August 13, 2018

I woke up this morning, and unlike Tony Soprano, I did not get myself a gun. But I did get an email which indicated there was yet another merger in the works. Merger, ...

June 21, 2018

Canada had better get its act together, immediately, on export pipelines. I don’t just mean the Trans Mountain Pipeline, now owned by you and me and all other Canadians. I ...

April 30, 2018

In the midst of the greatest dispute between two provinces since the 1995 Quebec referendum, the University of Alberta stepped in it, big time. They announced on April 10...

April 20, 2018

It was Sunday morning. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had just met with Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and British Columbia Premier John Horgan, laying down the line for ...

April 18, 2018

Our son, Spencer, 11, and I have recently taken up a game. Basically, I name a country, and he finds it on the globe. This was inspired by his favourite TV show, Young ...

March 23, 2018

Our sister publication, Burnaby Now, is at the focal point of the Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline project, with the terminus of the pipeline in that Lower Mainland ...

February 21, 2018

George Strait sang about “Ocean front property in Arizona.” I don’t know about Arizona, but I’m pretty sure about most of southeast Saskatchewan. At several points over ...

January 30, 2018

Most oil company CEOs eschew publicity or speaking plainly. I don’t know if they are whipped into corporate-speak by their lawyers, boards or public relations people, but ...

December 8, 2017

While drilling down, as it were, on the numbers in the annual Petroleum Services Association of Canada (PSAC) drilling forecast for 2018, one number leapt out at me: zero....