Brian Killin

It’s almost like Putin and Netanyahu control our foreign policy.

No one has explained to me why we’re in this war in the first place

How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power Outside Abu Dhabi, a vast area of desert is being carpeted with solar panels.

Make sure your loved ones aren't operating on out of date priors about intermittent renewables: tell them batteries are now an economical supplement generating full time dispatchable power from them.

"How falling battery costs are igniting race for round-the-clock solar power"

Thanks for this one Richard… just saying

Trump is letting huge corporations that suck up to him evade antitrust enforcement.

State attorneys general should fight back by filing their own lawsuits to break up Live Nation/Ticketmaster and block Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros.

Enough of Trump's oligarchy.

Year 2, Week 10 Feb 28-Mar6, 2026 - time (for) change

Each Friday night, I write a briefing on what happened in US science & higher ed. 🧪

Mar 6 (Year 2, Week 10)
- NIH revoking certification of early career workers union
- FDA 'chaos' & Prasad out (again)
- even more delay & interference in NIH funding
& so much more

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My painting of our local ice cream shop in Toronto…

The style is different, but the theme & humour reminds me of Guillermo Mordillo.

Shinny on Lake Ontario, near Kingston.

P3: costs more, takes longer, delivers inferior service. But, it’s an accounting sleight of hand that makes the books look good.

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The world wants to do more business with Canada. I met with business leaders in Sydney to forge new partnerships that will create thousands of high-paying careers across our energy, critical minerals and AI sectors.

Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion.

Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits.

The military industrial complex is cheering today.

We only have 14 days of fossil fuel storage at any given time. We are 14 days from shit going nuclear causing a massive energy shock. So about that LNG Terminal? Maybe not. How about those Solar Panels, Batteries, and better utilisation of our Geothermal? I think that would be prudent.

Just remember what this is all for…. Distracting from the Epstein files

Aggression is the ultimate crime from which all the smaller atrocities flow. What is happening here is that the world indulged America’s insane, relentless violence and will to dominate, and so we have had decades of them getting worse, more murderous and flagrant.

Terrible!

Sorry about your loss friend

Fighting for democracy…

Please United States 🇺🇸, sort yourselves out… back to democracy

Thank you Katharine, best wishes for you positivity…

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Most weeks, bad climate news feels like a deluge. But even in the midst of the storm, there's always good news too. Hang on to your seats, here we go!

I complain about CBC, because it’s not perfect, and fair criticism is allowed and appropriate. But seriously, thank God for CBC in Canada. It needs to be protected.

Thank you for this Brent, from a fellow planner…

A view from my studio window. Painting by me.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?