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Voter apathy will crush us
Kootenay Crust By Ian Cobb Anyone else out there left stunned by Christy Clark’s Liberal Party’s amazing come-from-behind election victory last Tuesday? I am personally thanking the heavens for not biting on some bets, because I would have bet, with … > Read More
Using angry young men since 5500 BC
Kootenay Crust Ba-aa-ah… When I was about 19 I wrote a simple poem, probably in anthropology 101, that began, “We are born on Earth, a human birth, but we are sheep, we follow.” As 1984 was only a few years … > Read More
NHL fosters sense of entitlement
Kootenay Crust Are you one of the millions of Canadians still wondering how a supposed ‘dream team’ of teenaged hockey players failed to capture a medal in the recent World Junior Hockey Championship? It was a team led by blossoming … > Read More
Harper should seize the opportunity to scrap the Indian Act
Kootenay Crust It doesn’t matter what side you are on. It doesn’t matter if you support Attawapiskat First Nation Chief Theresa Spence in her so-called ‘hunger strike’ over wishing to meet with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. And it doesn’t matter … > Read More
Duplicitous cowardice and avarice
Kootenay Crust There is something altogether symbolic about this story, on a day when the great pendulum once again swings. When it stops, we will learn if our American cousins are forging ahead as a nation determined to overcome its … > Read More
The Vladivostok give-away
Kootenay Crust Is our Conservative Prime Minister being secretly shagged by the Communist Party of China? Sadly, I do believe Chairman Harper is being bent over a shuānɡ rén xiǎo shā fāas surely as he has been sold out by … > Read More
From spam hilarity to heart-touching truth
Kootenay Crust The Internet is a vast sea stuffed to its frothy green spray with everything human. You name it – A to Z – it has it, in vast, mostly unchecked or edited digital reams. This is of course … > Read More
That whining isn’t Canada whistling Dixie; we’re fed up
It was like being in the right spot at the right time, while a masterpiece was being created, when a miracle was unfolding or a grand rarity of natural beauty was being born. It was like the US Men’s hockey … > Read More
