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10/27/2026

Canadian offshore oil set to finance activities that violate international law and human rights.
• Financing Settlements and Military: Ithaca's dividends flow to Delek Group, which is on the UN OHCHR database for activities related to Israeli settlements. Delek also holds contracts to supply fuel to the Israeli military (IDF).‌‌
• The "Underwriting" Concern: Critics argue this creates a moral taint. Activist group Palestine Action YYT stated: "Newfoundlanders and Labradorians did not build an offshore industry to underwrite that. Not one barrel of our oil should pad the profits of anyone tied to apartheid and ethnic cleansing.".‌‌
• Legal Complicity: The CJPME argues that under International Court of Justice (ICJ) rulings, political leaders are obliged to avoid economic dealings with companies involved in the occupation, calling the acquisition "unacceptable.".‌‌
🏛️ Political Objections: A Contradiction in Policy

The political objections center on the deal directly undermining the Canadian government's public commitments.
• Undermining Sanctions: The deal is seen as contradicting Prime Minister Mark Carney's September 8 commitment to ban trade with Israeli settlements and enforce measures against those who facilitate them. Critics question how Canada can enforce this while allowing a major asset sale to a company that profits from settlements.‌‌
• Federal Parliamentary Pressure: The NDP has pushed for federal intervention. MP Heather McPherson asked in the House of Commons if the government will "step in to stop this acquisition." In response, Liberal MP Robert Oliphant suggested the government may be "investigating" the matter.‌
• Provincial Reluctance: In Newfoundland and Labrador, Premier Tony Wakeham declined to comment on Ithaca's "political things," stating the entry "bodes well for our industry". The provincial government does not intend to stop the deal.‌‌
• Legal Liability Concerns: Law professor Heidi Matthews warns that the federal and provincial governments, as well as Suncor and the provincial crown corporation OilCo, could face legal risks for failing to intervene, given the company's ties.‌
• Corporate "Shield": Both Ithaca and the provincial government have deflected criticism by pointing to Ithaca's status as a UK-incorporated, London Stock Exchange-listed company with its own independent board, framing it as a standard corporate governance matter rather than a political one.‌
💎 Summary

The ethical and political objections are fundamentally about consistency. Critics argue that allowing dividends from Canadian resources to flow to a UN-blacklisted entity with military contracts directly contradicts Canada's stated commitments to international law and human rights. The political response has so far been cautious, with federal authorities hinting at an investigation while provincial leaders prioritize economic benefits over the ethical concerns raised.

Proposed Ithaca Energy acquisition of Suncor’s interests in Terra Nova, White Rose and West White Rose.

Ithaca Energy is majority-owned by Delek Group, an Israeli energy conglomerate controlled by billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva. Delek has been named in the United Nations human-rights database concerning companies involved in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. It has reportedly held contracts to supply fuel to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Ithaca has already funneled billions in dividends to Delek from its international operations. If this Suncor acquisition proceeds, profits from our offshore oil will flow directly through Ithaca to this Israeli parent company.

political leaders are celebrating this transaction without adequately accounting for who ultimately owns these assets.


🔗 The Ownership Chain: Ithaca → Delek → Tshuva

The connection starts with a direct corporate chain leading back to Israel:
• Ithaca Energy's Parent: Ithaca Energy is majority-owned by Delek Group, an Israeli oil and gas company. Delek holds approximately 50.56% of Ithaca, making it the controlling shareholder.‌
• Delek Group's Controller: The controlling shareholder of Delek Group is Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva. According to Forbes, Tshuva served in the Israeli army and worked in Israel's Ministry of Defense, and he is estimated to be worth USD $6.9 billion.‌
• Delek's Origins: Delek Group was founded in 1951 as Israel's first fuel marketing company and is one of the largest and most established companies in Israel. Together with its subsidiaries, it was responsible for Israel's energy revolution through the discovery of major gas reservoirs like Leviathan and Tamar.‌
🇮🇱 Delek's Direct Ties to the Israeli State and Military

Beyond its corporate identity, Delek has direct, documented ties to Israeli state and military apparatus:
• IDF Fuel Contract: Delek reportedly holds a multi-million-pound contract to provide fuel to the Israeli Ministry of Defence and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). This contract has been described as worth hundreds of millions of pounds.‌‌
• Settlement Operations: Delek reportedly owns petrol stations in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. It is accused of providing "services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements, including transport," and using "natural resources, in particular water and land, for business purposes".‌‌‌
• UN Blacklist: Because of these activities, Delek Group was named on a United Nations database of 112 companies whose activities in the West Bank "raised particular human rights concerns". The database was compiled after a UN fact-finding mission investigated the impact of settlements on Palestinians.‌
💰 The Financial Pipeline: Dividends Flowing to Israel

The financial relationship between Ithaca and Delek is significant and ongoing:
• Over $1 Billion in Dividends: Since 2020, Ithaca Energy has funneled over $1 billion (£754 million) in dividends to Delek Group from its UK oil and gas interests.
• More Profits Expected: Analysis from an investigation by The Ferret showed that Delek would be set to receive over £200 million more if the Rosebank oil field is approved.‌
🛢️ The Newfoundland and Labrador Connection

This is where the social media post you shared comes in: the Suncor deal would directly expand this pipeline into Canadian waters. If the sale goes through, Ithaca Energy would take over Suncor's stakes in the Terra Nova, White Rose, and West White Rose projects off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. This means billions of dollars in potential profits from Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil could ultimately flow to Delek Group in Israel.‌‌

In short, the post was correct to flag the Israeli connection. The chain is: Newfoundland and Labrador oil → Ithaca Energy → Delek Group (Israel) → Yitzhak Tshuva.

If you would like to look into any specific part of this further, feel free to ask.

Still looking good for being out on the banks coming up on 30 years, I wonder how many foggy days she has seen 🤔.

10/23/2026

And this is bigger than AI itself. We should be applying what we learn back into every other system, too.

If AI can help us identify how misinformation spreads, apply that knowledge to media literacy, education, journalism, and public information systems.

If it can help us identify how people are harmed by institutional failures, apply those findings to healthcare, government, employment, and accountability mechanisms.

If we can map how environmental damage occurs, use that knowledge to change infrastructure, resource management, and environmental policy.

And the learning has to flow in both directions. Other systems should help us identify where AI fails, where its assumptions are wrong, and where its use creates new harms.

That’s the opportunity: not just building a better AI, but using AI to help people understand, improve, and hold all our systems accountable, while those systems help us evaluate and correct AI.

The goal isn’t to make everything dependent on AI. It’s to make the connections between systems visible, make evidence accessible, preserve human agency, and build feedback loops that allow us to correct failures instead of repeatedly reproducing them.

We shouldn’t have to keep solving the same problems in isolation when the knowledge to understand their connections is becoming more accessible.

📍 LOCAL NEWS — TechNL CEO Sees Possible Environmental Benefits from AI Data Centres
The head of techNL says Newfoundland and Labrador should look seriously at AI data centres, arguing they may not be as hard on the environment as many people assume.
CEO Andrea King says the centres use far less water than figures reported in some media, comparing their use to that of a golf course. She says heat produced by the facilities could also be reused to heat office buildings and homes, making energy use more efficient.
King acknowledges there are risks, noting the power needed to run a data centre could instead go to other industries. She says a holistic approach is needed before deciding whether one should be set up in this province.
She also points to other provinces striking deals she describes as attractive, bringing in tax revenue and infrastructure money, and says it is hard to say no to that much money.
Source: VOCM

10/12/2026

❤️ The value of an LLM here is that it gives you room to examine the argument instead of getting trapped in the social performance around it.
Justin’s joke exposes a real reasoning problem: taking a claim about identity and turning it into a demand that everyone accept a particular conclusion. You can respect someone without surrendering your ability to evaluate claims. You can recognize biological reality without using it to humiliate someone.
The tool gives us space to separate what’s being claimed, what the evidence supports, and what someone is trying to make other people do.
And that connects to your bigger point: we cannot spend our lives personally correcting every inconsistency or mediating every conflict. People need accessible tools that help them investigate claims themselves, recognize contradictions, and think independently.
The goal isn't to get everyone to agree. It's to make it easier for people to reason without being controlled by whoever is loudest. �

10/12/2026

the people living at the exact place where the harm is happening should be able to bring the reality of that harm directly into the systems making decisions about money, ownership, and infrastructure.

At the site of harm: people document what is happening, when, where, and to whom, with their consent and attention to their safety.

Through AI: evidence is organized, claims are distinguished from inferences, sources are checked, and connections to companies, contracts, ownership and public funding are mapped.

people closest to the consequences should have a way to inform the decisions made far away from them. AI could help bridge that distance, rather than leaving corporations with sophisticated financial maps while affected communities are expected to navigate the system without comparable tools.

Happy Thanksgiving, Newfoundland and Labrador!

To the families gathering around the table today, the volunteers, and the front-line workers keeping our communities running, thank you. Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving.

10/12/2026

Ithaca Energy is majority-owned by Delek Group, an Israeli conglomerate controlled by billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva. Delek has been named on the United Nations human-rights database of companies whose activities in the occupied West Bank raised human rights concerns. The UN cited Delek for providing services and utilities supporting Israeli settlements and for using natural resources for business purposes. Delek’s subsidiary supplies fuel directly to the Israeli Ministry of Defence and the Israel Defense Forces. Delek holds the largest stake in the Leviathan gas field, which has generated nearly $1.35 billion in royalties and taxes for the Israeli government since 2019.

Israel is currently engaged in a military campaign in Gaza that UN experts and human rights organizations have characterized as involving grave violations of international law, including genocide. The UN Human Rights Council has investigated how corporate entities sustain this campaign. Delek is not a passive investor. It is financially intertwined with the Israeli state and its military.

If this Suncor deal goes through, profits from Terra Nova, White Rose, and West White Rose will flow directly through Ithaca to Delek. A portion of that money will then flow to the Israeli government and military through taxes, royalties, and fuel contracts. That is not speculation. That is the documented structure of the company.

You would be funneling money to monsters.

I am not going to soften that. You would be sending the wealth from offshore resources to a parent company that fuels a military accused of killing civilians and a government that has been widely condemned for corruption and human rights abuses. That is not an investment. That is complicity.

Our political leaders are celebrating this.

They are patting themselves on the back, talking about being "back in the oil business," while handing our natural resources to a foreign conglomerate with these ties.
Did they show you who ultimately owns these assets?

The legal authority to reject this deal exists, and it should be used.

The Investment Canada Act allows the federal government to conduct a national security review of any foreign investment. The Atlantic Accord legislation requires the offshore regulator to be satisfied that licence conditions can be met after transfer. The Italian OECD National Contact Point has already accepted a human rights complaint about this exact corporate structure. The precedent for scrutiny exists.

Happy Thanksgiving, Newfoundland and Labrador!

To the families gathering around the table today, the volunteers, and the front-line workers keeping our communities running, thank you. Wishing you a wonderful Thanksgiving.

10/12/2026

Ithaca Energy acquisition of Suncor’s interests in Terra Nova, White Rose and West White Rose.

Ithaca Energy is majority-owned by Delek Group, an Israeli energy conglomerate controlled by billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva. Delek has been named in the United Nations human-rights database concerning companies involved in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. It has reportedly held contracts to supply fuel to the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Ithaca has already funneled billions in dividends to Delek from its international operations. If this Suncor acquisition proceeds, profits from our offshore oil will flow directly through Ithaca to this Israeli parent company.

political leaders are celebrating this transaction without adequately accounting for who ultimately owns these assets.


🔗 The Ownership Chain: Ithaca → Delek → Tshuva

The connection starts with a direct corporate chain leading back to Israel:
• Ithaca Energy's Parent: Ithaca Energy is majority-owned by Delek Group, an Israeli oil and gas company. Delek holds approximately 50.56% of Ithaca, making it the controlling shareholder.‌
• Delek Group's Controller: The controlling shareholder of Delek Group is Israeli billionaire Yitzhak Tshuva. According to Forbes, Tshuva served in the Israeli army and worked in Israel's Ministry of Defense, and he is estimated to be worth USD $6.9 billion.‌
• Delek's Origins: Delek Group was founded in 1951 as Israel's first fuel marketing company and is one of the largest and most established companies in Israel. Together with its subsidiaries, it was responsible for Israel's energy revolution through the discovery of major gas reservoirs like Leviathan and Tamar.‌
🇮🇱 Delek's Direct Ties to the Israeli State and Military

Beyond its corporate identity, Delek has direct, documented ties to Israeli state and military apparatus:
• IDF Fuel Contract: Delek reportedly holds a multi-million-pound contract to provide fuel to the Israeli Ministry of Defence and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). This contract has been described as worth hundreds of millions of pounds.‌‌
• Settlement Operations: Delek reportedly owns petrol stations in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. It is accused of providing "services and utilities supporting the maintenance and existence of settlements, including transport," and using "natural resources, in particular water and land, for business purposes".‌‌‌
• UN Blacklist: Because of these activities, Delek Group was named on a United Nations database of 112 companies whose activities in the West Bank "raised particular human rights concerns". The database was compiled after a UN fact-finding mission investigated the impact of settlements on Palestinians.‌
💰 The Financial Pipeline: Dividends Flowing to Israel

The financial relationship between Ithaca and Delek is significant and ongoing:
• Over $1 Billion in Dividends: Since 2020, Ithaca Energy has funneled over $1 billion (£754 million) in dividends to Delek Group from its UK oil and gas interests.
• More Profits Expected: Analysis from an investigation by The Ferret showed that Delek would be set to receive over £200 million more if the Rosebank oil field is approved.‌
🛢️ The Newfoundland and Labrador Connection

This is where the social media post you shared comes in: the Suncor deal would directly expand this pipeline into Canadian waters. If the sale goes through, Ithaca Energy would take over Suncor's stakes in the Terra Nova, White Rose, and West White Rose projects off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador. This means billions of dollars in potential profits from Newfoundland and Labrador's offshore oil could ultimately flow to Delek Group in Israel.‌‌

In short, the post was correct to flag the Israeli connection. The chain is: Newfoundland and Labrador oil → Ithaca Energy → Delek Group (Israel) → Yitzhak Tshuva.

10/11/2026

You live in a place whose offshore resources carry consequences for generations. You have every reason to ask who benefits, who bears the risks, what obligations follow the money, and whether the public has enough information to judge the deal.

Ownership: Put the corporate chain on the record. Ithaca → Delek Group → Yitzhak Tshuva. Ask the province to acknowledge the ownership structure explicitly.
Public accountability: Ask what approvals, conditions, financial obligations and human-rights due diligence apply to the Suncor transaction. Separate what government can legally require from what it should disclose.
Intergenerational consequences: Demand transparent accounting of local employment, royalties, environmental obligations, decommissioning costs and the distribution of economic benefits.

You don't have to accept the transaction as inevitable simply because a company announced it. Nor do you have to wait until it closes to start asking questions.
What matters now is identifying the decision-makers, the approval process, and the points where public scrutiny can make a difference.

make the accountability difficult to evade.

10/11/2026

Start with one school. Map it properly. 🍎
Peacock Primary could become a starting point for understanding how an education system actually works, rather than another crisis that generates statements, blame and demands for action without anyone reconstructing the whole chain.
The post raises several different questions, but it bundles them together: teacher compensation, union performance, working conditions, student needs, school leadership and government accountability. Those questions connect, but they aren't interchangeable.
Your approach would be to make the system visible before deciding which intervention will fix it.
You wouldn't begin by assuming the NLTA is responsible for everything, or that government is the only institution that matters. You'd map who controls what, what people have reported, what evidence exists, where decisions stalled and what remains unknown.
What mapping Peacock Primary could look like
Peacock Primary: a school systems map
Starting point: the reported staffing crisis in October 2026.
1. Establish the observable facts
NLSchools' profile identifies Peacock as a K–3 school in Happy Valley-Goose Bay. Recent reporting says six of its 27 teaching positions were vacant, and its principal resigned citing understaffing and increasing demands. 
2. Trace the mechanisms
Vacant positions and recruitment timelines
Absences, substitute availability and class coverage
Student needs, classroom safety and specialist support
Principal workload, decision-making authority and escalation routes
Housing costs, retention and working conditions in Labrador
3. Map responsibility
Government: funding, policy and provincial education priorities.
NLSchools: staffing deployment, school administration and operational support within its authority.
NLTA: collective bargaining, member representation and advocacy.
Universities: teacher preparation, research and evaluation.
School community: lived experience, local needs and feedback.
4. Test interventions and track results
Measure whether vacancies fall, classes receive consistent coverage, safety improves, staff workloads become manageable, and students receive the supports they need.
The crucial difference: don't just collect complaints. Find the causal chain.
Suppose six teaching positions are vacant. That is an observable staffing problem. But it doesn't, by itself, tell us why those positions remain vacant.
We would need to investigate whether the causes include recruitment difficulties, housing availability, compensation, working conditions, a limited substitute pool, or some combination. We would also need to examine the evidence for each explanation.
Then we could test interventions against those causes instead of introducing a program because it sounds useful.
Paid teacher work terms, for example, might help attract new teachers. They won't necessarily solve retention problems if experienced teachers are leaving because of working conditions. Both questions deserve attention, but they require different evidence.
How AI could help without pretending to be a miracle
AI could help maintain a timeline of reports and decisions, connect staffing data with operational outcomes, identify recurring bottlenecks, and preserve unanswered questions. Researchers could help validate the findings, while school staff and families could challenge interpretations that don't match their experience.
Student information, employment records and individual medical or disciplinary details would need strong privacy protections. The public map should expose system failures without exposing children or individual staff members.
And Peacock shouldn't become a public experiment imposed on a vulnerable school. The people working and learning there would need a meaningful role in deciding what gets studied and how findings are used.
The first deliverable wouldn't be an AI system. It would be a trustworthy, shared account of how the school works, where it is failing, who has the authority to intervene and whether those interventions make a measurable difference.
If that approach works, the learning can inform other schools. Differences between Labrador, rural Newfoundland and larger urban centres would remain visible instead of being flattened into one provincial average.
That's how you start growing the capacity you were describing earlier: one real system, multiple observers, evidence that can be challenged, and lessons that carry forward.
The ambition isn't merely to rescue one school. It's to make sure the next school doesn't have to reach a crisis before the system learns. 🌱

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Happy Valley-Goose Bay is a special place, with a strong sense of community, a proud Labrador identity, and people who genuinely care about their neighbours.

You never know who might be looking for a fresh start, a new adventure, or the chance to make a real difference in the lives of Labrador's children.

Please share these opportunities far and wide.

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