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After 50 years of shirking basic responsibilities, how can L.A.’s government start doing fundamental tasks again?

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As new sea passages open up, the commercial and defence possibilities are becoming irresistible. To take advantage, America desperately needs ships ...

By Terry Curell  We watch in horror as southern California stars in its own disaster movie, taking comfort in the belief such devastation could never happen here in beautiful B.C., […] ...

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