On the road, pt. II: O, little town of Wolseley
There’s an old joke that goes, Saskatchewan is so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days. Now, I don’t know why anyone would watch their dog…
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A Lot of EV Misinformation on the Radio and Facebook
Rant to Stacie and Joel of Play 92 for spreading misinformation about electric vehicles on their show today. It can’t be easy to rant professionally on the radio every day,…
Dig Coal? Catch Up.
Addressing Mike Dunn (who digs coal), as he rants on Carla Beck‘s NDP page: Mike Dunn (in quotations) “However the data centers pretty much ensure that coal will be in…
EV1 History
Charge Across America in the late 1990s was a forerunner to Sun Country Highway’s cross-continental EV trip with a Tesla Roadster at charging stops it set up all across Canada…
Settler Frames, Part 1 Finally Launched
After a 2018 Curator-In-Residency sting at Concordia Unviversity’s fabulous VCR – Visual Collections Repository, where I was tasked with animating the film archives, I was inspired to keep going with…
On the road for the CFL
For my 70th birthday this year, my three sons gave me an unforgettable gift: an all-expenses-paid vacation! To Regina. And if that wasn’t enough, Winnipeg! And we would make the…
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…
Alternative energy solutions
Hydropower is dispatchable. It is generally reliable, can increase or decrease generation quickly, and can be shut down and restarted with relative ease. Provided the facilities are properly maintained, the…
Privatizing public services
A. Reader is back again with another informative post. This particular contributor sends me much useful information. I always appreciate the person's work. The latest piece follows the separator.
Updated for 2026: Civic Hatchback vs. LEAF Hatchback
This is a continuation of my series showing what it costs to buy a used EV instead of a comparable used gas car. I think most people have the wrong…
The new Guilded Age is here
Is Taylor Swift vulgar? I know I risk invoking the wrath of ‘Swifties’, as her legions of sycophantic fans are known. But yes, I find her vulgar. Not in regard…
Are Blogs Coming Back In Fashion?
I noticed that Canada’s top blogger is again adding content to their blog. Is this a trend, will blogs come back into style as people sour on Meta/Facebook and ExTwitter?
Discouraging solar to subsidize LNG
By Jeremy Valeriote, BC Green Party MLA: On July 1 BC Hydro is changing the way it pays for power generated from household solar, and we’re not happy about it.…
SaskPower Needs Changing
Chris Gingras Q: “estimate to provide 1,500 MW of battery storage” as a quarter of what Saskatchewan needs. A: We can buy 25,000, 60kWh battery cars, for half a billion…
A toxic cocktail of air pollutants
Having committed itself to promoting and subsidizing British Columbia’s fossil-fuel industry, David Eby’s government will not restrain a company planning to release substantially greater quantities of harmful air pollutants. Nitrogen…
Let’s Talk about DIALOG
I’d say ‘conspiracy’ but here they all are, in plain sight, plotting ways in which they can take over the world. Some days, I feel like I’m in a really…
GenAI Sucks Power and Water
Most people would not be surprised to learn that computer data centres need a lot of electricity and water for cooling. “The federal government, and some provinces, have been actively…
Clumsy Carney Comment Confounding
Was the bombing of the girls’ school in Iran worth it Carney? Was a blockade of the world’s oil worth it? What was the gain other than high gas prices?…
More questions for the referendum
Premier Danielle Smith, leader of the Not Really United Conservative Party, has announced that a question (actually, two questions, but don’t ask) will be added to the already bloated referendum…
Ottawa Backed the War. Then Hedged. Then Went Quiet.
Canada's double standard on Operation Epic Fury, the joint U.S. and Israeli military campaign against Iran, isn't a diplomatic nuance. It's a choice — and British Columbians are living with…