President-elect Donald Trump’s outrageous proposal that Canada become the 51st state of the U.S.A. has been a top news item since he first mentioned the idea at a November 29th Mar-a-Lago dinner with Prime Minister Trudeau. Let’s take a look at the reasoning he puts forward to justify his proposal. Trump says that America subsidizes…
Looking Ahead: Predictions for 2025
It’s that time of year again. Time to make my predictions for the new year. Let’s first take a look at the seven predictions I made for 2024: The United States prison system will admit its most unusual prisoner ever – former president Donald Trump. Well, I did not get that one right. The transition…
AI Will Only Get Better, Are We Ready?
Advances in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continue at an exponential rate. Every year we witness greater progress than in all previous years combined. I’m sure that 2025 will be no different and we will witness more developments in total than we have seen up until today. The focus of most of the mainstream…
Shorter Days but Later Sunsets
Every year around this time I become obsessed about the ever-shortening days and longer nights. I miss the sun. If you are like me, you may have been under the impression that the sun sets earlier and rises later every day until December 21st, after which it begins to rise earlier and set later. According…
Gas Leaks in ABC’s Majority
Vancouver Green Party councillor Adriane Carr has let it be known that she is very seriously considering resigning from Vancouver City Council. If Councillor Carr does decide to resign, then the upcoming byelection to fill the seat held by departing OneCity Councillor Christine Boyle will become a byelection to fill not one but two vacancies….
Opportunism Trumps Logic – Premier Eby Proves It
Those of us concerned about ever-increasing carbon emissions and imminent climate collapse are horrified by Premier David Eby’s apparent abandonment of the carbon tax. Introduced here in B.C. in 2008 by former premier Gordon Campbell, this tax has proven not only to be very effective at reducing carbon emissions but also has done so without…
Trump’s Victory – Confirmation of a Troubling WorldWide Trend
Donald Trump’s victory on Tuesday, November 5th, 2024 was much more than darkness triumphing over light. It was a very sad and terrifying further confirmation that a large bloc of the populace has become disconnected from fact, logic, and even science. This has allowed a deadly virus to infect the political landscape in countries around…