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Alberta’s Close Brush with Blackouts Stiffens Moes Resolve
Alberta’s close brush with possible rolling blackouts stiffens Moe’s resolve to keep the lights on. Moe reiterates: “We will not attempt the impossible when it comes to power production” The past weekend proved to be a close-run thing for the Alberta electrical...
No Calling in Sick or Waiting for a Nice Day – The Grid has to Perform on the Worst of Them
Saturday night, the middle of the cold snap, was something to be endured
A Cultural History of Education Part 5
Part 5 of 6 : The Pedagogy of Revolution
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First the Infrastructure Bank, Then TransMountain, Now Air Canada; Soon, Maybe Anything, Anytime
In early April, the federal government of Canada announced that it would support Air Canada through the rest of the pandemic lockdown-induced drastic decline in air travel with a combination of loans, and, in a return to its previous status as a stratospheric ward of...
Leave Our Dreams Alone
By 2030, could an agency record everything we dream? Danish MP Ida Auken thought so. In her 2016 blog post on the World Economic Forum’s website and republished by Forbes, “Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy and Life Has Never Been Better,” Auken...
The Next Convoy Could Pull the Climate Curtains
Are Manitobans tired of suffering from high food prices at the grocery store? Well, the feds believe it is your God-given right to suffer even some more as they impose ever more onerous climate policies on farmers. The federal government announced it has plans to...
The People Must Say No to Failed COVID-19 Strategies
The Wall Street Journal recently published an article by John Tierney (see Fauci and Walensky Double Down on Failed Covid Response, August 18, 2022) on the failed response to COVID-19 in the United States and in most western democracies. The article was totally in...
Destroying High Paying Coal Power Jobs in Saskatchewan
There was an announcement by SaskPower on Aug. 10 that is very significant, especially for Estevan, one of the last places in Canada burning coal for power. SaskPower is going to beef up its power transmission interconnect with the U.S. Southwest Power Pool (SPP),...
Your Golden Years: Will They Be a Boom or Bust?
Like a bad memory we’d like to block out, many Canadians ignore or even scoff at the question of what their retirement will look like. For some, it is in the distant future, but for many, it is right around the corner. More than 21.8% of the working population is...
Investigate Criminal Allegations Concerning Covid 19 Pandemic Response
Since 2020, the World has borne witness to the systematic degradation and elimination of the most basic rights and freedoms as guaranteed to citizens. I have prepared a detailed report (https://www.thetruefactsc19.com) which makes the case that the government’s Covid...
Turmoil at the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) should lead to Reform
The AFN claims to speak for First Nations in Canada. But serious problems started with allegations about the new National Chief RoseAnne Archibald. Earlier this year, Archibald was subjected to complaints by her staff, alleging harassment and a toxic workplace....
Peckford: Why Our Constitution Will Not Be Amended Anytime Soon
Because the Federal Government and the Provincial Governments of Canada have allowed the Constitution‘s separation of powers outlined in Section 92 of the BNA Act to be blurred —disfigured. Section 92(7) outlines exclusive jurisdiction over health to be provincial....
A Lamentable Tale of Two Colonies
During the whole of recorded history, the empire has been the most constant and common form of political organization. A basic, self-evident feature of all empire-building has been the successful occupation of the lands of the local, Indigenous inhabitants by outside...
Moving Aboriginal Services Closer to People a Good Thing
Manitobans should be cautiously optimistic about a deal that will transfer health care for Indigenous communities in the province to a regional Indigenous authority. If done properly and not politicized, a deal between the federal government, the Manitoba government...