Loves fast Saabs, hates fast Stroads. I rant about politics, the military, & municipal policy. Opinions are solely my own. UofC MPP GOAT-Thesis.
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A thread on how Canada can respond to tariffs by cutting the F35A order in half and buying the runner-up F39E to serve as the bulk of Canada's air power over the next 40 years. Using my slides from a previous RCAF Association debate & research from my @policy_school thesis.
Indeed, and either way, the Developer didn’t destroy an “affordable” bungalow. The long time owner destroyed the “affordable” when they listed their bungalow for sale at $1.5 million.
RT @trevoracorn: Car Culture is very different than Car Dependency.
Car Culture and be great and fun!
Many of the most walkable, urban…
Sweden’s first Saab/Bombardier GlobalEye.
Next up: France, Canada, the Netherlands, & NATO.
We are stronger together.
Sweden's first GlobalEye. Unveiled.
Own the advantage.
Read the press release here: saab.com/newsroom/press-rele…
An impressive strike against some of Russia’s most advanced fighter-bombers. Slava Ukraini.
Last night, Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck an airfield in the Voronezh region. Four Su-34 aircraft were destroyed and two more Su-34s were hit. The Russians used them to terrorize our people. These very warplanes were ready to launch new attacks on Ukraine and were loaded with aerial bombs.
Our Long Neptune missile was used to strike the target. I thank the warriors of the Ukrainian Navy for their precision!
Our long-range sanctions also reached a site in the Oryol region used to store and launch attack drones. A target was also hit in the Black Sea.
These are our justified responses to all of Russia’s terror against Ukraine. Russia is dragging out the war, so our long-range operations will continue.
Sweden’s first GlobalEye is hosting a party today. A fantastic aircraft showing great collaboration between Canada’s Bombardier and Sweden’s Saab. The GlobalEye will also be Canada’s, France’s, the Netherlands’ & NATO’s new AEW aircraft. We’re stronger together. 🇦🇪🇸🇪🇨🇦🇫🇷🇳🇱🇪🇺
The AG’s response is consistent with the Government’s messaging regarding the Canadian-made Saab/Bombardier GlobalEye. It has been selected as the preferred aircraft, and the Government is negotiating with Saab & Bombardier on the details. A firm order will follow in time.
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Alex McColl retweeted
When Stephen Harper publicized the War of 1812 on its 200th anniversary, leftist wing nuts insisted that wasn't Canadian history because Canada was created in 1867.
And now? Here's a National Post columnist making the same silly argument.
Partisanship makes people stupid.
Alex McColl retweeted
Is it too much to ask for publishers of articles advocating for cycling routes on secondary roads in Toronto to require their authors to submit a proposed alternative?
@RDiManno, is this the sort of secondary route you're thinking as an alternative to the Yonge Street lanes?
Alex McColl retweeted
The ridings you're targeting didn't vote for this, making them easy pickings to appeal to car-oriented swing ridings and preserve a majority your party won with just 40% of the vote.
Ontario needs proportional representation to put an end to these cynical, divisive tactics.
Americans will look at the affordable EV City car renaissance in Europe like it’s insane. They also think it’s normal to drive a Pickup Truck 1000km per week, commuting from an exurban house to a desk job. And complain about transmission life, having never done a fluid service.
Alex McColl retweeted
Canada is not a small country.
Canada is not a poor country.
Canada is not a country with a small defense budget. Canada is not a country that will have a small defense budget in the coming years.
Canada is also not a poorly educated or low skill country.
This idea that Canada can't possibly operate 100-120 fighter jets and/or operate 2 types of fighters at the same time is absurd.
get a grip.
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Let's add another layer to this:
Would all the people cheering on the province's overreach on this issue be doing the same if we had an NDP government interfering in the same way?
I think we all know the answer to that. #ableg
Alex McColl retweeted
yes, as noted, many countries that are smaller and/or poorer than Canada operate 2 (or more!) fighters.
Some of them operate not just 3 but even >3.
The idea that Canada, a geographically massive country with a very large economy (G7 member) and very large government budget, and low debt, and excellent credit ratings, and rapidly rising defense budget, and strategic emphasis placed on airpower .... can't operate 2 .... is absurd.
just not a serious notion.
2 is child's play for a country of this scale and capacity.
Well said. We can afford and should have an expanded mixed fleet of fighter aircraft. The Gripen for Arctic NORAD, NATO air policing, and 70mm counter-drone DCA missions. The F35 for coalition bombing, stealth reconnaissance, and SEAD missions.
well Canada in the coming years is going to spend more on defense (in absolute and %GDP terms) than it did in the 1970s and 1980s.
Its defense posture during the 2nd half of the cold war actually sort of weak. Canada peaked as a Western military power during WWII and the early Cold War years. And it is now returning to that type of role it had in the mid 20th century.
Due to climate change melting arctic sea ice (huge strategic implications) and rising great power competition from Russia and China, Canada will actually face larger threats than it did during the Cold War. This is why it was a good idea for Canada to buy 12 German-Norwegian attack subs and why Canada should acquire a large fleet of both F35s and Gripens, and then next gen fighters after that.
Operating a mixed fleet of 2 fighters is not difficult for a country with a G7 economy, a strong fiscal position and one of the largest defense budgets in NATO.
Many countries that are smaller and/or poorer than Canada operate 2 fighter jets. Some of them actually operate *more* than 2. Idea that Canada can't operate 2 fighters is silly.
I’m still annoyed how the Premier’s chosen example is a building within a 9 min walk of a new train station. She’s telling us to build TOD instead, but her example is TOD. It just comes off as nothing but hypocritical NIMBY entitled newspeak.
Over the past few months, endless Albertans have told us the same story.
They saved for years to buy a single family home on a quiet street. They picked that neighbourhood on purpose, because of the park at the end of the block or the school two streets over or the neighbours who watch out for each other.
Then one morning the house next door came down, with no notice, and later a 16 unit complex went up in its place, with nowhere for anyone to park and no consideration for the neighbourhood.
Those are not complaints. They are people describing the place they built a life in with their family.
So today we are acting. Edmonton will return to the density and height rules that were in place before 2024 and common sense minimum parking requirements, utility and water infrastructure considerations are coming back. Calgary will hold the line it set when it repealed blanket rezoning. Both cities will take a hard look at their bylaws and come back with something more balanced.
Alberta needs more homes. We are building more of them than almost anywhere in Canada. But a home is more than a house, and a neighbourhood is more than a supply of lots.
