The fashion for wild animal skins and furs drove a hunting boom in the Amazon basin through the 20th century. A mass industry sprung up almost overnight and the hides of otters, jaguars or alligator-like caimans were soon being shipped round the world to be turned into coats, hats or accessories. The Amazon rainforest, and… via …
Federal budget – a deafening deficit
Federal budget 2016: Justin Trudeau defends bigger deficit, First Nations funding http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/federal-budget-2016-justin-trudeau-ottawa-morning-1.3502144 Trudeau keeps claiming that Canadians gave him the mandate for his latest plan - less political folly, the 2016 budget. Well no, only those Canadians who voted for him. Yes a majority, but not all of us are part of that majority. This …
The Northern Herper 