Recent content by daftandbarmy

Nice! I knew you'd be along to keep us in check. Muskeg is a thing too, as I understand it. Logging on muskeg means 'winter logging only', when it's frozen, which cuts down your annual production levels and increases costs.

It's great leverage, isn't it? "So, The Donald, give us a 50 year break on the softwood Lumber Deal and we'll make the smoke 'go away'." ;)

Especially if there is a huge environmental lobby intent on 'protecting' the forests. How well did that work for you, Jasper? Politically motivated pressure groups do alot to influence government policy away from scientifically rational, economically viable forest management practices, viz...

Or, like they used to do for beetle kill trees, cut stumpage rates (taxes) for forest companies so they can more economically build roads into the boreal forest and extract the fibre to make a profit. Instead of driving them out of the country with the tax rates and making them set up shop...

If you can make money, as with the Fur Trade and (later) the Gold Rushes in the Yukon and BC, the infrastructure will turn up along with some other 'social enablers'. If you have to borrow money to run your country, and treat the money makers (business) like crap, then you'll have to be...

The continuing economic decline seems inevitable regardless who's in power but an anti-business, tax and spend Labour government might have a tougher time of it than most ... Brexit has been an economic failure Ten years ago, the UK voted to leave the EU. Since then, an extensive body of...

Or NLAW…

“When I came back to Dublin, I was court martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” ― Brendan Behan

Easy solution: Find someone in the Armoured Corps to name them for you and then paint it in big letters on the side: 11, 11A, 11B, 11C... ... you're welcome ;)

We know why you unconscioulsy typed 'Danish', so don't worry ;)

As long as the trains don't get blamed this time ;) https://globalnews.ca/news/11556625/bc-supreme-court-class-action-lawsuit-lytton-wildfire-caused-train/

Because 'Tall Poppy' policy is our bread and butter (and Cheez Whiz) ;)