Canadian Landscape Painter E.J. Hughes has died of cardiac arrest in a Duncan, B.C., hospital on January 5th, 2007. He was 93. His paintings of Nanaimo harbour, tugboats and the Comox Valley hang in galleries across Canada and fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Looking back at Canada in 2006. Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan drinking Tim Hortons and getting killed (36 in 2006). Stephen Harper shook hands with a terrorist warlord by accident in March 2006. The Canadian Dollar climbs almost to par and more.
A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, leaving a trail of icy boulders floating in its wake. The collapse was so powerful that earthquake monitors 250 kilometres away picked up tremors from it. Over the next few years this ice island will drift into populated shipping routes. George W Bush puts polar bears on endangered species list.
The Reform Party of Canada is gone and its been replaced by a penny-pinching Conservative Party that can't even win a majority government and is losing in the polls to the Liberals. Whatever happened to Reform Party? Stephen Harper betrayed them.
Canada has become a mecca for counterfeit goods, but these cheaper rip-off copies of everything from clothes to pharmaceuticals to batteries are dangerous. Highly inflammable clothes, false birth control pills that could get you pregnant and batteries that explode. Think twice before you buy counterfeit.
