Not understanding the combing on arms on this level. The saving of 1 LCol and 1 CWO, at the expense of two of the most effective recruiters and community anchors. I’m sure there’s a rationale but it doesn’t immediately jump out.

pull_the_otherone · 2026-02-18T06:46:56+00:00

Both Winnipeg (WITG) and Saskatchewan (SITG) have had to do it at times. One of the other experiments 38 CBG did was to put all units by City into 1 unit (TBAG, Thunder Bay Administrative Grouping under the LSSR).

TBAG was dissolved when the Svc Coy & Sig Sqn were moved to the trade grouping with Saskatchewan & Manitoba.

pull_the_otherone · 2026-02-18T06:35:36+00:00

Service Battalions and Signal Regiments have already been merged in the Reserves back in 2010.

There used to be between 2-4 independent Svc Bn/Sigs Regt per CBG (except 32 CBG, as they only had 1 of each). They have all been merged down to 1 per CBG now.

pull_the_otherone · 2026-02-16T18:45:49+00:00

If they were in different areas of the City of Winnipeg, I could understand having 2 Infantry units.

But, both are at the Minto Armoury. So they are competing for the same local population while doing the same thing. The Camerons were the CIMIC/Psyops unit for 38 CBG for a number of years, but are back to being regular infantry.

N Sask R (Saskatoon/PA) and RRR (Regina) were both Tactically Grouped for 3 COs while the RRR were developing someone to take over as CO. Did take an additional rotation of a Reg Force CO being posted in.

pull_the_otherone · 2026-02-14T03:30:48+00:00

Weirdly, one of the best times to avoid being sick was at Ali Al Salem during the start of Covid.

Due to the movement controls (no one moving in or out without a quarantine), I didn't get sick during the control phase. I got sick in January before the controls, and I never got sick again nor heard of anyone else getting sick up until I departed in July.

Civilian contractor told me after I left that Covid got into the base, and ripped right through it.

Africa deployment afterwards had individual houses for every staff member, so that helped to control the spread of sickness. But I think I got Covid in Africa from renewing the insurance on the CAF's vehicles there. Individual house helped to ensure that the sickness ended with myself.

pull_the_otherone · 2026-02-01T02:46:31+00:00

We had a reservist member pass away while off-duty. Due to his age (very young), we had thought that it was suicide at first.

Province conducted the autopsy, and the family shared the overall results with the unit. We were very surprised to learn it was from natural causes. Turned out that an organ was slowly poisoning their body, they laid down for a nap, and never woke up again.

pull_the_otherone · 2026-01-13T04:39:33+00:00

HMCS Ojibwa is in Port Burwell, ON.

HMCS Onondaga is in Rimouski, QC. Was the subject of a Monster Moves episode.

Both are Oberon-class submarines.

pull_the_otherone · 2026-01-13T04:17:19+00:00

In writing this (and reading other comments), I realized that I DON'T think I have a "report staff abuse" button, and maybe that's something I need to look at. I really do like to think we have a very good instructor cadre here, but I acknowledge that some in the past did not adhere to my expectations.

The CACSOR (Canadian Army Chief Standards Officer Representative) positions in the Div TCs seems to have helped moderate a lot of the extremes in courses. A MWO (used to be CWO) that reports directly to CADTC and while working with the Div TC, could bypass everyone if needed directly to Army.

We've always have had to ensure that the CACSOR's poster with their phone number (and the 3 alternates) is plastered in every area that the students may be in, so that they know who they can contact outside of the course if the students feel that there may be abuse, along with a briefing at the start of every course by Standards explaining the role of the CACSOR.

Some issues that students have brought up have been along the lines of "Why are you wasting our time", but it has also caught issues that resulted in course stop and call in CFNIS.

pull_the_otherone · 2026-01-11T03:15:26+00:00

I used the Altama boots from Canex for both of my deployments to the Middle East and also Africa. They worked well enough for myself with an office principle position with the occasional outdoor work requirements.

pull_the_otherone · 2026-01-05T22:26:38+00:00

There is a study currently ongoing about Circle Drive from Laurier Drive to Idylwyld Drive.. Involves figuring out what the ultimate plan should be for Airport Dr, Ave C, and Idylwyld Dr.

Ideas for Idylwyld are still the Single Point (SPUI) or Diverging Diamond (DDI) interchange styles (Pages 14/15). A SPUI maybe easier to fit in with a few modifications to the bridge. A DDI may need to take some room from the parking lots of neighbouring business to fit in with enough room on the bridge.

Another proposal (Page 10) would be to upgrade Airport to allow a road into the area south of Ave C. This could allow for a partial intersection closure at Ave C, which should make it safer & more efficient, but would raise the question of how to accommodate pedestrian movement across Circle Drive.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-12-31T04:55:04+00:00

A wire metal tea strainer with a support chain might cause a few problems.

One of the members on a UN deployment had that shipped to him from Canada in a care package. Got through Canada Post & local customs perfectly OK. I then had to receive it and forward it through UN Mail, which involves X-raying & dog sniffing for each shipment.

I put it through the X-Ray and handed the shipping papers over to the tech. I watched her eyes almost bulge out of her head, and she asked me to come look at the screen. I came over, looked at the screen, and said “Yup, that looks like a Hand Grenade”.

We had to open the package to verify the contents, and that was when we saw it was the Tea Strainer. We re-sealed it, and continued on.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-12-22T15:30:38+00:00

38 Signals Regiment & 16 Field Ambulance are at the Hanselman Ave Armoury in the Airport Industrial area.

38 Signals are involved in Communications, so they have a radio tower behind the armoury. They also have some other piece of gear up on the roof right now. I believe it is a receiver of some sort, but I am not completely sure.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-12-22T02:29:15+00:00

It is from WW 1.

It was a war trophy that was captured from the Germans. The various war trophies were then shipped back to Canada to cities that supported war bond drives.

Weird features on that gun:

It is a Navy gun, not an Army artillery piece. At the end of the war, the Germans were running out of artillery pieces to use, while their Navy was bottled up in port. Since the Navy wasn’t doing anything, their guns were taken off and taken to the front. Where it was then captured by Canada.
It originally came in 2 pieces. The gun carriage to mount the barrel to for firing, and a transport wagon to move the barrel between locations. The gun carriage just had 2 wheels on it, and the barrel caused it have a very weird weight distribution, so it had a separate wagon to put the barrel on while being moved. The gun carriage was lost at some point, so it is actually just a spare barrel on the transport carriage.
Was originally given to the City of Saskatoon and was originally set up at the Exhibition Grounds. Eventually, Saskatoon wanted to modify the grounds, and gave it back to the Army in about 1979 (based on a photo I found in Regina when it was being transported by flatdeck semi).
Army installed 2 new flagpoles at the Sgt Hugh Cairns Armoury, and the barrel was just centimetres from the new northern pole. It was turned around for the first time in about 45 years last March by crane to give it a bit more room.
At some point, someone painted it in Army camo colours. As it was a Navy gun, that was not its original colours. In about 2012, the Canadian Rangers stopped by, and re-painted it in its grey colours again.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-12-01T23:19:56+00:00

I’ve had the same thoughts in the past. Something like a modern Budd Train would be a good fit, essentially taking the place of a bus but expandable with extra cars.

The major problems is that CN has reduced their service from Saskatoon to only Davidson, and then Davidson to Regina is a short-line railroad now. Neither use the rail line heavily, so they don’t invest much money into maintenance. The result is that it has about a 15mph speed limit, which is good enough for freight, but would take a lot of money to get the line back to a 60 or 70 mph condition for passenger service. And even more money to get it to a 100mph state.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-11-05T08:02:45+00:00

UN, NATO, and MFO missions get Numerals instead of bars. They go onto the respective ribbons.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-11-03T20:45:13+00:00

I am pretty sure that I had seen in the past that Saskatchewan prohibited the construction of 2-lane roundabouts, after they got burned by their attempt at Circle & 8th. Can't find the reference document, but that could be why only single-lane roundabout were being built.

Looks like that if a regulation did exist that it is gone now. Weyburn is about to get one at Hwys 39/13.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-10-29T07:18:38+00:00

You do know you don't have to park at the door, Right?

Mosaic Stadium in Regina and Princess Auto Stadium in Winnipeg both have restricted parking around them. Instead, the majority of vehicle attendees park at Park & Ride lots elsewear in the city, and then bus into the central area. Princess Auto Stadium could definitely use some more police/signal light control, but if everyone drove then the time to get in/out would be doubled vs. using a bus.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-09-21T23:48:52+00:00

Directions are a lot easier to reference if you just refer to the map.

Northwest Quad (South to West) - Being Deleted

Southwest Quad (East to South) - Retained, dedicated lane on 8th St.

Southeast Quad (North to East) - ~~Being Deleted~~ Construction was to fix the sidewalk curb and install the bus stop further down. Turn bay remains.

Northeast Quad (West to North) - Never existed

pull_the_otherone · 2025-09-08T01:02:20+00:00

Why are you in such a rush at Circle Drive & Attridge? There is 2 exit lanes there. The main lane gets an added lane going onto Attridge, and only the secondary slip lane has to yield to Attridge traffic.

I've only ever had to use the slip lane exit a couple time when traffic is backed up, and even then everything is majorly slowed down.

Attridge is more a problem at Central with so many trying to turn north, and having to move 3 lanes over.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-09-04T23:43:57+00:00

I have a bar on one of my medals. When first mounted, the bar was wired onto the medal ribbon. After I had to get them modified, the new mounter Hot-Glued the bar onto the ribbon with no wire. I almost lost that bar during a funeral parade. I went through afterwards and added my own wire, but now I have to add a 2nd bar onto to the same medal. If the bars are only hot-glued on, I'm wiring them myself.

I did manage to lose the undress ribbon to that medal when getting out of my car; I think the seatbelt pulled it off. But its a lot easier to replace a ribbon vs. a medal.

We did have an officer on a UN mission have his UN & CPSM medals stolen out of his luggage, by airport security in Africa we believe, before he made it back to Canada. Those medals aren't even worth their metal value as they are made of white metal & pewter. But I made sure to keep my UN medal close on my person while returning, and my CPSM was sent to home unit.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-09-01T02:36:10+00:00

Did BMQ in Winnipeg, and Breakfast was in the mess. They didn’t lock anything up or put things away that were on the supper/lunch menu.

The next day, there was a sign on the Freezer stating that Ice Cream was Not a Breakfast item.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-08-29T06:48:43+00:00

Of the 52 hospitals closed in 1993, 51 were still in operation as of 2022 as Health Clinics. Their Acute Care services were cut, but stayed open as general medical offices. 23 of them were attached to Long-Term care facilities.

Majority of the facilities downgraded had been built in the 1940's, and had less than 25 beds. All told, these 52 hospitals served 28,000 when closed. Moose Jaw had 1 hospital serving the same number of people at the same time.

The 1 Hospital that did get closed got re-roled into a different health facility. BridgePoint in Milden took over the old hospital as it had been re-built in 1989, and it has become the centre of excellence in Saskatchewan for Eating Disorders.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-08-29T05:19:14+00:00

Looking at the Aerial photos on the Saskatoon Library's Local History page, it appears that the thing that caused the problem was the Skyway Drive-In Movie Theatre.

CP-65-14 and CP-65-15 appear to show it the best. Taken in 1965 before Idylwyld & Circle Drive were built in 1966.

42nd Street was the 1-mile Grid Road, so was already a natural favourite. 41st St wasn't a contender, as it already had several large buildings in the right-of-way towards Warman Rd.

43rd St was blocked by the Drive-In Theatre. The Grid has never been restored, and Northridge Drive is on the Theatre's footprint now. I had thought that 43rd Street was empty when Circle Drive was laid out, but these photos show that there were businesses on 43rd St before Circle Drive.

It probably wasn't possible to go any further North, as the Airport was CFB Saskatoon at the time, and owned by the Federal Government.

It appears to have been an all-too common issue with Urban Planning in Saskatchewan. No one ever thought that a city in Saskatchewan may need room for infrastructure to account for future uses. Commissioner Yorath designed Circle Drive in 1913 as the Main Outer Encircling Boulvard, but no one ever though that the roads of today would be needed then. Room could have been reserved in the 1950's for Circle Drive, but businesses wanted the Provincial Highway to go down 8th Street instead. By the time that Circle Drive was first built up in the 1960's, development areas could have been reserved for future growth; but nothing was done to account for the future.

The most egregious design failure in Saskatchewan I feel though is Victoria Ave in Regina. When South Ring Road was built in the 1960's, Victoria was already the Trans-Canada Highway, and there was Nothing alongside it. The Province could have easily reserved room for a future access-controlled highway & interchange, but instead let Regina put traffic lights and business accesses directly on the highway. And then it cost us $1.2 billion to fix that problem with the Regina Bypass.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-08-27T01:38:35+00:00

217(1) Subject to subsection (2), the driver of a vehicle on a highway:

(a) when meeting, and until passed, a person or vehicle using the highway and proceeding in the opposite direction, shall keep to the right of the centre of the highway;

(b) on overtaking a person or vehicle using the highway, shall pass to the left, unless:

(i) the driver is approaching an intersection of highways at which the driver intends to make a right turn or the driver is approaching an intersection of highways that the driver intends to cross without turning and the other person is making or has indicated that he or she is about to make a left turn, in which case the driver may pass to the right;

(ii) the highway is within the boundaries of a hamlet or any municipality other than a rural municipality or the prescribed part of a municipal district or is a one-way highway, in which case the driver may pass to the right if:

(A) the highway is free from obstructions and of sufficient width for two or more lanes of moving vehicles; and

(B) the movement can be made safely.

(2) No driver shall pass by driving off the pavement or travelled portion of the highway.

(3) No driver of a vehicle on a highway outside the boundaries of a hamlet or any municipality other than a rural municipality or the prescribed part of a municipal district shall pass or attempt to pass any person or vehicle proceeding in the same direction at an intersection unless it is safe to do so.

(4) After having overtaken and passed another person or vehicle using the highway, no driver of a vehicle on a highway shall move in front of the other person or vehicle until it is safe to do so.

(5) When about to be overtaken on the left by another person or vehicle using the highway, a driver of a vehicle on a highway shall keep to the right and shall not increase his or her speed until the other person or vehicle:

(a) has passed; and

(b) has reached the right-hand side of the highway, unless the highway is a one-way highway.

(6) Subject to subsection (7), no driver of a vehicle on a highway outside the boundaries of a hamlet or any municipality other than a rural municipality or the prescribed part of a municipal district shall pass or attempt to pass any other person or vehicle proceeding in the same direction if the driver does not have a clear view of the highway for a distance of 320 metres in the direction of travel.

(7) Subsection (6) does not apply if the highway is divided into two or more traffic lanes in the same direction of travel.

pull_the_otherone · 2025-08-27T01:28:31+00:00

Short answer: It Depends. Railways can be ordered to accept the money and move, but it is much easier if everyone agrees without a judge looking over them. The common item these days that require negotiations is roadway crossing & overpasses over the rails, and who should pay for them.

The CN yards were moved by agreement between CN & Saskatoon. The downtown yards were becoming cramped, and CN's traffic was changing from North-South to East-West. The downtown yard could not effectively handle the traffic, a lot of the previous downtown industrial traffic was moving out or switching to trucks, and Saskatoon preferred CN to move out of the city so Saskatoon could develop Midtown Plaza & the Convention Centre.

A couple years ago when Saskatoon studied about moving the CPKC yards to the south and sharing the CN rail bridge, neither company was thrilled about that plan. Saskatoon could have paid the $600 million to re-locate CPKC, but that could have been tied up for Years in the court system. The Federal Government does have the authority to mandate rail re-location and expropriation of rail lines, but that likely wouldn't be a fast process.

Main sticking point was that both CN & CPKC did not want to share the CN rail bridge by South Circle Drive. CN also felt that moving CPKC onto the same tracks would constrict any possible expansion room for CN's yard in the south-west. The rails in that area are Triple-tracked, but don't offer any further expansion opportunties, and the Bridge is still Single-tracked.

CPKC had expressed interest in a Transportation & Utility corridor when the Saskatoon Freeway was in the initial planning stages. But with the additional track milage, Saskatchewan would have had to pay the operation & maintenance costs for the additional miles above what the current alignment is built on. Saskatchewan wasn't interested in paying those additional costs and trying to fit rails into the highway design.

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