Category: War and conflict


The British Columbia municipalities convention is on in Vancouver at this moment. Convention host Anne Kang is engaged with the work of work of overseeing her first convention has the host. The convention theme is balancing act, Anne is also the minister of municipal affairs in the British Columbia government and it’s been a member of the ubcm for 15 years.

https://x.com/AnneKangMLA/status/1703831161003544599?s=20

Discussions

Discussions untill this time have included the decriminalization of illicit drugs and it’s difficulties and $40,000 forgivable loans to build suites on single-family dwellings.

Both items are typified as crisis.The group hosted a housing summit earlier and this is the 20th year since and drug laws were liberalized in BC.

Declaritive forum

The UBCM is a forum for discussion and getting together of municipalities across a province it will be passing resolutions that are declarative in nature and are sometimes brought back to the legislature or to the home jurisdictions of all the mayors and councils in BC. On the agenda is resolution in respect to difficulties in getting permits and to access annual allowable cuts for the forest industry.

British air force Veteran coming from ceremony…

James a Veteran NCO of the British air force, spoke of losing a son to possible Covid-19. James is concerned about staffing in the local Hospital, in particular the lack of an Ultrasound. James resides in Lower Nicola an unincorporated area west of Merritt BC, Ca, with a different postal code.

Love lays bleeding

Love lays bleeding...

Love Lays Bleeding

Veteran’s Day 2022

Geese fly north over Veteran’s day ceremony.

How many Geese going north over cenotaph?

We didn’t need the Snow Birds, or did we?

TGIF- remembrance Day…

Army cadets File Photo KDG

11, 11, 11.

What is the meaning.?

So, this is a solemn week ending on Friday with the remembrance Day observances.

The armistice was signed before laying down of arms at the 11th day of the 11th month after 11:00 hour.

So, it is on us to remember the sacrifice of people who secured our freedom over time with the military forces. However it shouldn’t be a lecture, it should be just a getting together and agreeing on the sense that sometimes over time things haven’t worked out and force was required. And that we can benefit from observing the slippery slope that brought that into being in the past.

Then taking a sober view of the remembrance knowing that it can incite all kinds of old wounds if the agreement isn’t widespread that it should never happen again.

So good luck with that, as I leave you with a quote from the character Sandra Bullock played in the movie Gravity. When she was in terrible Jeopardy trying to get away from a falling apart space station,she said I know that we all die and with tears she went on to say but I’m going to die right now.

How to live on properly.

To expound on her feeling yes everybody does die, but how they die is important,not leaving baggage, chaos or conflict, but a peace presence of thoughts of you is a noble charge.

I will love you a billion years from now sunshine..

File Photo KDG

JWST Capture

On this Day: April 5th 1795

The Peace of Basel is arranged.

Editors note: the spring equinox is at 8:33 AM pacific time.

May 24th long weekend will be here before we know it.

On this Day: March 18th 2014

The treaty of Ascension of Crimea is signed by its Parliament.

To our American friends and others.

freedom of speech

freedom of worship

freedom from want

freedom from fear.

On this Day: February 2 1887.

On his 3rd term in 1940 to mobilizing world FDR outlined his mandate goals going forward.

PunxSutawney Phil starts his diary.

Beaver Death

Ran into some beaver remains and an interested eagle on Sunday. The remains were fresh and looked as if they were fed on.

Remembrance day

On this Day: November 11th 1918

An armistice comes into effect at 11-1:11, the measure was to stop hostilities of the First World War.

Highway 5 outside Merritt, pipe laying.

The laying of pipe is in progress outside the city on Highway 5. the contractor for Merritt to Hope is:
  • Contractor: Surerus Murphy Joint Venture 
Spread 5B: Coquihalla – Hope

Think of the Vet’s hopes on the 11th.

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Pipe for oil field File:Photo KDG

 

On this Day: November 9th 1887

Pearl harbor rights go to the US Navy.

On this Day: September 13th 1899

Henry Bliss killed in an auto accident.

Japan a sea going seafood nation.

Japan is a seafood loving , long life expectancy, going to sea nation. Claiming poverty for living space because of a lage population on 5 main islands, there are thousands of small islands under their control .

Dolphins range about and have individual characters

Dolphins are distinct from Porpoise ( not by being aimless and without porpoise) but by their teeth Dolphin teeth are conical Porpoise teeth are Flattened.

Japanese History as Seamen

The Japanese have a tradition of seamanship and vessels. They are not to be mistaken for the Chinese and their junks. Both have a long trading history with the middle east and the sill road when it was mostly navigated by following the long coastline. Their craft resembles the Arabic sloops of that time.

On this Day: September 1st 1969

Yesterday is released by the Beatles.

Young forever …

On this Day: July 27th 1054

Macbeth is defeated near the Firth of Fourth.