Public bodies and private organizations in Canada choosing to divest in the energy sector cannot say that they also support Indigenous communities. Attacking the energy industry means you are attacking the main livelihood of many communities. As we speak, activists...
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Etam: Hey Look, Solutions To All The World’s Big Problems With Napkins To Prove It! Now Send Money
Sheesh, what’s with all the drama? The news is full of bad-news stories about doom and gloom; can’t everyone see we just need to roll up our sleeves and get to work? Most of this stuff isn’t even all that hard! We can solve the world’s obesity/health problem in...
Higgs: Reality vs Ideology
At age 69, Blaine Higgs is the oldest premier in New Brunswick’s history. Thankfully, the Progressive Conservative premier shows more wisdom on the energy transition than the Canadian prime minister almost two decades his junior. Higgs graduated from the University of...
Feds Gutting Canada’s Economic Well-being
Wildfires in Canada and unseasonably high temperatures in Europe are being blamed on climate change, escalating the perceived urgency to “do something” about carbon emissions. In Canada, it seems no volume of emissions is too small to worry about. B.C. taxpayers will...
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Preston Manning: Report of the COVID Commission
Introductory Comment Brian Giesbrecht, Retired Judge, Frontier Centre Senior Fellow: The Frontier Centre for Public Policy is honoured to present Mr. Manning’s latest offering, in what he calls a fictionalized story. It is about everything that has happened to this...
Canada: Returning to the Original Vision
Many Canadians are aware of stories of how immigrants were originally attracted to Canada through the promise of free land. The then Minister responsible for immigration, Clifford Sifton, had his staff spread out across central and eastern Europe promising free land...
How Smart Meters can Serve Energy Consumers
There have been few practical measures presented to achieve the lofty goals laid out in the prime minister’s green agenda or the UN's 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Gender equality, increased daycare spending, and reduced fossil-fuel usage might make for...
As the Oil and Gas Industry Suffers Secular Decline, TD’s Arctic Virtue Signaling is Irrelevant
In recent days, Toronto Dominion Bank announced that it will not loan money towards any oil and gas or related development in the Arctic. While this may elicit joy from the woke anti-fossil fuel global warmists, this was, in reality, a very easy decision for TD, and...
Canada Energy Exports v. Imports
The Nuclear Industry Could be a Real Asset for Alberta
If the COVID crisis takes most of the media coverage, environmental claims remain. Friday for Future, the movement launched by Greta Thunberg, has come back to protest the federal government's inaction on earlier green promises such as curbing greenhouse gas...
Potentially Powerful Pipeline Precedents
Fracking (horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing) has unleashed bounties of US oil and natural gas, dramatically reduced energy prices from their historic 2008 peak, saved families and industries billions of dollars annually, helped create and sustain millions...
How the Mining Sector Thrived Amid COVID: Solid Financial Foundation is Role Model for Canada
Canadian mining companies have proved sustainable economic growth is compatible with the safe handling of a pandemic. Their financial acumen and business resilience show the rest of the country the way forward. A PwC report released in June 2020 demonstrates Canadian...
Making Oil and Gas go the Long- and Wrong-Way Around is No Way to Deal with Pipeline Angst
On July 2nd, 2020, a rather sad milestone or marker of Canada’s misplaced energy and environmental policies – not to mention its handling of federal-provincial relations – occurred. On that day, the first cargo of Western Canadian oil left Burrard Inlet on the Pacific...
Trans Mountain and Duty to Consult
The decision by the Supreme Court of Canada to dismiss the latest challenge by Indigenous groups over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project should not come as a surprise. It was a predictable outcome in a line of successive rulings that Trans Mountain had met...
Restoring the ‘Canadian Brand’ – Countering Activist Misinformation on Canadian Mining Abroad
Mining is one of the most important industries to the Canadian economy, and despite COVID-19’s impact on the sector, mining will play a significant role in the post-pandemic economic recovery. Moreover, the mining industry is one of the largest private sector...