Let me begin with a story: In 1900 my great-grandfather Kyrylo Halabura came from Torhowice, Horodenka district, near the present-day Ivano-Frankivsk in the western Ukraine. He came as part of the great Ukrainian diaspora initiated by the prime minister of the...
Around 2004 or so, I helped clean out the old air cadet hall in North Battleford. I was the training officer and a reservist lieutenant in what has since been renamed the Royal Canadian Air Force. Our cadet squadron was moving to a new home, after over 60 years in a...
Editor’s note: I’ve been following Calgary-based Peter Linder’s “Musings of an ex-oil and gas analyst” for some time now on LinkedIn, and have found them to be some of the most astute observations on the Canadian energy industry, anywhere. What he posted on Feb. 17,...
On a day when police in Ottawa continued to prepare to break up the trucker protest near Parliament Hill, and Parliament, itself, was debating the necessity of implementing the Emergencies Act, news emerged of a true emergency that occurred half a continent away....
Normally when I write these opinion pieces, I tend to focus on the energy industry issues and maintain a positive outlook on what we do and why we do it. Obviously, the current main topic of everyone’s conversations of late is the Freedom Convoy 2022 currently...
In recent weeks, Pipeline Online editor Brian Zinchuk has been a guest on talk radio, first with CJME/CKOM’s John Gormley, and then on CBC Radio One’s Blue Sky on Feb. 10. Topics included the low number of drilling rigs contracted by the two largest oil...
