December 28, 2018

When I first came to Estevan 10 years ago, the mayor at the time explained to me that one of Estevan’s greatest strengths was that it had multiple key industries. It had ...

December 17, 2018

The other day while we were in Regina, the clan was hungry. Seeking sustenance, this chief hunter-gatherer pulled into the parking lot of the east side Burger Baron, one of...

December 11, 2018

I was just listening to British Columbia Premier John Horgan talk on Dec. 5 about CleanBC, his government’s climate change plan. Of particular interest was his reference to...

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 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 ...

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...

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: “...