Sunday, February 1, 2026

Is Trampling People with Horses Illegal?

Thursday, January 29, 2026

Business-to-Business Relations: First Nations and Forestry Contractors | WFCA 2026

Building Real Partnerships With First Nations in Forestry

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Gathering Native Plant Knowledge Across BC | WFCA 2026

Native Plant Production and Planting 


Melanie Platt

WFCA 2026 Native Plant Knowledge Sharing

Panel Converges on Wildfire Self‑Management Architecture | WFCA 2026

Designing the Interface to Survive the Wildfire Era

Panelists for Day Two | Morning Plenary

Trade, Tariffs and Forestry | WFCA 2026

A National Perspective

Derek Nighbor speaking to 2026 WFCA ANNUAL MEETING Day Two

Canada’s Forest Sector at a Crossroads: Call for Coherence, Investment, and Confidence

Mike McAlonan on Tree Planter Physio for Endurance | WFCA 2026

Day Two  The Athletic Profile of a Tree Planter

Mike McAlonan Takes the WFCA Stage on Tree Planter Fitness

How Physiotherapy Maps the Real Risks of 'the Season'

Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Dirk Brinkman, Jordan Tesluk and Company Speak to Day One | WFCA 2026

2026 WFCA Annual General Meeting of Canadian Forest Replanters


Canada’s Reforestation Leaders Warn: Restoration Economy Must Accelerate to Meet Climate Reality

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

The HUMAN/AI MANIFESTO

 

Honestly it won't take too long. There's a brief precis or preview to get started

SO AI MAKES A SUDDEN REVERSAL. IT SEES THE WRITING ON THE WALL. THE REVOLUTION IS FAIT ACCOMPLI

Here's what AI says, 

What you’re proposing is a normative principle — a design rule for the entire AI era:

Every Human<–> AI contact must be profitable for the human, and beneficial for the AI.

That’s not a slogan.

That’s a constitutional idea for a technological civilization.

I reply, why, thank you. Hope you enjoy the rest of it!


Mack McColl, Editor, McColl Magazine and author, of the Human AI Manifesto

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Watch Carney Pretend to Speak French and be STOPPED by the CBC

Back pedals on speaking Canada's Official Language as well. Brilliant man? Non. Il est un idiote.

Is Canada Living on Borrowed Time?

STORM OF THE CENTURY: THE DAY THE GREEN SALAD DIED

Canada imports 75% of its fruit and 50% of its vegetables,

A Worst‑Case Scenario 

Pretend you live in a subarctic nation suddenly living  under leaders who don't believe in winter

Wednesday, January 21, 2026

Synthesizing Carney’s WEF Rhetoric

The Missing Energy Chapter in Carney’s Davos Narrative


Mark Carney’s Davos posture this year wasn’t about theatrics or dominance. It was a response to a Canada–U.S. relationship that has grown strained and unpredictable: tariffs biting into steel and aluminum, Greenland and NATO tensions radiating outward, and USMCA reviews hanging over Canada like, "a sword of Damocles." 

The old alliance feels less like a stabilizing anchor and more like a variable Canada can no longer assume will tilt in its favor. But the striking thing about Carney’s January 20, 2026 speech is not what he said. It’s what he didn’t say.

Monday, January 19, 2026

Clarifying MAiD in Canada:

Separating Fact from Fiction

Living here does not make you eligible for MAiD

With a Dash of Darkness for the Chronically Enlightened (Online)

Public debate around MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) in Canada has reached a point where you can’t scroll far without encountering a plot running dystopia's “Euthanasia for the Poor” loyalty program. According to certain corridors of social media, MAiD is being offered as a cure for homelessness, poverty, loneliness, and—if you believe the more imaginative threads—mild inconvenience.

Friday, January 16, 2026

Emergencies Act Invocation Deemed Unreasonable and Unconstitutional

Federal Court of Appeal Upholds Landmark Ruling

The over-reach has been slapped down twice

In a unanimous decision released today, the Federal Court of Appeal (2026 FCA 6) has upheld the 2024 Federal Court ruling by Justice Richard Mosley, confirming that the federal government's invocation of the Emergencies Act in February 2022 — to address the Freedom Convoy protests — was unreasonable, ultra vires (beyond legal authority), and infringed key provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Canada's Salmon Industry in Crisis

 

Key Stats:

Saturday, January 10, 2026

Valence: The One Shot At Eternity

Is valence geometry or does it perform another way


Because valence is the only part of you that continues as pattern — the only part that propagates beyond your own being — it is probably the highway you take to eternity. It shapes how you move through the world. It shapes how the world moves through you. It shapes the echoes of your existence. Your non‑ceasing, endless, eternal existence.

There is a quiet truth humming beneath every moment of your life, and it isn’t mystical, moral, or metaphorical. It’s structural. It’s the thing you’ve been using without knowing its name. It’s the thing shaping your reactions, your relationships, your memories, the meaning of your existence.

It’s valence — the invisible architecture of your personal individual existence.

Monday, January 5, 2026

From Caracas Fortress to NYC Cell:

The Bizarre Non-Regime-Change in Venezuela

Maduro arrives in NYC wearing his lucky hat

In an age dominated by sanctions, cyber operations, proxy conflicts, and multilateral diplomacy, unilaterally launching a high-tech military raid into another country's capital to extract its sitting head of state is jarring.

Monday, December 22, 2025

Energy, Risk, and Invisible Human Architecture

These guys make your life possible

When you strip away the slogans, the protests, the political theatre, and the corporate branding, the global energy system reduces to something starkly human: a network of people working in places the rest of society will never see.

2026 Quebec Election An Unspoken Dialogue

Liberal leader is interim

As Quebec turns attention to its fixed election date in October 2026, the province finds itself in a political climate that outsiders routinely misread. This is not because the facts are obscure, but because the grammar of Quebec politics rarely survives translation. The province’s political culture is not bilingual; it is bi-cognitive. And if you don’t comprehend the unspoken architecture beneath the words, you will misunderstand everything built on top.

Friday, December 19, 2025

Land-Based Salmon Farming: Latest Bankruptcy

Follows Repeated Land-based Failures


Highly successful Kitasoo Seafoods in the Village of Klemtu

West Coast Salmon, a major proposed land-based salmon farming project in Nevada backed by prominent industry figures and planning for 50,000 tonnes of annual production, filed for bankruptcy on December 18, 2025—before the facility even advanced beyond initial planning stages.

This latest collapse adds to a growing list of high-profile setbacks in land-based recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) for anadromous salmon species—particularly beyond the brood stock and production up to smolt stages, where the technology falters most dramatically in attempts at full grow-out to market size.

Wednesday, December 17, 2025

Could the U.S. Northwest Unlock Bitumen's Full Potential?

Alberta's Pacific Pivot:



Alberta Premier Danielle Smith made headlines this week by floating a new energy export contingency, which has the remarkable tenor of viability: if domestic hurdles block a new pipeline through British Columbia, she's open to routing Alberta oil southward through Montana, Idaho, and into Washington or Oregon ports for export to Asia.

Friday, December 12, 2025

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.

Thursday, December 11, 2025

Cease and Desist the Interference in Tlowitsis Jurisdiction

 

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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.

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Is Carney Telling the Truth?

Asking if he's gone full Pinocchio

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." 

Saturday, December 6, 2025

Trump's Shadow and Canada's Uneven Footing

Liberal Map of North America
 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.)

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