The RCMP on TV – “Courage in Red”
A new TV series about the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, “Courage in Red” began on OLN last night. I hadn’t heard about it, but luckily checked my Facebook account and saw a message about it. I encourage everyone with an interest in policing in any form to tune in...
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Morons on ATVs
One of the people responsible for the residents of Carcross starting the process of banning motor vehicles from the beach apparently thinks that he’s given the community the finger. Yes, we all know who you are, loser. The photos below show the damage he did following the meeting –...
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Dumbest Alaska cruiser of 2008!
That’s a pretty offensive title, isn’t it? Well, the manager of the Alaska Shirt Company store in Skagway stole $78,000 from the company back in June and disappeared, then came back to Skagway 2 months later on the Norwegian Star! When even that didn’t get him arrested, he left...
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Are you a target for a domain name scam?
If you’re in Canada, have a Web site and own a domain name for it, you have received or will receive an envelope in the mail that looks like this: Don’t open it, throw it in the trash. Inside is what looks like an invoice to renew your domain,...
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Governments and room-temperature IQs
There is an article in today’s Anchorage Daily News that makes me both sad and angry. There are 3,800 soldiers returning to Fairbanks from Iraq – 26 of their fellow Fairbanks residents returned from this single unit Iraq posting in body bags. That’s 26 people from a town not...
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Fun with death
There are a lot of places in North America where putting a dead body on your lawn would be considered in bad taste. Bad taste because it happens too often. In Whitehorse, seeing police tape and a dead body on a lawn is just seen as getting into the...
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I never thought I’d see this headline
It’s been a very long time since I thought of myself as being naive, but this headline in Friday’s Star threw me. A semi-automatic gun being fired on Main Street? What in hell is going on here? Just as important, where in hell are the cops? They KNOW who...
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