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Grab Alberta’s oil while the grabbing’s good

by Kevin Potvin

Ralph Klein is not up to the coming storm over Alberta resources. Time for the feds to seize them

Today, the average US oil well pumps 90% water and only 10% oil, meaning 90% of the work, the pressure, the pipes and the refining is wasted on water. The ratio can only go up.

Israel is no example

by Michael Nenonen

The Middle East torture state, like Canada, covers up its brutal colonial war, and that’s no reason to give it a free pass

Visions of future schisms foretold

by Reed Eurchuk

An analysis of poll-by-poll results indicates how new Vancouver coalitions might break

Why are we not ready for crisis?

by Dan Crawford

Recent catastrophes illustrate that communications are the key to surviving large crises. New technology allows us to implement a great system at very low cost

Here's the pitch: An open source (free software) project that implements a web-based emergency response solution. The central purpose behind the project would be to provide services that are immediately useful to a community so that awareness and involvement would be ongoing instead of just at a time of crisis.

Strip farming in Vancouver

by Kevin Potvin

A typical 10-block-by-10-block area contains boulevard space equivalent to the world’s average family farm

Bee season

by Junius

Turner's Movies

reviewed by Scott Turner

Derailed and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

Letters to the Republic

The late great American Empire

by Kevin Potvin

It’s going to get real ugly inside America as the whole economy and society become unglued after the military fails to seize much-needed foreign oil

The simple, although far from easily digestible, fact is that America could not make a winning bid for oil supplies, tried to grab them, and lost again, and now faces the prospect of decline, either slowly and under control, or rapidly through a severe collapse.

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