We recently returned from a trip to British Columbia to visit our eldest son and his family. The opportunity to be with our son and his partner and our granddaughter was the draw. Neither of us was really excited about being in B.C. The last two visits were disappointments; it was cold and damp and [...]
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Dilemma of Olympic Proportions…
March 5, 2010
Reeee-session…
March 5, 2010
We live in a resource based community. The two major industries are pulp and gold. Mining, because it is an extractive industry has a finite life. When the gold runs out, the industry is gone. Our community has been anticipating the decline of the gold mines for some years now. Little did we realize that [...]
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more…
September 1, 2008
Daily we are hearing more and more in the news media that Prime Minister Harper is going to call a fall election. So here we go again with the expense and hype of an election before the term of the current parliament is up. This minority government was elected for a four year term for the [...]
