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Lawyer (Litigation). Former CDN diplomat. CAF Veteran (Arty). Interests: Wild Canadian rainbow trout on the fly. Dusty gravel mountain roads. Bald and golden eagles. All spiritual guide dogs. Loons. Ten thousand or more books.
Doug Ford is right. Defiance. Not one step back. Capitulation is not an option.
Campbell Clark, Globe & Mail today “Nice bridge you got there,” the thugs said. “It’d be a shame if something happened to it.” That’s not a verbatim transcript of what ... Donald Trump’s operatives told CDN PM Mark Carney about the Gordie Howe International Bridge, but it might as well have been.
Fishing for salmon in the Western Canada wilderness on Sunday, July 12 2026.
A lie is a statement made with knowledge it's untrue, or with reckless indifference whether it's true or false. PP's false statement might just be stupidity.
The bounding main seen from Cyprus Mountain the day before June 28 2026
Globe and Mail: “The New Canada believes that the rupture with America is permanent…The problem is that America is in drastic decline, and its structural problems – the spiking inequality, the racial resentment, the hyperpartisanship, the autocratic backsliding – will outlast this presidency.”
Idiots. Trump's SS forgot to install the obligatory watch towers with .50 cal machine guns. Plus a few underwater gas-fed fire barriers would have been a nice touch.
Not a water colour: actual sails on the actual Salish Sea near its intersection with Howe Sound, at last light with very little wind. .
A wild new family enjoying the early morning sun in a free and democratic country.
Sailing the Salish Sea on a sunny Saturday on the Sixth day of the Sixth month of 2026.
Hatred and racism. Violence and war. Primary elements of effective rabble-rousing in modern western "democracies".
Homesteading near Wembley, Province of Alberta, Dominion of Canada during the Great Depression. Girl on the left immigrated from Chicago at age 3 with her father, mother and many aunts and uncles. Some descendents reside in Alberta but others are spread across Canada. All deserve a vote.
Visibility 80 kilometres in rain-washed evening air above the Salish Sea.
"Whadda ya say we go down to the beach today." "You know, the beach you can see at super-super-low tide."