Mussik, Mussik, I miss you, Pussi-k!

“Pussy-cat, Pussy-cat,                                                                                                                                                            Where have you been? I’ve been up to London, To look at the Queen”. Many people know this childhood rhyme about a cat. My pet cat by name Mussik is far away from me, on the other continent but on the same 60th Parallell with Saint Petersburg, Russia. Some consider Russia and Canada…

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Bar U Ranch Invites Us for Lunch

The Bar U Ranch is the only National Historic Site in Canada that commemorates the history of ranching. By 1890, eight years after first herds of cattle were driven from Idaho, USA, the North West Cattle Company reported 10,410 cattle and 832 horses. The NWCC livestock, branded with the Bar U brand, grazed on the…

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Your Excellency, Mr. Yakovlev! (“The Soviet Embassador” (The Making of the Radical Behind Perestroika) by Christopher Shulgan, 2008, Canada)

In such words Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau’s foreign policy advisor, Ivan Head, addressed to the Soviet Ambassador in Canada at that time Alexander Yakovlev. Ivan Head wrote an article “The Foreign Policy of the New Canada” in 1973. At the beginning of a posting, Yakovlev met head and later with the brilliant Canadian Prime…

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