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Manitoba: Join Western Front Against Net Zero Nonsense
Despite Manitoba’s historic reliance on cheap and clean hydroelectric power, it should be standing shoulder to shoulder with the energy provinces Alberta and Saskatchewan in opposing the federal government’s unprecedented power grab to reconfigure electricity...
The Biden Administration’s Disconcerting Bias Against Canadian Oil
Biden’s inconsistent approach to pipelines is raising eyebrows
Maine Court Ruling Threatens Canada U.S. Pipeline Commerce: Report
Unchallenged, Canada U.S. pipelines ruling may spur more anti-energy moves, says Frontier Centre for Public Policy
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Let’s Celebrate Reaching Global Population of Eight Billion
Recently, the United Nations estimated that the population of Planet Earth had reached eight billion souls. Despite the chatter of the highly subsidized climate doomster complex this is quite an achievement - it certainly indicates that the carrying capacity of our...
China’s “Truckers’ Convoy”
Anti-lockdown protests are now taking place across China - the Chinese equivalent of our Truckers’ Convoy. The protests are a reaction to the brutal policies that literally lock people in their apartments, when even one infection is detected. As in Canada, when...
In the New COVID World Canada Should Shore up its Domestic Zinc Supply
Many do not know this, but zinc is an important ingredient in disinfectants, such as soap. So, in a sense, zinc is playing an important role in preventing the spread of COVID-19 as many Canadians use disinfectants containing zinc. After all, the twin pillars of...
Fracking and the Duty to Consult
When we start discussing the inevitable economic recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick should lift restrictions on natural gas fracking. Natural gas prices are at lows, but that will not stay the case forever. Energy industry...
COVID-19 Impact On Indigenous Business
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on the already fragile Indigenous economy, making the Indigenous economic recovery that much more important. Gaming – including Indigenous-owned casinos – plays a significant role in Indigenous economies, especially...
CBC Indigenous Unit and Journalism
Years ago, I was given a great opportunity to be the lead reporter and do the editing work for a national Indigenous newspaper based in Winnipeg. It was called the Drum/First Perspective newspaper and it covered Indigenous news in Manitoba and around Canada. The paper...
Indigenous Communities need to be Partners in Canada’s COVID-19 Recovery Plan
It’s easy to forget that at the beginning of the year, Canada was right in the middle of another crisis triggered by a series of protests over a natural gas pipeline being built through northern B.C. The issue of Indigenous reconciliation was front and centre in our...
Canada Must Become an Energy Leader Again
Canada must demonstrate federal leadership and all provinces and territories must come together as a country to support our energy economy, given its relative importance to Canada’s entire economy. If it does not, Canada will continue to see its energy sector fall...
Indigenous Response to COVID-19: Canada v. US
Canadians watching the United States are sadly seeing what the COVID-19 pandemic is doing to Native American communities, knowing what it could have done to Indigenous peoples here. The infection rates for many Native American communities is much higher than other...
Indigenous Entrepreneurial Response to COVID-19
A Winnipeg area Indigenous entrepreneur might hold the key to Indigenous peoples controlling their own response to the COVID-19 pandemic. His experience also underscores why it is so important to unshackle the Indigenous business community and entrepreneurial sector...
No Government Should be Excluding Indigenous Voices – Especially Elected Ones
In dealing with the Indigenous governance issue that is at the heart of the Wet’suwet’en dispute, Ottawa must not show favouritism to one side or faction, and must ensure that all parts of Wet’suwet’en society are represented as the community designs its internal...