Made in Canada

Certain multinational companies based in Canada have been whistling pretty despite the Trump administration’s baleful eye toward the country — an attitude motivated by American needs and the realities of trade that prevail in today’s world. WSP Global, a Quebec-based engineering firm with 75,000+ employees and tentacles worldwide, remains positive on the American situation. Although […]

|short story| Jungleland

Before the exploration ship dropped them off on Richter-7, Alan Collier and Mark Henderson counted their food packs, doublechecked their power sources, and scanned their envirosuits for microtears in the fabric. Everything was OK. They leapt out of the side of the starship and their parachutes deployed once they were in the middle atmosphere of […]

Amazon Cracks Down on Union

Amazon, based in Seattle with a secondary headquarters in Washington, has hammered the unions of Quebec by closing all seven of its Quebec facilities after one site voted to unionize. Quebec has been this route before. Walmart closed a store in Jonquiere, Quebec when it tried to unionize. (The Supreme Court of Canada slapped Walmart […]

Germany Uber Alles

Now that 80 years have passed since the end of the Second World War, in which Nazi Germany aspired to become the Global Hegemon, what is the role for Germany to play in modern times? Germany’s population has stabilized at about 80 million for several decades now, plus a ragtag bunch of illegal immigrants. If […]