Snow began falling in Kitimat, BC, for the first time this winter, at about 9 in the morning Pacific Time. and by the time the residents gathered 90 minutes later for the Remembrance Day ceremony at the cenotaph, it was still snowing. In Kitimat, children lay the wreathes for those who cannot attend, which is why I call this image, Passing the Torch. (Old photogallyery deleted with the death of Flash)
Be subtle! Be subtle! And use your spies for every kind of business. Sūnzǐ 孙子 (Sun Tzu) The Art of War When nations are in a shooting war, they use spies. When nations are in a trade war, they use spies. On Wednesday, April 2, 2025, US President Donald Trump declared a trade war on […]
(long read) When US President Donald Trump is not demanding that Canada become “the 51st state” he muses about redrawing a border, a border that is defined by treaties dating back to 1783. In mid-March Trump, in a media scrum outside the White House, talked about redrawing the border. In Trump’s derailed train of […]
(Long Read) It was the late spring of 1957. I was six, just about to turn seven. One afternoon, I was walking home from school when I suddenly began to feel pain in my legs and shoulder. Our house in the temporary Smeltersite settlement in the new town of Kitimat, British Columbia was uphill […]
