Albertans didn’t elect the United Conservatives so they could have their turn reaching deeper into our pockets…
More UCP MLAs need to speak out against a PST
Financial quagmire engulfing oil-producing countries
The rush to monetize oil and gas assets gathers momentum as major debt problems rise for many oil-producing countries…
Alberta oil and gas critical to B.C.’s economy
Be it in employment, salaries paid, or the jobs and GDP created for all British Columbians, the impact of oil and natural gas is significant…
Nuclear industry could boost Canada
Nuclear power should also be a prime option to fight pollution and address environmental issues…
OPEC faces an existential threat
The viability of OPEC as an effective organization is now in question…
Why oil and gas are fundamental to Canada
The $493 billion in oil and gas revenues paid to governments since 2000 is more than family allowance and children’s benefits since 1970…
New battery research could help power the future
Redox flow battery technology has promising applications for storing energy from renewable sources…
Has your business been blindfolded?
Effective business planning includes involving others in the process and having procedures to keep everyone accountable…
Eliminating humans from the food supply chain
Loblaws will be able to move food from automated picking facilities multiple times a day to support its online grocery service…
How will we deal with our ever-rising national debt?
Post COVID-19, attention must swing to how to sustain large deficits, wind them down and gradually slow down the debt accumulation…
Diamond expertise unearths discoveries, economic opportunities
World-leading U of A researchers and top employers are teaming up to train the next generation of diamond explorers and grow Canada’s $2.5-billion-a-year industry…
Why are we facing lockdowns again?
If our leaders don’t learn any lessons and create better safeguards during a lockdown period, people will keep lashing out…
Passionless workers more likely to be axed
Do you know what your body just said?
Tap into your intuition to achieve success
Anyone can learn to sell
Mazda keeps hitting all the right notes with MX-5
VW Routan was nothing to quack about
RAV4 Hybrid offers plenty for 2021
Pontiac G8: the blunder from Down Under?
Stem cell study identifies enzyme with potential for cancer treatment
COVID-19 vaccines will work if Canadians play their part
Tap water in an ultrasonic humidifier may pollute your air
“Medical assistance in dying” worries many Canadians
Schitt’s Creek star spikes enrolment in U of A online Indigenous course
Tens of thousands of new students from nearly every country in the world have joined Dan Levy in relearning history from Indigenous perspectives…
Margaret Thatcher and the end of apartheid
The Thatcher-Nelson Mandela relationship is a reflection of how very different people can evolve a respectful, albeit wary, understanding…
A KGB guide to subverting the press to your agenda
The methods of a former KGB operative remain applicable in the modern era, leading to disinformation and outright lies…
Canada moving towards U.S.-style ‘spend now, pay later’ government
Canadians love receiving government largesse, as long as someone else is paying for it, even if it is their kids…
Canada’s drifting fiscal ship needs an anchor
The compelling case against universal child care
It’s time Canada stopped protecting its dairy industry
The misguided mission to cut Canada’s cellphone rates
Price controls undermine investment, remove incentive for innovation and backfire for consumers…
Investing in human capital will pay huge dividends
The value we add will be in the creative ways we use new tools to generate new ideas and outputs, and to solve old problems…
Shaking off colonial shackles no easy task
Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo, may have been an idealist but he clearly understood the pain of colonialism…
The return of the Armenian Genocide must be stopped
Putting the health of the people in the South Caucasus at risk puts us all at risk. Diseases spread and mutate rapidly in refugee camps…
The war on drugs is costly and off-target
A report on drug abuse released by police chiefs is less about reducing drug abuse and more about protecting police budgets and jobs…