The Long Memory of Teẑtan Biny: The Tŝilhqot’in Stand That Ended a Mine

How a Nation’s resolve, law, and land stewardship outlasted New Prosperity’s final gasp

The Mine That Would Not Die (Until it did, quietly)

There are resource projects in British Columbia that die with a bang, and then there’s New Prosperity — a mine that spent fifteen years insisting it was still alive while the courts, the Crown, and the Tŝilhqot’in Nation kept checking its pulse and finding nothing but corporate optimism and a faint shareholder heartbeat.

The Diesel Price Peril: When the Backbone of the Economy Becomes a Revenue Stream

Diesel’s rising price reshapes the entire economy  

Bottlenecks, taxation pressure, and value extraction hidden behind the fuel 

There are moments in an economy when a single number tells the whole story. For most people, that number is the price of gasoline. For anyone who actually understands how a modern economy moves, it’s the price of diesel. Diesel is the head‑shaker — the quiet, stubborn indicator that something deeper is happening behind the curtain. And for years now, that number has been creeping upward in a way that defies the usual explanations.

The Forty‑Year Fight: How First Nations Built a World‑Class Salmon Farming Legacy

The Who and Why of Dismantling It

Indigenous coastal communities spent decades mastering finfish aquaculture. Now political decisions threaten to erase one of Canada’s most successful Indigenous‑led industries.