We were at our place in Port Alberni on the day but they wouldn't tell us exactly when the flyby would be. We heard the roar of the engines & ran to grab our cameras. An amazing piece of aviation history: it's also immortalized in the lyrics of the Bruce Cockburn song Wondering Where the Lions Are.

This was its final flight on its way from Sproat Lake to Victoria via Port Alberni inlet in August 2024.

Don’t gamble Canadians’ money on a risky pipeline | Pembina Institute Over the past two decades, oil and gas pipelines have emerged as potent political symbols.

A new pipeline should be a business decision — not a political one.

Taxpayers shouldn’t be asked to shoulder the risks of a $50+ billion pipeline when private investors won’t.

Here's why 👇

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If we're making the world uninhabitable, nothing else matters. #OnePlanet

China isn’t building nuclear equivalents. It’s building faster than nuclear can exist. ~434.4 GW wind + solar in 2025 ≈ 1.19 new nuclear plants/day (capacity), while building a system that makes baseload irrelevant. Overbuild. Store. Electrify. Kill peaks → kill legacy. ⚡ #Bettrification

New $3.6B nature plan can help reset Canada’s energy transition at 'difficult moment': Dabrusin The federal environment minister Julie Dabrusin says the government's Force of Nature strategy will ensure future energy and infrastructure projects are built “balancing industry, clean electricity an...

Seriously? $3.6 billion? Mr. Carney is going to squander somewhere between $25 and $50 billion (ANOTHER galactic subsidy for Big Oil & Gas) for the construction of a fleet of icebreakers to ship fossil fuels out of Churchill. Make it make sense. #CleanEnergy
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Canada’s east-west electricity grid could be the pipeline of the future From solar arrays to wind projects and battery storage, First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities are investing in renewable power that creates local jobs, generates long-term revenue and strengthens...

Canada’s east-west electricity grid could be the pipeline of the future www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/21/o...

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The future of electricity is wind and solar, new report says. Canada is lagging is behind | CBC News Renewable energy met all new demand for electricity in 2025, according to a new review of global power generation, preventing any increase in the burning of fossil fuels to produce electricity and hig...

Cheaper, cleaner, scalable. Renewables are the present and future. Yet in Canada, we choose the past of fossil fuels. Why? our political class is in the pocket of Big Oil. We don't need last century thinking in a #CleanTech world. #EnergyTransition
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It's happening at the U of Winnipeg too. Not good.

Opinion: No better time for Canada to refine fossil fuel contingency plans

Canada is allowing oil and gas to grow exponentially with almost no concern about the future of our climate.
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The ground squirrels are digging holes in our parks and soccer pitches. The City of Winnipeg has decided that lethal and quite inhumane poisons are needed. This is overkill. I suggest a simpler, more human solution. And these conflicts arise because human spawl has squeezed wildlife to the margins.

Opinion: What to do with inconvenient wildlife Their flocks darkened the skies, over a mile wide and hundreds of miles long. It would take hours or even days for them to pass over a fixed spot. They were a common Manitoba resident, nesting as far ...

My piece today in @winnipegfreepress.com: what to do with inconvenient wildlife. In the last half century global wildlife population have fallen by 3/4. To save the last 1/4, we need to find ways to get along. Poisoning ground squirrels isn't the answer. www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

This last week the Robins showed up en masse in Winnipeg. And they brought a few friends like this Hermit Thrush. The white border on the left that looks like one of those artistic PowerPoint templates is actually the stucco on the garage. #Birds 🪶

Opinion: Energy security, not more gas tax cuts In the wake of U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, oil and gas prices have surged, triggering what’s widely expected to be the worst energy crisis on record. Amid ongoing affordability challenges, gover...

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Grid batteries reach stunning new peak of 44 pct of evening demand in world's fourth biggest economy Battery storage reaches a stunning new record in the world's fourth biggest economy, reaching 44 pct of evening demand. The biggest loser is gas.

~10–12 nuclear power plants equivalent. That’s what batteries just delivered for ~1–2 hours at peak in California.

We’ve crossed the line: generation → timing.

Gas loses the peak first. Then revenue. Then relevance.

Nuclear is great. But time costs money. Energy is needed now, not in 15 years.

Ford CEO Draws Line In Sand: Keep Chinese EVs Out Of US – 'Should Not Let Them Into Our Country' Ford Motor Company paused its electric-vehicle growth efforts, but is pivoting to a major push in 2027. With lower-cost production methods and new models in development, the legacy automaker’s CEO wan...

Imagine if Blackberry had successfully convinced the US government to forbid the sale of iPhones

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Canada's annual inflation rate rose to 2.4% in March | CBC News The increase comes after the inflation rate fell in February to 1.8 per cent.

Inflation is rising rapidly due to soaring fossil fuel prices, up 13% on a month-over-month basis.
The price of wind and sun? Still zero.
Clean, cheap and not blocked in the Strait of Hormuz
#CleanEnergy #EnergyTransition #EnergySecurity
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I don't recall seeing so many arrive all at once in the last ~30 years. I suspect it's due to the late spring. Migrating robins were probably stalled further south, waiting for favourable conditions to arrive.

Perennially flooded Peguis still without permanent protections after years of talk from federal politicians | CBC News After years of promises of permanent flood protections for Peguis First Nation, the community in Manitoba's Interlake region is once again bracing for a potential spring flood without those protection...

Is Mr. Kinew credible on flood protection? The 2011 Lake Manitoba-Lake St. Martin flood was the most expensive in Manitoba history, >$2 billion. Multiple First Nations evacuated. A new flood channel announced 3 times. Mr. Kinew quietly pulled the project last year. #MbPoli
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Here too in Crestview.

Natural gas service being restored in Central Okanagan after outage leaves thousands without heat | CBC News Natural gas service is now being restored across the Lake Country area in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley after an outage earlier this week left thousands without heat or hot water.

But yes, please tell me more about how clean renewables are so unreliable. #EndFossilFuels
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Robin feeding nestling.

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme set by @robcrank68.bsky.social is #ComeEatWithMe, birds who have food in their beaks. Here's a robin feeding the kids. #Birds 🪶

Just checked the price of a BYD Seagull in Australia: less than $24K Aus (the Australian dollar is basically at par with the Canadian dollar). There are no tariffs or quotas on Chinese EVs in Australia. Just sayin'

They descended on our backyard in Winnipeg this week like a swarm of locusts (Hitchcock would have been proud). They cleaned out every berry hanging on every vine since last fall. They brought a few friends too - hermit thrushes. Don't ever recall seeing so many show up all at once.

I wish it were otherwise, like a concern for the future of humanity, but the #EnergyTransition will be driven by simple economics. Renewables are cheaper and scalable. The fog of disinformation vented by Big Oil will clear, life will grow more affordable and #decarbonization will be a side benefit.😎

Texas is forecasting up to 367 GW by 2032, 4.3× today’s ~85 GW peak. You can’t meet that with coal or a wave of new nuclear, too slow. When demand goes vertical, only one system keeps up. Renewables scale fast, storage makes them 24/7. Together, they dominate the build. ⚡ #Bettrification

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