🇨🇦 Policy Hawk
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Today is a great day to be a Canadian. Planting trees whose shade I may never know. I comment on CAF, economics, politics.
Joined December 2022
Here's an article, in the open media, discussing Canada's role in tracking this ship which came out days before the CCG says they detected this ship.
cbc.ca
The Canadian military and possibly the coast guard are keeping tabs on a Chinese research vessel as it returns to Arctic waters off Alaska for the second year in a row.
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This vessel has been tracked through its entire journey. By Japan and then by Canada. While it's probably technically accurate to say the US Coast Guard "detected" it as described, the context makes it sound like its presence wasn't known before then. That's false.
Meeting presence with presence. Yesterday, a @USCG aircraft responded following detection of a Chinese research vessel off Alaska’s coast. For over 150 years, Americans have counted on the Coast Guard to uphold U.S. sovereignty, provide national security, and promote economic
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It may be a silly election, that's happening primarily for Pierre Poilievre's personal benefit. But no one can argue the voters don't have plenty of choice. 🤷♂️.
LIST OF CONFIRMED CANDIDATES / Battle River--Crowfoot.
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The shipping channels created by the Great Lakes are one of the greatest economic blessings Canada benefits from. But, consistently, the average age of Lakers increases and their numbers decrease. We're not replacing retiring ships. Maybe we need to.
Final voyage on Great Lakes for Lower Lakes Towing Ltd.’s Cuyahoga @theshipwatcher @MarineDelivers @hwyh2o @BoatNerd
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Isn't Bollinger the company that's screwed up the Polar Security Cutter program so badly that it's created a need for another icebreaker to be rushed forward?. Seems weird to add them to a team trying to solve the problem they created.
Bollinger Teams with Finnish, Canadian Yards for Coast Guard Medium Icebreaker Bid — USNI News
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I'm always, intuitively, surprised by how few space flights astronauts do. Just two in 16 years. I understand some of the reasons why. And, at least with long-duration flights, their time in space/year is similar to a pilot's time flying/year. Still seems weird, though.
NASA astronaut and microbiologist Kate Rubins retired Monday after 16 years with the agency. During her time with @NASA, Rubins completed two long-duration missions aboard the International @Space_Station , logging 300 days in space and conducting four spacewalks.
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As much as this guy appears to be a Dingus. I'm unclear what the fine was for, and the city is doing a terrible job of explaining it.
globalnews.ca
Montreal fined a local church $2.5K for hosting U.S. Christian singer Sean Feucht, whose MAGA ties sparked protests and permit cancellations across Canada.
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Seriously, it's basically just four hours of needlessly long shots dwelling on every possible piece of historically accurate minutiae, while ignoring any and all opportunities to tell an interesting story in a compelling way.
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What opinion do you have that will upset the largest number of your followers?. I'll go first:. Master and Commander is a boring film.
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Or am I misremembering?. Did Carney, or his campaign, promise to deliver a deal with Trump?. I'm pretty sure all the messaging was about standing up for Canadians and, when negotiated deals were mentioned, it was about only signing one that's good for Canadians.
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It's interesting to me that the opposition is trying to reframe the election sentiment that "Carney is the best person to deal with Trump" into a sense that Carney promised a negotiated deal with Trump, and is breaking a promise if that doesn't happen. Curious if it will work.
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Vancouver, Halifax, Prince Rupert, Saint John, Montreal. Geography is immensely determinative of a port's potential. And the reason these are large ports is because they have good geography for ports. It feels a little bit like we're trying to reinvent the rudder, so to speak.
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Hot take: Canada's security interests may be served, somewhat, by investing in new or marginal ports. But, as a nation-building project, the return would be much higher if we invested expansion, efficiency, and connections to existing large ports.
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How'd he know it was 27 tweets I'd drafted? Seems like an oddly precise guess.
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Well. I guess I wasted my afternoon.
I don't think we need 27-tweet threads to explain why caving to all of US demands for nothing in return because "it's the best we could do" is not a great outcome for the EU.
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Where are my Canadian Aircraft Carrier stans at?. 😆😅🤣😂🤣.
Russia's Lone Aircraft Carrier Likely to be Scrapped or Sold, Says Shipbuilding Chief .
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RT @cerich67: Check out my latest article: Mind the Gap:.The Disabled Canadian Veterans the System Can’t—or Won’t—Help.I don’t know what to….
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Sometimes a veteran surfaces, long after their service is over, struggling at the end of a long, grease-covered rope that stretches decades back to their time in uniform. I listen.
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If any of my followers control the press release distribution list for companies in the Canadian defence space, I'd love to be added to your list. I want to talk more about Canadian defence industry, but it's a major task to keep awareness of everything. DM for email address.
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RT @NavyLookout: 🇨🇦HMCS Ville de Québec conducted a live-firing exercise with RGM-84 Harpoon Block II missile during exercise #TalismanSabr….
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If that's true, we should just nationalize the company. That's 2/3 their market cap.
Aloma Steel’s president says the company needs $600M in government backed credit to survive until new markets and domestic preference are established
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