A long but interesting read. Grab yourself a mid-strength beverage.
National Post- Older, 70% white, plunging fertility and lost faith: Who Canada is now
A deep dive into the population data paints a surprising picture of Canadian society and households
Mark Carney, “Muslim values are Canadian values”.
Catholic Weekly- A thousand forced marriages and conversions every year in Pakistan
“Young girls, often minors, are abducted and coerced into converting to Islam, followed by forced marriages with much older men. This practice is especially prevalent in Sindh and southern Punjab where religious minorities are concentrated.
“Once abducted, the girls are subjected to pressure, threats, and sometimes violence, forcing them to renounce their faith.
The Food Professor- Fewer Kids, More Pets — and a Food System That Isn’t Ready
Today, roughly six in ten Canadian households live with at least one cat or dog. There are more than 16 million cats and dogs in the country. And a growing share of those animals are not owned by young families with rising incomes, but by seniors, people living alone, and households that explicitly view pets as family members and primary sources of companionship.
To be fair they’ve only been around since 1920.
National Post- RCMP battle deep snow responding to multiple assaults at remote cabin in early hours of New Year’s Day
…had to seek assistance from volunteers with Bonavista Bay Search and Rescue to get through the heavy snowfall.
Video — Miracles don’t exist in biology, mechanisms do. GLP1 medications (Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound) are no exception. And every time you override a biological system that took two million years to evolve, you are making a trade. Every trade has an invoice.
Snow fences explained.
Silver is not like Gold. Gold once it is mined and refined sits in vaults or jewelry. All gold ever mined still exists.
Silver is consumed by industry. It is turned into a conductive silver paste that is applied to products. It is very difficult to recycle because such a tiny amount of silver is used in each. So it is not worthwhile to recycle. Only about 20% of silver is recycled from e-waste.
The $4.4 trillion “market cap” for silver is assuming that all 56 billion oz of silver that has been mined throughout history … is still around and available. It is NOT. Probably 80% of the silver has been consumed by industry. It is buried in landfills.
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.
The founder of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, explains New Zealand’s decline.
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
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.
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.
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
“This isn’t science fiction. This is the work of Michael Levin at Tufts University and is completely rewriting the rules of biology.”
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.
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.
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:
