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  • “Strategically, it can be the supply chain that’s needed to move goods to the North, whether that’s for military, whether that’s for civilians, whether that’s for businesses,” Chartrand said at an unrelated news conference in Winnipeg on Monday.

    The Arctic Gateway Group, Winnipeg Airports Authority and CentrePort signed a memorandum of understanding, agreeing to work together more closely to capitalize on Manitoba’s land, rail, air and sea network.

    “I’ve had the great privilege of speaking to people in the Armed Forces over the years and one saying that has stuck with me is that they say, ‘Amateurs think about strategies, professionals think about logistics,’” said Kinew.

    Taking all three comments together and remembering that Manitoba is close to the centre of Canada (E to W anyway), it seems to meet all the requirements. Logistically we can still receive from Vancouver and Halifax - except both of those can be blockaded by the US in a heartbeat. Churchill is all ours, with the only rail line in Canada that feeds the northern region.







  • From the article …

    Tool use is well known in chimps, crows, dolphins and even octopuses. The latter have been filmed throwing shells at one another. But livestock have never been considered the sharpest of animals. Gary Larson’s 1982 Far Side cartoon, Cow Tools, shows a cow standing behind a table of oddly shaped objects. It confused scores of readers, including Larson’s mother, prompting him to explain: “While I have never met a cow who could make tools, I felt sure that if I did, they (the tools) would lack something in sophistication and resemble the sorry specimens shown.”

    There is no suggestion that Veronika’s skills are evidence of the evolution of an ominous new species of super-cow. As the scientists write in the study: “She did not fashion tools like the cow in Gary Larson’s cartoon, but she selected, adjusted and used one with notable dexterity and flexibility. Perhaps the real absurdity lies not in imagining a tool-using cow, but in assuming such a thing could never exist.”