Normally when I write these opinion pieces, I tend to focus on the energy industry issues and maintain a positive outlook on what we do and why we do it. Obviously, the current main topic of everyone’s conversations of late is the Freedom Convoy 2022 currently...
In recent weeks, Pipeline Online editor Brian Zinchuk has been a guest on talk radio, first with CJME/CKOM’s John Gormley, and then on CBC Radio One’s Blue Sky on Feb. 10. Topics included the low number of drilling rigs contracted by the two largest oil...
The glow is coming back to uranium and that’s good news for Saskatchewan, especially for the province’s northern economy. After a decade of declining output and revenues, the Saskatchewan uranium mining sector delivered some good news this past week during...
Some things happen in politics by accident, or coincidence. But the placement of George Orwell’s 1984 on the bookshelf immediately to the right of Pierre Poilievre in the video where he announced he was “running for prime minister” was no accident. And his motivations...
Ukraine, the land of my ancestors, is about to be invaded by over 100,000 Russian soldiers. And in the Parliamentary debate on Ukraine on Monday, Jan. 31, I heard what was quite possibly the most asinine, idiotic question, and response, ever spoken in a debate on an...
My late grandfather, Harry Zinchuk, and parents got on a boat in 1930, leaving Ukraine for Canada. They were following his much older brother, Steve, who had come over in 1929. Harry was 13 at the time, having been born in May 1917, during the height of the Great War,...