January 28th, 2013 at 3:09 am » Comments (2)

Busan Haps has an interesting post about Canadians playing hockey on the Imjim River during the Korean War.  The post is based on this article in the National Post which has a number of historic photographs from the war of Canadians playing hockey: “It was quite cold in the wintertime. We didn’t have much snow but we did have snow. And certainly the river in the shallow parts froze up,” said Goodman. “I can remember one game — and I think I have a picture of it — with me
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November 20th, 2012 at 11:34 am » Comments (4)

I’ve heard the people in Toronto are nuts about the NHL, now I believe it. If the NHL decides to flush the rest of the season, Toronto Maple Leafs fan Jim Vigmond is ready. The Ontario lawyer purchased a toilet from the home dressing room of Maple Leaf Gardens for $5,300 at an auction, according to the Toronto Star. Vigmond had been trying to score a 1967 Stanley Cup banner but he said the bidding became too steep, so he went for the toilet. And he was willing to go
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July 23rd, 2012 at 7:43 am » Comments (8)

This is actually an exchange with North Korea I do not mind: Six professors from North Korean universities are set to immerse in a half-year academic exchange program studying economics and English at a Canadian university from September, said the director of the program. Economics professors from three North Korean universities, including Pyongyang’s Kim Il Sung University, arrived in Vancouver earlier this month to take courses at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for the fall semester, starting in September, to be exposed to capitalist economics. The North Korean scholars
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March 13th, 2012 at 1:00 pm » Comments (12)

December 16th, 2011 at 7:54 pm » Comments (32)

This has to be the lamest excuse yet I have heard for getting out of mandatory ROK military service: Canada awarded a South Korean man refugee status after he objected to the mandatory military service in his home country for being a pacifist and a homosexual, a local human rights group said Thursday. The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) granted the status in July 2009 to Kim Kyung-hwan, 31, saying the gay conscript is highly likely to face abuse and mistreatment back home, according to the Center for
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November 25th, 2011 at 7:16 am » Comments (45)

It looks like the Canadian government is moving on with finding another buyer of their oil since the US delayed making a decision on the building the pipeline to export the oil to the US: China is set to embrace Canada’s offer of more crude, heating up competition with the United States as the world’s top two oil consumers jostle to secure supplies and meet ravenous demand. Shipments from a politically stable country such as Canada will be a welcome diversification of supply sources as top consumers make plans to
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February 9th, 2011 at 12:54 pm » Comments (48)

Canadian riflemen catch up on the hometown news while waiting for orders to move up against the Chinese communist forces on the Korean front on Feb. 29, 1951. (AP Photo) # [Boston Herald] You can read more about one of Canada’s greatest Korean War commanders during the Korean War at this link.

December 4th, 2010 at 6:06 pm » Comments (27)

This State Department document provided by WikiLeaks should give everyone a good laugh: “The degree of comfort with which Canadian broadcast entities, including those financed by Canadian tax dollars, twist current events to feed longstanding negative images of the U.S. — and the extent to which the Canadian public seems willing to indulge in the feast — is noteworthy as an indication of the kind of insidious negative popular stereotyping we are increasingly up against in Canada,” the cable said. A trove of diplomatic cables, obtained by WikiLeaks and made
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November 21st, 2010 at 8:12 pm » Comments (68)

Since Tom is allowed to comment again I am sure that he will have plenty to say about this article: When Alexandra and her friend Rachel, both graduates of Toronto’s Havergal College, an all-girls private school, were deciding which university to go to, they didn’t even bother considering the University of Toronto. “The only people from our school who went to U of T were Asian,” explains Alexandra, a second-year student who looks like a girl from an Aritzia billboard. “All the white kids,” she says, “go to Queen’s, Western
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December 6th, 2009 at 9:42 am » Comments (8)

For all my Canadian readers out there, look who is stopping by the DMZ: Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit the demilitarized zone between South and North Korea on Monday, Harper’s aides announced Saturday. Harper, who arrived in Hong Kong Saturday, will travel to Seoul, South Korea, Sunday night. His itinerary, released in Ottawa last week, included an address to the South Korean National Assembly, the first Canadian prime minister to be accorded that honour. On Saturday, his aides said he would travel to the demilitarized zone and they said
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