Vernon Vipers are a junior A team in the interior conference of the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL).□

Nationwide Protest Against the Carbon Tax ran a Facebook group campaign to setup blockades at the border line of Saskatchewan and Manitoba on April 1st. "I have children, and I worry about them. What's their future look like? It's really expensive for my bills and I don't have a lot of extra cash laying around to pay [bills]" (or these taxes) says one protester driving a big Ford F-150 work truck. Observing the many F**k Trudeau flags flying on hockey sticks plugged in the tailgate holes of pickup trucks, these few people represent the views of many Canadians on the proposed 23% carbon tax hike. The carbon tax was to increase by $15 a tonne, from $65 up to $80. This increase would add about three cents ($0.03/c/L) to the cost per litre of gas.□

What’s the ultimate form of privacy? Loneliness. I feel like the perception of everyone out there is that we’ve lost our privacy, yet more and more people I run into our sad, depressed, and lonely. What is the cause of such extreme privacy, or loneliness? Lack of trust, trust, bonds people together, there is an implicit moral compass associated with these interactions. I feel like as a society we look at technology as super invasive, and not trustworthy. This is highly true by default, as an open system, lacking governance or oversight. Censorship laws; I understand what they’re trying to do. They’re trying to put guard rails on an Internet system that is like the wild wild West. Remember in the 1860s, the San Francisco 49ers and the gold rush? People would “ stake a claim “, until the trine system by a guy from South Australia was widely adopted as a registration system. It was largely acceptable for our data to be bits and bites all over the place. At the public school for the kids, the community center, the hockey registrations… On and on and on. What we could say about that was that our data was safe, and it was not easily applicable . The Internet is solved a lot of wonderful things, but it is undermined others, such as our data can be repeatable everywhere… And free and wide open. This has collapsed a lot of the education system, institutions and knowledge is power. Knowledges in the hands of the masses, instead of a few powerful people. It used to take decades to learn how your competitors do business, price their goods… Or even make them. Makers and manufacturers post videos on YouTube for free. It’s like we’ve done the opposite of what we should’ve done. Or is it? The Internet is a massive distribution system, and by design it lowers the barriers to entry to the less powerful. We’re in a race to the bottom, as far as wages go… Because things used to take longer to do, more experts needed to figure things out. We’re at a knowledge stale mate, if you will. With the perceived lack of privacy by the public, have we swung the pendulum too far towards ultimate privacy? People used to post their phone number and physical civic address to their homes in the phonebook. Because there was no visual context, perhaps… It seem to me growing up that people knew you don’t just randomly phone people or drop by to their house unless you’re already friends. That was the trust. System built WW2-era, which seems a distant memory in our digital universe with ultimate privacy, where you might say anything, I’ll be at unbecoming to others. Can we find a middle ground, where there is more open trust and transparency, but people still respect the traditional rules of privacy of the past. I think we’re out of critical impasse on the types of information being shared by people today; to their friends and their family, or their colleagues/coworkers. There’s a big regurgitation of surface level facts, and details… And this could be a good thing, we have a foundation for discussion or to make an agreement. There used to be more of a common understanding among the masses with information moved a lot slower. We have to be for a deeper level of knowledge out there, seeking to grandfather critical, information from generations past down to the younger generations almost as basic as grandma’s recipes book; we’ll end up, losing it all!□