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Hockey

  Overall: 3-3-2-0 2024-02-24  NHL        BOS at VAN 2:3 W (OT)           Decision: Demko      GWG: Boeser 2024-12-12  NHL        FLA at VAN 0:4 W                  Decision: Lankinen      GWG: Soucy          *Pride; JT Miller returns from leave 2025-02-25  PWHL       TOR at MTL 1:3 W                  Decision: Desbiens     GWG: Poulin 2025-02-27  NHL       SJS at MTL 3:4 W (OT)          Decision: Montembeault     GWG: Caufield 2025-03-01 NHL        PHI at WPG 2:1 OTL (SO)          Decision:  Hellebuyck 2025-06-21 AHL       CLT at ABB 4:3 OTL          D...

Public transit BC

1. Island Saturday 10:52 Government / Superior ----- 66 CVX -----> Duncan Train Station 12:14 [BCT Cowichan V] 12:35 Canada / Station ----- 70 NCX -----> 13:43 Downtown Nanaimo Exchange [BCT RDN] Downtown Nanaimo --- RDN ---> Woodgrove Exchange 14:40 Woodgrove Exchange --- 9 ---> Ravensong Exchange (Qualicum Beach) 15:35 16:54 Ravensong Exchange --- 99 ---> Crome Point Rd (Deep Bay) 17:47 17:52 Crome Point Rd --- 10 ---> Cliffe / 4th (Courtney) 18:38 [BCT Comox V]  Sunday Courtney/Comox Monday 13:30 Cliffe / 4th (Courtney) --- 12 ---> Glenmore / Island Hwy (Oyster River) 14:04  14:13 Glenmore / Island Hwy (Oyster River) --- 6 ---> 14:29  Erickson / S Island Hwy 15:30 --- 3 ---> CRCC 15:57 [BCT Camp R] Tuesday 13:50 CRCC (Campbell River) ----- Island Bus: 1908-H -----> Kwa'lilas Hotel (Port Hardy) 16:40 Wednesday  (* Not available on W every week; alt. overnight in Port McNeill ) 07:30 Port Hardy ----- BCF:10 -----> Prince Rupert ...

Please Vote. Please Vote Liberal.

This election campaign feels like a long one but only some weeks have passed. Polling numbers are like a roller-coaster for the past two years, and like them my intention to have a written monologue comes and goes. I have to get rid of the electoral anxiety in some ways; so here we are. This wall of text should've been completed weeks ago but only made available now thanks to the Conservatives deliberately withheld releasing their costed platform until the last day of advance voting. In any case, I hope that this completely subjective passage can be a little bit persuasive and helpful.  We just went through patches after patches of bumpy road since the last election. Suddenly, we Canadians find ourselves being attacked in all directions: Trump and his lunatic policies that ended a decades-old period of economical and political non-conflict between US and Canada; China eyes on Taiwan and beyond, challenging the free and open Indo-Pacific and Canada's gateway to the Pacific; Russ...

(Nominal) Voting Record

My nominal voting record i.e. who I would have voted in each election as I am not eligible to vote until November 2024:  Federal 2015 🟥 (Saanich—Gulf Islands)[nominal] 2019 🟩 (Victoria) [nominal] 2021 🟦  [nominal] 2025  🟥 Provincial 2017 🟩 (Oak Bay—Gordon Head) [nominal] 2018 Referendum Q1 PR; Q2 MMP  [nominal] 2020 🟧  [nominal] 2024 🟧  [nominal]

Mental experiment

For personal research and study related to immigration, citizenship, defence, and administrative law and regulations only. Every fact below is completely fictional and based on no real information about the CAF, the federal government, or the Federal Court. This piece is in no way or shape a legal opinion and provides no legal advice. Facts and Legal History Bloggins is a citizen of a non-NATO country. Bloggins became a permanent resident (defined in subs. 2(1) of the  Immigration and Refugee Protection Act [IRPA]) on June 4, 2023 and joined the Canadian Armed Forces [CAF] on February 15, 2024 at 18 years of age. S3 Bloggins subsequently completed basic, environmental, and occupational training as a boatswain and was posted to His Majesty's Canadian Ship [HMCS] Bowmanville on November 3, 2024.  S3 Bloggins, with HMCS Bowmanville, was deployed on Operation HORIZON and left Esquimalt, BC on February 20, 2025. The ship left Canadian territorial waters on or around the same day....

TIL - 20241019

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 Today I learned: ...that the Commander of a RN ship was awarded DSC for his bravery leading and defending his ship in Shanghai while attacked by the Japanese Navy in 1941.  Source

Re Tonnage comparison of modern RCN + Imperial Chinese/Qing Navy

The following article was compiled solely based on open information and is for personal trolling and research purposes only.  Standard displacement (tonnage) in metric tons is used when available for surface vessels while submarines are considered using fully submerged displacement. Ship prefixes are omitted unless it would cause ambiguity. Ships have provisions for or fitted with any armament or maritime aircraft are considered. Only commissioned warships in the respective navies are considered.  RCN Ships active on July 27, 2024 are considered.   Capital City Halifax -Class frigates       4795 t × 12 = 57540 t Harry DeWolf -class AOPVs        6615 t × 4 = 26460 t Kingston -class MCDVs       970 t × 12 = 11640 t Victoria -class submarines  9857 t      Victoria / Windsor / Corner Brook  2439 t × 3 = 7317 t;       Chicoutimi  2540 t; Total: 105497 t I[C/Q]N Ships activ...

Re Ted Cruz statement on incarcerated trans individuals

Facts The video presented appears to be an excerpt of  the hearing  of US Senate Committee on the Judiciary for five US District judge nominees. The video is a conversation between Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Sarah Netburn, nominated to be US District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York and c urrently the Chief US Magistrate Judge of the same court. Ranking member Sen. Graham (R-SC) had discussion on the same topic in this hearing prior to Sen Cruz's questioning.  The case in discussion is  Shelby v. Petrucci et al. , between the trans inmate J. J. Shelby and the US Bureau of Prisons. Netburn presided as the magistrate and compiled a Report and Recommendation , which later confirmed by a District Judge.  In this Report, Netburn recommended the inmate to be housed in a female facility instead of the current male facility. Netburn analyzed the Transgender Offender Manual in its past and current form, the inmate's personal history, and the inmate's con...

Where the Dates Have No Name

It is truly poetic that my own citizenship application was submitted two days later than anticipated because I watched these insane Can ucks games and lost the mental capacity to compile the application. I don't think it could get more Canadian than that but it really doesn't matter in this process.  The final countdown begins; for me at least.  Citizenship Application ☑️ 1095 days reached: May 12, 2024 AR: May 15, 2024 [1098 days eligibility] AOR: May 21, 2024 [CPC Sydney] In Process: May 23, 2024 [inferred by successful registration of the status tracker] Ghost updates: June 5/7/28, 2024 Language skills: Completed November 7, 2024 [retroactively updated November 12, 2024] Physical presence: Completed  November 7, 2024 [retroactively updated November 12, 2024] Background verification: Completed July 15, 2024 [retroactively updated July 18, 2024] Prohibitions: Fingerprint requested: June 26, 2024 Fingerprint collected: June 27, 2024 Passed:  November 7, 2024 [retroa...

Lighthouse and cataracts

 From the lighthouse in Cape Spear to the beaver dams of the roaring Fraser and McKenzie From the lighthouses in Newfoundland to the beaver dams of the roaring rivers to the Pacific and the Arctic

TIL - 20230117

 Today I learned: ...that there are towns in SK named after Japanese admirals, generals and emperors (see Togo, SK).  皇國ノ興廢此ノ一戰ニ在リ、各員一層奮勵努力セヨ

TIL - 20230103

 Today I learned: ...that the Constitution of Canada was amended in 2022 to remove exemptions the CPR held in Saskatchewan under the Saskatchewan Act. 

The Nefarious November: another sets of life-changing timelines

In November 2022, the following life-changing processes all simultaneously collided onto my path of life. Alongside working in three jobs and the parents' visit that month, I coined it the Nefarious November : crazily busy with everything, practicing vocabulary for CFAT (in which the word nefarious is in it), and keeping it up with the ho pe s an d dr ea ms .  ==CAF== Application submitted: November 15, 2022 Validation completed: November 16, 2022 Application acknowledged ("Prospect"): November 17, 2022 "Ready for testing": no later than November 22, 2022 Recruiter reached out for appointment: November 28, 2022 Initial appointment: December 2, 2022 CFAT written: January 10, 2023 (passed) Professional reference checks: January 20, 2023; as reported FORCE test taken:  January 24, 2023 (passed; "Tested - Ready Step 2"?)  MOST written: February 6, 2023 (passed, "pretty good") Reliability     Pre-assessment screening submitted: January 10, 2023...