TERRORISM WITH A WHITE FACE

They were young, male, and unforgivably stupid, which works both ways, one way against us and the other for.

The downside is that every man-jack of these idiots were acting service members of the Canadian Armed Forces, all of them infantry soldiers. These are the boneheads who fight for our country, at least when the time comes, and as long as it doesn’t offend their ideological beliefs. They are professional soldiers, although the use of the term professional is entirely undeserved.

The upside is the fact that every one of these losers is a card-carrying idiot-stick, and so extremely easy to discover, reveal, and as of yesterday, arrest.

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July 11, 2025

JULY 1st IS MEMORIAL DAY IN NEWFOUNDLAND

It was all over in fifteen minutes.

When Canadians celebrate Canada Day tomorrow, they’ll be commemorating the birth of a nation, cobbled together in a process known as Confederation, a coming-together of former British colonies to form one, single, and united nation that would grow into what it is today one of the pre-eminent countries of the world. It all started officially on July 1, 1867.

Newfoundland was a British colony as well, but didn’t elect to join the others to become part of the new Dominion of Canada. They didn’t join the rest of us until 1949, becoming a fully functioning province of that dominion.

It’s Canada Day in Newfoundland as well on July 1, but it’s not known as that. In fact, the day is known as Memorial Day, and instead of a day of celebration, it’s a day commemorating the greatest tragedy ever to befall the province known as “The Rock.” A tragedy that took place on July 1, 1916, at a place called Beaumont-Hamel.

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June 30, 2025

NOVA SCOTIA POWER

With Donald Trump backsliding on a full range of progressive policies, electricity generation through the use of wind power, or wind turbines, is in decline in the United States.

The president has cancelled many initiatives, and rolled back a lot of work previously done to set the United States up as an energy-producing superpower. All this while at the same time encouraging all things oil and gas.

It’s created an opportunity elsewhere, and for others, including Canada.

June 26, 2025

ONEIDA GROUP PAIRS WIND WITH BATTERIES

Use it or lose it.

There are any number of situations or circumstances where that expression is credible, and one of them seemed to be the generation of electricity, whether that be through hydro (water), nuclear, natural gas-fired, or coal-fired. Regardless of the means of generation, electric power has storage problems that raise the possibility of having a valuable, albeit renewable source of energy being wasted if demand falls short of generation.

Calling electricity a renewable resource makes it sound like it’s clean energy, and there’s no reason why that can’t be true. Hydro-electricity is about as clean as you’re going to get, but it has limitations in terms of its dependence upon sources of moving water, as in rivers, and the enormous costs involved with the construction of generation dams and the lines of transmission that convey the electricity generated to the markets where it will be consumed.

All well and good.

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June 24, 2025

CHOPPING DOWN A CAMERA

We keep putting it back up, but they keep knocking it back down.

A similar start to yesterday’s story, not out of any sense of laziness, but simply a recognition that, well, it would be a hell of a way to start this story as well.

Only this time the players are different.

The we are the City of Toronto, and a concerned neighbourhood group. The they are the people, or maybe just person, who seem intent on committing regular acts of vandalism on city-owned properties and assets. And the it in this case is a traffic camera, specifically a speed-camera, better known as photo radar.

Five times the contractor who supplies and maintains the camera has set it up. And five times somebody has come along and cut it down. You could say this whole thing is a going concern.

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June 13, 2025

TOPPLED STATUES AND HISTORICAL ACCURACY

We keep putting him back up, and they keep knocking him back down.

We are the people of Ontario, as represented by the government of Ontario, and as driven by the premier of Ontario, meaning Doug Ford.

They are the people who protest the things that we do, and show their displeasure through paint attacks, graffiti, and pushing things over, even smashing them when possible.

The him is Canada’s first prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Actually not Sir John in the flesh, because he’s long dead, but a bronze statue of him, this one in a prominent position at Queen’s Park, the location of our provincial government.

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June 12, 2025