Andrew Winstanley
@andrewwinstanley.bsky.social
🇨🇦🇯🇲🇲🇽, B.A., LL.B. (Dalhousie), LL.M. (Harvard). Living in Vancouver, B.C. (au Pays de Voyageurs). Long in the tooth but still capable of scepticism and wonder, except when watching “footie”
As per the excerpt, this 10% tariff bears no resemblance to other tariffs. It is simply a federal tax of 10% on transit buses even if built in the U.S. or imported from Canada pursuant to CUSMA. Almost as if Trump, having exhausted his fentanyl excuse, was now going to war against public transit!
November 4, 2025 at 1:03 AM
As per the excerpt, this 10% tariff bears no resemblance to other tariffs. It is simply a federal tax of 10% on transit buses even if built in the U.S. or imported from Canada pursuant to CUSMA. Almost as if Trump, having exhausted his fentanyl excuse, was now going to war against public transit!
For a young niece by marriage and her 6-week baby boy somewhere in Black River:
November 3, 2025 at 5:13 PM
For a young niece by marriage and her 6-week baby boy somewhere in Black River:
Unlike the U.S., China is not led by fools. They can read the demographic projections, such as this one:
October 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Unlike the U.S., China is not led by fools. They can read the demographic projections, such as this one:
Once or twice in a lifetime, History escapes the books and enters your own life for a final chapter.
R.I.P. Piper James Clelland Richardson, V.C.
R.I.P. Piper James Clelland Richardson, V.C.
October 8, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Once or twice in a lifetime, History escapes the books and enters your own life for a final chapter.
R.I.P. Piper James Clelland Richardson, V.C.
R.I.P. Piper James Clelland Richardson, V.C.
In this excerpt, Smith makes it very clear that another bitumen pipeline across BC will not mark the end of Alberta’s demands. Note her insistence that the Rest of Canada has an obligation to accommodate new pipelines west, south and east, wherever a market may exist for her province’s dirty oil.
October 8, 2025 at 2:24 AM
In this excerpt, Smith makes it very clear that another bitumen pipeline across BC will not mark the end of Alberta’s demands. Note her insistence that the Rest of Canada has an obligation to accommodate new pipelines west, south and east, wherever a market may exist for her province’s dirty oil.
This excerpt summarizes the lesson for 🇨🇦: start by making available (at China’s expense) a wide range of affordable EV’s equipped with V2G technology and domestic solar systems and, using net metering, create the demand for the build out of a public utility driven Trans Canada Transmission Link.
October 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This excerpt summarizes the lesson for 🇨🇦: start by making available (at China’s expense) a wide range of affordable EV’s equipped with V2G technology and domestic solar systems and, using net metering, create the demand for the build out of a public utility driven Trans Canada Transmission Link.
Why Is It whenever this man speaks, he sounds like
September 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Why Is It whenever this man speaks, he sounds like
Not one of his biggest lies…maybe in the top 30,000?!?
September 14, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Not one of his biggest lies…maybe in the top 30,000?!?
Well this is a problem?!? How do we continue to practice gutter racism and still attract members of others races with knowledge and skills we members of the superior race have somehow lost?
September 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Well this is a problem?!? How do we continue to practice gutter racism and still attract members of others races with knowledge and skills we members of the superior race have somehow lost?
An excellent example of why, going forward, Canada needs to find its own path
September 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
An excellent example of why, going forward, Canada needs to find its own path
Killing us softly with logic…and a touch of sarcasm
September 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Killing us softly with logic…and a touch of sarcasm
It’s a long read, but one paragraph at the end stood out to me:
September 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s a long read, but one paragraph at the end stood out to me:
The reference to “tons” has nothing to do with weight
September 5, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The reference to “tons” has nothing to do with weight
Re: paragraph 2:
September 5, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Re: paragraph 2:
Is this not what CISIS is being paid to do? Maybe they need a little course correction?
August 29, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Is this not what CISIS is being paid to do? Maybe they need a little course correction?
A Trans-Canada Transmission Link would provide the spinal column for a smart grid capable of integrating net metering from domestic or community sources of surplus solar/wind/thermal power while stabilized by wind/solar farms, pumped storage hydropower and the batteries of ZEV’s with V2G technology.
July 19, 2025 at 8:10 PM
A Trans-Canada Transmission Link would provide the spinal column for a smart grid capable of integrating net metering from domestic or community sources of surplus solar/wind/thermal power while stabilized by wind/solar farms, pumped storage hydropower and the batteries of ZEV’s with V2G technology.
I’m my opinion, the key to acceptance by affected Indigenous People lies in the ability of the chosen “project(s) of national interest” to close the “infrastructure gap, within timelines”. Not all proposed projects are up to that task.
July 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I’m my opinion, the key to acceptance by affected Indigenous People lies in the ability of the chosen “project(s) of national interest” to close the “infrastructure gap, within timelines”. Not all proposed projects are up to that task.
Cdn. hydropower is becoming “less reliable” as climate-driven drought shrinks the size of reservoirs. But their is a ready solution available in the form of “Pumped Storage Hydropower”.
July 16, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Cdn. hydropower is becoming “less reliable” as climate-driven drought shrinks the size of reservoirs. But their is a ready solution available in the form of “Pumped Storage Hydropower”.
Continuing our hypothetical: In 1834, a rebellion in the Southern colonies would have been met by the combined forces of the remaining colonies of British North America (the northern U.S. states and Canada) and of Great Britain, home of the Royal Navy and the principle market for their raw cotton.
July 16, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Continuing our hypothetical: In 1834, a rebellion in the Southern colonies would have been met by the combined forces of the remaining colonies of British North America (the northern U.S. states and Canada) and of Great Britain, home of the Royal Navy and the principle market for their raw cotton.
I’ve attached a recent article on Alberta’s attempts to attract massive data centres. As you can see, the big ones use as much power as an aluminum smelter. Perhaps more ominously for Alberta (which has the natural gas to generate that power), they require huge amounts of freshwater for cooling.
July 12, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I’ve attached a recent article on Alberta’s attempts to attract massive data centres. As you can see, the big ones use as much power as an aluminum smelter. Perhaps more ominously for Alberta (which has the natural gas to generate that power), they require huge amounts of freshwater for cooling.
There’s more:
July 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
There’s more:
Read the Professor Homer-Dixon article for the military interpretation of those numbers, and you’ll understand that they’re anything but pathetic.
July 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Read the Professor Homer-Dixon article for the military interpretation of those numbers, and you’ll understand that they’re anything but pathetic.