It is time to admit that in the absence of a political earthquake the Mark Carney government will do nothing of consequence to facilitate the building of a new oil pipeline from the prairies to the West coast. Over the past several months many of the people who...
And so it begins. Environmentalists and Indigenous groups have launched the first protests and legal actions threatening conventional energy production since Mark Carney became prime minister. A few small protests have been held in Ontario and Quebec and a lawsuit was...
Dealing with challenges like Ottawa’s ten-year war on conventional energy and the Liberals’ economically ruinous, one-size-fits-all climate change policies does get tiresome. The effort becomes especially wearing when there is so little good news mixed in with the...
It’s as though Carla Beck has not yet fully recovered from the “sunny ways” propaganda Justin Trudeau spouted in 2015 during his first election campaign as Liberal party leader. Beck, the Leader of Saskatchewan’s NDP Opposition, naively assumes the united Team Canada...
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...