ret’d) Jess Larochelle SMV of The RCR has passed away. From the Governor General’s website: May he rest in peace.

https://www.quintenews.com/2023/08/28/314078/ /facepalm

Canadian Space Agency has announced that Col Jeremy Hansen will be a crew member on Artemis II, NASA’s next moon shot in 2024. This will be a ‘fly by and orbit’ mission in preparation for the subsequent crewed landing of Artemis III in 225. Col Hansen is a still serving RCAF pilot (CF-18) who...

This is very currently breaking, but former Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was just shot in a public appearance, and credible Japanese news sources are quoting public officials as saying he is in ‘cardiac failure’. There’s already video out of the shooting shot by people watching his speech. The shooter...

Anyone know a decent place either online or physically in the NCR to buy a ranger blanket or something very much like it? I miss that piece of kit, it's great for traveling or for emergency kit, and I want to have one again.

Jody Thomas is out as DM DND; she’s to be a security and intelligence advisor to PMJT. Bill Matthews is coming in as the new DM DND, from being DM Public Services and Procurement. Potentially an important and useful move...

Question for those still in. I'm taking a course on the international law of armed conflict, and was looking up the status quo in CAF. I remember when I got in that there was a simple 'soldier's rules', a nice, easy, plainly worded, infantry-proof list of simple rules that would keep you out of...

That's a curious claim, and not one borne out by the facts. Stats Can has some good data on this kind of stuff, feel free to play around with the stats table at https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/cv.action?pid=3710019801. This is for the class of 2015. Proportion of postsecondary graduates...

Indeed. “The Great Reset” is the internet’s latest sloppy slurp of the school bus window. Just another thing for those huddled in echo chambers to be afraid of. https://www.bbc.com/news/55017002

2020-11-02, Vienna Austria. Multiple shooters, multiple locations. This is still ongoing. What I can tell so far: - Massive police operation underway in Vienna - Lots of video snippets on Twitter, including one of waht may have been the start of the shooting with a person shot with a long arm...

BLUF: There is no solid data on how many vets we have and where. The 2021 Census will include a question for each Canadian, "Have you ever served in the Canadian military?" This will help to better allocated program funding and resources,a nd to understand where veterans are physically...

The tit for tat in the wake of the public revelations of Chinese state-sponsored cyber attacks continues... This is a big one though. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53497193

Figured I might as well get this ball rolling. Raitt lost her seat. MacKay and Ambrose are both presently out of federal politics, understandably it would have been uncouth for either to have even hinted at a leadership run prior to the election. I’m assuming we’ll see a fairly durable...

Bottom Line Up Front: VAC benefits are now easier to access for survivors of sexual trauma connected to their service. Details: Due to the recent settlement of a sexual harassment/assault lawsuit by military vets, VAC has amended a number of their policies to add new sections on sexual trauma...

Almost entirely bang on with the exception of this part. The RCMP are also the provincial police in the contracted provinces. This includes functioning as municipal police for several cities with 100k+ population, and many in the five figures. They also provide district or provincial level teams...

Reviving the disaster assistance thread. Looks like Quebec has called in the army for the flooding that’s about to happen in the Gatineau area and elsewhere. Nice to see they aren’t waiting til it’s been underwater for a week already this time. I’ve not seen details yet on call outs, but I...