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On the run in the Fraser Canyon... https://www.emergencyinfobc.gov.bc.ca/event/21jul26/

That sounds like alot... More than 9,000 federal public servants apply for early retirement More than 9,000 federal public servants have applied for an early retirement package, with only three days left for employees to submit an application to leave the federal government early without...

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Um, no... USMC. I'm pretty sure we don't do stupid things like that to our recruits. Right? Right?

A dubious distinction... How bad is the 2026 wildfire season? In Ontario, early estimates suggest it’s the worst yet -- and not over Wildfires raging in northern Ontario appear to have pushed the province to its worst wildfire season on record. The province’s latest numbers suggest fires have...

Hoo boy …

I guess he wanted fries with that …

No. Did the sock have blue thread?

Alhamdulillah! US to announce deal allowing Saudi Arabia a nuclear programme, reports say The US and Saudi Arabia are expected to announce a deal that will allow the Gulf kingdom to develop a civilian nuclear programme, according to US media reports. An announcement is expected from US...

So, IOW, a Canadian 'Stop Loss' program backed by a quasi 'Legion of Frontiersman' program? Trump should love that ;)

How 'Manchesterism' is playing out so far... looks like Russia is already testing the system, how kind of them ;) Good luck with that 'No. 10 North' thing. Distributing power broker offices from London around the country has been tried, and failed, before...

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…