Michael Petroski

Small business owner. Completion and Workover specialist. Shutterbug.

[Heather Exner-Pirot @ExnerPirot]

"I have heard some proponents of the carbon tax defend it by suggesting that the world will require decarbonized oil barrels going forward. To be honest, Cenovus places over one million barrels a day across three continents, and none of our customers have ever suggested or even asked about the carbon intensity of Canadian crudes.
If customers were willing to pay for decarbonized barrels, we would certainly see these price signals and not require government interference.
The carbon tax escalates through time, making our industry less resilient at lower commodity prices, and will require the premature shut-in and reclamation of oil producing projects that would otherwise be economic to produce.
Much of this is being orchestrated in the belief that we can build a functioning carbon market. The reality is that carbon markets are a political construct and there are no examples of functioning, enduring, or investible carbon markets to draw from." /5

[Karl Harrison @KarlDHarrison]

An Open Letter to the Five Members of Parliament Who Crossed the Floor. 🔥💯

“To the Members of Parliament who chose to abandon the voters who elected you,

There are moments in public life that define a person—not by what they say, but by what they do. Your decision to cross the floor mid-mandate is one of those moments. And it will follow you.

You did not earn your seat under the banner you now carry. You did not campaign on the platform you now support. Canadians placed their trust in you based on clear promises, clear affiliations, and clear values. That trust was not yours to trade, reassign, or surrender once it became politically convenient.

Switching jerseys in the middle of the game is not strategy. It is betrayal.

And it is not a small one.

Every single vote that put you into office came from a Canadian who believed you stood for something specific. They believed their voice mattered. They believed you would carry that voice into Parliament with integrity. Instead, you took that mandate and handed it to a government those same voters did not choose to empower.

That is not representation. That is a reversal of consent.

You may justify your actions however you like—strategy, stability, national interest—but none of those explanations change the fundamental truth: you were not elected to do this. If your convictions truly changed, the honourable path was obvious—step down, face your constituents again, and ask for their permission.

You didn’t.

Instead, you chose the path that benefited you while silencing the people who trusted you.

And here is the part that cannot be avoided:

Every day you look in the mirror, you are looking at the face of that decision.

The face tied to every vote that put you where you are—and every voter who was left behind when you walked away from them.

You may gain position, influence, even reward. But none of that changes what this is.

Because of your actions, a government now holds power it did not win at the ballot box. A majority carries enormous weight—over the economy, over policy, over the everyday lives of Canadians. That power was not freely granted. It was assembled through your defection.

And the cost will not be yours to bear.

It will be carried by hard- working Canadians—by families already stretched thin, by small businesses trying to survive, by people who now feel their vote can be taken and repurposed without their consent.

That is a dangerous precedent.

Because when people begin to believe their vote no longer truly matters, the damage goes far beyond one decision, one Parliament, or one government. It cuts at the foundation of trust itself.

Canadians deserved better than this.

They deserved representatives who either stood by their word—or had the integrity to return to the people and seek a renewed mandate when that word changed.

You chose something else.

And Canadians will remember, history books will remember……your name.

Sincerely
an ordinary Canadian ,

Stephanie La Porta
West Vancouver
BC”

[True Science PEng, DFP, ADFS, MA, MBA. @socratesccost]

We now have satellites monitoring carbon dioxide surface flux.
Result: Canada is a net carbon sink and does not add carbon dioxide permanently to the atmosphere.
So money spent on emissions reductions is wasted..

[🇨🇦 Antonio Tweets @AntonioTweets2]

Many Canadians need a reality check. You know who you are.

[Michael Petroski @mpetroski]

I resent paying for eastern provinces that refuse to develop their own resources while reaping the benefits of our province which does. Alberta's workers on average pay over $1000/year to "equalization". Rough numbers,
using ~2.2-2.4 million employed in 2024 and 3.3 B transferred:
$3.3 billion / 2.3 million ≈ ~$1,435 per working Albertan. Good enough for me right there! Disproportionate electoral representation on top of having to fund the ideological folly of Ottawa only pours salt in the financial wounds. I haven't heard a federal candidate promise or even mention fairness in equalization or representation. Only a handful support the provinces efforts to sell our products internationally, and the falsely purported veto's of activists seem to have more weight than the constitution. I see no good options for my grandchildren in the direction Canada is going. Therefore it is independence, or pack up and leave. I prefer Independence. All these men and women on this operation are supporting families, are out working in the cold early on a Sunday morning, and they deserve better.

[Michael Petroski @mpetroski]

@RobertFife Canadian tax dollars paying for liberal ads. Sick.

[Fr. Daniel☦️ @Fragbaza]

The genocide of Orthodox Christians in Atheist Soviet Russia is perhaps the single greatest Christian persecution in Human history.

What crimes did the Bolsheviks commit during the ‘Russian Revolution?

They nailed him to the floor of the church. He remained alive for a long time. Red-hot ramrods were slowly driven into his body until one pierced his heart… This is how Bishop Sylvester (Olshevsky) of Omsk died in February 1920.

Bishop Tikhon (Nikanorov) of Voronezh was crucified on the Royal Doors of the iconostasis.

Bishop Andronik of Perm was buried alive in a pit which he had been forced to dig himself.

Bishop Hermogenes of Tobolsk was tied to a ship’s wheel and drowned.

Bishop Seraphim (Chichagov) was carried on a stretcher to be executed at the Butovo firing range, as the nearly 90-year-old elder could no longer walk.

Grand Duchess Elizabeth & the nun Barbara were thrown alive into a deep mineshaft in Alapaevsk.

Bishop Benjamin of Petrograd, along with several laymen, was shot after a show trial based on false charges related to the confiscation of church valuables.

Priest Peter Skipetrov was shot in the face in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

Archbishop Nikon Rozhdestvesnky (accused of ‘antisemitism’) was stabbed & maimed to death outside of his monastery (Trinity Sergius Lavra), his body was disfigured beyond recognition. The Bolsheviks also beheaded him.

Metropolitan Vladimir (Bogoyavlensky) of Kiev was dragged outside the walls of the Kiev Lavra, shot, and bayoneted while he gave his blessing to his executioners.

The elderly ascetic, Bishop John (Pommer) of Latvia, was tied to a door torn from its hinges, laid on a workbench, brutally tortured, and then set on fire while still alive.

Bishop Thaddeus of Tver was drowned in human waste.

Father Alexey Merkuryev of the Urals was murdered in front of his congregation, daughter, and son.

Bishop Theophan of Solikamsk was stripped, his hair braided, a pole threaded through it, & he was slowly lowered into an icy hole in the Kama River. His body became encased in ice. But the hierarch was still alive - and then he was drowned.

Some priests and laymen had their hands tied behind their backs, their eyes blindfolded, and were ordered to walk across the ice until they fell into a hole. The torturers mockingly called them ‘divers.’

The holy prisoners of the Solovki labor camp had their beards and mustaches ripped out and were starved to death…

No number of pages or tears can recount all that our land endured so recently - just yesterday. This is only a drop in the ocean of blood shed by the Holy New Martyrs, whose memory we commemorate each year.

Hundreds of thousands of priests and millions of laypeople were killed and torn apart for their faithfulness to Christ. More than 2,000 have been canonized as confessors and martyrs - and how many more are known only to God?

And this was not some mere political struggle. It was hell itself unleashed. Only demons devoid of all conscience could torture people in such ways.

The scale, ferocity, and mercilessness of Soviet persecution of the Church is encapsulated in a single figure: out of 80,000 churches and monasteries at the beginning of the 20th century, by 1939, barely a hundred parishes remained across the vast Russian land. Not a single monastery. Not a single seminary. Not a single bishop at liberty. Just a scattered handful of monks.

[Michael Petroski @mpetroski]

@unusual_whales I hear talk of less tourists travelling to the USA, but it is not due to Trump, nobody here has any money!!!

[James E. Thorne @DrJStrategy]

For the record.

Havel at Davos: When an ex Central Banker Borrows the Language of Dissent.

Mark Carney went to Davos, quoted Václav Havel, and declared that the old rules‑based order is over and that it is time to stop “living within a lie.” On the surface, that sounds like moral clarity; underneath, the irony is hard to miss. Havel wrote about dismantling systems where ideology hides power, where conformity is sold as responsibility, and where ordinary people are nudged into acting out loyalty they do not really feel.

Carney, by contrast, is the polished face of that very world: a former central banker and global insider, standing on the main stage of elite technocracy, calling for a renovated version of the same expert‑run order, this time wrapped in tougher talk about resilience, security and “middle‑power coalitions.” Whether people see the irony will depend on whether investors actually go back and read Havel.

As more investors rediscover his work, many will notice how odd it is to watch a former central banker use Havel’s language to justify reinventing the system through new technocratic institutions, for example on climate change, where sweeping constraints on capital and everyday life are presented as neutral “technical” necessity rather than contested political choice.

Havel’s greengrocer wasn’t a pitch for upgraded global governance. It was a call for ordinary people to stop playing along with systems that demand ritual slogans while hoarding real power elsewhere. In that light, Carney invoking Havel at the WEF starts to look less like homage and more like a system trying to wash itself clean, on climate policy and beyond, using the language of one of its sharpest moral critics.

[🇺🇸 🦅Simple Man 🦅🇺🇸 @Soaringeagle45]

A man staggers into an emergency room with two black eyes and a five iron wrapped tightly around his throat. Naturally, the doctor asks him what happened.

Well, it was like this, said the man, I was having a quiet round of golf with my wife, when she sliced her ball into a pasture of cows.

We went to look for it, and while I was rooting around, I noticed one of the cows had something white at its rear end. I walked over and lifted up the tail, and sure enough, there was my wife's golf ball........stuck right in the middle of the cow's butt. That's when I made my mistake.

"What did you do?" asks the doctor.

Well, I lifted the tail and yelled to the wife, “Hey, this looks like yours!”

[Michael Petroski @mpetroski]

@TamaraUgo Says the guy that literally wrote the book "Values".

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

By far the best video explanation of why Canada's equalization program is flawed, and leading to the disintegration of our country.

"The $25 Billion Bribe How Equalization is Tearing Canada Apart"

https://t.co/n1RUoEb2Pr

[Michael Petroski @mpetroski]

@JohnLeePettim13 @PaulMitchell_AB Full tank of diesel beats a full charge. Can always find diesel in the bush, charging stations...
Nope.

[John Lee Pettimore @JohnLeePettim13]

In 2025, the federal government is projected to collect $68.8 billion from Alberta, about $13,743 per person. By 2039, that will grow to $127.2 billion, or $21,380 per person. More than half will come from personal income taxes. Yet some Canadians feel this is fair. It's not.

[Michael Petroski @mpetroski]

@GasPriceWizard The Feds are funding an illusion to get a desired result. Current largest supporter of this organization is the Canadian Federal government, and BC's government also is a contributor. Basically fraud.

[Michael Petroski @mpetroski]

@KarlDHarrison What that really means is that the governments, federal and provincial, are funding a group to create their desired result.

[Michael Petroski @mpetroski]

@KirkLubimov So take guns away from law abiding owners that know how to shoot safely, but teach desk jockeys to shoot. Will they be learning on assault style rifles and handguns???

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

“Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.”

— Milton Friedman

[Martyupnorth®- Unacceptable Fact Checker @Martyupnorth]

Teachers in Alberta were deemed ESSENTIAL during COVID — and they kept getting full paychecks while many of us were laid off with nothing.

No layoffs. No pay cuts. Salaries continued (funded by taxpayers) even as oilfield workers, servers, retail staff, and small business owners lost everything.

You're being "forced" back to work with a 12% pay increase FFS. Quit your whining.

[Michael Petroski @mpetroski]

@junonewscom So arson was NOT breaking news?