The 2022-23 Saskatchewan legislative session could rightly be called the “Keep the lights on” session. That’s because the very first bill brought up was the Saskatchewan First Act, whose stated purpose was to re-assert provincial control over power generation (and its...
There are major events and projects happening in Saskatchewan that, when you sum it all up, will have profound impacts not only on the Saskatchewan economy, but national unity. We are rapidly coming to a point where an irresistible force – federal greenhouse...
Large, well-financed environmental organizations have done serious damage to Western Canada’s fossil fuel industry — that doesn’t mean they can do it again The first column in this series described the masterfully executed campaign waged by environmental...
Editor’s note: I originally wrote this column in mid-April 10 years ago, at the tail end of a winter that never seemed to end. Funny how things haven’t changed that much since then, have they? Wasn’t the world supposed to warm up in the meantime?...
It’s time to mount a more effective defense This column is the first in a series of four that will assess ways to improve perceptions about Western Canada’s fossil fuel industry among policy makers and the wider public. This column acknowledges past mistakes...
Time for a toonie, from Quick Dick McDick, “Because two cents don’t buy you shit anymore.” Quick Dick is in the middle of calving, but he’s been thinking about something that smells worse than afterbirth. In one of his no holds barred...
