The results of the 2025 federal election underlined the critical role electoral politics plays in determining the fortunes of Western Canada’s conventional energy sector. Pierre Polievre’s record on natural gas and petroleum policy during his two plus years as Leader...
Prime Minister Mark Carney greets members of the public during Canada Day celebrations at LeBreton Flats in Ottawa on Tuesday, July 1, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby The American writer, William Burroughs, could have been writing for our times when he...
Is Donald Trump a radical revolutionary or just rude? A writer for The Economist posed this question back in April. The answer is quite simple, he’s both and more. Some, but not all, of my neighbours who were once MAGA-curious now agree—Donald Trump is nuttier than a...
In concert with its nine year assault on the conventional energy sector, our federal Liberal government expanded the purview of its environmental bureaucracy. There are thousands of federal bureaucrats who’ve spent up to a decade thinking about ways to block pipelines...
There’s no question the resource rich provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta require greater provincial autonomy and the ability to cost effectively transport their resources to Canadian tidewater. Westerners holding this view have traditionally assumed the...
