To put that $1.9 billion in context, Alberta’s four major school districts plan to spend just over $1.8 billion on new schools, and renovations and repairs over the next three years.
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Canada is diverse by any measure except in the choice of five decidedly similar female journalists for Monday’s federal leaders’ debate. Here’s a positive alternative: five distinguished women diverse in background, hometown and, above all, thought.
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Dissimulation about auto insurance in British Columbia has been going on for five decades.
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Environmental doomsayers scratch a persistent cultural itch in the West, but ignore significant progress on many fronts.
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Over the past three decades, waves of activists and groups have attacked Canada’s natural resource sectors. Now, many of these same attackers wave away concerns over the effects of their efforts: fleeing investment, vaporized jobs, and gutted tax revenues.
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The same approach to mines in the 1990s which sent mining companies fleeing to Chile and elsewhere, is playing out once again in another sector in British Columbia: Forestry.
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Governments everywhere spend too much money on labour, and not enough on things like highways. Here’s why.
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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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