Brodie

I am a locomotive engineer, pilot, rabid aviation enthusiast, and SAR volunteer.

This app is for rage, whining, and retweets. I'm not like this in real life.

[Brodie @BCPilotguy]

Everyone enjoys a trip to the beach, this is my trip from last week. #avgeek #beautifulbc https://t.co/C2gKvkpn9j

[Brodie @BCPilotguy]

#bcstorm

Hart highlands, Prince George BC

2045 Local
South

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#bcstorm

Time 1405
Location Hart Prince George British Columbia Canada
Direction ESE

[Gun Owners of Canada @GunOwnersofCana]

Here is something the government does not talk about.

Canada's handgun freeze took effect on October 21, 2022. Since that date, very few people who have exemptions have been able to buy, sell, gift, or inherit a handgun. The market for new restricted handguns is effectively closed.

So you might expect the number of Canadians holding a Restricted PAL (the licence required to own handguns and other restricted firearms) to be flat or declining. Why bother completing the restricted component of the Canadian Firearm Safety Course if you can't use it to buy a handgun?

The data says otherwise.

According to the RCMP Commissioner of Firearms Reports, the number of RPAL holders has grown every year since the freeze:

2022: 716,348
2023: 752,002 (up 5.0%)
2024: 775,266 (up 3.1%)
2025: 794,768 (up 2.5%)

That is a net gain of 78,420 restricted firearm licence holders in three years, a 10.9% increase, all during a period when the primary reason most people get the restricted designation on their PAL (to buy a handgun) was legislated away.

Canadians are still taking the safety course, submitting to the background checks, and getting licensed. The freeze did not stop the demand for restricted licences. It just stopped the legal market from serving the people who hold them.

Source: RCMP Commissioner of Firearms Reports, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

[Tracey Wilson @TWilsonOttawa]

You can withdraw your consent from the program until firearms are collected. After
collection, the application cannot be withdrawn and will be processed fully.

To withdraw consent, contact the program’s Contact Centre 1-833-759-4551.

Upon receipt of your request, the application and consent to use the provided information
will be considered withdrawn"

That number again is 1-833-759-4551 🇨🇦☎️

[Tracey Wilson @TWilsonOttawa]

He’s a cop 🤷🏼‍♀️✅👇🏻

[Calibre @Calibremag]

So I can't take an AR-15 to the range, and you can't buy a pistol, but these guys can blast off rounds illegally and cruise around with handguns in Rubbermaid containers.

Alright, ok, cool cool cool.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

There's a TV show in Japan
that has run for over 30 years.

The premise: a parent sends
their two or three-year-old child
on an errand. Alone.

To the store. To buy tofu.
Across actual streets.

A camera crew follows secretly,
hidden, never helping,
as a tiny human in a backpack
completes a task most countries
wouldn't let a child attempt.

The kid cries. The kid forgets.
The kid gets distracted by a dog.
And then the kid comes home,
holding the tofu, glowing.

It's the most-watched thing
of its kind in the country.

Americans who discover it
cannot believe it's legal.

In Japan, we cannot believe
it's remarkable.

[Brodie @BCPilotguy]

@jesperbkk "No, ChatGPT, you have to make the t*ts bigger! Do it again!*

[Lindsay Shepherd @NewWorldHominin]

I tried asking APTN what their involvement is in the CBC "prank show."

Their comms director accidentally sent me an internal email stating that they were going to ignore my inquiry because I'm just a lowly Canadian citizen and not a media outlet (not that they will give a sufficient answer to the media either.) I followed up and asked who I can contact then, and they just didn't respond.

It's actually crazy that these taxpayer-supported institutions think that they don't need to answer to anyone. They don't even think I deserve a modicum of an answer to my questions, even though they shouldn't be difficult to respond to.

[Brodie @BCPilotguy]

@avidseries Your kid is not a social experiment

[Brodie @BCPilotguy]

@MurrayHillGuy1 Wait, I only get one?

[Brodie @BCPilotguy]

@fwmarqix I once tried to order a Coke in Vietnam and the guy thought I wanted "coke". He put both hands up like "stop" and said "no no no don't have!"

[Brodie @BCPilotguy]

@XFreeze I recently had a short flight with Starlink. It is DRAMATICALLY better than normal in-flight wifi and on this particular flight it was free

[Brodie @BCPilotguy]

Fuck chiropractors. All of them.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Caitlin Jensen, 28, walked into a Georgia chiropractor in June 2022. She came out with four dissected arteries, a stroke, cardiac arrest, and a traumatic brain injury. It took her nine months to say "Mom" again.

She had come in for lower back pain.

Your brain runs on four arteries. Two carotids in front, two vertebrals in back. The vertebrals don't run free. They thread up through narrow bone tunnels inside each cervical vertebra, C6 to C1, then loop around the top vertebra in a tight horizontal curve called the V3 segment.

When a chiropractor performs a high-velocity rotational thrust on the upper neck, V3 gets stretched and snapped against bone. The inner artery wall tears. Blood seeps between the layers. A flap forms. Flow blocks, or clots break off and travel to the brainstem.

In Caitlin's case all four vessels tore. Paramedics worked 12 minutes restoring her pulse. Surgeons placed a stent in one artery and repaired what they could in the rest. The brain injury came from the bleed that followed the stroke that followed the dissection.

One in 20,000 spinal manipulations triggers this. Arterial dissection causes 2% of strokes overall but 8 to 25% of strokes in patients under 45. In 55% of cases symptoms start within 12 hours of the adjustment. No screening test identifies who's at risk beforehand.

The American Chiropractic Association's own spokesman told the New York Times patients should get vascular scans before neck manipulation. Almost none do. Informed consent matching a surgical risk disclosure isn't standard. The average victim is 40.

Caitlin's back pain lived four vertebrae below the artery the thrust tore.

[Tracey Wilson @TWilsonOttawa]

The SK Government, with the SK Firearms Commissioners Office provide an update on their amendments to the SK Firearms Act.

TL/DR: they will be issuing appraisal certificates to affected gun owners so they can persue fair compensation and reject the offers from the ASFCP. This also stalls the program itself while they hash it out.
They will also be providing exemption certificates to affected owners to protect them from criminality out past the amnesty. This is huge. They get to keep their guns without fear of criminal charges.
The SK Chiefs of Police Assoc. fully supports this and thanks the SK government for doing this, and allowing them to focus on fighting crime instead of grabbing guns.

https://t.co/ucsJWSjR9v

[Brodie @BCPilotguy]

@MurrayHillGuy1 The stupidity of men in the presence of attractive women can't be overstated

[Brodie @BCPilotguy]

🤞

[HoCStaffer @HoCStaffer]

Canadian Police Association Reception:

🚨There's talk that the Liberals' gun grab is going to be ended.🚨

Just can't determine if it will be an official death or it gets an indefinite deadline and slowly goes away.

Anyone heard anything?

[Brodie @BCPilotguy]

@MikeBales "Does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?"

[Tracey Wilson @TWilsonOttawa]

... I'm literally a Canadian gun lobbyist and I get called Liberal for not being perpetually raving mad over every little thing. This goes beyond purity testing, it's just nonsense and noise. People are frustrated ... I get that more than most, but get ahold of yourselves, friends

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

1% of the male population of Newfoundland was killed in the Great War.

Memorial University was given its name to be a living, permanent memorial to their sacrifice.

None of those men, or those who served with them, would now be eligible to teach at the university named in honour of their sacrifice.

DEI has gone too far for too long.

(BTW, I wonder if the same discriminatory hiring practices apply to janitorial, food services, and facility maintenance jobs. Or does the unjust treatment only apply to "elite" tenure track positions?)