Cooling down the once. +2 this morning and the wind has died down.

In between other duties I am slowly getting back into the lobbying front [some may call in shit stirring].
I have inquired locally of the situation re the food by mail issue as it pertains to Labrador. None of the retailers know anything, or if they do they are not saying, but my instincts tell me they are not privy to any advanced information. There employers know nothing except that they are to discuss the issue some time in the future.

So not content I took a stab in the dark and sent an e mail to a casual contact I had that was at one time doing some internal contract work on the food mail issue.

I received a prompt reply and whoop-de-doo the contact is now the ‘acting director “Nutrition North”.

The contact did not have much to say, “in meetings all day”, I was given a link to the INAC latest information on the switch over and assurances that INAC will soon be “engaging with retailers and wholesalers in Labrador and elsewhere to discuss implementation issues”.

Slow moving, it is government, but it would be nice to know a little in advance how Labrador is going to be impacted. We are after all the mouse besides the elephant [rest of the north] and things that work in the rest of the north may not necessarily work for the consumer in Labrador.

Speaking of things that don’t work:

CBC is reporting another booze and drug haul confiscated that was headed for Natuashish. This time the shipment was taken off the Northern Ranger. Previous hauls have been taken off airplanes and the Ranger. The police were acting on “a tip” just like the previous occasion.

That is the part that is working. To the layperson it seems strange that no arrests have been made or charges laid in any of the booze and drug hauls [at least none that are made public]; that seems to be the part that is not working.

Oh no: Not a very good year for ships that ply the arctic. Oil tankers and cruise ships running aground and now the darling of the Inuit run cruise business is under arrest in St. John's for monies owed and unpaid crew salaries.