British Columbians sometimes talk about ride sharing as purely theoretical, like alchemy, but it has been a boon to some of the most vulnerable.
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Before Fidel Castro’s repressive revolution and state came along, Cubans were already educated, showed decent health-care outcomes and were entrepreneurial.
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I found myself unable to even take my camera out of my backpack; to snap a photograph seemed too casual.
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With some updates for inflation, it appears Bombardier (including de Havilland) received about $4.1-billion from the federal and Quebec governments since 1966.
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The financial assets of 115 major tax-exempt foundations which the authors identified as liberal and progressive were worth almost U.S.$105 billion and gave out $8.8-billion annually.
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Here is a comparison based on actual, average premiums paid in 2017: $1,251 in Alberta and $1,680 in British Columbia
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In the 1990s, as Alberta’s economy began to speed ahead, the usual suspects were sure that somewhere, somehow, something must be wrong.
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Of additional irritation to Albertans: The Quebec political rhetoric is especially galling because of how much money Albertans pay into the federal treasury on a net basis.
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HSBC’s board, shareholders and its senior staff who dreamed up divestment in Canadian energy are free to boycott whomever they want. But hydrocarbons aren’t going anywhere soon.
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Ontario’s The Beer Store loved its Soviet-style monopoly. The Doug Ford government is now dismantling it and here’s why that cartel was always a bad idea.
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Since 2009, CO2 emissions in India and China rose by nine and 33 times that of Canada. Any notion that Canada should sacrifice a natural economic advantage is not only unrealistic but will also do nothing for worldwide carbon emissions.
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For B.C. politicians to blame others for the highest pump prices in North America is akin to the ghoulish joke about the young man who kills his parents and then complains he's an orphan.
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There was a startling disconnect between media coverage and the issues that mattered most to Albertans.
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Both premiers faced budgets that were made all the more challenging by the high-spending premiers that preceded them.
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The most significant omission in the magazine’s piece disparaging Alberta is how it skipped over the big picture, the worldwide one.
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Ronald Reagan never wavered in his conviction that America was a great country that would prevail over enemies of democracy and freedom. His current successor governs on the premise that America is no longer great.
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Like any conspiracy theory, it is impossible to track every strand in the origin of the belief that income tax is unconstitutional. It appears, however, that Canadian myths are mutations of similar American tales.
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The Notley-Loyola sympathies matter because, whether Guevara or Chavez, New Democrats still seemed impressed by revolutionary rhetoric over the hard-work reality of how economies, actual justice, and countries are built and prosper.
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Unlike the subsidized sectors, an option for both reducing carbon dioxide emissions and allowing for cheaper energy comes from the United States, which demonstrates the virtue of letting technology drive reform of energy use.
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The various appeals to tax Albertans ever higher repeatedly failed to inspire a rush to the polls, including, arguably, in 2015. Between 1997 and 2008, the NDP vote never recovered to even the devastating 1993 wipe-out levels.
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