Biden’s inconsistent approach to pipelines is raising eyebrows
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Etam: Voters Will Need to Decide If Our Energy System Remains Affordable and Reliable, or Descends Into Chaos
Nassim Taleb, if you’ve never read his stuff, is an odd and fascinating character; a writer with towering intellect, vast wealth, and an odd sort of humanistic humility, yet at the same time he provides a reliably volcanic reaction to pomposity or ineptitude....
Eliminating Fossil Fuels Will Produce A Crippling Decline In Human Well-Being
An environmental activist with the group Extinction Rebellion DC scales the Wilson Building next to a sign that reads "No New Fossil Fuels," as part of an Earth Day rally against fossil fuels in Washington on April 22, 2022. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images) In...
TC Energy Dumping Keystone Pipeline
After 18 years of heartbreak and misery, TC Energy is dumping its foray into oil pipelines. TC Energy announced on July 27 it is spinning off a new liquids pipelines company from its natural gas pipelines and power generation business. The new, unnamed company...
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‘Leftugees’ Flee to Fertile Right-Wing Soil
The last 100 years have given ample proof that the further left a regime is, the more people want to leave it. Saskatchewan’s socialism sent private businesses and people scurrying to Alberta. The Berlin Wall was erected to keep Eastern Europeans from fleeing...
Past Pandemics Handled With Common Sense
Great events in history usually have one picture that manages to capture their essence. The iconic photo of the American troops planting the flag on Iwo Jima does it for WWII and the disturbing picture of the naked little girl running for her life from napalm,...
Len Marchand’s Indian Residential School Experience
November 16 marked 88 years since the birth of Canada’s first “Status Indian” Member of Parliament and cabinet minister, Leonard Stephen (Len) Marchand. Elected, then re-elected twice, to the House of Commons, he served as a parliamentary secretary, minister and,...
To Infinity and Beyond
Space exploration is fraught with a wide variety of hazards; solar storms could irradiate astronauts, collisions with small, unseen objects could cause instant death, and the acts of both leaving Earth and coming back are high risk maneuvers that involve high speeds...
When People You Trust Lie, You Believe
Consider how you might feel if you were in the same room as an Antifa activist who had shot dead two people during a violent riot. Important context aside, just knowing that this radical activist had killed two people with a weapon in the street would likely be enough...
Global Minimum Tax Is Cartel Scam with Loopholes
Rhetoric is one thing; reality is another. As is becoming increasingly clear, the OECD’s July 1 proposal for a 15 per cent global minimum for corporate taxation is nothing of the sort. Although the awaited initiative slated for 2023 will not and cannot achieve a level...
Indigenous Women and Canadian Institutions
As you read the title of this article, your mind probably flashes to a few negative media stories. Perhaps you think of a young Indigenous woman’s bad experience with a Winnipeg taxi driver. Or you think of Joyce Echaquan’s suffering and death in a Quebec hospital and...
Prince Charles’ Climate Activism Risks the Future of the Monarchy
The news that Her Majesty the Queen was advised by doctors to rest for two weeks and cancel her plans to attend the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow Oct. 31 to Nov. 12 is a stark reminder that our head of state is 95 years old. She is one of the hardest working...
Celebrating Manitoba’s Fisher River First Nation
Indigenous communities in Manitoba face some of the greatest obstacles. Over the years, when the UN Human Development Index was applied to First Nation communities across Canada, Manitoba First Nations often ranked lowest. So, it’s important to highlight some of the...
The Supreme Law Of Our Country Is Being Broken
On November 3rd, 4th and 5th of 1981, First Ministers of Canada worked feverishly to finalize a Patriation Agreement after 17 months of talks and Court Actions. The talks had been interrupted by Prime Minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau when he decided that the talks were...
How Ambivalence Changes the World for the Worse
In 1939, just before the outbreak of the Second World War, British journalist and inventor Geoffrey Pyke embarked on a remarkable effort to prevent conflict by exposing the German people’s desire to avoid war. After recruiting 10 students to work with him on a poll...