Post by Retrovision on Mar 19, 2008 19:34:00 GMT -8
Longest undefended, and we just so happen to share our land border with the most powerful nation in the world. 
Tonight our CBC's revered nightly news program "The National" featured an edition of their ongoing "Road Stories" feature where they broadcast from and focus part of their hour long broadcast on a particular area of our - second largest land mass on earth - proud nation.
Featured tonight, in the program hosted from near the Peace Arch border crossing, is Point Roberts. For some context, every BC Ferry out of Tsawwassen Terminal - metres from the 49th parallel - passes through U.S. waters, other than most Route 30 / Duke Point bound vessels, for the same reasons that Point Roberts is a part of the United States of America.
Personally I have a history with the detached community of Point Robberts - not physically connected to the contiguous U.S. because of Boundary Bay and their being a penninsula - as my family owns a house there and has for a few decades; we've learned, especially since 9/11, that it doesn't matter how disconnected such a limb is from the 'States, a U.S. crossing is a U.S. crossing in all shape and form.
I've watched this thanks to digi-cable and a connection to central Canada's feed to the CBC and implore each and every one of you who consider yourself anything near a Canadian patriot to watch this program as it's as well put together as any CBC documentary has become expected to be and, most importantly, it involves a border of such an internationally contentious nation with the context of being almost literally at our doorsteps.
Watch:
Tonight at 10pm on the CBC main network, or...
Midnight on Newsworld, etc.
Tonight our CBC's revered nightly news program "The National" featured an edition of their ongoing "Road Stories" feature where they broadcast from and focus part of their hour long broadcast on a particular area of our - second largest land mass on earth - proud nation.
Featured tonight, in the program hosted from near the Peace Arch border crossing, is Point Roberts. For some context, every BC Ferry out of Tsawwassen Terminal - metres from the 49th parallel - passes through U.S. waters, other than most Route 30 / Duke Point bound vessels, for the same reasons that Point Roberts is a part of the United States of America.
Personally I have a history with the detached community of Point Robberts - not physically connected to the contiguous U.S. because of Boundary Bay and their being a penninsula - as my family owns a house there and has for a few decades; we've learned, especially since 9/11, that it doesn't matter how disconnected such a limb is from the 'States, a U.S. crossing is a U.S. crossing in all shape and form.
I've watched this thanks to digi-cable and a connection to central Canada's feed to the CBC and implore each and every one of you who consider yourself anything near a Canadian patriot to watch this program as it's as well put together as any CBC documentary has become expected to be and, most importantly, it involves a border of such an internationally contentious nation with the context of being almost literally at our doorsteps.
Watch:
Tonight at 10pm on the CBC main network, or...
Midnight on Newsworld, etc.
