Tomorrow, Ernest “Smokey” Smith will lie in state (CBC) in the foyer House of Commons of Canada in Ottawa. He was the last remaining recipient of the Victoria Cross in Canada. He earned it for his heroic and brave acts while fighting in Italy in 1944. He died on Sunday at the age of 91. …
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Peter Jennings signs off.
I don’t have much to say about the death of Peter Jennings, but plenty of other people and news sources do. The best and perhaps most in depth one I’ve seen so far has been by John Simpson of the BBC. Peter did what he could to halt the downward spiral of television news in …
Texas buys up Canadian Oil/Gas pipelines
Canada is fast becoming the economic battleground between China and the US. Yesterdy, Kinder Morgan announced a $7 billion takeover bid of Terasen Gas of British Columbia. Terasen is a major pipeline operator into the oil and gas fields of Northern BC and Alberta and is active in the Oil Sands. (Audio Podcast Available) It …