'haven't even heard it mentioned' - that's the problem there exactly, no one in the US follows the story, that's how the anti-canadian lobby can get away with what they're doing ... if the average guy in the street looked into it he'd realise he's been designated by the yaller pine pushers to pay for all this ..... in BC it is of course headline news, for obvious reasons ... i just heard of one area with 5600 direct industry employees, only 1800 of them are working this week and in two weeks that is expected to fall to 500 or less [and even that 5600 figure will have been knocked back considerably from the peak of the '95 market] ... multiply that by any reasonable factor you like to get the total economy affected, and you can see how we'd notice
Here's an overview i dredged up quick - #reply-16706408 ... not that great really, phrased far too diplomatically for my taste .... there's a fair bit on it linked through here - ca.fullcoverage.yahoo.com
Oregon eh ... makes you not-a-foreigner to a british columbian ... this continent was divided all wrong, should have been split from the continental divide, one east one west, LA towed way out to sea ... the good part being called Pacífica, not Cascadia, because north of the fourty-ninth we call that range the Coast Mountain Range, and little kids should not have to learn to spell Coastmountainrangia ... [edit] - speaking of 'sometimes a great notion', it was sad to lose Ken Kesey, eh .. cheers |
