1+ week, 4+ day ago   (665+ words) With Trump’s trade war raging, you can be forgiven if major developments in other areas of policy have faded from memory. But in the last 10 months or so, we’ve seen many interesting developments in the saga of Alberta’s oilsands. But…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (1591+ words) Status as of September 2026 For several years, the federal government of Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Quebec Premier François Legault promoted Canada as the future centre of North America’s electric-vehicle industry. But those numbers require context. Much of…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1349+ words) Apart from the challenges posed by protectionist U.S. trade policies, Canada’s economy is also being hobbled by an unprecedented domestic investment gap, which reflects the cumulative impact of years of growth-inhibiting taxes, cumbersome government regulations and persistent infrastructure bottlenecks. Natural resource…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1705+ words) Dutch soldiers entering a Chinook helicopter. The Dutch Ministry of Defense has published its Energy Security Roadmap, a national strategy to ensure that its armed forces have reliable energy supplies. While produced by a single NATO member, the document reflects…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1601+ words) President Donald Trump promoted his agreement for access to 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil as “the biggest oil deal in world history.” Inside Venezuela, however, the arrangement is generating anger from an unusually broad range of voices, including democratic opposition…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (889+ words) Alberta’s government will not allow solar panels to pile up in landfills across the province. Beginning Oct. 1, Alberta will become the first province in Canada to operate a solar panel recycling program and is banning solar panels from landfill disposal....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1498+ words) Canadian motorists could receive some welcome relief at the pumps this fall as refiners and fuel suppliers begin replacing more expensive summer-grade gasoline with cheaper winter-grade fuel. The seasonal change will not produce the same savings in every province or…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1349+ words) Even discounting President Trump’s penchant for hyperbolic exaggeration, the US deal for access to Venezuelan crude oil reserves has sufficient scope to cause everyone interested in Alberta’s oil export outlook to take notice. Let’s take a closer look. Trump’s Venezuela…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (535+ words) According to a recent announcement by Premier Holt, her government will review New Brunswick’s moratorium on natural gas development, which includes the recovery method of hydraulic fracturing (also known as fracking), a widely-used process used to recover natural gas. This…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (1574+ words) “Canada has a tremendous opportunity to be the world’s leading energy superpower, in both clean and conventional energy.” Prime Minister Mark Carney, April 2025. Energy superpower …a lofty goal for Canada. But is it no more than a political slogan, a…...