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When I first came to Canada, I was told by proud Canadians that the country is unique: “Everybody is polite; no protests; and no class action law suites.  Not like across the border.”  Yet this week I have been contacted by Canadian lawyers seeking a technical specialist to help them start a class action law [...]

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An ordinary weekend preceding a Monday holiday.  And yet extraordinary if you think hard about it.

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We thanks another mining company for supporting the arts in British Columbia.  Teck Resources is listed as a Corporate Partner of Ballet BC in the program for last night’s ballet, Bliss.

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There are many guidelines for groundwater modeling.  Up until now there has been nothing specific to mining.  Now that is changed.  At this link is a guidance document specific to groundwater modeling for mines.  

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In this house are eight bicycles.  Five are small and kept for the grandkids when they come visiting in summer. Three are mine.  First there is the Trek road bike: it is white& light; soft to the touch & responsive to the merest pressure as you fly along the asphalt. Second is the town bike: [...]

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Today, Easter Sunday, a long bike ride around the city, to Granville Island.  There I listened to a solitary banjo player strumming his simple tunes. I bought his CD and chatted awhile to him.  His name is Fabrizio Bezzini; he is from Italy; a friend got him to Appalachia; he found the banjo; and now [...]

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Yesterday and today I did nearly sixty kilometres on my road bicycle up the Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve in North Vancouver.  Perfect weather prompted and aided this.  Well maybe, for it rained yesterday as I rode up the hills still topped with snow and drove the bike between the cold, tall trees and spots of [...]

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Last night was live opera time:  to the Vancouver Opera’s Barber of Seville.  There is almost nothing new to be said about what is one of the greatest of comic operas.  All we can repeat is that it is a great evening of music & fun.

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Yesterday I received an email stating that a Technology Review I wrote had just been put up on the InfoMine website. Now, I haven’t had the chance to write many reviews so I am a little proud this as it is the first to be lovingly loaded onto a server somewhere. As I’m sure you [...]

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 Two Canadian universities offer Mining MBAs.   York University, Schulich School of Business has announced as follows:

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