Spring used to be heralded in by flocks of migrating snow birds, robins moving in to make nests, trips up into the bays to fish for char and trout through the ice.
Not to mention the weather, sometimes sunny and an ideal -5 or so, sometimes flat in snow and freezing rain n stuff and around 0 or so.
Trips on the ice to anyplace one liked to hunt, fish, camp, a days boil up.
Well we still get those things, admittedly in more unpredictable patterns than yore.

Alas, from my point of view, we now have signs like this stating that there are no ore carrying ice breakers cutting across your route.
Planes like this taking fuel and supplies into mining exploration camps hoping for the next eldorado.









The status quo says that it is all about job creation, you can’t stop progress, and if we don’t get involved it will go ahead any way yadda yadda yadda.

Well I say bullshit to that. One would have to have their head in the sand to not know that the ecosystems of this world are under attach in the most serious way. Human abuse is showing its effects on the earth’s ecosystem in an alarmingly increasing way.
Labrador is still predominantly a pristine area. There is still time to turn things around and find sustainable ways to economic development. What is needed is leadership with vision and courage. What is also needed is for the people to encourage that leadership in a new vision for Labrador.

Taking the easy and low road is having its effects on this earth. Unless we start taking the more difficult high road, then I’m afraid our descendents will not have very positive memories of us.