RossBelot
@rossbelot.bsky.social
Poet photographer filmmaker French Surrealist poetry translator op-eds in Canada’s National Observer. Lives in Hamilton sometimes.
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Save the date! World Poetry Review will be open for submissions for Issue 13 on Feb. 1st. Translators of poetry are encouraged to apply!
Check out our submissions page to review our submission guidelines and to learn more about what we're looking for:
worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/
Check out our submissions page to review our submission guidelines and to learn more about what we're looking for:
worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/
January 21, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Save the date! World Poetry Review will be open for submissions for Issue 13 on Feb. 1st. Translators of poetry are encouraged to apply!
Check out our submissions page to review our submission guidelines and to learn more about what we're looking for:
worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/
Check out our submissions page to review our submission guidelines and to learn more about what we're looking for:
worldpoetryreview.org/submissions/
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's stand on a proposed new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast is flawed on so many levels. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/o...
Reality trumps a Poilievre oil fantasy
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's stand on a proposed new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast flawed on so many levels. It confuses where most of the refining of our crude oil occurs, wro...
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January 23, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's stand on a proposed new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast is flawed on so many levels. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/o...
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Twenty-Two Poems by Paul Éluard, translated from the French by Ross Belot @rossbelot.bsky.social & Sara Burant, in WPR 12!
Check them all out here: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/17/t...
#translation #poem #poetry #poems
Check them all out here: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/17/t...
#translation #poem #poetry #poems
December 19, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Twenty-Two Poems by Paul Éluard, translated from the French by Ross Belot @rossbelot.bsky.social & Sara Burant, in WPR 12!
Check them all out here: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/17/t...
#translation #poem #poetry #poems
Check them all out here: worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/17/t...
#translation #poem #poetry #poems
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Beware of fossil fuel enthusiasts touting the latest IEA report and its supposed forecast of endless demand growth for oil.
The devil here is in the details -- ones that tell a very different story than the headlines would have you believe.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
The devil here is in the details -- ones that tell a very different story than the headlines would have you believe.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
What the IEA's latest report says about the energy transition — and what it doesn't
The International Energy Agency's latest landmark report looks like an act of surrender to the Trump administration's fossil fuel agenda. But when you look closer, a much different picture emerges.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Beware of fossil fuel enthusiasts touting the latest IEA report and its supposed forecast of endless demand growth for oil.
The devil here is in the details -- ones that tell a very different story than the headlines would have you believe.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
The devil here is in the details -- ones that tell a very different story than the headlines would have you believe.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/21/o...
Keystone XL avoids friction between British Columbia and Alberta over a West Coast project that would never be built anyway. Poilievre still loses a favourite attack line, and Smith can still say she forced the federal government to move on pipelines www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/o...
Why Carney's pivot to Keystone XL is brilliant, even if it's just a fantasy
Keystone XL avoids friction between British Columbia and Alberta over a West Coast project that would never be built anyway. Poilievre still loses a favourite attack line, and Smith can still say she ...
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November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Keystone XL avoids friction between British Columbia and Alberta over a West Coast project that would never be built anyway. Poilievre still loses a favourite attack line, and Smith can still say she forced the federal government to move on pipelines www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/11/o...
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congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Award for Poetry! here's my review of the book, in case you hadn't seen: / @houseofanansi.bsky.social ;
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Karen Solie, Wellwater: poems
BERKELEY HILLS, 2022 In Wildcat Canyon live the laurels. No rain in two months and nine days. Like girls do, the laurels grow from...
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November 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
congratulations to Karen Solie, winner of the 2025 Governor General's Award for Poetry! here's my review of the book, in case you hadn't seen: / @houseofanansi.bsky.social ;
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robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/05/kare...
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Just released: WPR 12! This issue features poetry translated from Chinese, Greek, Faroese, Persian, Spanish, French, Russian, and Italian!
Check it out!
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Check it out!
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November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Just released: WPR 12! This issue features poetry translated from Chinese, Greek, Faroese, Persian, Spanish, French, Russian, and Italian!
Check it out!
worldpoetryreview.org
@olgamikolaivna.bsky.social @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social
@rossbelot.bsky.social
@georginamegan.bsky.social
Check it out!
worldpoetryreview.org
@olgamikolaivna.bsky.social @vpenelopepelizzon.bsky.social
@rossbelot.bsky.social
@georginamegan.bsky.social
Very excited to have my and Sara Burant’s translation of the Paul Éluard 22 section poem L’Univers-Solitude from Éluard’s 1932 collection La Vie immédiate in the latest issue of World Poetry Review. worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/17/t... @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social
Twenty-Two Poems by Paul Éluard
Fruits of the day brooded by the earth A woman a woman alone isn’t sleeping The windows are lying down.
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November 4, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Very excited to have my and Sara Burant’s translation of the Paul Éluard 22 section poem L’Univers-Solitude from Éluard’s 1932 collection La Vie immédiate in the latest issue of World Poetry Review. worldpoetryreview.org/2025/10/17/t... @worldpoetryreview.bsky.social
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That thud you might have heard on Sept. 29 was the fall of a Canadian giant that has been staggering around for some time. But it was once Canada’s largest oil company, helping drive virtually every major innovation in Canadian oil and gas since the late 19th century, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.
The fall of a Canadian giant
The new Imperial Oil is essentially a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada or by Canadians. This isn’t just a corporate restructuring. It’s...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
That thud you might have heard on Sept. 29 was the fall of a Canadian giant that has been staggering around for some time. But it was once Canada’s largest oil company, helping drive virtually every major innovation in Canadian oil and gas since the late 19th century, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.
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Yet across the political spectrum in Canada the big ideas from #DanielleSmith to @naheednenshi.bsky.social, from #Poilievre to @mark-carney.bsky.social are #MorePipelines.
No longer surprised they don't care about burning the world down but you'd think they'd care about economics #cdnpoli #abpoli
No longer surprised they don't care about burning the world down but you'd think they'd care about economics #cdnpoli #abpoli
My latest….The new Imperial Oil is a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada by Canadians. It’s the clearest sign yet that Canada’s oil story is drawing to a close. Our leaders still haven't noticed. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/a...
The fall of a Canadian giant
The new Imperial Oil is essentially a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada or by Canadians. This isn’t just a corporate restructuring. It’s...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Yet across the political spectrum in Canada the big ideas from #DanielleSmith to @naheednenshi.bsky.social, from #Poilievre to @mark-carney.bsky.social are #MorePipelines.
No longer surprised they don't care about burning the world down but you'd think they'd care about economics #cdnpoli #abpoli
No longer surprised they don't care about burning the world down but you'd think they'd care about economics #cdnpoli #abpoli
My latest….The new Imperial Oil is a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada by Canadians. It’s the clearest sign yet that Canada’s oil story is drawing to a close. Our leaders still haven't noticed. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/a...
The fall of a Canadian giant
The new Imperial Oil is essentially a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada or by Canadians. This isn’t just a corporate restructuring. It’s...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 6, 2025 at 12:33 PM
My latest….The new Imperial Oil is a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada by Canadians. It’s the clearest sign yet that Canada’s oil story is drawing to a close. Our leaders still haven't noticed. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/03/a...
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As owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline we should repurpose it for the benefit of Canada. That's a nation-building project worth doing, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.
A reality check on nation building
We can either stay hewers of wood and drawers of water, or finish the job and keep the refining profit in Canada.
www.nationalobserver.com
September 19, 2025 at 9:32 PM
As owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline we should repurpose it for the benefit of Canada. That's a nation-building project worth doing, @rossbelot.bsky.social writes.
As owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline we should repurpose it for the benefit of Canada. That's a nation-building project worth doing. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/19/o...
A reality check on nation building
We can either stay hewers of wood and drawers of water, or finish the job and keep the refining profit in Canada.
www.nationalobserver.com
September 19, 2025 at 12:11 PM
As owners of the Trans Mountain pipeline we should repurpose it for the benefit of Canada. That's a nation-building project worth doing. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/19/o...
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Ontario's battle against bike lanes has always ignored facts and evidence. Now Alberta is making the same specious arguments. My latest for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/04/opinion/bike-lanes-ford-smith-court-ruling
Bike lanes win as Ford and Smith waste time on a losing battle
The battle against bike lanes has never been evidence-based. It’s all about politics and the divide between interests of voters living in city centres, who are less likely to vote for Ford or Smith, a...
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August 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Ontario's battle against bike lanes has always ignored facts and evidence. Now Alberta is making the same specious arguments. My latest for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/04/opinion/bike-lanes-ford-smith-court-ruling
Back then the economy was the only concern; climate change wasn’t on the radar. We should celebrate the vision of the politicians and corporations of the time. But we're no longer in that era, and leaders need to enter the new one, Ross Belot writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/31/o...
Mark Carney and Danielle Smith — It’s 2025, Not 1947
In the 1950s, the economy was the only concern — climate change wasn't yet on government's radar. That isn't the case in 2025, and our leaders should act accordingly.
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August 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Back then the economy was the only concern; climate change wasn’t on the radar. We should celebrate the vision of the politicians and corporations of the time. But we're no longer in that era, and leaders need to enter the new one, Ross Belot writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/31/o...
Interesting piece by Kam Razavi, former Global News investigative reporter, on why Canada isn’t addressing its oil and gas emissions, I’m quoted in spots. medium.com/the-new-clim...
The Petro-Bros are Selling You Out
How the hyper-masculine narratives of the fossil fuel industry lull us into climate inaction
medium.com
July 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Interesting piece by Kam Razavi, former Global News investigative reporter, on why Canada isn’t addressing its oil and gas emissions, I’m quoted in spots. medium.com/the-new-clim...
Piece authored by a few friends and me in the Calgary Herald calling for real discussions on climate change by all sides. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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It's time to change the conversation about the economy and climate change
It's time to change the conversation about the economy and climate change
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July 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Piece authored by a few friends and me in the Calgary Herald calling for real discussions on climate change by all sides. calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
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There's a reason Canadian oil companies aren't investing in carbon capture. The rest of us should pay attention. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/26/o...
If oil giants are reluctant to invest in carbon capture, why should taxpayers?
The fact that oil companies are reluctant to invest in their own giant carbon reduction projects speaks volumes about how they view their longevity. If anyone understands the economics of peak oil, it...
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June 26, 2025 at 12:56 PM
There's a reason Canadian oil companies aren't investing in carbon capture. The rest of us should pay attention. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/26/o...
My latest op-ed discussing the shenanigans of Carney and Smith on the oilsands. and how they don't seem to be talking about the fundamentals. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/27/o...
Mark Carney is reviving the oilsands discussion — and it's giving me whiplash
It's a fantasy that another pipeline will unlock new riches in the oilsands. But as long as the federal government doesn't pay for it, the industry is welcome to keep pining.
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June 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
My latest op-ed discussing the shenanigans of Carney and Smith on the oilsands. and how they don't seem to be talking about the fundamentals. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/27/o...
Canadians have been fed a steady diet of climate noise — photo-ops, grand announcements, and lofty targets — none of which have translated into serious emissions reductions, writes Ross Belot www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/07/o...
Not Justin Trudeau? Prove It, Mark Carney — On Climate
Canadians have been fed a steady diet of climate noise — photo-ops, grand announcements, and lofty targets — none of which have translated into serious emissions reductions.
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May 9, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Canadians have been fed a steady diet of climate noise — photo-ops, grand announcements, and lofty targets — none of which have translated into serious emissions reductions, writes Ross Belot www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/07/o...
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April 27, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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my latest piece in Canada's National Observer....Politicians, stop the magical pipeline talk and do your job. Accept the reality there will not be another oilsands boom, and look for long term opportunities for this resource. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/04/o...
Politicians, stop the magical pipeline talk and do your job
If we accept reality and stop talking about pipeline delusions to re-create an oilsands boom, then we can talk about opportunities that might exist long-term for this resource
www.nationalobserver.com
March 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
my latest piece in Canada's National Observer....Politicians, stop the magical pipeline talk and do your job. Accept the reality there will not be another oilsands boom, and look for long term opportunities for this resource. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/04/o...
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Canadian politicians must accept the reality there will not be another oilsands boom, and instead look for long term opportunities for this resource. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/04/o...
Politicians, stop the magical pipeline talk and do your job
If we accept reality and stop talking about pipeline delusions to re-create an oilsands boom, then we can talk about opportunities that might exist long-term for this resource
www.nationalobserver.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Canadian politicians must accept the reality there will not be another oilsands boom, and instead look for long term opportunities for this resource. @rossbelot.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/04/o...
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Pierre Poilievre has proposed large-scale oil sands investments. But Ross Belot, a former oil exec, says it's a bad idea—because production will decline no matter what Canada does. macleans.ca/economy/why-...
Why Canada’s Oil Sands Aren’t Coming Back - Macleans.ca
I used to be an oil executive. Here’s how market forces, not politics, killed the oil boom—and why new pipelines won't save the country.
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February 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Pierre Poilievre has proposed large-scale oil sands investments. But Ross Belot, a former oil exec, says it's a bad idea—because production will decline no matter what Canada does. macleans.ca/economy/why-...