Could Iran be the next “Forever War?”

Weekend Watch: The Iran War Expert: I Simulated The Iran War for 20 Years. Here’s What Happens Next.

While watching this, consider if the Iran War does become a forever war, what will it’s impact be on oil production, delivery through the Strait of Hormuz or lack thereof, the world economy, Canadian and Saskatchewan oil production could be profound and last years? Could this lead to a global recession, but good times for our oilpatch? Remember the $147 WTI barrel of July, 2008, led to the global financial crisis that September. Some of us are still bearing the scars of that.

I know I am.

Private Credit Woes

Ron Butler asks the tough question: are the problems in Canada’s private credit market an indication of a financial contagion?

We have Easy Financial. The stock price fell 50% in one day. Is this the private credit contagion?

Um, they’re restating earnings from over a year ago. What? What? What? What sense does that make?

I think something is wrong because you don’t want to see the CEO of a independent financial lending organization both quit within the same two year period.

Iranian Assassination in British Columbia?

On February 2, 2026, an SFU professor went missing. A man and a woman have now been charged with his murder:

First-degree murder charges have been laid against two people in connection to the death of Masood Masjoody, a former SFU instructor and outspoken critic of the Iranian regime.

The charges were laid against 48-year-old Maple Ridge man Mehdi Ahmadzadeh Razavi and 45-year-old North Vancouver woman Arezou Soltani on Saturday morning.

The pair is accused of killing Masjoody, 45, who was reported missing on Feb. 2.

Burnaby RCMP launched an investigation after “receiving reports from concerned neighbours,” and soon determined that Masjoody’s disappearance was out of character and involved criminality, according to a news release from the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team Saturday.

Just another terrible murder to the casual reader. But Mahyar Tousi, a well known Iranian ex-pat and podcaster in Britain, is reporting that Masood Masjoody was assassinated. Watch and decide.

Related: How come Mark Carney and the Liberals are welcoming so many alleged IRGC members into Canada?

The case for Westinghouse reactors, LNG, black mark and Timbits

Two Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at Vogtle. Cameco photo

Saskatchewan is the battleground between the AtkinsRealis (SNC-Lavalin/former AECL) CANDU reactor and the Cameco/Brookfield-owned Westinghouse AP1000 reactor. I’d digging as deep as I can to provide context for Saskatchewan decision makers who will be making this decision. In recent weeks I had two podcasts on the CANDU. This is the first on the Westinghouse. What’s really significant here is the Westinghouse ownership is now fully Canadian companies, even though the design is American. And in November or so, Trump’s administration said they’d build 10 of them.

Pipeline Online Podcast Ep. 31: Dr. Grant Isaac, Pres. & COO of Cameco on SK buying Westinghouse reactors. There were technical difficulties which shortened our time, so we’re going to take another run at it in the near future.

Also:

This is a really good discussion on LNG:

Decouple Media: The Terrible, No Good week for LNG

Black mark on industry (I hate it when this happens):

Alberta landowners take stand over years of missed payments by delinquent oil company

It turns out Pipeline Online isn’t the only one to use a Timbit as a unit of monetary measure. Maybe they got the idea from Pipeline Online? Here’s the Canadian Press story:

What will the carbon price cost the oilsands? A Timbit per barrel, one analysis says

More Pavilions At Folkfest

One day a Canadian Prime Minister will stand up in Parliament to say, “Wasn’t us who stole your land”.

Saturday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America:    The Gay Scouts.    Feminists and the mullahs.    Douglas Murray.

Davos Carney’s Canada:    Most transparent government ever.    Musqueam.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Don’t upset Muslim kids during Ramadan Ding Dong.    Roger Watson – Islamophobia.    Starmer celebrates Islamic revolution.    Junk feminism.    Paul Joseph Watson – A trip to India.

Your morning meme.      Another meme.

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Seriously people. Bringing “smart” anything into your life is stupid.

An investigation by Swedish outlet Svenska Dagbladet has revealed that Meta’s AI smart glasses are sending video and audio recordings (including footage of naked bodies, bathroom activities, and unblurred bank card numbers) to human data annotators at a Meta subcontractor in Kenya.

Workers there, bound by NDAs, described what they see every day. “We see everything — from living rooms to naked bodies.” Another said: “You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time, you are just expected to carry out the work. You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”

Meta says users control their own settings. The terms of service say human review may occur depending on your settings, with no opt-out option for mandatory AI training data.

7 million pairs were sold in 2025 alone. Meta is reportedly pushing to double production to 20 million by end of year.

They’re also working on adding facial recognition directly into the glasses. Two Harvard students already demonstrated they could identify a stranger on the street and find their home address using the glasses and existing software.

Beauty.

Losers Of The Week

Elections Alberta announced Friday that six additional recall petitions have failed, while one was withdrawn by the applicant before verification was completed.

The petition targeting Premier Danielle Smith in Brooks–Medicine Hat required 12,070 signatures but gathered just 2,317.

Other petitions showed similar results:

Peter Singh (Calgary-East): 556 signatures of 8,593 required
Tanya Fir (Calgary-Peigan): 2,093 of 13,051 required
Rebecca Schulz (Calgary-Shaw): 211 of 15,000 required
Adriana LaGrange (Red Deer-North): 2,415 of 11,174 required
Nate Glubish (Strathcona–Sherwood Park): 1,326 of 15,770 required

Meanwhile, the recall petition against Calgary-Beddington MLA Amanda Chapman was withdrawn before verification.

But these are only the latest failures.

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