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In your opinion, are the resulting costs to the end user justified ? Have the costs of getting that product to the farmer risen as much as the prices being charged ?

That's the feeling I can't shake. This is all about a few people lining their own pockets at the expense of everyone else.

Petros, you're in tight with the agricultural sector, I have a farmer acquaintance online who posted some info regarding price increases in fertilizer products in the last year, prices for some domestic products as much as doubling. Can you offer any insight there?

Can you find something with Canadian relevance? My question remains, what has changed in Canada in the last short while to justify these price increases ?

I hear that. Especially when it becomes obvious that those shrieking have a limited knowledge of just what they are demanding. I live at the southern tip of a ninety mile long lake in a narrow valley that has a string of towns large and small from end to end, a length that extends well beyond...

I get this, a little protectionism going on on both sides of the border, but aren't these regs more geared towards bulk trade at the import/export level, they don't appear to apply at the retail level or we would be seeing similar price increases on both sides of the border. Biden is promising...

Does it have to be "full-on socialism" ? Can't we somehow just do with a little less capitalism ? We've been watching the middle class wither away for fifty years now, while those few at the top of the food chain amass more wealth than they could ever possibily need. And lets not fool...

Messing with the free market is a bit of a sacred cow to be sure, but what do you do when the corporate sector is taking undue advantage of the situation ? Especially with something like gasoline where the alternatives a limited for a lot of people.

Why would it? Pretty much business as usual in Canada.

Still a significant increase, and other parts of the province have certainly not fared as well. My question remains, what is the justification for domestic price increases when domestic supply and demand are unchanged ?

Your math is correct, your logic is off. From $1.50 to $1.85 is an increase of 35 cents, which is 23 percent of $1.5. From $1.50 to $2.00 is an increase of one third, or 33%. You're using $1.80 as the starting point, when it's actually $1.50.

Ain't it though ? One might almost think we're living in an economy run by a select few to benefit only a select few. Brings out the lefty in me.

Better check your math. 1.50 to 1.85 is a 23% increase, 1.50 to 2.00 would be a 33% increase.

Some locations in at the coast have broken $2./litre already, prices in the interior have gone from $1.50/litre to $1.85 in two days, and we are being warned that $2./litre and higher is imminent. Gasbuddy.com is listing BC's current average price at $186.4/litre.

BC draws most of its gasoline from Edmonton and our two BC refineries. Imports from Washington amounts to less than 10% of our supply. Certainly not enough to account for a thirty percent price hike.

So if domestic supply and domestic demand are unchanged, why are pump prices in BC moving into the $2.00/litre territory ? Explain to me how this isn't just a cash grab by an industry that "has done so much for Canadians".

I'm having some trouble connecting the dots between the prices soaring at pumps here at home and Putin's aggression in Ukraine. Most of our gasoline in here in BC is domestically produced, either in Alberta or at one of two refineries here in BC, with maybe 10% imported from Washington State...

My mayor. This is what you get when you vote in anger and not with reason. After serving four terms as a city councillor he stepped away from that role to unsuccessfully run for mayor in 2014. Running again in 2018 in the midst of a heated dispute over plans to offer a commercial lease on...

That became a moot point the second the US imposed their own border mandates, that was before the convoy even got near Ottawa. That was where things started to go south, when the point of the whole thing got foggy and went from end-the-border-mandates to f**k-Trudeau. As time progressed and...

Yes, I agree. He dawdled and dawdled, pleading with the protesters to go home, and it all fell on deaf ears. After three weeks of ignoring pleas and orders from everybody, was there really any other way to bring it to an end ? The EA just helped make it happen quicker, once the resolve was...