Tiananmen Square: Citizens Still Remember
In 1989 protestors in China took to Tiananmen Square and were confronted by tanks and the full Chinese state apparatus to shut them down. The most iconic image is the…
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Dutch Disease, the Canada – US Exchange Rate and Trade With Asia
Today’s Globe editorial provides further evidence of distorted economic reasoning being rolled out to attack Thomas Mulcair. “Mr. Mulcair seems to long for a golden age of manufacturing and a…
Trashy in China, 4.0
… the I’m outta here edition. All packed. Ready to grab one last bite before the mini-bus picks us up at 2 pm. Then it’s the waiting game… 6:10 flight…
Trashy in China, 4.0
Some of my fave non-food-related pics since I started coming here in 2009. Part 1. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Shen Yung And Not Your Father’s PC Party
The Shen Young Performing Arts troupe recently had their Alberta 2013 performance dates thrown into question when the Alberta Government revoked an agreement to use the Jubilee Auditoriums in Edmonton…
Trashy in China 4.0
Food, glorious FOOD edition! Some of my fave food shots from my trips to the Middle Kingdom. Some North Americans tend to avoid the real Chinese places… I’m not one…
The sounds of Beijing…
… through a third floor office window… I’m writing this on the way back to the hotel after a good and productive day. The A/C hasn’t yet been switched on…
Trashy in China 4.0
Day 7… forgot to take melatonin edition. Dammit! Up since 4 am so it’s gonna be a loooonnnnggg day… oh well… last full day of meetings and discussions. We have…
Why NATO?
China’s Next Cold Warriors? The North Atlantic Treaty Organization made a lot of sense when it was an alliance of North Atlantic nations to mutually defend the security of North…
Tiannemen
A short vid of the drive through Tiannemen Square Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
Trashy in China, 4.0
Some pics… I’ll post more later this weekend after some sight-seeing. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
TED Talk Thursday: The Wisdom Of Cradle To Cradle Design
I’m still up to my ears in hugelkulturing, and hope to share my photos and experience soon. In the meantime, here’s architect William McDonough, co-author of Cradle To Cradle: Remaking…
Trashy in China 4.0
Day 2 – sleep, or a lack thereof… The amazing thing about sleep pattern shifting is that you can achieve an almost altered state of reality without having to resort…
Has Harper Government sold out to China?
The Harper government has agreed to an establishment of a Telecommunications Company, Huawei, in Canada. Security experts in both Canada and the US are very concerned as China is known…
Trashy in China, 4.0
Day one. Well, that wasn’t so bad, really… yeah, it’s about 22 hours in travel mode door to door, but the flights were uneventful and I had a half-decent sleep…
On the way…
To China… Bye all. Watch the shop while I’m gone. Trashy, Ottawa, Ontario
One more time, with feeling!!!
And it’s back to the Middle Kingdom. True, the anticipation is not what it was the first time I traveled to China, but being that this is likely my last…
Canada’s Tiananmen Moments,
This is what police in Quebec are doing to striking students. I know that some people won’t like that I called this post “Canada’s Tiananmen Moments,” but by placing Quebec…
Oooh, This Could Get Nasty
China has provoked outrage in the Philippines by deploying this oil platform, the country’s first deepwater drilling rig, into the South China Sea. The rig, CNOOC 981, began drilling operations…
Why Tibet Will Never Be Free
This map says it all: The Tibetan plateau is key to controlling the headwaters of just about every major river in East and South Asia. China controls Tibet, it controls…