Premier Moe’s recent budget didn’t provide any tax relief for Saskatchewan taxpayers If you ask someone in Calgary where they are from, you’ll probably hear one answer more than you’d think: Saskatchewan. For years, thousands of Saskatchewanians who were not tied down by a farm, and even some who were, picked up and moved west…
Prairie provinces have agreed to work together to improve Western Canada’s transportation corridors By James Snell and Deborah Jaremko Canada’s prairie provinces have signed an agreement that could benefit energy trade with other countries. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba entered a memorandum of understanding in April to improve western Canada’s interconnected road, rail, air, energy and…
The Saskatchewan government desperately needs a debt repayment plan. A heritage fund is that plan Good times don’t last forever. Farmers know when you have a bumper crop, you pay down debt and put some away for a dry year. The government needs to learn this lesson. Saskatchewan is experiencing a boom. Last year, resource…
The recent provincial budget was a golden opportunity to cut taxes and end the growing debt The Saskatchewan government could have helped taxpayers. It could have made a plan to pay off the debt. It didn’t do any of that. Despite near-record revenues, the Saskatchewan budget fails to provide any tax relief for Saskatchewanians and…
David Lametti tells AFN he is willing to look at rescinding the Natural Resource Transfer Act of 1930 Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resource development in western Canada. One was a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and…
Canada’s governments must apply the lessons of COVID-19 to create a more gender-just future International Women’s Day, March 8th, is the annual commemoration that invites Canadians to take stock of the progress made toward gender equality in our country and beyond. But in 2023, more than three years after the COVID-19 crisis was declared, this…
It would be a crippling blow to the influence of the organization on the global oil markets Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) are on a collision course over several issues, one of which could seriously impact the fate and the workings of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). There were reports…
Catherine McKenna’s attack against Canada’s energy sector irresponsible and oblivious to the world’s energy challenges In a recent op-ed, Canada’s former minister of environment and climate change, Catherine McKenna, launched an irresponsible attack on industries across Canada, categorizing their commitments to drive down greenhouse gas emissions and reach defined reduction targets as “greenwashing.” Reducing industry…
MAiD is changing our health system to one designed to bury us at the lowest possible cost Decriminalizing “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAiD) in 2016 apparently confirmed a powerful social bias in favour of personal freedom. Presented as a free choice – affecting no one else – euthanasia seemed acceptable to most Canadians. However, this…
How can a racially based system even be called “justice”? Provincial justice ministers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are urgently calling on the federal government to “convene a bail reform summit to address the increasing level of violence faced by Canadians.” Other provincial justice ministers have voiced similar concerns. What is going on? The immediate concern…
Premier Moe’s recent budget didn’t provide any tax relief for Saskatchewan taxpayers If you ask someone in Calgary where they are from, you’ll probably hear one answer more than you’d think: Saskatchewan. For years, thousands of Saskatchewanians who were not tied down by a farm, and even some who were, picked up and moved west…
Prairie provinces have agreed to work together to improve Western Canada’s transportation corridors By James Snell and Deborah Jaremko Canada’s prairie provinces have signed an agreement that could benefit energy trade with other countries. Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba entered a memorandum of understanding in April to improve western Canada’s interconnected road, rail, air, energy and…
The Saskatchewan government desperately needs a debt repayment plan. A heritage fund is that plan Good times don’t last forever. Farmers know when you have a bumper crop, you pay down debt and put some away for a dry year. The government needs to learn this lesson. Saskatchewan is experiencing a boom. Last year, resource…
The recent provincial budget was a golden opportunity to cut taxes and end the growing debt The Saskatchewan government could have helped taxpayers. It could have made a plan to pay off the debt. It didn’t do any of that. Despite near-record revenues, the Saskatchewan budget fails to provide any tax relief for Saskatchewanians and…
David Lametti tells AFN he is willing to look at rescinding the Natural Resource Transfer Act of 1930 Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resource development in western Canada. One was a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and…
Canada’s governments must apply the lessons of COVID-19 to create a more gender-just future International Women’s Day, March 8th, is the annual commemoration that invites Canadians to take stock of the progress made toward gender equality in our country and beyond. But in 2023, more than three years after the COVID-19 crisis was declared, this…
It would be a crippling blow to the influence of the organization on the global oil markets Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) are on a collision course over several issues, one of which could seriously impact the fate and the workings of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). There were reports…
Catherine McKenna’s attack against Canada’s energy sector irresponsible and oblivious to the world’s energy challenges In a recent op-ed, Canada’s former minister of environment and climate change, Catherine McKenna, launched an irresponsible attack on industries across Canada, categorizing their commitments to drive down greenhouse gas emissions and reach defined reduction targets as “greenwashing.” Reducing industry…
MAiD is changing our health system to one designed to bury us at the lowest possible cost Decriminalizing “Medical Assistance in Dying” (MAiD) in 2016 apparently confirmed a powerful social bias in favour of personal freedom. Presented as a free choice – affecting no one else – euthanasia seemed acceptable to most Canadians. However, this…
How can a racially based system even be called “justice”? Provincial justice ministers in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are urgently calling on the federal government to “convene a bail reform summit to address the increasing level of violence faced by Canadians.” Other provincial justice ministers have voiced similar concerns. What is going on? The immediate concern…