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Continue Reading →: Alberta Builds While Ottawa Fiddles
Alberta Builds While Ottawa Fiddles
Well-meaning Laurentians should think about leading by example. They should consider building a Canada that Albertans and all Canadians, including the gullible “elbows-up” folks, would be proud to belong to.
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Continue Reading →: Fake Boldness: Jeopardizing Canada to Provoke Trump
Fake Boldness: Jeopardizing Canada to Provoke Trump
Announcing an announcement—it’s theatrics, not statesmanship. And doing so to bait a foreign leader and deflect political failure is manipulative and calculating, not courageous.
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Continue Reading →: From Peronismo to Libertarianism: Milei’s Climate Change in Argentina, Part 2.
From Peronismo to Libertarianism: Milei’s Climate Change in Argentina, Part 2.
Here we are, continuing in Part 2 of our report on Argentina’s freshly-elected president, Javier Milei who will be sworn in on December 10. In Part 1, we delved into some media characterizations and the dominant ideological shift in Argentina. Now, we’re zooming in on the crux of the matter – Milei’s economic and political…
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Continue Reading →: Risks in Trade Talk Shutdown: India’s Economy and Saskatchewan’s Prosperity
Risks in Trade Talk Shutdown: India’s Economy and Saskatchewan’s Prosperity
Ottawa’s announcement that it is shutting down trade talks with India until India cooperates with the investigation into the murder of a Khalistani terrorist on Canadian soil last June is about much more than it appears. Prime Minister Trudeau is putting the Canada-India trade relationship in greater jeopardy for reasons that are unrelated to trade: First, Trudeau…
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Continue Reading →: Toward the Alberta Advantage
Toward the Alberta Advantage
Late in 1978 and early 1979, the Peter Lougheed government embarked on a mission to lower the “small business” income tax in Alberta. This move accompanied Alberta’s withdrawal from a federal tax collection agreement, marking a significant milestone in what we now recognize as The Alberta Advantage. The historical context of Alberta’s departure from the federal…
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Continue Reading →: Grocers as Scapegoats for Trudeau’s Failed Economic Policies
Grocers as Scapegoats for Trudeau’s Failed Economic Policies
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s directive to force grocery stores to reset prices with the aim of stabilizing inflation appears to address Canada’s escalating food prices. While it may temporarily alleviate concerns and garner initial support, it falls short of addressing the root causes of inflation and could ultimately do more harm than good. Inflation became…
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Continue Reading →: Unpacking a ban on plastic waste packaging
Unpacking a ban on plastic waste packaging
Ottawa’s plan to eradicate plastic waste by 2030, led by Minister of the Environment Stephen Guilbeault, on its face seems to be a commendable ambition. However, we must tread carefully. An ill-considered approach driven by unchecked ideology might trade one set of challenges for another. As a result, it’s crucial to evaluate its health, economic…
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Continue Reading →: A “Just Transition” for the CBC
A “Just Transition” for the CBC
The influence of traditional print and broadcast news media has dropped dramatically. Even with handsome government handouts, many of them are barely alive today. In the market transition that is taking place, out of the slump of the old media a few new ones, such as Rebel News, The Epoch Times, and the Western Standard,…
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Continue Reading →: No justice for West in “Just Transition”
No justice for West in “Just Transition”
The “Just Transition” legislation that Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh want to introduce represents terrible news for hydrocarbon energy producers and workers in Alberta and Saskatchewan. The “People-Centered Just Transition” federal proposal sends up red flags from the title onward. It bears the hallmark pretense of caring about people. But governments prioritise systems instead of…
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Continue Reading →: Eco-ideologues at the Ready to Profit from Health Crisis
Eco-ideologues at the Ready to Profit from Health Crisis
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.