CN, Bill Gates or The Colours of War (Matt Cohen)

Now that Bill Gates is the biggest shareholder in CN (Canadian National Railway) at 10.04%, a percentage that he's been working on increasing since 2006 and like Warren Buffet who ventured into (coal?) rail in the USA and formerly did Boystown in Omaha - the two of them took a fly-over at the tar-and-oil sands in 2008 - or, even like Gordon Campbell's BC Rail [redacted], it makes The Colours of War seem like SPP or SP or CCEE and Fraser Amero soft-sell, soft war backwash, at the moment.

"Every day it seemed there were new declarations of emergencies and martial law. Not exactly a new law; things being the same as always but carried one step further."

The map of the train, John Boy Bush Harper (Johny Crackle Sings), Theodore Beam (the light at the end of the tunnel), Christopher Columbus Perestrello.

I was reminded again of old stories of the depression and the vast armies of the unemployed crisscrossing the country; when nothing else is possible, motion promises to fill the stomach"

The quiet revolutionaries in executive councils. He wasn't kidding. You won't recognize Canada when I get through with it.

True, there are coaches where bona fide travelers, unaware of the real purpose of the journey, are crowded together and give an appearance of ordinariness to the train. But there are also sealed vans, and these are filled with arms and ammunition, and are in the control of a group of guerillas. Armies Moving in the Night: The Fictions of Matt Cohen, George Woodcock

It's a supply chain management story, from helmets to hard hats, from freighters to box cars with a lot of teddy jam and ammo, or make that ordinance, from sea (Vancouver) to shining sea (Montreal Port Authority).

Machines of War: Blackwater, Monsanto, and Bill Gates
Guess who's coming to dinner.