Canadian journalist covering energy, resources and economics.
Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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You are name-checked here too in my substack "Let Them Eat Cake: Generational inequality and the welfare state." But admittedly, Bill Maher's segment is a lot funnier.
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This really is one of @BillMaher’s best-ever monologues, and I don’t say that just because I got a namecheck. Tldr: Socialism is what old people already get and young people want a piece of it.
I no sooner finished writing this substack about France, in which I cite Niall Ferguson and Michael Moore's Sicko, when I saw Bill Maher making similar references in a New Rules segment to both Ferguson and Moore. Admittedly, Maher's piece is funnier.
thesextant.substack.com/p/le…
And for reference, here is Maher's New Rules segment. youtu.be/3gNREfz1tGU?si=Po_r…
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BREAKING - @Conservative_BC has won a majority government in BC.
@Dave_Eby's snap election gamble appears to have failed in spectacular fashion.
First Conservative government elected since 1928-1933.
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#BREAKING: B.C. Conservatives win majority government. Live real-time election updates here. ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article…
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Gross, insulting and absurd all at the same time.
So let me get this straight, @Dave_Eby launches an entire campaign around Buy Canada, then goes and stands in front of Cdn-owned Save-on-Foods and slams BC billionaire owner Jimmy Pattison (who donates 10% of annual wealth per year to charity) as a profit gouger, when Pattison is helping him fund $75m towards the NDP's new St. Paul's hospital through the largest donation by a private citizen to a medical facility in Canadian history?
Ooooooookay.
More to come on this. I am at this morning's press event with PM and LNG Canada officials.
resourceworks.com/lng-canada…
Interesting to see Andrew Weaver taking another shot at BC politics but not for the Greens this time - the party he once led.
Day 6 of the campaign. @VoteCentreBC is emerging as the home for orphaned @LPCBC supporters of @MarkJCarney . Let's bring stability back to #bcpoli andrewjweaver.ca/2026/09/28/…
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I am so frustrated by this.
Our audience desperately wants debates on Canadas most pressing issues.
Yet, I can’t get participants.
I’ve tried to organize good faith, Nuanced Debates on:
- Housing
- The Economy
- MAID
- Taxes
Yet again and again, I hear from professors, experts, and commentators that their side is right - and the other side is evil, bad intentioned and not worthy of debate.
I thought once we did the first, people would see that we’re not looking for a food fight we’re looking for honest disagreements.
I just want to recognize @MarkJaccard and @ExnerPirot for coming on and having the conversation.
It takes courage to have your ideas challenged - and I wish more would follow in their footsteps.
DEBATE: Canadian Climate Policy
Energy experts @ExnerPirot and @MarkJaccard join the first-ever Nuanced Debate to examine policies, pipelines, carbon pricing, nuclear power, affordability, energy security and whether markets or regulation can meaningfully reduce emissions.
Full interview:
youtu.be/A1xSOS6pP00
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B.C.'s forest economy is half the size it was 10 years ago.
Sawmill output has fallen from 2.5 million cubic metres a month to 1.2 million. The sector went from 5% of provincial GDP to 1.6%. And a third pulp mill may close this year, Domtar's Port Mellon idling puts 400 more out of work. Central 1's economist calls it a "breaking point" that may be past turning around.
@nbennett_ca on the death spiral: resourceworks.com/b-c-forest…
#BCPoli #Forestry #Cdnpoli @COFI_INFO
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This tweet from the Japanese Prime Minister went viral yesterday:
“This procurement of crude oil is a concrete success story of cooperation between Japan and Canada in the field of energy security, following LNG and small modular reactors, and it is a matter of great joy; from the perspective of ensuring Japan's energy security, it is also profoundly significant.”
本日、カナダ産の原油を積んだタンカーが、中東情勢悪化後初めて、日本に到着しました。
カナダは、私自身が強力に推し進めている経済安保分野における重要なパートナーです。
今年3月6日に、マーク・カーニー・カナダ首相が来日された際、両国の関係を「包括的戦略的パートナーシップ」という新たな高みに引き上げることで一致するとともに、両国間の初めての首脳文書として、『日カナダ首脳声明』に署名いたしました。
特に、原油については、カーニー首相との首脳会談において、「カナダ産原油の調達」は、日カナダ間の戦略的パートナーシップの具体的な事例として議論いたしました。
今回の原油調達は、LNGや小型モジュール炉に続く、エネルギー安全保障分野における日本とカナダの協力の具体的な成功事例であり、大変喜ばしく、日本のエネルギー安全保障の確保の観点からも、意義深いことです。
「自由で開かれたインド太平洋（FOIP）」の推進を共に担う心強い同志国であるカナダと、緊密に連携してまいります。
原油の代替調達につきましては、官民連携の下、ホルムズ海峡を通らない代替調達に最大限取り組んでおり、8月についても、現時点で、備蓄放出に頼ることなく、前年平月比で約10割の調達が実現できる見通しです。
これまでに、中東や米国に加え、中南米､アジア太平洋、中央アジア、アフリカから、原油が届き、今回、ここにカナダが加わることになります。
高市内閣は、今後も原油の代替調達を進め、備蓄の放出を抑えながら、「日本全体として必要となる量」を確保し、国民の皆様の命と暮らし、そして経済活動に支障が生じないよう、取り組んでまいります。
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We are living through a strange moment in Canada.
As an Indigenous person and a First Nations Chief, I can say things that many Canadians feel they are no longer allowed to say.
That should concern all of us.
People should not fear losing their careers, reputations, or relationships simply for expressing what they sincerely believe to be true.
I do not believe land acknowledgements are always productive. I do not believe reconciliation is moving in the right direction. I believe reconciliation needs a destination, not an endless process with no measure of success.
I say these things because I believe them. I also say them to create room for others to speak honestly.
@karenrestoule and I share that willingness. We challenge ideas that are treated as untouchable, including within our own communities. We do not do it for attention. We do it because silence does not create progress.
We are criticized by Indigenous people and by Canadians more broadly. That comes with the territory.
But public leadership is not about saying what is safest. It is about saying what you believe is true—clearly, respectfully, and without fear.
Watch our full conversation here:
youtu.be/Vw3LSCtbYYQ
Good profile here by @dkennedyglans of @Aaronpete_ whose podcast, Nuanced, is fast becoming my favourite Canadian political affairs podcast. Particularly interesting to learn why this young First Nations leader and influencer thinks UNDRIP and DRIPA aren't working.
“I don’t want my politicians to be cool, hip, or woke,” Pete summarizes. “I want them to do good policy.”
nationalpost.com/news/hes-30… via @nationalpost
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Rachel and the IISD conveniently ignore that the TMX generates $5 billion in additional royalties yearly thanks to the reduction in the WCS discount. The govt generates revenue via taxes and royalties which Rachel and the IISD deliberately ignore to maintain their false narrative
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My latest, The Accidental Corridor.
By closing the north, Ottawa and Victoria may have opened the only pipeline route that can actually get built. The TMX corridor held because First Nations chose partnership over protest and the safety infrastructure was world-class. Roberts Bank has the depth. The social licence exists.
resourceworks.com/the-accide…
Alberta Premier @ABDanielleSmith confirming at ongoing press conference proposed new pipeline to be built by #PembinaPipeline along southern route: i.e. Trans Mountain. It will be "public-private" partnership including First Nations.
Yes, and also announced today: $10 billion in infrastructure upgrades "to expand capacity at the Roberts Bank terminal."
Mark Carney just announced the federal government will "maintain the federal North Coast tanker ban in accordance with the proposed route of a new transprovincial pipeline." That can mean only one thing: Trans Mountain 3.0.
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This is Carney's pitch for the west coast pipeline that Alberta will submit on Thursday, and much more. It's very good. Must watch.
"I was a teenager in Edmonton when the National Energy Program was introduced, and I remember how Ottawa made Albertans feel like our resources weren't our own. And then more recently, we were made to feel that our energy contributions were running against the tide of history; what should have brought us together, began to divide us...
Nobody knows how long the global economy will rely on conventional energy, but while it does, as much of that energy as possible should come from Canada."
youtube.com/watch?v=bySyMcg-…
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Re-upping my previous commentary on our regrettable transition to a real estate economy, which seems particularly relevant in the last week.
“Let’s be honest: status quo politicians have taken us too far down this road to turn back without consequence. The damage is already being felt — and more is coming. But that doesn’t mean we can stay the course. We must act deliberately, and with purpose, to shift away from an economic model where our primary export is real estate, toward one where we build and produce the goods, technology, and services the world actually needs.”
Read here: substack.com/@thewestword/no…