Saturday, October 10, 2026
Rick Warters, BSc’82 (Geology), P.Geo, led an active career in oil and gas exploration and development in Canada and the US that spanned 35 years until his retirement in 2017. Rick has held several senior leadership and executive positions in including Amerada Hess, Petro-Canada, Burlington Resources, ConocoPhillips and most recently Talisman/Repsol, where he retired as the Director of North American Subsurface Development and Vice President of Geosciences Canada. Rick was the founder of the UCalgary’s Geoscience Alumni Chapter, and was instrumental in creating the endowed Geoscience Alumni Scholarship.

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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 dehumanization engine – it’s getting personal

Once individual cognition begins to atrophy, the cultural effects expand outward. What starts as the personal offloading of thought morphs into a societal conversion...

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,...