Thursday, October 8, 2026
Brad Hayes has a PhD in geology from the University of Alberta and is president of Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd., a geoscience consulting firm addressing technical and strategic issues around oil and gas development, water resource management, helium exploration, geothermal energy, and carbon sequestration. He is an adjunct professor in the University of Alberta Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

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Just Turn Them On, Dummy

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**A driving light rant** Dusk on a Calgary arterial. That grey half-hour where the sky still has some light in it but the road doesn't....

The Wound That Won’t Close

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Four years on, the courts have ruled, the money is gone, and not one person has answered for any of it. By Bruce Scholl — Unscrew...

From Pots and Pans to the Pile-On,

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The History and Benefits of Ridicule, Shame, and the Public-Square Trial We never stopped shaming people. We just changed venues. Walk through any medieval market town...

The Balls to Say It

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Drew Barrymore praised Sydney Sweeney's bravery with the most masculine compliment she could find. Nobody blinked. That's the whole story. By Unscrew the News ...

The Decisive Man: Reclaiming the Instinct to Act

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There is a moment in every crisis where someone has to step forward. Not because they have all the answers, but because waiting is...

THE COURAGE TO SPEAK

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The White Rose, the Long Story of Alberta, and the People Who Refuse to Be Quiet By Bruce Scholl Unscrew the News History has a way of...

Bread & Circuses: The Oldest Trick in the Book

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The phrase "bread and circuses" comes from the Roman poet and satirist Juvenal, writing around 100 AD in his Satires. He observed that the...

The Individual vs. the Tribe

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How tribal multiculturalism fails freedom and destroys our countries. https://fast.visegrad24.com/articles/the-individual-vs-the-tribe

The Great Canadian Split: Can the Federation Hold?

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After generations of inter-regional tensions, Western Canadian provinces are considering independence. https://fast.visegrad24.com/articles/the-great-canadian-split-can-the-federation-hold

Now Is Alberta’s Time

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A reflection on inheritance, freedom, and why Alberta’s referendum effort matters now.  Alberta’s push toward a referendum is not only a political tactic—it is a...

BIG Exclusives

The oil system that worked – until February 2022 (Part 1 of 2)

Figure 1 Before February 2022, the world’s oil system worked the way most people assumed it always would: Russia sent crude and diesel to Europe,...

Assessing the legality of deployed U.S. space weapons within existing treaties

Figure 1: Graphic c/o Grok. Last week’s statement by General Dan Caine, Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, that “today’s modern battlefield...