Oliver Prepares to D-D-D-D-D-D-Drop the Budget

For the last few months, Joe Oliver has been travelling the world to try new substances and experiment with his free spirit. That would be a fun explanation for why the Finance Minister hasn’t yet tabled a budg...

Prentice Put In Pickle Pondering Provincial Sales Tax

It’s been a strange few months for Canadians at the pump; drivers might have wondered whether a group of hoodlum kids swiped the “1” from its position in the front of gas prices. Since the fall, Canada has seen...

Nanaimo’s Marijuana Trade Diversifies Echronomy

For better or worse, Canada has all its eggs in one oily basket. These days, that’s not going so well. Forecasts suggest that oil jobs are drying up faster than your girlfriend when you fart. Folks, it’s ugly o...

Poloz’s Shocker: Bank of Canada Cuts Interest Rate

The Canadian economy looked strong until last Wednesday, when the Bank of Canada slashed, gashed, trashed, cut, and gut its overnight lending rate. It was the sort of bold move that would lead Fat Bastard to in...

The Bumbling and Baffled Budget

With oil prices dropping, many Canadians around the country are wondering how the Conservatives will keep to their $1.6 billion surplus promise; others are slouched on their couches, drinking beers, and watchin...

The Deficit That Won’t Die

Failure was never an option when it came to the budget. If the government couldn’t balance it before the election in 2015, then they couldn’t justify handing out goodies to make everyone forget their actions (o...

Harper “Clearly Not” Going to Regulate Oil and Gas

If a man is as good as his word, Stephen Harper is a bad man. This Tuesday, he announced that his government will not regulate the oil and gas sector. In doing so, he broke a promise that he has made several ti...

Keystone Ad Campaign “Too Canadian” to Work

Canadians aren’t the only ones who have to put up with brainless ads from Natural Resources Canada; Americans suffer through them just like we do. Our suffering is greater, of course, because we pay for the dam...

Canada Sending Icebreakers to Arctic

In a recent development in Canada’s struggle for Arctic sovereignty, our government is sending two icebreakers to explore the Eastern side of the very Canadian sounding “Lomonosov Ridge.” Reasons for supporting...