[em]Mark Nickel, a blue collar man and a right wing thinker, getting through each day as it comes on the West Coast, Canada’s LA LA Land, was born in Kamloops, B.C. On his mother's side, his family’s Canadian history goes back 250 years. His father was born in the Ukraine under Joseph Stalin's murderous purges. His family fought at Vimy Ridge, The Battle of the Atlantic and from Juno to the Rhine.
Having worked in the sawmills of British Columbia at age 17, and after 35 years seeing his livelihood destroyed by the Soft Wood lumber dispute, Mark witnessed the collapse of the entire Forestry Industry as every political party in Canada proved incapable of defending its vital interests. So his passion for political empowerment started, out of necessity.
The most important lesson he learned is that most political parties are actively preventing fresh blood from rejuvenating the system. Being a British Columbian has exposed him to the extremism of Left wing politics and left him with the firm belief that the political Right has become stale and ineffective because too many of the old Guard Conservatives actively stifle new ideas and strategies. [/em]
Playing Chicken with God
The biggest frustration for anyone who proudly calls themselves a British Columbian is the juvenile antics of the City State of Vancouver. A City State mentality is where a city is so caught up with its own image that it forgets its debt to those areas outside its borders that were instrumental in its continued prosperity. This attitude can be an annoyance to the rest of British Columbia who can be up to its knees in snow while the Vancouver media stupidly gushes about early Crocuses in the lower mainland, but it has a darker side. Vancouver’s image comes at a steep cost as major issues or inconvenient truths are ignored. The most serious of these truths can be summed up in a few words. Vancouverites are earthquake deniers!
- Thursday, September 30, 2021