Spy vs. Spy - Shaken not Stirred!

What a week if you are a spy. First we Canadians actually catch a spy about to board a plane in Montreal for places abroad. This gentleman had been posing as a Canadian using forged paperwork to acquire a passport. It's not yet clear whether he was spying on Canadian business or Government activities or whether he was just using us as a "safe" haven and jumping off point for other countries. After all who would suspect a mild-mannered Canadian businessman of being a Russian intelligence agent?

A notice to those other spy's operating in Canada or using Canada as a base - we will get you (eventually)!

Secondly, if I were a spy and was about to meet a supposed contact I would be very careful what I ate or drank. Witness the sad demise of one Alexander Litvinenko, a "former" Russian spy who passed away after being poisoned by his contact. While we've yet to learn what actually killed him it does look like the Russian Federal Security Branch went out of their way to silence a former employee who was raising embarrassing questions about the death of a controversial Russian journalist shot to death earlier this fall. I'm certainly glad Canadian companies and Government agencies don't follow the same practice here! With all of the disgruntled ex-employees around if they started to poison each one there would be piles of bodies in the streets.

Which takes me on a slight tangent - if you can become disgruntled with something can you also become gruntled with something? eh? If you've got an answer to that please let me know.

And finally we have Bond .... James Bond who has arrived on the silver screen yet again. This time however, he's a blond. Imagine, Ian Fleming must be rolling over in his grave with a blond Bond on the big screen. Sure he's got the suave speech, the ability to charm most females out of their clothes and into his bed, all of the neat Bond-toys but come on - who can believe a blond Bond!

Give me a dark haired Bond any day. I'd prefer Pierce to this impostor!

Cheers from the Valley