Seafood Section of McColl Magazine

B.C.’s Salmon Farmers Call for Reconsideration of Discovery Islands Decision: Feb. 23, 2021 - Based on the findings of an independent economic analysis released today, B.C.’s salmon farming community is calling on the federal government to set aside its decision to force the closure of farms in the Discovery Islands area and engage a new process.

Cease and Desist the Interference in Tlowitsis Jurisdiction

 

NEWS RELEASE -- We, the Tlowitsis Nation, write this declaration as a firm statement of our rights and jurisdiction over our Territory. As the rightful title holders of this land, we have the authority to govern and manage all resources within it, including our trees, water, minerals and other natural resources. This authority is grounded in our Indigenous legal orders, and affirmed by Canadian constitutional and international law, and we will defend it fiercely.

We have the right and responsibility to decide how our lands and resources are managed, and how the resulting benefits contribute to the well-being of our People. Non-rights holders have been given platforms to publicly interfere in our affairs. Media outlets and government are engaging with individuals and groups who hold no legal authority in our Territory, publishing misinformation, and disregarding Indigenous governance laws and protocols.

Is Carney Telling the Truth?

Mark Carney says, on X.COM, @MarkJCarney ·  "Unemployment is down, jobs and wages are up. We’re building big and empowering more Canadians with new careers. Even with strong global headwinds, there is encouraging progress — and we are just getting started." 

Trump's Shadow and Canada's Uneven Footing

 Walking on Fractured Foundations

Calgary, AB -- While Trump's second term reaches the eleventh month, the U.S.-Canada relationship isn't strained. It's muddied, messy, costly, and an exercise in economic sabotage and national soul-searching, on both sides, but Canada is finding it the most painful. Ottawa's halls of power used to echo climate threats, now it's tariff threats that have already cost billions, but the real rot festers from within: a federal government fumbling through political quagmire, a growing sense of Western alienation to surpass that of Quebec, and a sentiment metastasizing into outright separatism. (Metastasizing. Really spreading fast, usually medical vernacular. Grok needs to be more circumspect.)

Extra! Extra! Read All About It! Ukraine Corruption Scandal

Andriy Yermak Resigns:

A Golden Age of Punishment:

🌊 Why the Tall Ships Era Was the Best Time to Be Alive

⚓ Walking the Plank: The Original Mindfulness Exercise

Namgis Burial Grounds in Alert Bay, BC

 Dialogue on Development, and Indigenous Economic Development, and Reconciliation: First Nation Economic Development is the Pathway to Progress for All Canadians

Twenty-Two Letters and One Hell of a Hangover

Now with extra Phoenician tears

Behold the greatest self-inflicted wound in merchandising history. 1200 BCE. Tyre and Sidon, the original crypto-bros of the Mediterranean, are absolutely printing money.

Quebec banning public prayer

Canada Banning Public Prayer

The Quebec part of Canada at any rate

Shhhh Keep this quiet. 

I wasn't sure I heard it correctly. It almost snuck past me. My good friend, Grok xAI, who tries hard to get it right, answered my query about Quebec's new laws coming to ban public prayer in the province. 

Peace, Order, and Good Government?

Not Lately.

Pipeline dialogue moves to MOU

Rt. Hon Brushy Hand Dismisser decimates his Cabinet over oil, meh.

The Canadian Constitution opens with a modest promise: “Peace, Order, and good Government,” but after a decade of Liberal rule (first under Justin Trudeau, now under Mark Carney), that promise feels like a relic of the past, which wasn't all that long ago. 

The A B C's of Debt and Ritual Human Sacrifice

The Alphabet’s First Killer Apps

The story we tell ourselves is that writing began with poetry, prayer, or philosophy is a polite fiction. The real story is colder, older, and carved in stone. The alphabet’s very first killer applications were two, and only two:


1. Debt
2. Ritual human sacrifice

Carthage: The Superpower That Industrialized Child Sacrifice

Location

Modern Tunis, Tunisia: a perfect natural harbor on the north-African coast, halfway between the Strait of Gibraltar and the Levant. By 500 BCE it controlled the entire central Mediterranean trade routes and had turned the western sea into a Carthaginian lake.

Hammurabi's Code That Outlived Babylon

How four lines carved in stone 3,800 years ago became humanity’s first public antivirus against psychopathy

In the Louvre, Room 307, stands a black diabase finger seven-and-a-half feet tall. At the top, Hammurabi, king of Babylon, receives the insignia of authority from the sun-god Shamash. Below them, in immaculate Old Babylonian cuneiform, runs the longest surviving political inscription from the ancient Near East.

Why Alberta Has Almost No Hydro Power

 Even Though the Peace River Is In Alberta

Most Canadians picture the Peace River as a mighty northern Alberta waterway. So when people hear that Alberta gets only about 6–7 % of its electricity from hydroelectricity (one of the lowest shares in the country), the immediate reaction is confusion: “Wait, what about the Peace River? Isn’t that perfect for big dams?”

Windows and Mirrors: Canada’s Shifting Overton Window

Hard Drugs and Euthanasia

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Introduction

Political and social change rarely happens in a straight line. Ideas move from fringe to mainstream through a process that policy analyst Joseph Overton described as the Overton window: the spectrum of ideas considered acceptable at any given time. Yet every window opens onto a mirror. The mirror reflects back what those choices say about us — our values, contradictions, and the shadows of progress.

Canada offers two striking examples of this dynamic: the evolution of policy on hard drugs and euthanasia. Both were once unthinkable, both have become law, and both reveal the complex interplay of necessity, taboo‑breaking, and human cognition.

Canada–United States Energy Trade: The $126 Billion Lifeline

Lifelines Power North America

Every day, the equivalent of more than four million barrels of oil, eight billion cubic feet of natural gas, and enough clean electricity to power millions of homes flows south across the world’s longest undefended border. In 2024, this invisible river of energy was worth approximately US$126.6 billion — making energy by far the most valuable commodity traded between Canada and the United States.
For Americans, Canada is not just a neighbor; it is the single largest, most reliable, and most secure source of imported energy. For Canadians, the U.S. market is essentially the only buyer for the vast majority of the country’s oil, natural gas, uranium, and surplus hydroelectricity. The relationship is less a “trade” in the classic sense and more a deeply integrated continental energy system.

Energy Source	Volume Exported to U.S.	Value (2024)	U.S. Market Share Supplied by Canada
Crude Oil	4.1 million barrels per day	~$84 billion	62% of all U.S. crude imports
Natural Gas	8.5 billion cubic feet per day	~$29 billion	99% of all U.S. natural gas imports
Refined Products & NGLs	~300,000 barrels per day	~$11 billion	—
Electricity (mostly hydro)	36.1 terawatt-hours (net)	~$2 billion	85% of all U.S. electricity imports
Uranium (U₃O₈)	~3,500 tonnes	~$600 million	~25% of U.S. reactor fuel
TOTAL		~$126.6 billion

B.C. Kills EV Mandate – And the Rest of the Dream . . .

. . .  Is Dying With It

This week, just days ago, on November 18, 2025, B.C. Energy Minister Adrian Dix stood up and did something nobody in Victoria thought they’d ever see an NDP government do: he admitted the province’s Zero-Emission Vehicle mandate was “no longer realistic” and announced they’re scrapping the 90% by 2030 and 100% by 2035 targets. Dead. Gone. They’re writing new legislation in 2026 that will basically copy whatever weaker rules Ottawa comes up with after its own ongoing retreat.

The Quiet Surrender: Why Canadians Might Be Sleepwalking

. . . into Another Liberal Majority

In the chill of a Canadian winter that feels both literal and metaphorical, many voters are exhausted. Housing costs devour paycheques, groceries feel like luxury items, and the daily grind leaves little energy for the endless spectacle of federal politics. Into that fatigue steps Mark Carney—polished, credentialed, globally respected—and a Liberal machine that has learned how to campaign on competence rather than charisma. The result is something that looks less like enthusiasm and more like resignation: a slow, almost unconscious drift back to the party that promises stability, even if that stability increasingly feels like managed decline.