Canada gazes northward as ocean levels look likely to rise a foot or two in a century

The Canadian government, looking northward, is expressing less concern about Putin and more about "development for people of the North," "responsible resource development," "safe Arctic shipping," and "sustainable circumpolar communities." So saith Iain Hunter in the Times-Colonist.

BTW, can you imagine an American newspaper having a name like that? Not likely. ‘Mericans don’t like "colonists." We like our newspapers as tribunes, standards, heralds, dispatchers, reporters, and the like. What’s more, the colonialist Canadian newspaper was founded by a guy whose parents were Tory refugees from the United States. He changed his name to Amor de Cosmos. It would have been great if he could have hired World B. Free to be his sports editor, but the timing didn’t work. Cosmos also was at one point the premier of British Columbia. He was later declared insane.

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