You are worried about the climate risks from carbon emissions. But you live in Alberta or some other fossil fuel-rich region. So naturally you despise carbon taxes, without even five seconds of thought. However, if you also believe in unfettered free markets, a minimal role for government, protecting our tax dollars from useless policies and freedom from the pilfering reach of central Canada, think a bit longer.
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“I’m on a new diet,” a friend told me after Christmas. “I’m reducing my calorie intake. Instead of five scoops of ice cream, I’m only eating four.” The comment was made tongue-in-cheek and the absurdity of it was not lost on him. Rather than losing any weight, he will only be gaining weight at a somewhat slower pace. >
We continue to be preoccupied by trade with the U.S.A., but the future lies in the BRIC economies
The signing of the softwood lumber agreement, and the exchange of letters which preceded it, moves Canada to the next stage in our continuing commercial relationship with the United States. >
Greener gasoline rules could spell the end of the Canadian Wheat Board’s monopoly >
New U.S. passport rules will hurt tourism, but there are ways to limit the damage
Last month, I flew from Edmonton to Washington, D.C., but forgot my passport at home. This did not pose a problem: my journey proceeded as planned as I cleared United States Customs and Border Protection with just my driver’s license and birth certificate as identification. As early as 2007, this scenario will no longer be permitted. >
To many Albertans, Americans showed their true trading colours in the wake of the bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) outbreak here, blocking access to Canadian producers’ dominant market and crippling the industry. When the chips were down, their response seemed to have less to do with trade rules than protecting their own.
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In the 1950s petroleum geologist M. King Hubbert famously predicted oil production in the United States would peak in the early 1970s and then inevitably decline as reserves became depleted without comparable discoveries to replace them. >
Alberta needs to find a way to perpetuate its non-renewable wealth
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Does your company really need a pandemic preparedness plan?
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By Will Gibson
Up until 18 months ago, Fort McMurray was too far north for most of the media in Edmonton, let alone the rest of the world, to bother visiting. Given what some journalists have subsequently done to the northeastern Alberta boomtown’s reputation, many McMurrayites pine for the simpler times when their remote burg went unnoticed by the fourth estate. >
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