Looking at BC Hydro
BC Hydro has released its annual report. Several realities stand out. Electricity demand from residential, commercial, and light industrial customers remains flat while power delivered to heavy industry has increased.…
Norman Farrell
Outrageous
Residents of a condominium for people aged 55 and older, at 255 Erickson Road, have been locked out of their homes for more than two and a half years following…
Norway’s C$3.21 trillion pension fund
In just three months, the value of Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global has increased by C$1.42 billion—the equivalent of C$25,000 for every man, woman, and child living in Norway.
Just another day in the time of the great derangement
Denmark and Sweden are the only two industrialized countries likely to attain net-zero. Canada will not. The Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act was passed in 2021, but it has no…
The largest intellectual property theft
...the largest intellectual property theft in American history. AI companies are training their models on stolen material, period. And we’re not talking about these companies simply scouring the internet for…
Life on the highway
Driving through the Fraser Valley on the Trans-Canada Highway, I encountered several separate improvement projects. Vehicles would stop at one roadblock, resume travel, reach another, stop again, and then repeat…
Flowing through oil and gas pipelines: tens of billions of taxpayer dollars
PPoliticians tell us that more pipelines are needed to carry bitumen and natural gas and strengthen the Canadian economy. But these long tubes carry something else as well: tens of…
Restoring old relationships before it’s too late
Friends and family can drift apart for all sorts of reasons—pride, misunderstandings, embarrassment, or simply the passage of time. But when a relationship once mattered, it may still be worth…
Exploring BC’s subsidies for natural gas production
Gas production in BC increased by 264% between 2025 and 2000. We might expect that government revenues would rise by roughly the same amount. However, that has not happened. Under…
Trump’s irrationality
Tom Nichols is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a contributor to the Atlantic Daily newsletter. He is a professor emeritus of national-security affairs at the U.S. Naval War…
Wildfires and the choices behind them
The feedback dynamics involved are precisely what climate scientists have long warned about: hotter and drier conditions created by a warming climate make forests more combustible, while burning forests release…
The riskiest move is to keep doing what worked yesterday
After college, Ronald Garan joined the United States Air Force and became an F-16 pilot and later an astronaut. In 2008, he flew aboard Space Shuttle Discovery on its 35th…
What do you feel about AI?
Advanced artificial intelligence is being rapidly deployed, making knowledgeable people nervous about how it may change almost everything in our world. These are things that should concern us about AI.…
Electric vehicles
Additional facts regarding Mr. Farrell’s and Mr. McCutcheon’s posts on EVs. Where is the EV market booming? SE Asia expects to distribute 23 million units. The UK loves EVs. Europe…
Promising, troubling, and terrifying
MIT Technology Review’s annual list of ten breakthrough technologies includes innovations that appear entirely beneficial, but others carry the potential for serious harm.
The Ancient One – AKA Kennewick Man
Knute “Mossback” Berger is a Seattle-based writer and commentator whose videos appear on Western Washington’s PBS station, KCTS-TV. His focus is the Pacific Northwest, and although some stories are rooted…
Electric Vehicles – Trends and Insights
Because Carney’s Liberal government is working to promote fossil-fuel production. Canadians should not expect it to encourage sales of affordable electric vehicles—or the transition away from gasoline. That is unfortunate.
Suivez le français
Canadians might follow the French, if the country were not so dedicated to the burning of fossil fuels.
Will humans stay in control?
Technical capability is advancing faster than public understanding, democratic oversight, or agreement about who should bear the risks. The danger is not science itself. It is the willingness to deploy…
Curtailing CEO pay
A typical casual worker at American McDonald's may average 20 hours a week at $14 an hour. The person would have to labour for more than fourteen centuries to equal…