Andrew Winstanley

In the depths of the ocean, a new contest between the US and China emerges Around the Cook Islands, the world’s two most powerful countries are exploring the possibility of deep-sea mining for critical minerals

In the depths of the ocean, a new contest between the US and China emerges

Oh, Dougie.

Not so puffy-chested tonight, are we?

Sometimes matters that require delicate diplomacy are best left to those who know the definitions of “delicate” and “diplomacy”.

*”Full speed…in da rear!”

While Premier Buffoon celebrates the designation by the Federal Government of 4 small nuclear reactors as a project of “national interest”, storm clouds gather.

From oil & gas to nuclear, Ontario continues to lead Canada (as cartoon character Don Carnage would put it) “Full speed…in the rear!”

Appeal in Chalk River nuclear waste case tests limits of First Nations consent | The Narwhal A court found consultation was inadequate on plans for an Ontario nuclear waste site near Chalk River. The company wants the ruling overturned

thenarwhal.ca/chalk-river-...

A more in-depth look at BC’s new $7 billion buildout of its hydroelectric grid, including continuing its ban on cryptocurrency mining and imposing strict conditions for access by AI data centres to public power (both excellent moves in my view).

Bill 31: B.C. plans energy overhaul to court major projects | The Narwhal Bill 31 aims to advance the North Coast transmission line and prioritize power for resource industries in northwest B.C.

thenarwhal.ca/bill-31-bc-n...

Donald Trump Has Lost Touch With Reality And it’s getting worse. When will we acknowledge the obvious?

Donald Trump Has Lost Touch With Reality -click the link to read the story--
A favorite sign at the recent Manhattan NO KINGS protest-- "Make Orwell Fiction Again"... amen!

Here’s looking at you, Ontario!

When the ICE agent is Canadian… 🇨🇦

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA 🇨🇦🍁❤️

YouTube video by Energi Media Oil and Gas Finally Have a Worthy Competitor: Electrotech

Oil and Gas Finally Have a Worthy Competitor: Electrotech

How technology change works:
*ICE cars, gas furnaces were better than horses, coal heating
*Now, EVs, heat pumps are better yet.

The world is changing. Canada must change with it.
@mark-carney.bsky.social
youtu.be/IeIi4lLC6hY

💯 Canada needs to learn from the Nordics and become a porcupine, fast!

YouTube video by Senator Paula Simons CBC stays on X to reach audiences despite hate speech concerns - but isn't on Bluesky or Mastodon.

The CBC maintains an account on X - but not on Bluesky (nor on Mastodon.) Why? I asked CE0 Marie-Philippe Bouchard and Editor-in-Chief @brodiefenlon.bsky.social when they appeared at the Senate Transport and Communications Committee this morning. #CBC #SRC #SenateofCanada #cdnpoli #X #Bluesky #TRCM

Meanwhile, English Canada spent the years up until World War I trying to be “more British than the British” and the years since trying to be accepted by the Americans. Today, would an alien visitor to earth be able to distinguish between English Canadian culture anywhere west of Québec and American?

Cut off by conquest from France in 1759, les Canadiens français (as they were they known) did something unusual: they developed a uniquely Canadian culture, with its innate will to survive and its own lexicon for the weather, the flora and the fauna of their new northern homeland.

How did Quebec get cultural nationalism mostly right? After all these years, Quebec can teach Canada a lot about pushing against a tide of hegemony from a proximate cultural majority

www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...

How many more similar announcements by Big 3 automakers will it take to convince Premier Ford that his province’s US-owned auto assembly industry is leaving like the passenger pigeons they are?

Putting powerhouse BC Hydro back to work building out our electrical grid under the watchful eye of the NDP government’s most powerful cabinet minister represents an approach that augurs well for the outcome.

New B.C. legislation promises power line to unlock northern development Publicly funded infrastructure project meant to secure new private-sector investments, including a string of critical-mineral mines

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti...

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Although characterized as such by N&L’s Progressive Conservatives, the 1969 Churchill Falls agreement was no “boondoggle”. (See following article.)

Legacy of hydro boondoggles tipped Newfoundland and Labrador election Newfoundland and Labrador’s Progressive Conservative Leader Tony Wakeham secured a narrow majority government promising to independently review, and put to a referendum, any future hydroelectric proje...

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/15/n...

Canadian contractors supply a whopping $3+million worth of parts to a F-35 that can cost us up to $110 million per unit

Apart from the cost of the jet, there is the much higher (70%) cost of its long-term support.

The true measure (the per hour flying cost) of the Grippen is 1/6 that of the F-35

YouTube video by CBC News: The National Canada’s role in building American F-35 fighter jets

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*electrical cables

While I like the idea of repossessing the Stellantis plant, Project Arrow represents a futile attempt to compete in an industry where Canada can never hope to compete. Better to use the billions of taxpayer $$ building new industries like geothermal power or intercontinental subsea electric cables.

Suing Stellantis is just throwing good money after bad. Let’s profit from this opportunity to escape without US repercussions their climate-destroying horse and buggy ICE technology and go full on ZEV.

Instead of striving to put the computer in the auto, let’s learn to put the computer on wheels.

Ottawa threatens legal action against Stellantis | CBC News The federal government is threatening automaker Stellantis with legal action if the company doesn't "respect its obligations" to Canadians, according to a letter obtained by CBC News, years after the ...

www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Elsewhere in the world, it’s about China positioning itself for what it saw as an inevitable tariff war with the U.S.

I don’t see China pushing its social policies the same way it once pushed its now discredited communist ideology

For what it’s worth, I see their objective in Africa as acquiring large tracts of farmland as a source of food for their increasing middle class population.