1+ week, 3+ 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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1367+ words) By Tegan Hill and Joel Emes Yet according to our recent study, from 1981 to 2024, there were discrepancies between per-person equalization payments and per-person GDP in all but three of the 44 years. Some provincial governments have expressed frustration with Canada’s equalization…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (633+ words) By Mackenzie Moir and Nadeem Esmail This debate between the provincial and federal governments leads to two important questions. Do these new reforms actually violate the CHA? And what does it mean if they do? The latter question is relatively…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1615+ words) By Jason Clemens and Tegan Hill A series of court decisions, government legislation and agreements between individual First Nations and the British Columbia and/or federal government have thrown property rights into question in B.C. The resulting crisis will continue to…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1231+ words) When Ottawa and Alberta announced on July 2 that Alberta’s proposed new West Coast oil pipeline would be referred to the Major Projects Office, environmental opposition did not have to start from scratch. One organization already had an audience, a recognizable…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (1596+ words) Constitution gives Parliament sole authority over interprovincial pipelines, so why is Ottawa negotiating payments with B.C.? On July 2, Prime Minister Mark Carney signed the Canada-British Columbia Cooperative Prosperity Agreement with B.C. Premier David Eby in Vancouver, then flew to Calgary to announce,…...

4+ week, 9+ hour ago   (1633+ words) His willingness to back new pipelines is a rare example of the interprovincial co-operation Canada needs to strengthen its economy and national unity Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew welcomes pipelines. That’s good news for Canadian unity, prosperity and independence. It’s also…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1780+ words) Prime Minister Mark Carney needs to look at this poll and understand something simple: People will not accept a gas tax hike in September. New polling shows 63 per cent of Canadians oppose the federal government’s plan to hike fuel taxes…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (1780+ words) Prime Minister Mark Carney needs to look at this poll and understand something simple: People will not accept a gas tax hike in September. New polling shows 63 per cent of Canadians oppose the federal government’s plan to hike fuel taxes…...