Canada’s Military current state & equipment

Taxslave2

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The difference is a piece of paper (a "letter of marque and reprisal").

Are you just now getting your head around the fact that the legitimization of violence is a function of government? Damn, don't you folks teach civics in school?
Nah. Civics triggers too many kids. We teach them how to safely inject illegal drugs.
 

Ron in Regina

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Nah. Civics triggers too many kids. We teach them how to safely inject illegal drugs.
Clean needle. Straight in, straight out.

Let's all be safe out there.
Our grandkids have been taught how to administer Narcan (Naloxodone) in School. The ones I’m speaking of, one is in high school and the other is in elementary school still, so two different schools, but both are administered under the same school board.
 

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Our grandkids have been taught how to administer Narcan (Naloxodone) in School. The ones I’m speaking of, one is in high school and the other is in elementary school still, so two different schools, but both are administered under the same school board.
Getting kids to clean up for the Homeless/Addiction Industrial Complex. Jeepers.
 
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Tecumsehsbones

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Our grandkids have been taught how to administer Narcan (Naloxodone) in School. The ones I’m speaking of, one is in high school and the other is in elementary school still, so two different schools, but both are administered under the same school board.
It's an OUTRAGE! What greater depths of depravity can Canada sink to? What perversions will they force on the sweet little angels next? First aid? CPR?
 

Taxslave2

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Our grandkids have been taught how to administer Narcan (Naloxodone) in School. The ones I’m speaking of, one is in high school and the other is in elementary school still, so two different schools, but both are administered under the same school board.
Almost all firefighters are taught how to deliver narcan. Even juniors take the training. Can't remember now if they get the certificate or not, because of age. They can do all the First Responder training and tests but can't get the certificate until 18.
I think the whole narcan thing is a waste of taxpayers money, but maybe training kids on it will help them to avoid opiates, when they see what happens. Mostly it is the protocols that I have a problem with. Much like a potential diabetic coma, the protocol is when in doubt, administer. This is on the grounds that if it is not required, it doesn't matter.
 
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Tecumsehsbones

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"There I was, doing my patriotic duty by taking my worthless addict ass out of the populace and the gene pool, when some pushy little fuck whose balls haven't dropped yet came along and shoved a Narcan thing up my nose. Self-important little prick!"
 

Ron in Regina

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"There I was, doing my patriotic duty by taking my worthless addict ass out of the populace and the gene pool, when some pushy little fuck whose balls haven't dropped yet came along and shoved a Narcan thing up my nose. Self-important little prick!"
You’ve just gotta try harder. I’ve heard the record up here in Vancouver was the same dude four times in the same day, coming back from the OD, but that might be an old stat now. Practice makes perfect.
 
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bob the dog

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Question. . . do you seriously think the military "kills anybody they want to?"

If so, you're pretty comprehensively ignorant of the military.
Seriously I think they don't get to kill everyone they would like to and probably more on that list then on the other that they do get to kill but don't really know and never gave it much thought. It's a game of action and consequence I am not involved in. More a follower of Rosicrucianism philosophy.

I did see the parade.

One thing though "the more you have, the more you have to look after"
 

Taxslave2

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"There I was, doing my patriotic duty by taking my worthless addict ass out of the populace and the gene pool, when some pushy little fuck whose balls haven't dropped yet came along and shoved a Narcan thing up my nose. Self-important little prick!"
It was way more fun when we used needles. Some of them have enough scrap iron hanging off theirfaces, a needle would not even show.
 

Ron in Regina

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Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced pay hikes for military personnel, ranging from 20 per cent for the lower ranks to an eight per cent boost for senior officers.

The total cost for the various elements of the new compensation and benefits package announced Friday will be $2 billion annually.

With the 20 per cent boost, the starting salary for a private in the regular force will increase from $3,614 a month or $43,368 annually to $4,337 a month or $52,044 annually. Reserve military personnel would get a 13 per cent boost. More at the link, & this is way overdue.

Military personnel above that basic rate, up to the rank of lieutenant colonel, will see a 13 per cent increase in pay, according to documents provided by the Canadian Forces. That would apply to both regular and reserve forces.

Colonels and generals, both regular and reserve forces, will receive an eight per cent pay hike.
 

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GOOD; bout damn time.

And wow, those raises are pretty significant - or least they sound it.

I've asked my (Ret.) Captain cousin about it to get this thoughts.
 

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’Wouldn’t want to live in’ decrepit military housing, auditor general says
Author of the article:Canadian Press
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Kyle Duggan
Published Oct 21, 2025 • 4 minute read

A Canadian flag patch on a soldier's uniform.
Many of the living spaces used by Canadian Armed Forces members at several bases are in "poor physical condition" and ripe for overcrowding, the federal auditor general says.
OTTAWA — Many of the living spaces used by Canadian Armed Forces members at several bases are in “poor physical condition” and ripe for overcrowding, Auditor General Karen Hogan said in a report released Tuesday.


Hogan and her team examined living conditions on three Canadian Forces bases: Esquimalt in British Columbia, Gagetown in New Brunswick and Trenton in Ontario.


Hogan said the buildings her team inspected were aging and decrepit — the oldest dates to the Great Depression — and 32 of 35 need at least one high-priority repair.

“That might mean that building didn’t have safe drinking water … toilets weren’t working, or there was structural damage to the exterior walls of the building,” Hogan told a news conference after the report’s release.

These are “the kind of conditions that you and I wouldn’t want to live in, and the kind of conditions I don’t think we should expect our Canadian Armed Forces to live in,” she added.


The report said National Defence’s own data suggests at least 25% of its quarters need major repairs or do not meet operational needs. She also called out the department for failing to meet its own spending goals on infrastructure maintenance.

“We’re working actively to improve all of that,” Defence Minister David McGuinty said when, after the report’s release, a reporter asked him if he would live in base housing.

“We made the single largest investment in Canadian Armed Forces in a generation. We’ve made major pay increases … part of the package to recruit and retain young soldiers.

“This is long overdue. For decades now, governments successively have not been making the investments we need to make in our armed forces.”


McGuinty also acknowledged problems with lead in some of the base housing water systems.

“We have work to do,” he said.

The audit looked at living quarters managed by individual bases and houses managed by the Canadian Forces Housing Agency.

The audit said the agency does not have enough housing units to meet the military’s needs — just as the Canadian Armed Forces is looking to add more than 6,000 new members by April 2029.

The military had just 205 residential housing units available in the spring, with 3,706 applicants on waiting lists.

Discussion groups Hogan’s office arranged with service members also heard from many who were unhappy with a 2024 policy change that gives new recruits priority access to the available residential housing stock.


It found National Defence did not evaluate the potential impacts of the policy change and whether it could undermine efforts to retain longer-serving members.

“Given the number of new members that need to be added to bring the Canadian Armed Forces up to full strength and the fact that the stock of residential housing units did not grow substantially during the past two fiscal years, there is a risk that longer-serving members will be at a lower priority for residential housing units,” the report said.

In a separate report on recruitment, Hogan said the military is not bringing in enough new people to meet its operational needs — and National Defence doesn’t always know why potential recruits ultimately abandon their applications.


“The Canadian Armed Forces continued to have challenges attracting and training enough highly skilled recruits to staff many occupations such as pilots and ammunition technicians,” Hogan said.

Only one out of every 13 Canadians who applied online to join the CAF over the three-year audit period was successfully recruited, the auditor general reported.

The CAF received 192,000 online applications from 2022 to 2025, but 54% of applicants voluntarily withdrew within two months of applying.

The military has committed to recruiting more permanent residents. While the number of permanent resident recruits did increase over the audit period, only 2% of permanent residents who applied were recruited, compared to 10% of applicants who were Canadian citizens.


The CAF’s target timeline for recruitment is between 100 and 150 days. The audit found the recruitment process actually takes twice as long, and the security screening backlog increased over the three-year audit period from 20,000 to nearly 23,000 potential recruits.

The Canadian Armed Forces sought to bring in more than 19,700 new recruits over the course of the audit period, but fell short by 4,700.

McGuinty defended his department, saying National Defence has made strides in overhauling its recruitment system over the past year.

The military did surpass its recruitment target in the last fiscal year by 210 people.

But the report warns it doesn’t have the capacity to train everyone it brings in if it also meets its recruitment targets.

That pressure has forced the CAF to hire temporary instructors. The audit warns future training is in jeopardy due to a training instructor shortage likely caused by “insufficient incentives and a demanding workload,” combined with persistent equipment shortages.