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,...
Because of the coronavirus pandemic, the world has been plenty crazy in the past two years. Governments have borrowed enormous amounts of money to keep the economy functioning as it was legislated into lockdown to halt the spread of the COVID-19 virus. And as...
https://pipelineonline.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/aerial-view-of-the-solar-photovoltaic-power-station-renewable-energy-power-generati-SBV-346631932-HD.mp4 Solar arrays. Video licensed by Brian Zinchuk via Storyblocks.com Wind and solar power, we are always told,...
On Jan. 19, I spoke with John Gormley on CJME/CKOM about how thing are going in the energy sector, now that oil prices have hit a recent high point. These are my notes that drove most of the discussion. Most of it made it in, but not all. Here’s the recording:...
Global events can have a huge impact on what happens in Canada. The coronavirus pandemic did not emerge from a laboratory or “wet market” in Yorkton. The world price of oil is not set in Estevan, although perhaps it should be. Those folks know more about it than most....
