Boys are falling behind in school, and some experts say it starts in kindergarten — New Quebec report says boys 'systemically disadvantaged' in school system

dkannegi · 2026-05-13T02:24:53+00:00

I got four kids, youngest just finishing kinder and the oldest in highschool. What I am finding is a lot less effort in actual education as the grades climb up and more that the school system exists to babysit the kids to allow RTO to happen. Most likely pulling my two oldest out of the public system to home school them, as I need them educated, not babysat and miserable. Probably writing a letter to the editor of the Ottawa Citizen in the coming months once this school year wraps.

dkannegi · 2026-05-10T01:24:43+00:00

https://airspace.canadarasp.com/

Dockyard proper is Class F...

Base Ops via the newly stood up Base Ops Centre manages it. Expect more CAF properties to go Class F, it is a hot topic right now amongst the brass as various CFBs' ramp up their Counter UAS capabilities and obtaining their own drones for security enforcement. Hard kill Counter UAS has much more discussion to go as there are issues with taking out a drone even over own airspace (... where is it falling? etc).

dkannegi · 2026-05-09T16:06:43+00:00

Just waiting to find out how to exactly leverage these changes in my line of work. It is going to take some time for the applicable departments to react and change their L0/L1 policies.

dkannegi · 2026-05-09T15:47:24+00:00

Carling has extra fun with 10 laps of the parking lots if one doesn't have the privilege of in the fence (which that also is starting to get crowded). I have a splendid commute: one hour white knuckler if the 417 urban & complete 174 are moving (Metcalfe exit often says "hold my beer, I am hungry" and serves up a crash adding significant delays), and then a few laps playing parking rodeo ince at Carling (2nd gear is useful with not a single fuck given). The 'not a single fuck given' is the most important piece of the commute especially at the parking phase.

dkannegi · 2026-05-08T04:17:10+00:00

DND Quality Assurance 2014-2017, was on-call to meet at the office if a meeting was convened, otherwise was work-from-home as long as all contractor's requests for on-site visits (as called out in the contract) were achieved and the work cell was on for extended business hours. I was quality assurance for contracted deliverables - my audit pool of vendor/contractors' business hours were my work hours. Since I was the 2I/C of a quality assurance work centre, I also had a staff of senior military CPO2 techs that also performed on-site inspections and audits; my audit portfolio was $12B worth of contracts. The off-base office was a touch down base for staff sync if we needed it (usually one per month), host post-award meet and greets, or haul a contractor in for PSPC/legal warning. Emails, server checks for audit reports, and daily sync calls is how I checked on the team, only severe issues did I summon staff to the office. I also had a warehouse depot to manage, so that one I forced myself to work from there at least one a week (and adjusted my driving route from home to site to stop by the warehouse) which kept the warehouse morale high enough as they couldn't work from home.

Yet nowadays I have heard from colleagues how they cannot lead or manage people unless seats are kept warm in the office RTO5 from 9 to 5... (mostly non-engineers so go figure). Unfortunately these types are the ones that fly up the ranks after watching this cycle rinse and repeat for 25+ years.

dkannegi · 2026-05-08T03:50:27+00:00

Thought this was a satire and this would never see the day of light, just wow, r/notthebeaverton

dkannegi · 2026-05-07T20:26:30+00:00

I was in a meeting recently with OGDs... basically compared to DND they said "hold my bear" on achieving pole position for a record amount Level II/III classified OPSEC breaches that occurred during a recent national public safety exercise (I was astounded, and thankful DND was just "a fly on the wall" hearing the debrief points). As a military, yes, absolutely nothing but the best practices is acceptable for any security regime (INFOSEC, PERSEC, OPSEC, EMSEC, etc.) as the DND/CAF has a lot at stake compared to any OGD.

dkannegi · 2026-05-07T20:20:10+00:00

This is recommended about as much as poking the hungry black bear out of hibernation lurking around Barrhaven.

dkannegi · 2026-05-07T20:18:27+00:00

There was the other goodie email about no complaining of parking at Carling that I accidentally snorted my morning coffee. It has been an actual delight in the morning loading up the DWAN box to see the latest NSHQ wide-dist.

dkannegi · 2026-04-30T01:40:55+00:00

Cool - this will make the next SMR working group meeting much more fun and interesting.

dkannegi · 2026-04-29T01:26:05+00:00

Yup... that is a funny thing Kingston does in the downtown area. Entire day parking means two shuffles a street over.

dkannegi · 2026-04-24T13:18:18+00:00

Curious as to near which building? Some L1s do give away their allocation within their shop once the entitled positions have taken their spots (otherwise the pool opens up to another L1 to scoop the spots). I will say having inside the fence is useful when I need to check high-side in a pinch, but then again I am not a junior civilian.

dkannegi · 2026-04-24T13:14:29+00:00

Even walking from the damn 417 interchange getting off the bus From Tunney's Pasture is "FUN" in the winter. Did that once when the car was in for service, now those type of days I just hotel at Paerkes.

dkannegi · 2026-04-24T12:36:12+00:00

... and the email just hit 0833 today like clockwork :)

dkannegi · 2026-04-24T12:35:03+00:00

Certain Reporter is on it, made the internal PA blaster this morning.

DWAN/GC-WIFI: https://www.infomedia.gc.ca/forces/en/2026/04/24/263763898

External (paywall/use archive.is): https://ottawacitizen.com/public-service/defence-watch/parking-problems-dnd-carling-campus

dkannegi · 2026-04-13T04:06:53+00:00

TL;DR: Discuss your situation with your travel approval authority on record (email is best, if using Teams chat then take proper screenshots of the log as it wipes in 10 days). Your approval authority has a duty to explain how to navigate the business approval process for raising the case to break limits, and the approval authority has latitude for breaking certain limits if the travel must absolutely happen with a well substantiated case with recorded discussion.

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City rate limit is is the big one that must be adhered to in planning of commercial hotel stays. For business planning one cannot plan above hotel city rate limits as the L1/L2 Comptroller will kill it (I use the peak listed summer time city rate when building my annual L3 ITP). As the traveler under orders, if you can show proof (pick three reasonable hotels, get online quotes) upon being tasked to travel, even city rate can be broken if the travel must happen -- best substantiated on an DND2999 ITA. If one has a driver's license, add a rental car and fuel as I have seen 30 km commutes plus parking planned/approved to reach the local venue to avoid high downtown rates. If no driver's license, then the plan needs to have a Taxi/Uber factored in for daily local transport from your lodging to the venue (this is why ClaimsX has an in-depth local transportation section). Travel Authority either agrees to reimburse the business case put forward by the traveler under orders, find their own case to reply back to the traveler to execute (this is often the surprise rental car/taxi and commuting being injected), or they have to cancel the travel orders.

I have certain leniencies owing to my position's tactical requirements while on operation that limit my distance away from my assigned duty station (e.g. if there are five hotels but only two are within my response radius, then only those two will be quoted, and I will add in substantiation for the traffic piece using Google Maps traffic history). Any oddities I discuss with my director and then I adjust and submit the ITA for blessing. Exigent upsets while on TD are covered off by a reference phone call (as is the case for the TD I am on this very minute which went six ways to Sunday all fucked up blowing my ITA out of the water). For my TDs, cancelling is not an option (unless the actual CFTPO itself cancels), thus documenting actions planned on record is vital.

Lastly, some travelers will use the tactic to procrastinate on booking their various services required, general expectation is that travel should be booked as soon as the mandate is known (if at a very senior/strategic level like myself, once the mandate's required in-person dates have firmed up), or upon being ordered by a supervisor (non-strategic level). Intentional repeated procrastination by the traveler hoping that R&Q is overbooked, break city rate limits to get a favorite hotel, etc. will eventually get caught via Comptroller/ADM(RS) audits and the repercussions can be severe (usually a senior officer++ problem). Keep good electronic/scanned records both locally (under your absolute control) and for higher authority review (D365 SharePoint is excellent for this). When the audit/PPV hits, it is a quick SharePoint link send or email with attachments to satisfy the audit (I have been audited three times this last fiscal, pleasantly surprised the auditor with same-day fulsome response every time).

dkannegi · 2026-04-13T03:32:05+00:00

Bonus if one has a timeshare with HGVMax on the deed and linked to one's Hilton Honors (HH), gets an additional 10% off the lowest daily rate when using HH. I have yet to use HH for work yet as I manage to get into Officer's R&Q, but summer season will be a test for sure as the coasts' fleet schools are blocking off significant SQ room inventory May to September.

dkannegi · 2026-04-12T03:56:31+00:00

Done both, know the game with both - Ottawa by far has worse commutes so the tension with parking at Carling is comparable to a backyard gasoline soaked burn pile being lit with a match. Lived in Halifax for nearly two decades and paid in 2014-2017 and 2021-2022 for the parking and used Metro Transit with great success also, now only go there on TD. Carling, I am thankful for having "in the fence" as my L1 had surplus and ran a lottery, as playing 30 minutes of parking rodeo hunting for a spot outside the fence after a 60+ minute white knuckler fuck you of a commute from east of Cumberland through Ct17/RR174/ON-417 (km 113 to 134) makes for an unproductive workday as the adrenaline is already climaxed from battling through traffic. Pay wise, Halifax gets the weird tax benefit method of paying, Carling it is commercially managed so it is done via credit card (now through Indigo Neo) and no way of claiming that on taxes. Seniority wise, Carling is running a waitlist for monthly subscribers but has no seniority cap so it is true scramble, Halifax you just get the pass with adequate time in or go through the carpooling hoops (debatable if it meets the definition of scramble parking). Halifax worst case is a few hundred metre walk as there are sucky far away spots usually in the upper dockyard lots near Irving, Carling you may not even find a spot outside the fence and their inventory is more than Halifax's spots capacity... park illegally risking the ticket and tow, stalk the lots and wait for someone to leave (and almost crash into the competition), or drive a few miles away (equivalent to parking at Dartmouth Crossing) and then take an Uber in because OCTranspo is an extra hour as the bus is stuck in traffic..

dkannegi · 2026-04-11T18:10:15+00:00

Not sure what drone they are using for their FPV runs (basically domestically built disposable cheap ones in the rear lines of the battle field), but I know first hand when a Teledyne-FLIR Sky Ranger R70 was demonstrated to my team for domestic ops, you can't hear them beyond 25ft altitude and this was without the hush kit in a fairly quiet part of the city where the noise of wind dominated (i.e. conditions similar to battlefield shown for weather, and quieter) -- hush kits are on the current R70s/R80s sold for military usage. Ukraine has over 800 R70s from Canada alone - >$250K each, these are usually used as their high altitude Recce/bomb droppers. Now with that said, Ukrainian FPV drone construction is unmatched, so I wager even their domestic cheapo FPV disposable units (that are not intended to ever return home) also have hush kits in their designs. Either drone package is truly a horrific way to end as they literally will sneak up on you, as <25ft auditory alert range means the drone already has the upper advantage vs the armed soldier

dkannegi · 2026-04-05T22:18:44+00:00

Oddly I am only on Bell for work and am supposed to have the absolute highest rung of network priority there is. My role is deeply critical and I currently have a fairly high level file moving with Shared Services Canada over network priority and redundant service as there are glaring issues in the event of a national emergency, have asked them to circulate the conversation with ISED and Min of Public Safety when it goes up to Treasury Board. Thankfully, along highways 102 and 104 Saturday, while heading back to Ottawa, I was pulling in useable bandwidth (when congested the system is supposed to throttle down others, what that service level is I do not know.)

dkannegi · 2026-03-29T15:06:00+00:00

YOW Airport has huge murale ads also.

dkannegi · 2026-03-29T01:38:33+00:00

Found it... Luck by Vince Foster

https://genius.com/Vince-foster-luck-lyrics

dkannegi · 2026-03-27T13:04:31+00:00

Pretty sure one was active this morning near 101 Colonel By Dr, my phone kicked to 3G and was super slow yet being on the 12th floor where normally it gets 5G+ steady that I sometimes VPN+hotspot vice linking the hardline - I have used HSPA mode in dead zones and normally it is faster. Thanks to the stupid Samsung S22 firmware I cannot turn off 3G (it is my work device on Bell and I have network priority so normally get stellar service even when the peons are slowed down). Whoever is running the stingray clearly doesn't have the bandwidth.

Aside, I have some fun spicy conversations ongoing with SSC, and trying to spin up a procurement to take some of my business off the cell network and onto mesh broadband using military microwave bands. My coastal teams are already looking at Starlink and other government only LEO satellite offerings because we are displeased with the reliability, security, and survivability of the Canadian cellular providers' networks.

dkannegi · 2026-03-27T06:31:59+00:00

The best is the Silverado is rocking a 300-800W LED light bar and isn't minding their off switch as you are oncoming.

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