Columbia, from Columbus, has always been a common poetic name for the US and it's this that the ship is named after. The name of BC is one of many on the continent that ultimately derives from Columbus
azi
joined 6 months ago
Though indirectly, it's named after Columbus... as in Christopher Columbus
A lot of regular bus services around the province are contracted out to private companies too. Translink runs their buses (Coast Mountain Bus Company) and BC Transit runs the buses in Victoria but all the other BC Transit branded buses are either run by municipalities (eg Nanaimo), regional districts (eg Cowichan Valley), or are privately run (eg First Transit in the Fraser Valley). Of course drivers in privately run areas usually get shafted, see the First Transit strike last year
Trapping and relocating also isn't very effective. There's pretty much no area that's both suitable bear habitat and isn't in another bear's territory. Relocated bears will often be pushed out of territory after territory for hundreds of kilometres until they end up in another urban area hungry and pissed off.
That's the definition of a planemo or planetary mass object
Will it? Facebook/instagram did a similar thing in response to the Online News Act by banning any Canadian news links and in my experience people blamed facebook not the government
How do you give weapons to an army sans one battalion? It's not like the US and Canada are the ones divvying out materiel on the ground
Super disappointing. So many more people are going to be using alone and dying because of this.
Yes! More surveillance! More secret radio chatter! Rip up the Outer Space Treaty! Let the superpowers play chicken with orbital nuclear bombardment! A lazy dog over every child's head!
So much wrong with this article...
First Nations of the Pays d'en Haute weren't "Jesuit controlled". They had had asserted their independence in Pontiac's War, which they initiated on their own judgement, and during which they received no Canadien support despite First Nation appeals. Serious historians haven't considered this Indigenous warfare a French conspiracy for many many decades.
"The caging of the colonies onto the Pacific [Atlantic] Coast" by the establishment of the Indian Reserve was done in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 and it's ratification as the Treaty of Fort Niagara to end Pontiac's War, not with the Quebec Act a decade later. The continued restriction on settlement after the Quebec Act was introduced was an attempt to maintain this peace, not to subvert the Continental Congress which didn't even exist yet.
Though I guess this is to be expected. If the author admitted not only that Indigenous peoples of the Ohio Country opposed settlement but they were independent nations who did so on their own volition, then the author wouldn't be able to pretend that manifest destiny was some anti-racist position that only brought colonial genocide due to subversion from crypto-monarchists.
The author also blames Franklin's failure to rally Montrealers soley on a lack of time due to military setbacks. They totally ignore how the Continental Army inserting itself as a fur trade middleman, refused to work in bullion, and failed to commitment to long-term Canadien religious freedom made most people in the city hate then.
Oh and the traitors in league with the City of London and the Reign on Terror being the fault of British foreign policy are just bizarre and conspiratorial.
tl;dr the author needs to read something other than conspiracy theories and George Bush's childhood American history textbook
view more: next ›
strict vetting against foreign interference is rich coming from a party that agrees with the US state department at every opportunity