BC MLA Dallas Brodie is one brave woman for putting together a critical examination of the residential school issue. My opinion: we’re in the grip of another mass formation that has been building since the early 1990s. It’s time to put a stop to this before we experience the Zimbabwe solution in real time.
Why are Young People Fleeing New Zealand?
The founder of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, explains New Zealand’s decline.
We Need A Famine
The people who want to ban Round-Up are the people who want us to eat fake meat.
And defying all odds, farmers who sprayed first generation (now banned) crop herbicides from open tractors are still around in their 80-90's. https://t.co/8GDpyelrvi
— Katewerk (@katewerk) November 24, 2025
America First?
Weren’t the cost of tariffs being absorbed by importers? Apparently, that’s not always the case.
President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was scrapping U.S. tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruits and a broad swath of other commodities — a dramatic move that comes amid mounting pressure on his administration to better combat high consumer prices.
They Wouldn’t Do That
Would they?
David Clinton- Bill C-4: Join a Political Party in Canada and Mess Up Your Life?
All of which means that, for the low, low price of a single party membership card, you’ve bought yourself vulnerability to the threat of identity theft, harassment, and exposure of your sensitive (and likely controversial) political views. Employers, landlords, insurers, neighbors, old enemies, new enemies, future enemies? They’d be crazy not to drink deep from this Pierian spring.
Involuntary Childlessness
Danish Style
Guys. I have some bad news about the tins of Christmas butter cookies. pic.twitter.com/rkv1HgUriO
— Rare, Exquisite, Alabaster (@whois_John_Galt) November 10, 2025
The Sound Of Settled Science
“This isn’t science fiction. This is the work of Michael Levin at Tufts University and is completely rewriting the rules of biology.”
Ghosts On The Grid
With the Feast of All Hallows rapidly approaching I thought it would be apt to explain how the grid is haunted by a concept that doesn’t really exist. A pre-occupation with a made-up concept risks the security of our power grids. In this blog I will explain how “vars” aren’t real, and treating them as if they are is creating existential risks on our power grids.
Not being able to properly explain reactive power is common in the energy industry – ask a dozen people to explain it and you’ll get twelve different answers. Most will reach for the beer-glass analogy where real power as the liquid and reactive power is the froth, or mutter something about “energy sloshing back and forth” on the grid. More sophisticated responses will mention capacitors “injecting vars” and inductors absorbing them. These phrases are repeated so often that they’ve become folklore. Unfortunately none of them describes what actually happens in power grids.
“Vars” in particular is an accounting fictions that obscure the underlying physics. And because we’ve replaced understanding of the physics with shorthand, we now incorrectly believe that anything producing current including batteries, solar inverters, or a clever algorithm, can perform the same stabilising role as the electromagnetic machines that built our power system.This misunderstanding could one day cost us the grid.
Photoblogging
I recently photographed the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, NH. That name triggered a memory but I couldn’t immediately place it.
Turns out, this was the site of the 1944 economic conference that has shaped policy the world over up to this very day.
Photoblogging
Yesterday, I drove up to the northern reaches of New Hampshire. It’s a pretty area and, in fact, was once its own “country” called Indian Stream.
Here are some photos from the area:
Alberta Ascending
Kevin O’Leary shares some insights about Alberta’s prosperous future that many are likely not aware of. He also has some choice words for selfish politicians in Québec.
Does A Bear Poop In The Woods?
National Post- Yes, the Nazis were socialists
Pierre Poilievre has enraged his critics by being historically accurate
Common Denominators
Left wing authoritarians.
Honey, I Finished The Internet
The world’s fastest shrinking countries in one graphic.
The population bomb is going bust
Weekend Watch: The Age of Depopulation With Nicholas Eberstadt. What will the energy industry and landscape look like in a world where population decline is almost universal? Think about that as you watch this fascinating discussion about the reality no one is talking about – population decline.
https://pipelineonline.ca/weekend-watch-the-age-of-depopulation-with-nicholas-eberstadt/
Recurring Urges
In short, before ending up in prison, the vast majority of the perpetrators, the supposedly downtrodden and marginalised, have at least five prior arrests, with almost half having 10 or more, and one in seven, 20 or more. At which point, the phrase that comes to mind is the nature of the beast.
Other phrases may conceivably occur to readers.
Those with a taste for grim humour are steered towards this quite strong indication of how a crime rate can improve when just three burglars – with over 200 convictions between them – flee the police in a stolen car before colliding with something solid and ceasing to be.
An illustration, one of many, of how a very large fraction of crime could be prevented by dealing decisively with a surprisingly small number of persistent offenders.
Oh, there’s more.
Lies, Damned Lies And Crime Stats
JORDAN: What is “taking property without right?”
PHIL MENDELSON: Well, that’s theft.
JORDAN: Then WHY NOT CALL IT THEFT?
MENDELSON: I can’t speak to….
JORDAN: The solution was to come up with “Taking Property Without Right?”
The Science Is Settled?
I’ve always been skeptical of the disease model of addiction, and the treatment industry that flows from that theory. Disagreements of a fundamental nature in the scientific community on a host of issues are remarkably common, contrary to what the mainstream media would like you to think.
Smith was steadfast in her belief that her actions were volitional from the start. Her drug use and crimes were not the products of an immoral character or a faulty brain incapable of change, but rather of an environment where heroin was accessible and desirable. This outlook determined her experiences in prison and beyond, ultimately leading her to dedicate her life to challenging predominant medical models of addiction with her research. Today, she is an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioural sciences at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland.
Sell The Forest Save The Trees
Lawrence J. McQuillan- Private ownership of forests and land reduces wildfires
As with most public roads, bridges, dams and water systems, public lands urgently need maintenance. But governments underinvest in land management because officials view land as a liability, meaning that upkeep is considered an expense, not an investment.