Laird Cole

Conservative. You can never have too much cilantro. Realist when comes to climate change. Love water & family. Like pragmatic politicians.

[Laird Cole @LairdCole2]

@BC_Citcon Can’t judge a book by its cover. Most likely an inherited trait, his thoracic spine. It’s not his looks that scares me, it’s his brain. Besides, look at Stephen Hawking’s physical appearance, yet one of the most brilliant people to have ever lived.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

The world's clean energy transition represents a colossal expansion of the world's mining industry.

To catch a diffuse energy source like sunlight or wind needs an unprecedented volume of physical machinery. A single solar farm requires roughly 30 times more total metal infrastructure than a conventional gas plant. We aren't moving away from mining; we're swapping enormous oceanic drilling rigs for vast open-cut metal mines.

The demand for heavy mining and rare earths is just as compelling as the downstream e-waste crisis, but the numbers are even more staggering. While solar cells rely heavily on high-purity silicon, silver, and copper, the broader 'green infrastructure' ecosystem demands far more.

The EV motors, wind turbines and massive national grids required to tie intermittent solar together are entirely dependent on an unprecedented surge in heavy mining and rare earth extraction.

This physical mining demand has simply exploded with the shift from conventional fossil fuel energy generation to wind and solar. Because wind and sunshine are so diluted and diffused, harvesting them requires a massive physical footprint, necessitating endless extra acres of complex machinery.

This translates into heavily vandalised landscapes and grotesque coastal settings. According to the IEA, replacing them world's fossil-fuel system with renewables increases the total volume of materials requiring extraction and handling by a factor of 10.

Solar alone is exceptionally copper-intensive, using roughly 850 kg per megawatt for intricate grid connections, inverters and cabling. Renewable energy is projected to drive 45% of total global copper demand by 2030. Yet, developing a new major copper mine takes an average of 16 years from initial discovery to first production.

The world faces a massive demand spike for a metal where the supply chain is notoriously slow, costly, and inflexible.

Solar panels don't use much in the way of rare earths, but wind turbines and the electric vehicle motors that back up the low-carbon shift are hungry for permanent magnets made from neodymium, praseodymium and dysprosium. Processing these elements involves intensive chemical leaching that produces vast amounts of toxic and radioactive wastewater.

Compounding the problem, China controls roughly 60–70% of the extraction and up to 90% of the refining for these specific elements.

This has created a massive geopolitical bottleneck.

Image: this massive chasm is the Bingham Canyon Mine (also called the Kennecott Copper Mine) just outside Salt Lake City, Utah. It is one of the largest man-made excavations on Earth and the deepest open-pit mine in the world, stretching 4 kilometres wide and more than a kilometre deep.

[Melissa Lantsman @MelissaLantsman]

This is the 11th announcement on reducing food prices from the Liberal government.

Food prices have gone up after every one of the last 10 announcements.

Try cutting taxes. Food packaging costs or inflationary spending that drives up food costs.

Please no more strategies.

[Laird Cole @LairdCole2]

@McfarlaneGlenda Patience is a tough dance partner. Over the next year and definitely within the next two, Mr. Carney had better start putting meat on the bone. He’s done a lot of travelling, a lot of spending, at lot of talking so I’ll give him his first year to get his ducks lined up. Results??

[VictoriaL59 @Victoria59L]

Pierre rocks. He’s an articulate well spoken man. From FB ⬇️⬇️🙌

LAST NIGHT: Obby Khan attacked Pierre Poilievre — and received a response he probably never expected.

Obby Khan thought he could easily score public points by criticizing Pierre Poilievre over his views on leadership, public policy, accountability, and the direction of Canada’s future. But this time, many believe he chose the wrong target.

Known as one of Canada’s most recognizable political leaders, Pierre Poilievre didn’t simply react — he delivered a thoughtful message about responsibility, respect, opportunity, and the importance of bringing people together.

“Obby Khan says my views are contributing to division,” Poilievre began, his tone calm but unwavering. “But what truly divides people is the belief that only one perspective deserves to be heard while everyone else should remain silent.”

And he didn’t stop there.

“You know what concerns me even more?” Poilievre continued. “When influential people use their platform to dismiss ordinary Canadians simply because they don’t agree with a different vision for the future.”

Then Pierre Poilievre went further, speaking from years of public service, leadership, and countless conversations with people across the country.

“It’s not disagreement that weakens a society,” Poilievre said. “What weakens a society is intolerance, fear, and teaching people to see each other as enemies because of political differences.”

At that point, what began as political criticism had become something much larger — a conversation about respect, responsibility, and the future of public discourse. Rather than turning the exchange into a personal feud, Poilievre shifted the focus toward the values he believes should guide leadership.

“I’m not a perfect man,” Poilievre admitted. “I’ve made my share of mistakes. But I will always believe that a strong Canada is one where people can speak freely, disagree honestly, and still treat one another with dignity and respect.”

Then came the line that many supporters said resonated the most:

“Canada was never built on fear or resentment between neighbours.

It was built on opportunity, courage, hard work, and the belief that people with different opinions could still work together for something greater than themselves. So the real question is this — who is actually trying to bring Canadians together?”

What started as criticism from a high-profile political opponent quickly evolved into a broader conversation about unity, responsibility, and the future of the country. And for many watching, Pierre Poilievre’s response became less about winning an argument and more about defending the principles of respect, opportunity, and understanding in an increasingly divided society.

[Laird Cole @LairdCole2]

@wealthmoose No

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

Mark Carney claims he didn't say what said.

The backpedal:

"To be clear, if you look at the speech, I've never advocated that all of a sudden there was going to be a band of middle powers, you know, the M20 or something like that."

The facts:

"I argue the middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu... in a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice: compete with each other for favour or to combine to create a third path with impact."

Another day, another spin.

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

This Boomer absolutely nails it!!

Carney stands in front of a mountain of apples and declares: “We are an agricultural superpower.”

The only correct response? “No shit.”

Grocery prices are up nearly 35% since 2019. The average Canadian family is now forced to spend **$10,000 a year** — **$800 a month** — just to eat. Food bank visits have hit record highs. Mortgage defaults are surging. Jobs are disappearing. And we’re in a technical recession.

His big solution? Another **$3 BILLION** of your money on a shiny new “food security strategy.”

This is the same guy who can drop more on one plate of caviar during a single flight than most working families spend on groceries in weeks.

11+ years of the exact same empty Liberal speeches. The exact same word salads. The exact same “we’re building, we’re creating, we’re here for you” bullshit — and Canadians have never been more broke, more anxious, or more fed up.

They don’t have a plan.
They have a grift.

And they’re still asking you to pay for it.

#CarneyFail #FoodPrices #CostOfLiving #cdnpoli #CanadaFirst

[Laird Cole @LairdCole2]

@GasPriceWizard @GSawision So let me get this straight. The country farthest away from Net Zero is going to supply us with electric cars to reach Net Zero.
Am I getting that right?

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

Pierre Poilievre held emergency meeting 🇨🇦 in a full-blown affordability crisis.

Groceries are brutal.

Rent is brutal.

Mortgages are brutal.

Carney promised to make 🇨🇦 the most affordable country on earth.

Instead, he somehow made Trudeau look financially responsible.

[Bjorn Lomborg @BjornLomborg]

20 years ago, An Inconvenient Truth put climate change at the center of global debate, shaping politics, influencing leaders, and inspiring a generation of activists.

Two decades later, we can assess not just its impact, but its accuracy. Many of the film’s most alarming predictions did not materialize, while many of the policies it inspired have proven costly and ineffective.

The lesson? Panic is a poor guide for public policy. Focusing on innovation, adaptation, and economic development can do far more to help both people and the climate—at a fraction of the cost.

https://t.co/EIJyuNeFU1

[Vincent Neil Ho @vincentneilho]

🧬🤐 Watch the Liberals scramble to silence Canada’s Chief Science Advisor while she tries to answer what the definition of a woman is.

They say they follow the science… until the science answers the question.

[JayGen 𝕏 er🇨🇦 @JayGenXer]

Mark Carney says Canada was founded on NOTHING.

No race. No creed. No faith.

Fact check:

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms — the actual supreme law of our land — opens with these words:

"Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law."

Not "no faith."
Not "nothing."

The founding fathers invoked the God of the Bible. Dominion from sea to sea.

Carney isn't mistaken. He's deliberately rewriting our history to turn Canada into a blank slate for his globalist agenda.

This is the man who wants to be Prime Minister.

If he can't tell the truth about where we came from, he has no business deciding where we're going.

Canadians built this country on real principles — not blank pages and empty slogans.

Drop a 🔥 if you're tired of the historical gaslighting.

#cdnpoli #Carney #LiberalFail #CanadaFirst #Charter

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

🚨𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗙𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗗 𝗜𝗧... 𝟮 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗧𝗛𝗦!!!🚨

Carney admits on tape: When voters blocked his ESG plans, "We" Central Bankers acted like "Regulators" going around the voters through the BACK DOOR!

Manipulating fossil fuel prices by withholding lending.

Now he's PM!🙃

[Laird Cole @LairdCole2]

@VoteCanadaCom @louloveshockey @katyperry @JustinTrudeau I used to think Trudeau was a moron, I see he has company.

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

Climate Change is a Scam.

[Eva Chipiuk, BSc, LLB, LLM @echipiuk]

I keep hearing elected officials, commentators, and self-proclaimed experts talk about the importance of “unity” in Canada.

But what exactly do they mean by that?

Canadians are being told we need more “unity,” yet very few people ever explain what that looks like in practice.

So I am curious:

What do you believe actually unites Canadians?

What does Canadian unity mean to you?

I would be interested to hear your answers because, before we can talk about preserving unity, we should probably have an honest conversation about what it means!

And before demanding unity, perhaps our leaders and those following suit should first explain what exactly they believe Canadians are supposed to be united around. Just a suggestion!

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Billions of solar panels are nearing their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the coming toxic avalanche.

By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of useless and toxic solar e-waste. Where is it all going to go?

The industry boasts that solar panels are '95% recyclable'. Technically, yes - because they are made of glass, aluminum and copper. But economics always trumps physics. In Australia and the US, it costs roughly $20 to $40 to disassemble and recycle a single panel, but only around $4 to dump it in landfill.

Because there is no financial incentive, up to 90% of decommissioned panels go straight into the ground. There are between 7 and 8 billion solar panels in the world today. This milestone was reached as global solar capacity officially surpassed 2 Terawatts (TW).

Because the physical wattage of individual panels varies from small 300W residential rooftop modules to massive 600W utility-scale panels, 2 TW of total energy capacity translates to roughly 7 billion individual panels currently installed worldwide.

Each solar panel is an industrial 'sandwich' bound tightly by heavy polymers. To extract the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal baking.

When they are crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium (in thin-film technologies) can leach into the surrounding soil and groundwater, turning 'clean energy' into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem.

The crisis is accelerating faster than models predicted. Because solar cells degrade and lose efficiency, and newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems at least a decade early to upgrade.

This compressed lifecycle destroys the narrative of a long-term, stable asset and creates an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.

[Laird Cole @LairdCole2]

As the Order of Canada is bestowed upon “him” I think the least he could do is wear the Canadian flag on his left lapel to represent the rest of us.

[J.J. McCullough @JJ_McCullough]

I find it a bit cringe when Carney wears his Order of Canada medal around his neck in public like this, like he just finished winning second place at the blueberry pie bake-off.

[Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @Tablesalt13]

‼️Canada's former top soldier SOUNDS THE ALARM on Carney's strategy:

"We need to very WARY about pivoting to China at the expense of the US. Geography matters"

Says that China is AIDING Russia in Ukraine, while we FUND Ukraine!

Finally some COMMON SENSE!