December 3, 2018

On Nov. 28, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced her province is going to be acquiring unit trains to get her province’s landlocked oil moving. Not only has she ...

November 28, 2018

Moosomin has a unique place in the Saskatchewan oilpatch. On the edge of oil production, there’s long be a few pumpjacks running north of town. But the number of ...

November 10, 2018

In 1984, the Irish Republican Army tried to kill British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with a bomb. They did not succeed, but they did send a message. “You have to be ...

November 2, 2018

As the editorial cartoon shows, British Columbia just nailed a $40 billion liquified natural gas (LNG) project. And Alberta is left looking on. The LNG Canada ...

October 15, 2018

Among the several reasons I did not take after my father and grandfathers before him as a farmer was this little thing called $2 wheat. When I came of age in the 1990s, ...

October 5, 2018

As I write this, Canada is having a good day, economically. That is, if you consider we just dodged, by the skin of our teeth, getting trampled by Donald Trump on NAFTA 2.0...

September 23, 2018

How do you like paying for the same thing three times? Because that’s what we’re doing, if this Trans Mountain Expansion Project ever goes ahead. Now, to be clear, it’s...

September 8, 2018

Four years into this oil downturn, Lloydminster is something of a paradox. The retail and service sector seems to be growing by leaps and bounds, both on the west end of ...

August 31, 2018

In the aftermath of the Federal Court of Appeal’s horrendous decision to stop work on the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, this is what one pipeliner told me that day: “...