Private jets gone. Raw sewage still runs in the streets. The shiny new ‘Freedom Avenue’ is already a smugglers’ highway for illegal timber and cocaine. The 56,000 delegates partied on floating 5-star hotels, then vanished. The bill: $2 billion for a ghost convention centre and a 13 km scar through the rainforest that’s already driven deforestation alerts up 15% (INPE).
Guilbeault walks the plank – Zinchuk column
Brian Zinchuk: All out of CN towers to climb and economies to ruin, Guilbeault walks the plank
If he had continued down his radical path, and was given the power to do it, as Trudeau had done, we could have lost the country. We still might.
Kinda…
…but not really.
CTV- Guilbeault resigning from Carney’s cabinet on same day PM signs Alberta pipeline MOU
Guilbeault plans to stay on as an MP in the Liberal caucus, according to the source.
Coulda Had A Pipeline
Seems like a lot of steps go into not building a pipeline.
Here is a breakdown of the most important parts of Danielle Smith's deal with Mark Carney aka MOU between Alberta and Canada:
* will make a pipeline a National Interest Project – "if"
* one or more pipeline.
* clean electricity regulations will be suspended – the best part of…— Kirk Lubimov (@KirkLubimov) November 27, 2025
Told ya so: The fundraising emails are already flying.
Eby’s NDP party put out a fundraising email Thursday morning slamming Ottawa and Alberta for undertaking negotiations on a new pipeline project without involving B.C. and saying the province will fight to make sure it isn’t built.
Time to change the locks on Alberta, Premier Smith.
Green lining: Guilbeault resigns
A carbon tax increase is guaranteed, though.
If you’re serious, be serious
Brian Zinchuk: If you’re serious, put your Grandma’s old folks home on the prioritized list to turn the lights off in January
Update: Honestly, I didn’t plan this. But 12 hours after I posted the column, this happened:
Alberta wind generation falls to 0.12% capacity late Wednesday night
Car Loan Blues
Yet more evidence that the marginal consumer, in this case the marginal car buyer, simply can’t afford that shiny metal anymore.
Scott Terrio, manager of consumer insolvency at Hoyes, Michalos & Associates, says that in his 17 years on the job, this is the first year he’s seen people contacting the firm with the intention of returning their vehicles.
“It’s very non-typical,” he said. “They’ve recognized that their car is killing them financially.”
Not to worry. I’m sure that tweaking EV mandates from 100% of new car sales to 90% will fix all of that.
COP30: Now That The Smoke Has Cleared
In all the excitement of our plucky Climate Summiteers running for their lives from a battery fire, these pages somehow overlooked this Carney government achievement: Canada Receives Fossil of the Day Award at COP30 Climate Summit
(h/t AH)
COP30: Schadenflamen!
The article doesn’t say it was a battery fire, but from the video in the BBC article above, it was a pretty impressive blaze for a simple electrical fault. Of course the intensity of the fire might have been caused by all the disposable single use petroleum based plastic used to construct the climate conference pavilion.
Well that was surprising
If you build a wind farm in SK vs AB, you will get roughly one third more megawatt-hours out of it. Build the same turbine, get one third more return. That’s a surprising conclusion from analyzing wind capacity factors in SK and Alberta, seen in this story.
Zero still means zero, but this was rather eye-opening.
It’s also interesting to see how some wind farms in Alberta don’t perform worth a damn. Take a good look at the graph. You see several with capacity factors as low as 16 per cent.
Protection Money
If you pony up enough money to the paleolithic set, maybe your project can go ahead.
Jonathan Wilkinson, a B.C. Liberal MP and a former federal environment minister, said today that “a number of things” would need to happen before the tanker ban could change, including discussions with the B.C. government and coastal First Nations.
Scroll down to see the Financial Post point out the errors in Eby’s arguments.
As the saying goes, you’re entitled to your own opinion but not to your own facts. Premier Eby’s objections to another Alberta pipeline are rooted in fallacies, not fact. The Carney government should recognize that and decide soon whether or not another pipeline to B.C. tidewater is “in the national interest” — which apparently is how you get a permit to build major projects in Canada these days.
Wind project permits filed; a real live landman, multilaterals and Churchill
Enbridge files wind project development permit applications with RMs of Weyburn and Griffin
Pipeline Online Podcast Ep. 22: Donny Duncan, Millennium Land, a real live landman
Multilateral designs lift more energy with a smaller environmental footprint
Letter to the Editor: Ice-related developments in the Canadian shipping industry
Crisis In Health Care
WATCH: Canadian doctors leads a dance and rap performance at the COP30 climate summit to warn about the health impact of rising global emissions.
COP30: Climate Of Love
Earlier this week, Indigenous activists stormed the perimeter of the summit grounds. Within minutes, the UN’s climate utopia transformed into a militarized zone. The very people who preach open borders and “climate migration” fenced themselves in behind walls, concrete blocks, and armed officers.
Wizardry, Not Wisdom
When a cultural movement allegedly based on science starts to bring in mystical “wisdom keepers” in an attempt to remain relevant, this merely confirms that it was never based on science in the first place.
The COP so far “was a testament that unfortunately, for Indigenous peoples to be heard, they actually need to be disruptive,” said Aya Khourshid, an Egyptian-Palestinian member of A Wisdom Keepers Delegation, a group of Indigenous people from around the world.
Indigenous people are putting a lot of energy “to be in this space but to not necessarily be given a platform or voice at the decision table with the ministers and those who are in power,” said Whaia, a Ngāti Kahungunu Wisdom Keeper.
Climate Crusaders Cut Down 100,000 Trees in the Amazon
If you were writing a screenplay for a movie, no one would believe this to be remotely credible. It is the duty of all of us to endlessly mock the attendees of such conferences for the rest of their lives. More here.
Churchill, hand wringing and, oh yeah, Eby
Carney and Kinew release joint statement on Port of Churchill development
Jim Warren: COP30—where worlds collide, climate alarmists wring their hands and nothing goes right
Eby says B.C. is at a ‘pivot point’ as he promises future based on natural resources
And Don’t Forget The Tampons!
Westgate Sentinel- Floss and Found: Oilsands companies bristle as Feds demand stringent string stats
“In the latest sign of the apocalypse, I learned today oilsands companies will have to report how much dental floss their workers use and dispose of to Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Federal Plastics Registry.”
h/t Scott
What Would We Do Without Research?
Stat Modeling; (sorry about the code glitch)
The point is that I shouldn’t be so shocked to hear that Columbia medical school has prominent faculty who’ve been involved in research fraud. If you’re a medical researcher and a cheater, then research fraud is a natural step. Just as if you’re a storekeeper and a cheater, then ripping off your customers and employees is a natural step; or if you’re a statistician and a cheater, then it makes sense to hire yourself out as a data manipulator; or if you’re a CEO and a cheater, then it makes sense to fake your corporate reports; or if you sell used cars and you’re a cheater, then you’ll hide the flaws in your cars; or if you’re a university administrator and a cheater, then it makes sense to fake your U.S. News statistics . . . ulp! In all these examples, there’s a clear incentive to cheat: if you play honest, it’s easy to fall behind your competitors who could be cheating too. Indeed, you could argue that, if you play by the rules, you’d be letting the side down . . . it’s arguably unethical not to cheat. You’re developing treatments what will save lives, after all!
Via Steve McIntyre: Gelman didn’t mention the following famous statement by climate scientist Stephen Schneider
Net “Zero”
Telegraph- Sweden’s pension disaster
Retirement funds face huge losses after being exposed to high-risk green projects
Coulda Had A Pipeline
Just in time for COP30: Brazil Shatters Crude Export Records in October
