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While there may be some instances wher what you say is correct, it is by no means representative of the whole. Post-secondary education has become a "for-profit" operation, moving it out of range of most without the financial means (or their family's) to cover the cost without ending up having...

The cost of transitioning to a green economy is always front and center when the discussion arises. Perhaps we need to look at the cost of not moving to a more sustainable way of doing things. The Costs and Benefits of Environmental Sustainability

The common denominator when you dig for it always seems to draw us back to the Alberta oil & gas industry. As an economic force it is a huge part of Canada's economic strength, as an environmental risk it is our greatest weakness. It all comes down to personal choice in how much of a trade-off...

You are of course, entitled to your opinion, as am I not to share it. I look to the sixties as better times to be sure, most people are unaware of the "boiling frog" that has been on the rise since the embracing of neo-liberal economics by the likes of Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and our...

We've been handing over more and more control to the corporate sector for the last forty or fifty years ans what have we got to show for it? A vanishing middle class and a dying environment. I'll tell you what's clueless, it's the "profit above all else" mindset of the very few at the top of...

Spending is where the policy differences show up big time bvetween the right and the left. While there is wisdom to tightening the purse strings and shrinking the size of government, history has shown us a bleak downside to that strategy. The market freedom gained by lower regulation has given...

It's hard to pigeon-hole Canadian politics to an accurate degree as the CPC harbours a lot of different "leanings" under one party umbrella. There are right wing populist factions, social conservatives and moderates all vying for power within. Such has been the way of things since confederation...

Exactly. It's one thing to speed up assessment of how well these potential Canadian professionals measure up to Canadian standards, but quite another thing to give them the opportunity to circumvent our professional requirements. We're feeling the pinch of the boomer retirement wave in a lot...

Yeah, still a little vague though. It fits well with the conservative tenets of lower taxes/smaller government but it always makes me nervous as to just where the cuts will be made. Too many times in the past these same themes have been used to back off on government services for those who...

The Good Ship Pee Pee sailed through the Okanagan yesterday, and while I didn't join the considerable crowds there is no shortage of news clips around because his campaign for the CPC leadership has gained considerable momentum. Like the Twitter link above, his use of the word "gatekeeper"...

I agree with you there. Campaigning in a room full of conservatives and campaigning on a mixed federal front would need two completely different strategies. If he does win the party leadership I'm interested in what his federal shtick would sound like. The last two elections have shown that...

So why are we buying from the middle east then ? Makes no sense to me.

Production isn't the problem in Canada, as a country we produce more than we use, but you are correct on the economics. Moving the product to market is the big problem. We can't get western oil to eastern customers, and the economics for moving away from the current set up is just not there...

You can talk to our politicians about why we can't get Canadian oil to eastern Canada, replacing current imports from the middle east with Canadian product makes perfect sense to me. Poilievre wants to get our oil on to the global market without going through the US, which makes perfect...

People like Poilievre are trying to move us in the wrong direction, negating progress made so far at a time when we need to make more progress. I don't get why this is so fucking lost on people.

That's not what we're talking about here, Canada produces more than we use domestically. The problem here is ramping up production when we have committed to reducing emissions. Just because somebody outside the country is burning oil we sell them doesn't mean the junk isn't going to still end...

"Clean, responsible oil and gas." Remove the gatekeepers to leave a clear path for throwing the environment under the bus. It's the Conservative way. All on board the Good Ship PeePee.

90% of Canada's population lives within 150 miles of the US border, so the talking point of northern populations being so hard done by is just that, a talking point. As is the oft heard lament that we will have to live without all the uses of fossil fuels that do not involve burning the stuff...

Should we let those who don't take any measure of responsibility for emissions reduction affect our decisions ? Is there any validity in the "He's not doing it so why should I ?" argument ?

In Canada, we're jsut getting started on carbon taxation, and that's because alternatives are few at the moment. Countries that have reported carbon taxation as successful in reducing fossil fuel use report that the taxation rate had to approach the equivalent of $200/tonne to achieve that...