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Letter from the beautiful British Columbia...

There is some commonality between Canada and Uganda. In Uganda, the further you go west, the more beautiful women become. In Canada, the further you go west, the more beautiful the landscape becomes. For security reasons, I will reserve my comment on the beauty of Canadian women.

To prove this hypothesis, Karl Popper would prefer falsification: I took a journey to the west from Toronto, a follow up on the journey to the east that ended in Nova Scotia. It is a long journey, five hours to Vancouver, almost the same time it takes to travel from Nairobi to Accra, Ghana.

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