Alberta Adds 82,000 Jobs, Canada Loses 9,500

Let me tell you about a magical place where the rate of unemployment is 4.9%. The unemployment rate is so low that business owners need to import workers from overseas to work unskilled jobs for above minimum w...

Putin’s Eleven: How Canada Can Save Ukraine

How many Russians do we need to sanction to make yet another entirely symbolic foreign policy statement? About 11. Harper has been tough on Putin since day one of the crisis in the Crimea. The rhetoric ha...

What’s Really Endangered: Whales or Pipelines?

Last month, in a bizarre move, Canada’s Conservative government downgraded the humpback whale from “threatened” to “species of special concern” under the Species at Risk Act. It was a move with purely political...

Canada Pushes Oil into Europe, Sanctions into Russia

Canadian Natural Resource Minister, Greg Rickford, has been on a celebrity tour of Europe promoting the hottest new Canadian product: crude. With sanctions pending against Russia, European leaders are now worri...