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Yabbut...politicians run on votes, and there are lots of votes that would just as soon see the oilsands whither and die. They may not be particulalry well-informed, but they still get a vote. There is still an important place in Canada's economy for a thriving oil and gas sector for a few...

In truth, the problem is company policies that service the companies only, that have the support of government. Right now, companies are the problem and government is the enabler.

Just to put this in perspective, Artur Pawlowski, the "Christian" delivering the service has a background in anti-LGBT activism, Anti-Gay activism, Anti Abortion activism, and latley has taken up the Anti-Mask torch resulitng in multiple charges for violating Alberta's Covid Publoic Health...

There used to be a time when the corporate equation held management, shareholders, employees and suppliers in equal esteem. There was some concern to see that everybody was treated fairly and was able to benefit from the relationship. Then a guy named Milton Freidman wrote a little essay that...

In this case I'm "pro" seeing Albertans get a fair return on what are technically publically owned resources. It stinks of corporate greed and government pandering that these companies can claim "record production" and climbing profits and at the same time driving down wages and job...

Production and profits are what they are, I'm looking at it from the perspecitve that maybe Albertans should see some return on Alberta resources, not have to watch their slice of the pie shrink while the profits head elsewhere.

This is happening at sites that passed out of the construction phase years ago. I've watched things progress through the oilsands starting with the richest contracts and working from there. Sure, it's just business, but the whole "Alberta Advantage" thing was founded on a promise of plentiful...

It sure is looking that way. Lumping the Libs and the CPC together as varying degrees of center, it does look like support is shifting further away from there in both directions.

No, I don't see a threat of separation as a legitimate concern, other than its potential as a waste of important time. I'm just going by what I have seen while working in the sector. I started there before the price crash in 2014/15 and it was a different world, everybody thought it would go...

That is cause for concern though. Fringe conservative parties are ticking up in Alberta and Saskatchewan, as are the NDP, but the seat projection for the coming election still shows pretty much solid blue in both provinces at present. I shudder at the thought of a Liberal majority, there...

I doubt a separatist movement would ever succeed in breaking up the country, but like Quebec they have the potential to waste a lot of important time. The oil & gas sector is an easy target for those trying to stir up drama and tension because there's a lot of uncertainty in that industry right...

Agree to a point. The current state of things has been fifty or sixty years in the making, it's not going to be an overnight thing to correct.

I have to admit I'm largely uninformed about the political situation in Quebec. My first instinct is that they get coddled by the feds just because of the potential they have to make a big mess of things at a time when we have more important stuff on our plate. The Alberta/Saskatchewan...

Don't be a dink Petros, nobody likes a dink.

I don't think it's broken beyond repair, it's just in need of a tune-up. The free-market capitalism with government sponsored social programs model is basically a good one, it keeps those who need help covered and still rewards individual achievement. In my opinion we have let it slip out of...

Apparently a majority of voters disagreed with you.

Harper's legacy is a mixture of good and bad, but he is history, and let's not forget that he was shown the door by the voters, leaving behind a country more divided than ever before. O'Toole is as nothing-burger, his party is rife with internal discord, and their "Policy Declaration" released...

I don't think the federal NDP are ready for leadership in Ottawa, but at the same time I don't believe right wing politics holds the path to a better future. The concept of smaller government, lower taxes and an unregulated free market economy is fine on paper, but it carries the assumpition...

They say you're supposed to switch hands when you reach forty, but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was cheating on me.

What would the CPC have done? Voted themselves a raise and cut taxes on the rich?