Just a note for anyone here: the CAF reserves involves an average one night and one weekend commitment per month, not including your BMQ/SQ and trade-specific training. Getting the time off for training might be tricky, but most reservists work full-time civilian jobs or are students.

As someone else pointed out, this is what the CAF is, but IME this specifically describes reservist roles to a tee, which are intended for domestic scenarios (though if for whatever reason you wanted to, you do have the option of applying for deployments).

Completely understand folks who are ideologically opposed to military service, or who (quite reasonably) are concerned about some aspects of CAF culture to date. But this may be of interest to some of you, and if so you should look into it. Have a feeling, based on Lemmy demographics, some of you might find what the Royal Canadian Engineers does interesting.

OR-LEANS is the only version I’ve ever heard in the wild.

Thanks for the Tall Boyz recommendation, I’ll be checking that out.

…sigh…I miss Picnicface… need more Canadian sketch comedy in my life in general.

The Youtube ads are wild - did you know Jagmeet Singh was arrested? I didn’t, and apparently neither does any reputable news source I can find.

IIRC Saint Pierre and Miquelon basically exist to retain French access to the Grand Banks for fishing, or at least those were the terms of the 1763 Treaty of Paris (it traded hands a couple of times after that). Very little strategic military value today.

Many men were disappointed when arriving at the Ram Ranch to find Trudeau wasn’t there.

But they made due.

Two One can o’ beer a day and that’s your bleeding lot

(Sorry, saw it was Moosehead and this immediately popped into my ex-Bluenoser noggin)

With respect, fuck this asshole. He is equating Canadian nationalism specifically with our history as a British colony. The ‘other’ groups he brings up are just as Canadian as someone with British or French ancestry. Hell, my own ancestors came here over 100 years ago, from Norway. Think about all of the Ukranian-Canadians across the prairies? Chinese-Canadians, many of have deep roots in our country? Are they any less Canadian than someone with the surname “Tremblay” or “Martin”?

This “post-national” nationalism is the sense of nationalism I have always had. Broad strokes, if you call this country your home; work to make it a good place to live within your capacities; treat your fellow countrymen (gender-neutral sense) with respect and tolerance regardless of their religion, creed, ancestral origin etc.; and respect the fact that your own beliefs and lifestyles may differ from others, and tolerate that difference; I am proud to have you count yourself as Canadian, and I hope you share in that pride.

We are a nation with many, many skeletons in our closet. Many of us have, very often, not lived up to the stuff I’ve written here - individuals and institutions alike. But IMO these are the ideals we should be shooting for, and where we fail, it is a call to work harder.

What I feel is that my own sense of nationalism, and what it means to be Canadian, is not “post-national” but instead nationalism premised in what we actually are and can be - not what some guy may have wanted when we were British North America.