A Mari Usque Ad Mare is the slogan emblazoned on Canada’s Coat-of-Arms, it is Latin for “from Sea to Sea”. The ‘A Mari’ motto was proposed by New Brunswick Premier (and Father of Confederation) Leonard Tilley, who derived it from Psalm 72:8, and it emphasizes Canada’s pride at being, as Thomas D’Arcy McGee put it, ”one great nationality, bound,…[Read more]

Having just returned from my sojourn West of the Rocky Mountains, it is clearer than ever that the fate of Canada’s “Pacific Province”, will be shaped by its geographic fortunes. The clearest example of this fact is that, to British Columbians, the burgeoning economies of China, India, Korea, etc are not “the Far East” but are instead the [...]

Historically, British Columbia’s economy is lived and died by the fate of its largest sector: forestry and forest products. With American protectionism, the American housing collapse, a rising dollar, and the dasterdly mountain pine beetle epidemic, the results were grim and dozens of pulp and paper mills were closed (I have friends from Crofton,…[Read more]

The election campaign is already a few days only, and so far the only discernable media stories seem to be about who will form a coalition with whom, who held who in contempt and who called who a liar, cheat or scoundrel. Unfortunately (or perhaps gladly) none of this is related to whether Canada’s economy [...]