@bcbluecon – Canada’s military will soon look like Canada’s mall security staff.
Art Of The Deal
Awkward.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
🚨 WATCH: President Trump says details of the Greenland deal will be revealed soon as the framework nears completion.
TRUMP: “Well, the deal is going to be put out pretty soon and you we’ll see.”pic.twitter.com/HRfATdGqRl
— Brandon Straka #WalkAway (@BrandonStraka) January 21, 2026
Ready For What? Defeat?
Canada’s top general might want to start a new career in standup comedy. She’s got a few one-liners that are guaranteed to get some laughs.
And like all the militaries in the world … especially when we’re looking at our allies, we’re going to be ready to go as-is.
All of our services right now are crafting and positioning themselves to be able to take the additional number of people coming in. …Everybody is all-hands-on-deck in doing that. It’s quite exciting, I have to say.
Thank You For Your Attention To This Matter
“President Donald Trump revealed the Trump-class battleships Monday at his Palm Beach estate, joined by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Navy Secretary John Phelan, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. These 30,000-ton vessels upgrade from current destroyers with more missile tubes, space for hypersonics, railguns, and lasers, aiming to build two initially and scale to 20-25 amid China’s naval growth. The White House calls it a Golden Age for defense to modernize the aging 287-ship fleet, though critics like former Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery question the $5 billion-plus designs’ focus on aesthetics over lethality against China.” – Grok AI
More at Naval News. John Konrad reacts.
Reporter: “What are you doing with the [Venezeulan] oil you seized?”
“We’re going to keep it.”
Faster Please
Ottawa Citizen- Canadian military will rely on an army of public servants to boost its ranks by 300,000
Federal and provincial employees would be given a one-week training course in how to handle firearms, drive trucks and fly drones, according to the directive, signed by Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jennie Carignan and defence deputy minister Stefanie Beck on May 30, 2025.
Run Away!
Blacklock’s- Plan In Case Of War: “Leave”
The Canadian Coast Guard has orders to avoid all military conflict though it’s now under military supervision, a senior officer yesterday told MPs. “If there were anything, we leave,” testified Deputy Commissioner Marc Mes.
Semper Cry
Take that Putin!
New Wonder Weapon?
The Duran- Burevestnik negates US geography advantage
Top Gun
EXTENDED VERSION: The Chairman and I felt the need for speed with TOPGUN at Naval Air Station Fallon. Incredible Americans! pic.twitter.com/i6O1tjnRyW
— Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (@SecWar) October 22, 2025
Meal Team Six
UK Sun- Staggering number of troops are too obese for combat
Of the military’s 147,300 service personnel, 40,063 were at “increased, high or very high risk” of ill health owing to their weight in the past year.
Rearranging The Deck Chairs
Blacklock’s- McGuinty Takes Coast Guard
Cabinet yesterday transferred control of the Canadian Coast Guard to the defence department under Minister David McGuinty. It followed a 2024 audit that complained the maritime service fell into disrepair when managed by the Department of Fisheries.
The transfer followed a 2024 Evaluation Of Fleet Procurement And Maintenance that rated the Coast Guard obsolete. “The Canadian Coast Guard fleet is aging as vessels approach and exceed their intended end of service life,” said the report. “Across the fleet 30 percent of vessels have less than five years left until they reach their end of service life.”
Toronto Star- Federal government begins to transfer Coast Guard to National Defence
Honey, I Completed The Mission
Medal of Honor Recipient, Captain Ed Freeman, United States Army, died at the age of 81, in Boise, Idaho.
The Future Is Now
The concept of troops going to the battlefield in armored vehicles may well be a thing of the past, if this YouTube video is any indication. In the Ukraine today, supplies going to the front have to be transported not by vehicle but by drone. It’s simply impossible to get supplies there by any other means, given the nearly impossible task of running a gauntlet of drone swarms. This ought to serve as a lesson to those in charge of determining defense spending priorities.
Kabuki Theater
Blacklock’s- Suspensions Were Symbolic
The Department of Foreign Affairs says last year it suspended 34 permits to ship military goods to Israel. Reminded of its repeated statements that Canada never exported “lethal items” to Israel, a department spokesperson confirmed the suspensions were largely symbolic.
Cabinet has repeatedly stated no Canadian weaponry has been shipped to Israel in decades. “We haven’t exported arms to Israel in 30 years,” International Development Minister Ahmed Hussen told reporters in 2024.
New Governor, Same As The Old Governor
Those procurement contracts don’t write themselves. It takes time for Carney insiders to set up their phony baloney numbered companies.
At the Canadian NORAD Forward Operating Location in Iqaluit checking to see if any upgrades have been started.
Justin Trudeau made promises on NORAD modernization and nothing was done. Mark Carney continues to make more promises.
Will Carney get anything done for northerners? pic.twitter.com/BGunAtoSJ1
— Bob Zimmer (@bobzimmermp) July 23, 2025
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
A humanoid robot in California went crazy and scared its developers. pic.twitter.com/z6zelMCChn
— Camus (@newstart_2024) July 21, 2025
Do Tell
Sorry to say, my Liberal friends, but when Donald Trump’s air force has to rescue us over a major Canadian city, because our own Air Force doesn’t really work, that’s about as 51st state-ish as it gets.#ElbowsUp https://t.co/apwlhc5wbq
— Ezra Levant (@ezralevant) July 17, 2025
American Exceptionalism
The Delta Force rescue of military contractor Roy Hallums after 311 days in captivity in Iraq (September 2005)
The D-Boys rescue of Roy Hallums, September 2005
You're witnessing true American Exceptionalism here pic.twitter.com/1znR9yH4VH— ℙ' (@OfAthenry) July 5, 2025
Ain’t Gonna Happen
Despite all the promises to increase defense spending to not only replace what was shipped off to the Ukraine but to meet the new GDP targets, expect one of two outcomes: either the targets will be perpetually postponed or the definition of “defense spending” will be stretched to include funding for sewage treatment plants and community centers and anything else you might imagine.
In a new analysis released Thursday, the think tank said it expects Canada’s deficit to top $92 billion this fiscal year, given Prime Minister Mark Carney’s plan to meet NATO’s defence spending target of two per cent of GDP.
C.D. Howe expects deficit growth to slow after this year but predicts deficits will still average around $78 billion annually over four years — more than double the level forecast by the parliamentary budget officer before the spring federal election.
Operation Midnight Hammer
Gen. Dan “Razin” Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, revealed that it took over 15 years of detailed planning and analysis to the successful destruction of Iran’s nuclear infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/KmSsCNwWGX
— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 26, 2025