My wife Valerie has always wanted to see Celine Dion perform live. She loves many of the songs she sings, along with the obvious amazing talent the performer possesses. And of course she is Canadian. While not as big a fan, I am in awe of her incredible voice, and I...
Surely the most underappreciated province in Canada – the one that contributes the most but is recognized the least – is the resource and agricultural powerhouse of Saskatchewan. While I’ve written about this subject on this page before, more information appeared...
Canada has a lot of natural resources. We’ve got lumber, coal, nickel, gold, oil, copper, natural gas, helium, uranium, helium, and maybe even some lithium and rare earth elements. We’ve got fish and grain, too, but they get their own ministries. No matter, we have a...
The reason we have the comfortable lifestyle we all enjoy can be summed up in one word: energy. Pure and simple. We have the ability to be warm in the winter and cool in the hot days of summer. We can travel great distances in short periods of time with minimal...
Thirty years ago, I had the opportunity to meet the secretary general of OPEC, Dr. Subroto of Indonesia. He was visiting Calgary and being squired about by Alberta Energy Minister Rick Orman. We met at the Lake Louise ski hill at the end day. But the liquid my brain...
307 days. That’s not even a year. That’s precisely how long it took from the day President Joe Biden was sworn in, when he cancelled Keystone XL, until the day he opened up the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve. What the heck is that? The U.S. Gulf...
