Flaming Solar Farms

The 21st century version of the Springfield Tire Fire. I can’t wait for the day when solar arrays dot the landscape. Can you?

A fire at a solar farm in western P.E.I. is out after some battery cells burned, smouldered and flared up for two weeks.

On the day the fire started, which was the Labour Day holiday, a shelter-in-place order was issued, as well as a voluntary evacuation notice, and some roads were closed. Two schools were closed the following day.

 

How about we quintuple that?

Premier Scott Moe talks a lot about increasing oil production from 450,000 barrels per day to 600,000. It looks like Strathcona Resources will be a huge part of that increast (about a third), if they are successful in their plans. And that’s all in northwest Saskatchewan.

Strathcona Resources opens Meota Central SAGD facility, with big plans for more to come

Also, some pieces from Canadian Press on the new Build Canada Strong Act:

Liberals table bill to speed up major project approvals, avert labour disruptions

Five things to know about the Liberals’ new Building Canada Strong Act

And some more on the whole potash thing:

Moe warns ‘blood potash’ part of Trump’s planned deal with Belarus to thwart Canada

 

 

I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords

Halls of higher lerning.

Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises recently used AI to change the races of the students it included in its advertisements. AI was also used to noticeably slim down and alter students’ faces.

On his journey to campus, Stanford student Billy Ramirez ’27 was sent an image he recalled a Stanford photographer taking. Upon closer examination, he noticed that he had been removed from the photo and replaced by a AI-generated black woman.

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Circling The Drain

If you’ve checked out the price of beef lately or had a look at the prices on almost any restaurant menu, this should really come as no surprise.

Meritage Hospitality, one of Wendy’s largest U.S. franchisees, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday.

At an investor conference in June, Meritage CEO Bob Schermer Jr. said that store-level earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization had plummeted 48% in 2025. Rising beef costs and increased discounts weighed on the franchisee’s profits.

They Took All The Rights, Put ‘Em In A Rights Museum

National Post;

The current director of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), Isha Khan, told its board that it is not her “boss.” The Globe and Mail reported this in August, in its article on the controversy over the museum’s “Nakba” exhibit, drawing on interviews with five board members.[…]

The exhibit, “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present,” was developed with a Palestinian Content Advisory Network created by the museum’s staff, not the board. One member is Ramsey Zeid, president of the Canadian Palestinian Association of Manitoba, who has written that Zionism is “a disease that must be destroyed.” Mr. Zeid told the Winnipeg Free Press in August that it is “not really” the trustees’ “job to approve or disapprove exhibits.”

Related: “See y’all in the gulags…”

Allahu Akbar!

It’s the new reefer madness.

Ahmed Baig pleaded not guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice to assault causing bodily harm and assault by choking for the Aug. 2, 2023, attack in which he left his home wearing only a towel after vaping cannabis. His towel eventually fell off, and Baig started chasing a family he encountered in their driveway.

“He ran into the driveway and picked up a seven-year-old girl. He threw her to the ground, punched her and strangled her. He then abruptly left the driveway, and a short time later was arrested by police. At the time of arrest, he wore only a T-shirt,” Justice Mara Greene wrote in a recent decision.

The judge concluded that Baig’s attack was due to “nonmental disorder automatism.” She found him not guilty of both charges.

Tuesday On Turtle Island

Conman Carney’s Canada:    VDH – Animosity toward the US.    Carney loves censorship.    Racist Canada.

The Democratic Party’s America:    Gender swapping Aslan.    Biden’s FBI.    University of Utah.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC:    Paul Joseph Watson – Now they’re really mad and cops in Britain.    Another climate scam.    Toilet rules.

Your morning meme.        Another meme.        And at the Bee.

Circling The Drain

Since everyone knows these “limits” are never going to be enforced, the EU is like the father endlessly shouting “don’t make me come up there!”

A ministry source told reporters the public debt would reach 119.3% of GDP in 2026 and 121.7% in 2027, more than double the 60% of GDP reference limit EU member countries are required to aim for.

France is the third most indebted country in the eurozone, behind only Greece and Italy.

Today In The Vote Rich Rapey-Beheader Community

“20-30 shots fired. Doug Ford is disgusted”. Carney has “thoughts”.

Two people are critically injured, including a police officer, after a shooting outside a Belleville, Ont., synagogue Sunday night.

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said a Belleville police officer was outside the Sons of Jacob Synagogue near Victoria and Bleecker avenues at approximately 7 p.m. when there was an “exchange of gunfire” with a man who was carrying a rifle.

Both the suspect and the officer sustained gunshot wounds and were taken to hospital, the SIU said. The officer is in critical, but stable condition. The suspect is in life-threatening condition.

But most importantly, we must guard against Islamophobia.

Sam Cooper has more.

Things You’re Gonna See On The CBC

“Long live Mao!

50 years after his death, the father of Communist China still inspires” was recently published by the French-language arm of the CBC.

It documents Chinese Mao fanatics who gathered in Shaoshan (Mao’s hometown) to publicly revere and remember the architect of the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, which combined claimed the lives of between 40 and 80 million people.

Given the adoration of the people who are the focus of the coverage, the story strikes an undeniably nostalgic, positive tone — which has left many upset — and Conservative MPs were quick to pick up on the story, condemning the state broadcaster for such flagrant pro-Mao/pro-China propaganda.

They know which side their bread is buttered on.

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