I can’t see you, but I know you’re there.
One has to be more than a little concerned with what’s happening in Russia the last few years.
Let’s see: we’ve got ex-spies being poisoned abroad, private energy companies getting nationalized on questionable grounds, trading partners being pressured through the withholding of natural gas in the winter, and high-profile investigative journalists being gunned down at point-blank range.
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Hello from Terminal 1 at Pearson airport in Toronto. I’m heading west to BC. First stop, Nelson.
I was somewhat alarmed to read on the front page of the Globe and Mail this a.m. that there is a distinct risk of a major earthquake near Victoria in the next week. We’re talking 9 on the Richter scale… The timing did not surprise me: I have a knack for picking destinations at unusually unfavorable times. I was en route to NYC on September 11, 2001. The day I arrived in London in July 2005, the entire city was shut down because of a second (failed, thankfully) terrorist bombing attempt.
For the sake of my many friends and family in BC’s Lower Mainland, I trust that the Earth will remain calm. On the other hand, we all know that the Big One is coming. It’s just a question of when…
Caveat lector: some may find this entry a tad depressing.
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