U.S health and transport problems are us Today in these unUnited States of America, nearly 2,000 people will die of heart disease and another 1,700 or so will die of cancer. And […]
E-flailings
O’Canada
SOMEWHERE IN SOUTHEAST SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA – On the road south and east from the oil and gas boom cities of Fort Nelson, British Columbia, and Grande Prairie, Alberta, into […]
Words matter
Journalism’s role in distorting reality Sometimes it’s hard to avoid wondering if the politically tainted mainstream media in North America has finally abandoned the meanings of words as long defined by […]
Blinders on
The problem with agendas With Alaska reporting yet another season in which the harvest of salmon topped 200 million fish, the Associated Press has somehow concluded “climate change” is plaguing the state’s […]
Success?
Californians now fatter than Alaskans! Just over a third of Alaskans today qualify as obese, making residents of the 49th state a perfect match for the citizens of Georgia and Maryland, according […]
Demarketing
Canadians target sales of Alaska salmon Stealing a page from the playbook Alaska commercial salmon fishermen and some environmental groups used in an effort to kill net-pen salmon farming more than a […]
Best Buddies
And the hardest goodbyes Fourteen days ago, Lars was in his element, and now he is gone. It’s horribly depressing to write that line, but it wasn’t like the end couldn’t be […]
Gone viral
A lost hiker, a camera and an internet sensation A neophyte hiker did what no neophyte hiker should do in Alaska and went off trail. He ended up lost atop barren […]
Killing us softly
What the machines have done So it has come to this, the American medical community resorting to threats evoking the C-word – cancer – to try to get people to walk […]
Know-nothing journalism
Credibility dies in a field of little mistakes This is why it is painful to read what passes for news today: “Pink salmon get their nickname from their propensity […]
