Reading Time: 3 minutes Othering can help understand energy discourse in Canada – and its tension and polarization – in a sector where natural sciences sensibilities ought to prevail
Category: Saskatchewan
It’s time for a cross-country, face-to-face energy conversation
Reading Time: 3 minutes The petroleum sector needs to move in synch with changing societal expectations. And Canadians will be surprised to discover how far the sector has progressed
Are Canada’s public schools truly for everyone?
Reading Time: 4 minutes The Saskatchewan ruling gives provinces the impetus to explore the alternatives to forcing children, against their parents’ will, into secular public education
Saskatchewan’s budget is Robin Hood in reverse
Reading Time: 3 minutes Increasing provincial sales tax – including on children’s clothes – will hurt lower-income households more than higher-income ones
Injecting some Positive Energy in a divisive national debate
Reading Time: 3 minutes A three-year initiative assesses how Canadians think and talk about energy in all forms, bringing together disparate and typically unaligned voices
Uncertainty discouraging mining investment in Canada
Reading Time: 3 minutes Spending on exploration – the lifeblood of the industry – dropped for the fourth consecutive year and is at its lowest point since 2005
How political activists have weaponized “duty to consult”
Reading Time: 3 minutes First Nations in Ontario are challenging routine maintenance work on the Canadian Mainline, which carries natural gas from western to eastern Canada
Energy sector needs its own Elon Musk
Reading Time: 3 minutes The sector needs someone who, like Musk, is driven by a passion for what he does and can capture the public’s imagination
The ups and downs of boom-bust oil
Reading Time: 3 minutes Breaking up monopolies and trusts deemed to be manipulating markets led to some unintended consequences, including price volatility
Canada’s media: you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone
Reading Time: 4 minutes Fake news was around long before Donald Trump made it a thing – and it hit Canada’s energy sector hard