Ron Austin
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Ron Austin
@ronaustin.bsky.social
Author of
Heaven Scent Hunter
A thriller all about agarwood and oud.

Available as an eBook everywhere.
Paperback available from Amazon.

Vancouver, BC
All new infrastructure should be built higher than 50 m above sea level and not in river/watershed flood zones.
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December 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The tmx grand bargain was secured by agreeing to an emissions cap.
Now the emissions cap is gone, and the pipeline remains.
Very simple for some future PP-type to demonize and destroy Carney's carbon pricing after this new pipeline gets built.
December 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
The Alberta UCP moves the goal posts every time they're about to lose.
#abpoli
December 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
"Rustad is alive"?

OK but Rustad's political career is surely walking dead.
December 3, 2025 at 11:52 PM
If they change the law, it will apply to the future.
I do not believe they can make it retroactive.
The current recall campaigns will continue if enough signatures are collected.
November 29, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Good for Guilbeault!
November 27, 2025 at 11:05 PM
I'd like to rest easy on the fact that the market economy will not fund another useless pipeline.
Then I recall a very short lived victory when we killed the TMX monster ... only to see Jr. Trudeau betray us all with our own tax dollars.
I do not trust Carney and his cabal.
November 27, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Terrible decision. We will fight this every step.

Sincerely,
BC

#cdnpoli
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
"I think he's made a pragmatic decision to put economy first now, in the wake of Trump."

Alas, Steve, you fell for the grifter, Carnival Carny
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
In the 1990s, cancer research shifted from cause and prevention to 'cures' where 5-year survival is considered success.
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I see it as Alberta's foot in the door. We've seen these people leverage these situations to their benefit. They are constant crybabies, and it eventually pays off in many cases.
Time is being wasted.
Nation-building projects should be 21st century. Not 20th century fossil-fuel boondoggles.
November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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One day you'll go to unplug your fridge and it will say, "I don't think you want to do that, Dave."
November 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
oops ...BIG topic
"The most commonly used tense for literary fiction is past tense," in 3rd person pov. It is generally less challenging for the reader.
otoh, you might like screenplays!
"Unlike novels, which can be written in a variety of tenses, screenplays are always written in present tense."
😎
November 21, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Overton Window Blues 🎶
November 21, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Such ungrateful folks.
Just a few months ago, Carney ran a leadership campaign and subsequent election on the need for new-pipelines-to-everywhere and austerity, austerity, austerity.

Disclaimer: this post is sarcasm based on the massive cognitive dissonance I am experiencing.
November 19, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Well, there is a business case for new pipelines but it's predicated on the public paying for it while investors and oil&gas biz actually own it.
November 19, 2025 at 2:54 PM