I’m back! After five and a half years, I find that I want to use this blog again. I have more to say.

Looking back at some of these posts, especially the ones from my first few years in Canada, it feels like a bit of a time capsule. I was part of a Canadian environmental movement pushing back against pipelines, salmon farms, and massive port expansions. Trudeau’s federal government was often saying the right things, making painfully slow, incremental progress on an environmental agenda, and needing rather constant nudging from us to keep at it.

We didn’t know we had it so good.

Fast-forward five years to 2026, and we find that Carney’s federal government is so frightened of Trump’s economic threats that resource extraction is front, center, and taking up the entire frame of Canada. The “keep it in the ground” mantra has been stood on its head. Rather, every effort is being made to pump every last drop of oil and gas out, and rushing it to market. Not to the US (elbows still up!), but to the vast Asian market instead.

As I re-engage with this blog, my intention is to cover as many hopeful, positive environmental stories as negative. The Green Party (both federal and provincial) has a new energy and urgency to it. The City of North Vancouver, where I live, is building real infrastructure to reduce its reliance on natural gas. (Indeed, the Lonsdale Energy Urban Heat Recovery Centre broke ground this week, on the banks of Mosquito Creek.) Canadian courts are mostly upholding Trudeau-era decisions about open-net salmon farms littering the Salish Sea.

There’s a noticeable determination in ordinary people to correct the current course we are on. Let’s get to work!