If you are wondering why I have not been active lately I am currently sailing around Vancouver Island. Today I'm at a marina in Tofino with reliable Internet after days out of contact. I expect to be more active here next week.
Meantime the site is running itself very well. I notice that membership has stabilized and that income has dried to a trickle but may increase again with renewals unless people decide to become unpaid. We'll see. Making money was never the intent and paying the small monthly fee seems to keep the comments useful and supportive. As always, if you need to, you can contact me in the sidebar but sometimes it takes a while for me to notice.
I have not yet disbursed the funds to CG, but will do so shortly.
Ottawa Funded the China Ferry Deal—Then Pretended to Oppose It
While Beijing-backed hackers infiltrated Canadian telecoms, federal and B.C. leaders quietly financed a billion-dollar shipbuilding deal with a Chinese state firm—then tried to pass the buck.
https://theoppositionnewsnetwork.substack.com/p/ottawa-funded-the-china-ferry-dealthen
Some of these things I still miss
I grew up without safe spaces.
I grew up without trigger warnings.
I drank water from the hose.
I ate peanuts in class.
None of us wore a helmet.
Kids got hurt. We fell down. And we signed a lot of casts.
We couldn’t pause TV. We’d call out “It’s on!” as soon as the commercials started to end (for those who had left the room). And we watched our favourite shows as a family.
There was no next day delivery.
There was no bundle this with that.
There was no internet. Skip the Dishes didn’t exist.
Fast food was not the norm. It was easier to eat healthy. There were home phones. There was VH.........
