Part 4: Regina NewGrade Upgrader has Processed 16 million Barrels of Heavy Oil per Year for 30 Years
This is Part 4 of a 6-part series on the two heavy oil upgraders built in Saskatchewan is based on the book So Much More We Can Be: Saskatchewan’s Paradigm Shift and the Final Chapter on the Devine Government 1982-1991, by Edward Willett, Gerard Lucyshyn and Joseph...
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Every member of the Manitoba Hydro Board, with the exception of Conservative MLA Cliff Graydon, resigned on March 21, 2018 over a dispute with Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister. According to Pallister the board resigned because the province won’t agree to a $67.5...
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Reconciliation is Dead
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We Have Betrayed our Elders and Compromised our Children’s Future
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Learning to Live with COVID-19
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Coase Theorem In Action
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Reformation In The ‘Church of Global Warming’?
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Expanded Sunday Shopping Hours in Manitoba
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