Think Tanks are organizations that come in a variety of forms and models, but their general goal is to generate ideas and data, arguments and imagery that will seed public debates, influence discourse. New options for policy; ways to do thing better.

Radical ideologues from the University of Alberta are prepared to inflict more pain and suffering upon Albertans in the oil industry for the sake of accelerating the advent of the pristine future they expect to arrive soon.

The Trudeau government’s effort to transfer power temporarily from the House of Commons to the Office of the Finance Minister was an unconstitutional attempt to bypass the will of Canadians as expressed in the 2019 election.

In the midst of a perfect triad of storms, Alberta should combat the COVID-19 pandemic as though there were no attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry, and it must combat the attempts to choke Alberta’s oil industry as though there was no COVID-19.

As predicted weeks ago, Albertans did not need to hold their breath for Ottawa’s approval of the Frontier oil sands mine. Reports of massive opposition within the Liberal Party caucus and rumours of an appeasing “economic aid” package for the province were strong indicators that the federal cabinet had no intentions to approve the Frontier …

Laurentian Canada Determined to Kill Oil Sands Development Read More »

Regressive and oppressive Iranian Shiite mullahs have proven to be more reasonable business counterparts than former World Wildlife Fund apparatchiks in Ottawa, populist nationalists in Quebec City, and the rigid eco-zealous alliance of Greens and New Democrats in Victoria. This is Alberta’s problem!

Freedom Conference 2019 Where Do We Go From Here? Separation is not really the right language we want to use. What I want this conversation to turn towards is the winning conditions. I am not in favour of changing just for the sake of changing stuff, but I think we have all come to realize …

Independence If Necessary … The Winning Conditions Read More »

Whether one endorses or opposes the option of an independent Alberta, Albertans would do well to consider the option carefully.

The fundamental objection to equalization and equalization-type provisions in many federal programs is that they are entirely counterproductive. They do exactly the opposite of what legislators intended for them to do. Equalization and similar provisions fund programming in recipient provinces that is more generous than in those provinces whose citizens are net contributors to them. …

Canada Should Fix Equalization and Other Regional Subsidies Now Read More »

Those who argue that the Canadian federation exhibits plenty of fiscal and program biases against Prairie Canadians will likely see further evidence to that effect, with the most recent study published by the Halifax-based Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS). The study, Re-thinking Student Job Subsidies, authored by David Murrell and Alan Chan, is subtitled …

Feds Shortchange Alberta Once More Read More »