Millworkers ordered to stay on MacKenzie job to avoid gas spill

Emergency Environmental Legislation has been invoked at the MacKenzie pulp mill in BC, meaning staff and workers have to stay on the job and cannot go on strike, otherwise a potentially deadly leak of 15 tonnes of...

The Exiles: Film about Native Americans Exiled in Their Own Land Revived

Sherman Alexie, who can be a real hoot, has some poignant things to say about this film revival."THE Exiles,” a film about American Indians living on the edge of downtown Los Angeles in the 1950s, is both a chronicle and a casualty of neglect: a movie about a forsaken...

Thousands of B.C. forest workers jobless as sawmills shutdown

Certainly the downturn in the US economy is having a disasterous trickle down theory for Canada's ailing lumber industry.  Let's hope China bites and buys our lumber to build all their homes destroyed in the...

Return to the Dark Side

Light pollution has been a hot topic in New Zealand lately with local councils encouraged to do whatever is needed to reduce or minimize this visual intrusion during the dark hours of our day. New Zealand is now...

US Sheriff's Bid to Find Policeman

"A retired US deputy sheriff has written to people in West Somerset asking for help to find out more about a 19th Century West Country policeman. Mackenzie Allen of Tacoma, Washington, bought a clock with a plaque dedicated to Mr William Uriah Self, Supt of Police, Williton...

Happy Canada Day/Jour heureux du Canada

"Let us always remember that our current 'parliamentry democracy' was the result of the Great Rebellion of 1837. "

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