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A report Tuesday that the Biden administration is in the early stages of looking for ways to increase oil imports from Canada was good news for Canadian oil and gas producers gathered virtually to discuss investment in the sector. Producers welcomed the Wall Street Journal report that U.S...

U.S. President Joe Biden’s brain must be an irony-free zone. Having killed the Keystone XL pipeline on his first day in office on Jan. 20, 2021, he’s now looking for ways to increase shipments of Canadian oil to the U.S.. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday, “Biden...

Cannon fodder?

The Liberals are now trying to revive their incredibly controversial Internet legislation bill. It was previously known as Bill C-10, now it’s Bill C-11. There was great uproar that the government was planning to censor Canadians’ social media. While the government denied this, experts...

This week, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table the 2022 federal budget, which will position Canada for a post-pandemic world and set the tone for the country’s next decade –– or at least until 2026, should the recent Liberal-NDP deal stay intact. While all federal budgets are...

….but the Liberals have got Canadian’s backs, ‘cuz they keep telling us they do somehow.

Which one is which again? Question Period in the House of Commons is the longest running farce in Canadian history but the slapstick hit new highs this week when NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh questioned Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the contents of the impending budget. Will the government...

There’s the punchline. Currently it’s only the Liberals wanting this (Sorry, I guess I mean the Liberal/NDP non-Coalition cartel), but once it exists….whomever is in power can use it as a club against those that don’t think or believe or dare to say what isn’t acceptable to the government of the...

The Liberal government has re-tabled its controversial broadcasting bill, bringing back an exemption for user generated content, whose removal from the legislation previously drew outrage over free speech concerns. In the new version of the bill, C-10 in the last parliament, now dubbed the...

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/03/why-has-the-governments-defence-of-bill-c-11-been-so-cartoonishly-misleading/ http://globalnews.ca/news/8592505/online-streaming-bill-c-11-free-speech/ http://macdonaldlaurier.ca/pig-different-lipstick-understanding-bill-c-11-mark-mancini-inside-policy/...

This has to start somewhere, so might as well start with a Wiki summary of C-11 (as C-10 got squashed when the last election got called): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Streaming_Act The Online Streaming Act (Bill C-11) is a proposed Canadian federal legislation. It was first introduced...

Now, I bought the above pick up for $900… Nine Years Ago…. As a temporary fill-in between vehicles (hit a porcupine with a PT Cruiser in a rainstorm at about 5:30am one morning commuting to a gravel pit). 9 years later, with basic maintenance, it just won’t quit. I googled, & there’s no such...

I was home for about 5 minutes & then stuff happened, but here’s the rest of the earlier punchline: I supposedly have a 70L tank, and it was just touching the bottom side of 1/4…& $92 later it was full. Our little SUV also has a 70L tank. Tonight Between posts, aside from dealing with two...

I know the supply chain for oil & refining is complex….but in my case, not so much. I live in Regina where we have a Co-op Heavy Oil Upgrader, & I stopped at a Co-op that gets its refined gasoline from the Upgrader locally…& I still had a 1/4 tank.

$1.719 in Regina Sunday night. Put $40 in my Girlfriends SUV & that gave it about 1/3 of a tank. It’s a little fuel sipping Suzuki….

A) four return flights from Vancouver to Calgary super cheap at let’s say 1000 bucks combined, & a car rental for the day at $100…. And rides to and from the airport on the Vancouver side, etc… let’s say $1100…. B) eight days of lost wages x 4 people, and eight days of shared hotel rooms = God...

Vancouver to Calgary in 13hrs or less over several mountain ranges, then Calgary back to Vancouver the next day…because you work Friday & Monday. Picture two couples in the same car trying to get to a funeral: “Sorry Boss, but I have to go to Calgary for a funeral on Saturday so I’ll need 4...

Ok, so what is a garage tax???

I really should modify my vocabulary. As weird as this sounds, at least mentally, I think of the Maritimes as “The Maritimes” and Ontario & Quebec as “Eastern Canada” and thus my usage. I mentally categorize them as two different things. I think of “Western Canada” as MB & SK & AB & BC (with the...

As is Ottawa, more or less….