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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (1274)	10/23/2007 5:43:37 AM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 1293

Marcos, Things sure have changed since this thread started! Back then the US dollar was riding high, and the Iraq war was just a gleam in the cold steely eyes of the Neocons. Now Canada is in the "catbird seat" regarding energy, and the US clownbuck is cratering. Thanks to the unstoppable Loonie, Canucks will get to loaf around and clip energy dividend coupons while the rest of the world rushes to wait on you guys hand and foot. Ya'll will have plenty of time for hockey, curling, hunting, fishing, hanging out at Tim Horton's, etc. Canadians are already driving south across the border to shop, and BC pot exports are being undercut by cheap US and Mexican dope. Soon, a flood of poor Gringos will be sneaking north to do your laundry and pick grapes at fancy Okanagan wineries owned by rich oil barons from Calgary and Edmonton. Sorry, we won't be needing much lumber from you for a while. We already have a ten-year supply of vacant houses. You might as well pack your axe and chainsaw in cosmoline for the duration. Canada will become one of the new multi-polar powers, and buy a couple of used carrier battle groups from the USA to patrol the newly ice-free Arctic Ocean against the menacing Russkies. Have I about covered it? ;>) P.S. I've chatted with Koan once or twice. I think he's from Southeast AK, which we regard as almost another state. <g>

To: marcos who wrote (1274)	10/23/2007 6:01:51 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1293

I'm reading a book about a mad BC logger named Grand Hadwin. Did you ever meet him? Dude cut down a rare mutant Sitka Spruce on Haida Gwaii, and disappeared into the wilderness. I got this book during a trip last year, and will finally finish it on another flight later this week... The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed amazon.com From Publishers Weekly The felling of a celebrated giant golden spruce tree in British Columbia's Queen Charlotte Islands takes on a potent symbolism in this probing study of an unprecedented act of eco-vandalism. First-time author Vaillant, who originally wrote about the death of the spruce for the New Yorker, profiles the culprit, an ex-logger turned messianic environmentalist who toppled the famous tree—the only one of its kind—to protest the destruction of British Columbia's old-growth forest, then soon vanished mysteriously. Vaillant also explores the culture and history of the Haida Indians who revered the tree, and of the logging industry that often expresses an elegiac awe for the ancient trees it is busily clear-cutting. Writing in a vigorous, evocative style, Vaillant portrays the Pacific Northwest as a region of conflict and violence, from the battles between Europeans and Indians over the 18th-century sea otter trade to the hard-bitten, macho milieu of the logging camps, where grisly death is an occupational hazard. It is also, in his telling, a land of virtually infinite natural resources overmatched by an even greater human rapaciousness. Through this archetypal story of "people fail[ing] to see the forest for the tree," Vaillant paints a haunting portrait of man's vexed relationship with nature. Photos. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.