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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Ideas & Questions

Published: 07 August 2026

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Now you see this everywhere out here, people with a few extra acres, on to which they store their used car collection, their bottles, cans, chemicals and pesticides, plastic tarps, tires, etc, etc, and this is largely regarded as a right of ownership. There are often community guidelines regarding the upkeep of property, but in rural areas they're seldom enforced.

This of course is bananas. Cars leak antifreeze, wiper fluid, oil, gas, transmission fluids, plastics break down, all these things saturate the soil and make the property poisonous to future generations. Examples of this are too numerous to list. While corporations are notorious for this approach to the environment, a short drive on the back-roads of Alberta or BC should be enough to inform you that a good many individuals are no better. 

There is something inherently wrong with property as "Ownership". Property should be better regarded as "Stewardship", that you have an obligation to upkeep and maintain your property in an environmentally responsible way. You should be required to pay a deposit on any future remediations that need to be done. No further property can be acquired or sold until the property you've tenanted is remediated to the condition you acquired it, and the price paid to acquire it should reflect your track record of looking after things.

Take this one step further and remove ownership entirely. All property is that of the "Crown" - and it to be sold/returned to the crown when the tenant is done. 

Property is an obligation, not a right, and one's ability to "own" is contingent on ones ability to look after the property. Similar arguments could and should be made for Pets and Children, but that's a separate diatribe...

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Ideas & Questions

Published: 15 July 2026

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This is an interesting tale of a sailor who one day woke up and discovered that the ocean had changed colour. From a formerly beautiful violet to the blue-green we're familiar with today. And how he spoke to other sailors and discovered that many had noted the same as well.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmVbwba8Xk

Now, at first I wondered about Gladstone's Colour Theory (Linked Here) - maybe in Homer's time it was a wine dark sea? What if the sailor's were all victims of the Mandala effect? (Linked Here). Or maybe - from time to time - reality resets itself and / or "reboots" - runs a different, updated program? Anyways, there is much to mull in this - how you can wake up one morning to a profoundly different world than the one you went to sleep in the night before. 

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Ideas & Questions

Published: 14 July 2026

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This is less an idea or question than a suggestion or solution.

Alberta, political cesspool of half-witted separatists and wing nuts. They want their own country?

Well, have the vote. And then give it to them. Lay aside a portion of Alberta that proportionally represents the land / population, surround it with a barbed-wire fence and armed guards and let the Alberta Nationalists populate and settle it. Move Danielle Smith in and her UCP caucus, they'll need governance. And let them run 'lil Alberta as they see fit.

We don't need to do anything else, don't need to punish treason, grifting or theft. Just move these assholes into their own country just like they want.

This actually solves a few of our incarceration needs as well. Child Molester? 'lil Alberta wants you. There is amongst the UCP just as amongst MAGA's in the US a considerable overlap I'm sure. And 'lil Alberta welcomes anyone that isn't coloured. Oh - White Nationalists? Move them as well to 'lil Alberta. Murderers? Well, where else are you going to send them. 'lil Alberta can be like Australia was for the English, only we won't punish trifles, only those who seem unable to play well or fairly with others.

It gets out of making difficult decisions, costly decisions about repeat offenders in the justice system - what in Alberta or Canada was a crime is - in 'lil Alberta - a virtue. We don't need to police them, provide them healthcare, or even food. Why, they can grow their own! And dig for their own oil and make their own refineries. They'll be rich, those 'lil Albertans. 

Everything will be better in 'lil Alberta. Hell, in no time at all the rest of Alberta, nay Canade even, will be clamouring to join. Just like everyone in the UK wants to move to Australia.

Lil’ Alberta - if they voted for it they get it, those who didn’t - don’t. This is a solution that should please everyone.

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Written by: Rod Boyle

Category: Ideas & Questions

Published: 13 July 2026

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This is interesting, not least because there were at least 3 instances of survivors contacting/radioing for help after their plane went down. Meaning that they went down on land, supposedly north of Darwin, and in the over 80 years since no trace has been found of them or their plane. 

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1945_RAAF_Douglas_C-47_disappearance

I find it fascinating that this can still be unsolved. It has some parallels to the case of Canada's missing Douglas C-54; which disappeared enroute Anchorage to Great Falls, and there were suggestions of broadcasts from the downed plane afterwards. The Australian Plane seems definitely likely to have landed (3 broadcasts) - and the fate of the crew & passengers is curious indeed.

Link: https://rodboyle.com/index.php/archives/blog/ideas-a-questions/missing-1950-douglas-c-54d

Note: I used to be interested in tales of people who went missing - just vanished - until I realized that there was often a mundane explanation that authorities couldn't share with the public. The possibility of murder, probability even, only they didn't want to implicate the suspected boyfriend/spouse/ex or family members, or the possibility of suicide (probability) in cases where the vanished went off for a walk in the woods, or the ease with which it is to get lost in unforgiving wilderness terrain, and most peoples basic unpreparedness for wilderness survival, most missing persons cases do not bear any close scrutiny. Even MH 370 - the missing Malaysian Airlines flight, bore no scrutiny when you learned a very little of the pilots background. But these, the cases where the planes may have landed intact and where still no clue has been found - well, until they're found they're still baffling.