Joining our newly appointed ambassador to the US, also a BlackRock guy.

I agree. That front will open up if the US succeeds with Iran.

I don’t always agree with Gilmore, but I really respect and see value in the work she does on exposing white nationalist networks in Canada and raising awareness about the risks they pose, and she’s especially brave doing it as an independent journalist.

World War is already underway. Ukraine is one front. Iran is another. More yet to come.

Rutte is such a loathsome Trump-suckling little toad.

Davos Carney was cool, but he hasn’t been around much since Davos.

The ground is obviously being laid for bringing NATO in. The speed with which we’ve moved towards it being openly discussed is pretty alarming.

There’s information if you go looking.

It’s quite different from the Iron Dome. The Iron Dome is regional batteries focused on mostly short-range missiles. The Golden Dome is air, sea, ground, cyber, and space, and it’s being set up for long-range missiles like ICBMs and hypersonic missiles and drone swarms. Space-based systems are big part of the plan.

The big plan is knitting together all of these different sensors and weapons systems into an integrated whole, stuck together by a Command and Control system.

The command and control is in the process of being set up and is planned for a first demonstration this summer. Canada’s over the horizon systems fit into that system by providing the sensor data for the lower level of the shield, below space-based systems but still long-range detection.

Canada’s engaged on the path to building this and expected to be part of the test this summer. The biggest questions for Canada going forward will be to what extent we have any say over use of response systems in our airspace, and there’s no guarantee of that.

It is something that will take many years to fully set up, but it has the top-level administration, architecture, and funding in place, and it’s moving forward on the plan.

Have you looked into how we’re integrating with the Golden Dome? The Over the Horizon Radar systems we bought from the Ozzies are there to integrate with the Golden Dome as part of the sensor system feeding into the Command and Control. Politically, it’s being framed as NORAD enhancement in Canada, but senior Canadian military leadership have said there have been plans to integrate into a system like the Golden Dome for years.

You’re proposing an alliance that brings the bears in to join a class war against the 0.1%?

That just might work.

Considering whose fault that is, they probably should be hunting people.

The engines for the Gripens are also made by the US and can be restricted by them. Talk of a Rolls-Royce replacement never seem to have materialized into anything that isn’t still many years away.

I think my post was pretty clear that my initial reaction was positive, then just a realization it doesn’t matter much to me, so it’s totally fine.

Mostly though, I’m just responding because the combo of your username and your reply made me laugh.

I love that for him.

My initial reaction was “Finally!” but, honestly, I don’t think this has affected me in years. Maybe 15 years ago, before all my devices tracking time were smart and self-updating, I could miss an appointment or something. Ever since, I just go to sleep and wake up when an alarm goes off and I don’t even notice the time change.

Too few of these experts really directly address AI. This is going to be the top of the waterfall. If we end up dependent on the US for AI in defense, we end up being systemically dependent. At least Ann Fitz-Gerald is speaking to Canada’s need to have ecosystemic control over this. Is it achievable? Not easily, at all, but at least she’s speaking to it.

Between Carney and Poilievre, the better of the two seemed pretty clear and still does. Doesn’t mean it was a great choice.

Frankly, I’m surprised we aren’t seeing more floor crosses though. If you can choose to be part of a Conservative party in opposition or a Conservative party in government, why choose opposition?

I have low expectations of NHL players, teams and the league. There aren’t many worthy role models among them and there’s a broadly toxic environment around the NHL. Can’t say I’m surprised by any of these guys being ignorant and comfortable in toxic group dynamics.

The question is, are consumers of NHL products uncomfortable enough with those toxic dynamics to make any difference? I would love to see it, but the NHL product is tribal membership and escapist entertainment, and that’s what the consumers are there for. Seems much more likely that most fans shrug it off, because tribalism and escapism both have pretty strong immune systems that keep out the irl concerns people are there to get away from.

A few PR-coached statements later, it’s probably back to thousands of Canadian fans wearing Tkachuk and Matthews jerseys cheering them on.

They need a solution today, not in a few years. Today. The solution today is fuel, either via the blockade being ended or fuel aid being delivered. Canada is neither delivering fuel aid nor even calling out the blockade.

If the US succeeds in overthrowing their government, there’s a pretty good chance the electrification effort underway will be going in the bin.