Yes, the country that has polluted the earth more than any other by a large margin is lecturing on wildfires. Just another fucking bullying tactic by the orange turd pedopotus's government.
2026 Canadian Political Thread
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The Department of Finance has previously censored details of federal aid to Ukraine, citing potential harm to international affairs and third-party trade secrets. Read that again. Trade secrets, on public money.
So when I tell you the paper trail on this $900 million will hit a wall of black ink, that’s not cynicism. That’s precedent. This package sits inside a $2.8 billion Canadian commitment for 2026, on top of more than $25.5 billion in total assistance since 2022.
The $25.5 billion since 2022 works out to roughly $1,590 per Canadian household. Committed with no line-item public tracking, and a finance department on record redacting the details.
I am not telling you where this money ends up. Nobody outside government can and that’s exactly the problem. You cannot follow money through a redaction.
https://www.todayville.com/900-million-dollars-gone/
With $25.5 billion dollars Canadians support a US adventure in Ukraine. Regardless of the political party in power ousting a legal Ukrainian president for joining Russia's banking system.
So when I tell you the paper trail on this $900 million will hit a wall of black ink, that’s not cynicism. That’s precedent. This package sits inside a $2.8 billion Canadian commitment for 2026, on top of more than $25.5 billion in total assistance since 2022.
The $25.5 billion since 2022 works out to roughly $1,590 per Canadian household. Committed with no line-item public tracking, and a finance department on record redacting the details.
I am not telling you where this money ends up. Nobody outside government can and that’s exactly the problem. You cannot follow money through a redaction.
https://www.todayville.com/900-million-dollars-gone/
With $25.5 billion dollars Canadians support a US adventure in Ukraine. Regardless of the political party in power ousting a legal Ukrainian president for joining Russia's banking system.
Wildfire Fire Lanes (Firebreaks / Fireguards)
• Purpose: Strategic, wide strips of land where all flammable vegetation and fuels are removed. They act as defensive lines to interrupt the continuous path of a forest fire.
• How They Prevent Spread:
• Fuel Removal: By clearing trees, brush, and topsoil down to bare earth, the fire is deprived of the fuel it needs to continue advancing.
• Tactical Advantage: They give wildland firefighters a safe, accessible corridor to lay hose lines, conduct backburns (planned ignitions), and deploy fire retardants.
• Usage & Maintenance: These breaks range from narrow trails to corridors up to 1 kilometre wide, often built using heavy machinery or natural features like rivers and ridges. They require continuous upkeep to remove "ladder fuels" (lower tree branches that let ground fires climb into treetops).
Strategic Wildfire Methods Used in Canada
• Planned Ignitions (Backburning): Fire crews deliberately burn the unburned fuel between a primary firelane/firebreak and the approaching wildfire to stop its forward momentum.
• Cold Trailing: A mopping-up tactic where crews physically feel the soil along fire lanes and access lines with their bare hands to find and extinguish hidden hot spots.
The entire Canadian forest industry needs to step up and create firelanes by harvesting frequent strips. First on the windward side of towns and infrastructure throughout BC and Northern Ontario. And keep going forever. For incentive, Canadian forest industry could have all timber harvested without stumpage fees but for US tariffs on Canadian lumber. Would need to find buyers in Asia and Europe.
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There is a growing market for "slash" (forest harvest residues) in Canada, driven primarily by the bioeconomy, renewable energy, and carbon sequestration initiatives. While historically considered waste to be burned or left to rot, slash is increasingly viewed as a valuable feedstock.
Primary Market Drivers
1. Bioenergy and Renewable Power
The most established market for slash is as a fuel source for biomass energy generation.
A rapidly emerging market involves converting slash into biochar through pyrolysis.
There is a growing market for "slash" (forest harvest residues) in Canada, driven primarily by the bioeconomy, renewable energy, and carbon sequestration initiatives. While historically considered waste to be burned or left to rot, slash is increasingly viewed as a valuable feedstock.
Primary Market Drivers
1. Bioenergy and Renewable Power
The most established market for slash is as a fuel source for biomass energy generation.
- Industrial Heating & Power: Pulp and paper mills and district heating systems often use slash to generate steam and electricity, reducing reliance on fossil fuels.
- Wood Pellets: Canada is a leading exporter of wood pellets, many of which are manufactured from sawmill residues and increasingly from forest slash. These pellets are exported primarily to Europe and Asia for co-firing in coal plants or dedicated biomass facilities.
- Economic Value: The global biomass market is projected to grow significantly (reaching ~$128 billion by 2034), with wood-based biomass being a primary component. In Canada, the forestry sector's contribution to GDP highlights the economic importance of utilizing all fiber, including residues.
Conclusion
The market for slash in Canada is transitioning from waste disposal to resource utilization. While regulatory bans on burning and climate goals are pushing supply into the market, the demand side is being driven by bioenergy facilities, biochar production, and carbon credit mechanisms. The sector's growth depends on overcoming logistical costs and ensuring sustainable harvesting practices that maintain forest health.
A rapidly emerging market involves converting slash into biochar through pyrolysis.
- Carbon Sequestration: Biochar is a stable form of carbon that can be buried in soil, effectively removing CO2 from the atmosphere for centuries. This creates potential revenue streams through carbon credits.
- Industrial Scale: In 2025, Carbonity inaugurated Canada’s first industrial-scale biochar plant in Port-Cartier, Quebec. This facility processes approximately 58,000 tonnes of forestry residues annually to produce biochar for soil enhancement and industrial decarbonization.
- Emission Reductions: Studies indicate that producing biochar from slash that would otherwise be burned results in immediate net emission reductions, making it an attractive option for companies aiming for net-zero targets.
3. Emerging Bioproducts
Research and pilot projects are developing markets for slash in higher-value applications:
- Biofuels: Advanced biofuels for aviation and transportation are being developed using cellulosic biomass from forest residues.
- Bioplastics and Chemicals: Technologies are emerging to convert lignocellulosic material into bioplastics, renewable chemicals, and composite materials.
- Engineered Wood: Some residual fiber is being utilized in oriented strand board (OSB) and other engineered wood products, though this often requires higher quality fiber than typical slash.
- Economic and Logistical Challenges
Despite the growing market, several factors limit widespread commercialization:
- Collection Costs: Slash is dispersed across large cutblocks. Collecting, chipping, and transporting low-density biomass is expensive. The economic viability often depends on the distance to the processing facility and the moisture content of the residue.
- Moisture Content: Wet slash has a lower energy value and higher transportation costs per unit of energy. Drying slash in the field (seasoning) is often required before it becomes a viable fuel.
- Soil Nutrient Concerns: Removing too much slash can deplete soil nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorus) and reduce long-term site productivity, leading to regulatory limits on how much residue can be harvested in certain jurisdictions.
Conclusion
The market for slash in Canada is transitioning from waste disposal to resource utilization. While regulatory bans on burning and climate goals are pushing supply into the market, the demand side is being driven by bioenergy facilities, biochar production, and carbon credit mechanisms. The sector's growth depends on overcoming logistical costs and ensuring sustainable harvesting practices that maintain forest health.
I think the problem is not temperature and climate.
Alot has to do with how we manage the forests.
Since the idea of clearcutting started, it has left vast stretches of land barren, so the new little trees grow back (or replanted), giving a denser forest, but a young one, where the thick bark on the trees won't resist the fire in a forest fire.
In a mature forest with trees with thick bark, the undergrowth was controlled by fires and the fires did not hurt the mature trees. The ash left over (bio-char)would also help to fertilize the soil the forest sits on. This soil would hold more water...
Sweden began to selectively log its forest back in the 18th century. Why are we in Canada so slow to do this. Well its greed for profit...Forestry was a major employer across Canada in the 1970s and 80s...and it did so by clearcutting.... What happened was small sawmills (family run) began to sell out to the large corporations; and it was all clear cutting after that baby..... it takes 80 to 130 years to grow back very mature trees in all species.
Canada needs to start selective cutting it forest now. The problem is the next 40 to 80 years of low tree availability.
Alot has to do with how we manage the forests.
Since the idea of clearcutting started, it has left vast stretches of land barren, so the new little trees grow back (or replanted), giving a denser forest, but a young one, where the thick bark on the trees won't resist the fire in a forest fire.
In a mature forest with trees with thick bark, the undergrowth was controlled by fires and the fires did not hurt the mature trees. The ash left over (bio-char)would also help to fertilize the soil the forest sits on. This soil would hold more water...
Sweden began to selectively log its forest back in the 18th century. Why are we in Canada so slow to do this. Well its greed for profit...Forestry was a major employer across Canada in the 1970s and 80s...and it did so by clearcutting.... What happened was small sawmills (family run) began to sell out to the large corporations; and it was all clear cutting after that baby..... it takes 80 to 130 years to grow back very mature trees in all species.
Canada needs to start selective cutting it forest now. The problem is the next 40 to 80 years of low tree availability.
While regulatory bans on burning and climate goals are pushing supply into the market,(very good sounding line but analyse it)-- good god man (Dr. Bones best line) all this says that you can't burn it by law; but you can sell it so that people that have a licence, who can burn it for electricity.... You are still producing the same amount of CO2....
For forests you can't just farm this wood waste like you are on a flat farm. Most areas would be on hills and steep slopes. Access roads will be required and large trucks need to transport.
Waste disposal (of wood products) for most people mean putting it in the garbage/landfill. Or they burn it. Its actually easier to burn than separate it and recycle it. People are lazy and fucken cheap. Not paying for that load to go to dump, but I'll haul it to my own site and burn it...
bioenergy facilities : A bioenergy facility converts organic waste or biomass into renewable energy, such as electricity, heat, biogas, or liquid fuels, while reducing environmental impact.
biochar production: Biochar is produced by thermochemically converting biomass in an oxygen-limited environment, primarily through pyrolysis or gasification, to create a carbon-rich soil amendment.
carbon credit mechanisms: Carbon credit mechanisms are market-based systems that allow entities to trade emission reductions, incentivizing greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation and supporting climate goals. (Biggest BS line I'd ever heard- the people who created it are stupid and don't know there fellow human beings)
ref: https://www.canada.ca/en/environmen...e-climate-change-mitigation-program.html#fig1
So this article is about creating biomass. Burn Biomass and turn it into electricity (the biomass is used to create heat to turn water into steam to turn an steam turbine which turns an electrical generator.). Its still C + O2 = CO2 + H2O same equation.
Biochar : Made by burning wood in a closed container (with hardly no oxygen), easy with a 45 gallon drum with a lid ( with 2 holes poked in the drum) place drum in a fire and burn for a couple of hours (6-12). This is exactly how those old time brickets were made for your BBQ. Except now you bury the result in the ground to help grow plants in your flower bed.
Carbon credit Holy F Shit Jesus....What it means for you is the taxpayer pays some dimwit (who will fake the paperwork) country a fee to get their portion of Carbon burning rights; which Canada would burn anyway, without having to be scammed out of money .... Its a fucken scam.....
The ref above for environment Canada: the gist is to burn less Carbon producing material .... Wood, oil, and gas.... which Canada burns/makes less than 2% of world CO2 pollution of CO2. Everything else in this article is just fluff.....
and just to add some venonous shit, you didn't get to vote for it, some bureaucrat made it up to stick his head up his bosses ass.... This stuff become law, without you the voter having any thing to say about it.
Saw a utube video on China...
Its making a big plant (using solar and wind) to produce liquid CO2.
Its making a storage battery by storing energy by freezing CO2 solid, and using it to later spin a turbine to make electricity.
Its using solar and wind to extract H2 from Water (H20).
It has another plant that combines the CO2 with H2 to make jet fuel.
It has another plant that makes N2.
It has another plant that combine N2 + H2 to make NH3 (ammonia); which can be used as a fuel for large Cargo ships.
Despite all the inefficiencies of making and transferring energy they are making the HYDROGEN economy, to get away from fossil fuels....
A small gas turbine could burn H2 with air and only produce water (H2O), or a fuel cell could burn the H2 to produce electricity on the spot.
Canada can't get off the toilet to wipe its own ass....
Its making a big plant (using solar and wind) to produce liquid CO2.
Its making a storage battery by storing energy by freezing CO2 solid, and using it to later spin a turbine to make electricity.
Its using solar and wind to extract H2 from Water (H20).
It has another plant that combines the CO2 with H2 to make jet fuel.
It has another plant that makes N2.
It has another plant that combine N2 + H2 to make NH3 (ammonia); which can be used as a fuel for large Cargo ships.
Despite all the inefficiencies of making and transferring energy they are making the HYDROGEN economy, to get away from fossil fuels....
A small gas turbine could burn H2 with air and only produce water (H2O), or a fuel cell could burn the H2 to produce electricity on the spot.
Canada can't get off the toilet to wipe its own ass....
Here is a question people in Canada should ask itself.
Why did Canada finance the Gordy Hull Bridge....
Why didn't it pay for it outright as part of infrastructure.
In my time I seen toll on Canadian roads : ( when the government didn't have funds to pay for it) They borrowed .....
1. both bridges in Halifax
2. Coqullhala toll booths on #5 hwy from Van to Meritt (gone a few year ago)....
Did any of you know the gas tax at the pump was to pay for all highway in Canada when they first used it. Its since then become general revenue for the Federal government.
Has anybody notice how shitty the roads have gotten from the 70s onward.....
Why did Canada finance the Gordy Hull Bridge....
Why didn't it pay for it outright as part of infrastructure.
In my time I seen toll on Canadian roads : ( when the government didn't have funds to pay for it) They borrowed .....
1. both bridges in Halifax
2. Coqullhala toll booths on #5 hwy from Van to Meritt (gone a few year ago)....
Did any of you know the gas tax at the pump was to pay for all highway in Canada when they first used it. Its since then become general revenue for the Federal government.
Has anybody notice how shitty the roads have gotten from the 70s onward.....
British Columbia’s wildfire emissions in 2023 exceeded those of seven of the world’s ten largest national emitters. Canada’s wildfires that year released nearly 480 megatonnes of carbon—approximately 2.4 gigatonnes of CO₂ equivalent—nearly four times the emissions of global aviation. In 2024 and 2025, wildfire emissions remained among the highest on record. At the same time, policy has systematically reduced the managed forest harvest, deferred logging across millions of hectares, and shuttered 21 mills since 2023, eliminating 15,000 forest sector jobs.
These two developments are not unrelated. The policy of locking forests away from active management—while presented as environmental protection—is contributing to the very climate outcome it claims to prevent.
The workforce that understood how to manage forests—the fallers, the machine operators, the silviculture workers, the fire suppression crews drawn from the same labour pool—is dispersing. When a mill closes, the skilled workers leave. They do not come back when fire season arrives.
The argument for locking forests away from harvest assumes that standing forests are always a carbon sink—absorbing more CO₂ than they release. True for young, actively growing forests. Not true for old, decadent stands.
The wildfire emissions from a single bad season dwarf decades of industrial emissions reduction effort.
When those forests burn—as they did in 2023, 2024, and 2025—they release carbon on a scale that makes every other climate policy in the country irrelevant. Canada’s 2023 wildfire emissions alone exceeded the combined total of every industrial emissions reduction the country has ever achieved.
https://www.todayville.com/burning-...licy-is-making-canadas-climate-problem-worse/
Still wondering about the hundreds of lost jobs at Crofton Pulp Mill for lack of available wood chips. Have to stop asking government to solve anything and go direct to the industry who live in the midst to do what's needed. Canada needs buyers abroad, Mr. Carney for the wood taken to clear tens of thousands of kilometres of firelanes in Canada.
These two developments are not unrelated. The policy of locking forests away from active management—while presented as environmental protection—is contributing to the very climate outcome it claims to prevent.
The workforce that understood how to manage forests—the fallers, the machine operators, the silviculture workers, the fire suppression crews drawn from the same labour pool—is dispersing. When a mill closes, the skilled workers leave. They do not come back when fire season arrives.
The argument for locking forests away from harvest assumes that standing forests are always a carbon sink—absorbing more CO₂ than they release. True for young, actively growing forests. Not true for old, decadent stands.
The wildfire emissions from a single bad season dwarf decades of industrial emissions reduction effort.
When those forests burn—as they did in 2023, 2024, and 2025—they release carbon on a scale that makes every other climate policy in the country irrelevant. Canada’s 2023 wildfire emissions alone exceeded the combined total of every industrial emissions reduction the country has ever achieved.
https://www.todayville.com/burning-...licy-is-making-canadas-climate-problem-worse/
Still wondering about the hundreds of lost jobs at Crofton Pulp Mill for lack of available wood chips. Have to stop asking government to solve anything and go direct to the industry who live in the midst to do what's needed. Canada needs buyers abroad, Mr. Carney for the wood taken to clear tens of thousands of kilometres of firelanes in Canada.
IMO this is a really good post. Part of my consulting is in the BioFuel arena which is growing significantly. Pretty under the radar as far as news outlets go but it is at a point where there are regulatory requirements for content of Bio vs Petro based fuel in feedstocks. What has hit the news the past couple decades and change is the use of lower quality corn crops for bio fuel. Economies dictate more and more of what is the best source and slash is that source that should have been considered a long time ago as its a byproduct of a major industry. Basically a "free" source.
I've done a little work "on the ground" in the logging industry. It's always irked me to walk out and leave so much usable wood laying out to rot. Granted it puts some nutrients etc. back into the soil, however it can take decades for a tree to breakdown completely. I agree that it is an existing resource and could have been added to the "stream" to support pulp and paper and any number of other industries over the last several decades.
Can't vouch for this Youtube channel as I don't know which way it leans.
I thought this was an interesting video on the Gordie Howe Bridge.
I feel the key point is from timestamp 7:30 to 11:50 if you don't want to watch the whole thing.
Also time timestamp 18:04 to 23:15.
I thought this was an interesting video on the Gordie Howe Bridge.
I feel the key point is from timestamp 7:30 to 11:50 if you don't want to watch the whole thing.
Also time timestamp 18:04 to 23:15.
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Across Canada, transnational organized crime, hostile foreign states, underground banking networks, professional money launderers and economic influence operations increasingly rely upon the same financial infrastructure to move wealth, acquire strategic assets, evade sanctions, corrupt institutions and expand geopolitical influence. This is not simply organized crime. Nor is it merely foreign interference. It is economic warfare conducted through financial systems.
Money laundering is treated as a banking issue, trade fraud as a customs issue, foreign interference as an intelligence issue and tax evasion as a CRA issue. No single agency is responsible for understanding how they all connect.
Traditional anti-money laundering systems were built to identify suspicious bank transfers.
Today’s criminal enterprises increasingly bypass those systems altogether: trade invoices replace wire transfers, underground banking replaces conventional remittance systems, mirror swaps settle transactions without funds crossing borders, cryptocurrency accelerates settlement across jurisdictions, commercial imports and exports disguise criminal proceeds, and real estate preserves illicit wealth.
In many cases, the dirty money never actually leaves the country where it was generated. Equivalent value simply appears somewhere else. The transaction disappears into legitimate commerce. Our laws continue to follow money. Modern criminal enterprises follow value.
British Columbia became vulnerable to money laundering through casinos, luxury vehicles, real estate, opaque corporate structures and underground banking.
Modern money laundering is no longer primarily about moving money. It is about moving value.
Chinese underground banking networks, trade-based money laundering, professional laundering organizations, nominee ownership, cryptocurrency, trade fraud, shell companies, strategic land acquisitions and foreign influence operations are no longer isolated activities. They are interconnected components of an integrated financial ecosystem that enables organized crime, sanctions evasion, fentanyl trafficking, corruption, foreign interference and, increasingly, national security threats.
https://www.todayville.com/canadas-...le-will-be-fought-through-money-not-missiles/
The author a former RCMP superintendent. For myself I have no immediate solution beyond bringing public attention to the matter and feeling abhorrent of the situation.
Money laundering is treated as a banking issue, trade fraud as a customs issue, foreign interference as an intelligence issue and tax evasion as a CRA issue. No single agency is responsible for understanding how they all connect.
Traditional anti-money laundering systems were built to identify suspicious bank transfers.
Today’s criminal enterprises increasingly bypass those systems altogether: trade invoices replace wire transfers, underground banking replaces conventional remittance systems, mirror swaps settle transactions without funds crossing borders, cryptocurrency accelerates settlement across jurisdictions, commercial imports and exports disguise criminal proceeds, and real estate preserves illicit wealth.
In many cases, the dirty money never actually leaves the country where it was generated. Equivalent value simply appears somewhere else. The transaction disappears into legitimate commerce. Our laws continue to follow money. Modern criminal enterprises follow value.
British Columbia became vulnerable to money laundering through casinos, luxury vehicles, real estate, opaque corporate structures and underground banking.
Modern money laundering is no longer primarily about moving money. It is about moving value.
Chinese underground banking networks, trade-based money laundering, professional laundering organizations, nominee ownership, cryptocurrency, trade fraud, shell companies, strategic land acquisitions and foreign influence operations are no longer isolated activities. They are interconnected components of an integrated financial ecosystem that enables organized crime, sanctions evasion, fentanyl trafficking, corruption, foreign interference and, increasingly, national security threats.
https://www.todayville.com/canadas-...le-will-be-fought-through-money-not-missiles/
The author a former RCMP superintendent. For myself I have no immediate solution beyond bringing public attention to the matter and feeling abhorrent of the situation.
True for young, actively growing forests. Not true for old, decadent stands.
The thing here is that young trees don't take in as much CO2 as this statement indicates. And it is leaving out alot of infomations too. I have yet to see an "old decadent stand" in Canada, as we Canadians have clear cut any mature forest down. What we have for old growth forests still take CO2 out of the air.
We have enough forests in the National and Provincial Park to act as old mature forests. The rest of the forests should be managed thru selective logging.
A prime example is where our big cities are. They used to be forest areas. What about the farms in Canada, they used to be forests too. We built our cities and towns on the best flat land. Look at any farm land area, look at US farms in the 1920, they cut down all trees so that when drought hit, there was no trees to slow the wind down. That the 1930s were called the dust bowl... It only stopped by planting trees in a 200 mile line North to South to prevent the dust bowls.
What you will see on farms today is trees on the perimeter of the farmland, to prevent wind (erosion of the land), and to grow firewood too. When you drive down the highways, trees are not cut by the highways, it gives the impression that there still are large forests in Canada. When you look out the window in an airplane you can see all the clearcutting that has been done.
Hell if you want to stop cutting down of mature trees, ban log houses....
Bring back the death penalty-publicly hang the fuckers.... seize assets....
Any foreign transactions over 5000.00 should be scrutinized.
Beijing seeks to extend its political authority beyond its borders. Officially titled the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, the legislation was adopted by the National People’s Congress in March 2026 and entered into force on July 1, 2026.
The targets are not criminals or violent extremists. They are often people exercising rights that Canadians take for granted, including human rights defenders documenting abuses, Uyghur, Tibetan, and Hong Kong advocates speaking publicly about their communities, academics publishing independent research, journalists exposing state misconduct, lawyers representing victims, parliamentarians engaging with diaspora groups, and non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders advocating for accountability.
Human Rights Watch’s also equally direct in naming it: “That is what you call transnational repression."
Authoritarian states are not simply violating the sovereignty of countries like Canada through espionage or covert influence operations, which is bad enough. They are attempting to establish a rival legal order that operates in parallel to Canadian law on Canadian territory, enforced not through Canadian courts but through visa denials, family intimidation in China, commercial pressure on Canadian businesses, and, as the overseas police station cases demonstrate, direct coercive contact with individuals inside Canada’s borders.
Unlike the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, Canada still lacks a functioning foreign agent registry with the enforcement authority to compel disclosure of Beijing-directed activity before it causes harm. The Foreign Influence Transparency Registry created under Bill C-70 remains in early implementation, and analysts have repeatedly identified the absence of a mature registry as a major impediment to countering overseas police stations and similar operations. Canada has extradition arrangements and practical law-enforcement relationships with jurisdictions that Beijing can lean on. Canada is home to large, established Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Kong, and Falun Gong diaspora communities.
The calculation Beijing makes is about the researcher who decides not to publish, the professor who quietly drops the Uyghur course, the company that shelves the supply-chain audit, and the young Uyghur-Canadian or Tibetan Canadian who stops calling relatives at home because a phone record might now carry statutory legal risk under a law passed nine thousand kilometers away. That is what a rival legal order arriving on Canadian soil actually looks like in practice.
https://www.todayville.com/chinas-long-arm-is-reaching-into-canada-and-ottawa-isnt-ready/
Canada overcoing nefarious foreign actors exploiting Stinchcombe Law.
AI Overviews:
Author, Mehmet Tohti the executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, based in Ottawa.
Under Canada's Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act, non-compliance penalties include criminal fines up to C$5 million, imprisonment for up to five years, and administrative monetary penalties up to C$1 million.
Foreign nationals with valid diplomatic, consular, official, or special representative status from Global Affairs Canada appear to be exempt.
Canada passed legislation to create a foreign agent registry, which officially comes into force on August 4, 2026.
The targets are not criminals or violent extremists. They are often people exercising rights that Canadians take for granted, including human rights defenders documenting abuses, Uyghur, Tibetan, and Hong Kong advocates speaking publicly about their communities, academics publishing independent research, journalists exposing state misconduct, lawyers representing victims, parliamentarians engaging with diaspora groups, and non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders advocating for accountability.
Human Rights Watch’s also equally direct in naming it: “That is what you call transnational repression."
Authoritarian states are not simply violating the sovereignty of countries like Canada through espionage or covert influence operations, which is bad enough. They are attempting to establish a rival legal order that operates in parallel to Canadian law on Canadian territory, enforced not through Canadian courts but through visa denials, family intimidation in China, commercial pressure on Canadian businesses, and, as the overseas police station cases demonstrate, direct coercive contact with individuals inside Canada’s borders.
Unlike the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, Canada still lacks a functioning foreign agent registry with the enforcement authority to compel disclosure of Beijing-directed activity before it causes harm. The Foreign Influence Transparency Registry created under Bill C-70 remains in early implementation, and analysts have repeatedly identified the absence of a mature registry as a major impediment to countering overseas police stations and similar operations. Canada has extradition arrangements and practical law-enforcement relationships with jurisdictions that Beijing can lean on. Canada is home to large, established Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Kong, and Falun Gong diaspora communities.
The calculation Beijing makes is about the researcher who decides not to publish, the professor who quietly drops the Uyghur course, the company that shelves the supply-chain audit, and the young Uyghur-Canadian or Tibetan Canadian who stops calling relatives at home because a phone record might now carry statutory legal risk under a law passed nine thousand kilometers away. That is what a rival legal order arriving on Canadian soil actually looks like in practice.
https://www.todayville.com/chinas-long-arm-is-reaching-into-canada-and-ottawa-isnt-ready/
Canada overcoing nefarious foreign actors exploiting Stinchcombe Law.
AI Overviews:
Author, Mehmet Tohti the executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, based in Ottawa.
Under Canada's Foreign Influence Transparency and Accountability Act, non-compliance penalties include criminal fines up to C$5 million, imprisonment for up to five years, and administrative monetary penalties up to C$1 million.
Foreign nationals with valid diplomatic, consular, official, or special representative status from Global Affairs Canada appear to be exempt.
Canada passed legislation to create a foreign agent registry, which officially comes into force on August 4, 2026.
Lessons Canada should look at re: Forestry Management
Of course some things can't be implimented in Canada as in the Nordic countries, however some can and would improve forest management and reduce fire intensity (as it has in the bolow listed countries)
The Nordic countries (specifically Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark) employ a model of active forest management that contrasts sharply with passive conservation. Their approach is characterized by the following key strategies:
Active Forest Management is designed specifically to increase harvesting capacity while ensuring that forest growth not only sustains but often exceeds removal rates. This is the core principle behind the Nordic model advocated by experts like Dr. Jamie Stephen.
The Growth-Harvest Balance
In actively managed forests, the annual growth increment consistently surpasses the volume harvested. Data from Nordic countries illustrates this dynamic:
Mechanisms for Sustained Growth
Active management sustains growth through several silvicultural techniques:
1. Active Silviculture and Harvesting
Unlike "hands-off" conservation, Nordic forestry relies on intensive management to maximize both wood production and carbon sequestration.
2. District Heating and Bioenergy Integration
The Nordic region is a global leader in integrating forestry with energy systems.
3. Carbon Management and BECCS
The Nordics are pioneering the transition from carbon-neutral bioenergy to negative emissions.
4. Regulatory Framework
Any way. Enough of this ongoing info dump. Not likely any of it will happen. Wishful thinking I guess.
Of course some things can't be implimented in Canada as in the Nordic countries, however some can and would improve forest management and reduce fire intensity (as it has in the bolow listed countries)
The Nordic countries (specifically Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark) employ a model of active forest management that contrasts sharply with passive conservation. Their approach is characterized by the following key strategies:
Active Forest Management is designed specifically to increase harvesting capacity while ensuring that forest growth not only sustains but often exceeds removal rates. This is the core principle behind the Nordic model advocated by experts like Dr. Jamie Stephen.
The Growth-Harvest Balance
In actively managed forests, the annual growth increment consistently surpasses the volume harvested. Data from Nordic countries illustrates this dynamic:
- Sustainable Surplus: In Sweden, Finland, and Norway, the annual growth of timber stocks has historically exceeded harvest volumes by a significant margin (often 25–35%). For decades, this has allowed these nations to increase both their total forest stock and their harvest rates simultaneously.
- Intensified Sequestration: Active management practices—such as thinning, fertilization, and replanting with genetically improved stock—accelerate the growth rate of remaining trees. Research indicates that these interventions can increase carbon sequestration rates significantly compared to passive, unmanaged stands, which often suffer from stagnation, disease, and higher mortality.
- Recent Shifts: While the long-term trend shows growth exceeding harvest, recent data from Norway (2026) indicates that in specific regions (like Innlandet County), harvesting and natural mortality have temporarily begun to exceed growth due to mature forests planted in the 1950s reaching harvest age simultaneously. This highlights the need for continuous adjustment of sustainable harvest levels, a key function of active management.
Mechanisms for Sustained Growth
Active management sustains growth through several silvicultural techniques:
- Thinning: Removing weaker or crowded trees reduces competition for light, water, and nutrients, allowing the remaining "crop trees" to grow faster and healthier.
- Regeneration: Ensuring immediate replanting or natural regeneration after harvest maintains continuous forest cover and utilizes fast-growing species suited to the site.
- Utilization of Residues: Harvesting branches and tops for bioenergy prevents the release of carbon through natural decay and provides economic value that funds further management activities.
1. Active Silviculture and Harvesting
Unlike "hands-off" conservation, Nordic forestry relies on intensive management to maximize both wood production and carbon sequestration.
- Growth Exceeds Harvest: In these nations, annual forest growth significantly exceeds the harvest volume. For instance, in Finland and Sweden, timber stocks have increased by roughly 70% since the 1970s despite high harvesting rates, because active thinning and replanting accelerate growth.
- Thinning and Regeneration: Forests are systematically thinned to remove weaker trees, allowing remaining trees to grow faster and healthier. This reduces the risk of wildfires and pest outbreaks (like bark beetles) which are common in dense, unmanaged forests.
- Utilization of Residues: Branches, treetops, and sawdust (residues) that would otherwise decay and release carbon are collected for energy production.
2. District Heating and Bioenergy Integration
The Nordic region is a global leader in integrating forestry with energy systems.
- District Heating Networks: Extensive district heating systems distribute heat to entire cities. In Sweden, biomass accounts for over 50% of the fuel mix for district heating, while in Finland it is a major component.
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP): They widely use CHP plants that generate both electricity and heat from biomass, achieving high efficiency rates.
- Fossil Fuel Replacement: This infrastructure has allowed them to replace coal and oil with forest residues. Denmark, for example, has converted major power plants to run entirely on sustainable biomass.
3. Carbon Management and BECCS
The Nordics are pioneering the transition from carbon-neutral bioenergy to negative emissions.
- BECCS Leadership: Leveraging their existing biomass infrastructure, Sweden and Finland are developing Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) facilities. This captures CO2 from burning biomass and stores it underground, removing carbon from the atmosphere.
- Cross-Border Storage: Norway is developing the "Longship" project to store CO2 under the North Sea, accepting carbon captured from Nordic neighbors like Denmark.
4. Regulatory Framework
- Sustainable Forestry Laws: Strict laws mandate that for every tree harvested, new growth is ensured. The "Nordic Model" balances economic yield with biodiversity protection, often setting aside specific areas for conservation while managing the rest for production.
- Carbon Taxes: High taxes on fossil fuels have made bioenergy economically competitive, driving the market shift without heavy direct subsidies for the fuel itself.
Any way. Enough of this ongoing info dump. Not likely any of it will happen. Wishful thinking I guess.
Wildfire severity partially depends on the amount of accumulated natural fuels, dead dried trees, shrubs, grasses in an area. “Prescribed fires” or “controlled burns” can mitigate the risk of future more intense fires by clearing flammable material.
When fire suppression from people interrupts these natural cycles, flammable vegetation accumulates, increasing the risk that future fires will burn larger and hotter.
Since 1990 (the first year of available data), the area treated with prescribed burning in Canada fell from more than 35,000 hectares to just 182 hectares in 2023—a 99.5 per cent decline.
https://www.todayville.com/controlled-burns-could-make-future-wildfires-less-dangerous/
Missive from the Fraser Institute. To do the controlled burns extensive fire lanes need to be cleared and delivered to a buyer.
AI:
Controlled burns (or prescribed fires) are intentionally ignited, low-intensity fires carefully managed by trained professionals to remove hazardous fuels, prevent devastating wildfires, and restore ecological health. They are widely used to clear dead brush, manage invasive species, and create protective fuel breaks near communities.
Controlled burns without pre-constructed firelanes rely on natural boundaries, wet lines, and backburning techniques. Crews use natural barriers like rivers, roads, or rock walls, create temporary wet lines with water trucks, and ignite slow-moving backfires against the wind to contain the fire safely.
