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Canada Secretly Collected Banking Information From 500,000 Canadians Without Their Knowledge
Canada Secretly Collected Banking Information From 500,000 Canadians Without Their Knowledge As it turns out, Silicon Valley tech giants aren’t the only institutions surreptitiously collecting massive troves of sensitive data from unsuspecting consumers. On Friday, Canada’s the Global Times published a report exposing a recently launched data collection program adopted by StatCan, the Canadian government’s […]
Why Canadian Tar Sands Oil May Be Doomed
Why Canadian Tar Sands Oil May Be Doomed At current prices, Canadian tar sands oil producers are losing money on every barrel of oil they dig out. Despite signs earlier this year the industry would “turn profitable in 2018,” a much more likely scenario at this point is a fourth straight year of losses. Producers are forced […]
The Trade War Is Getting Worse For U.S. Businesses
The Trade War Is Getting Worse For U.S. Businesses President Donald Trump’s trade war is making things even worse than before for businesses in the United States. The trade war has been dragging on for four long months now, and the pain is being felt financially. Companies’ earlier worries are starting to translate into actual financial pain as new orders […]
“Colonizing Experiment in Surveillance Capitalism”: Privacy Expert Resigns From Google-Backed Smart City Project Over Surveillance Concerns
“Colonizing Experiment in Surveillance Capitalism”: Privacy Expert Resigns From Google-Backed Smart City Project Over Surveillance Concerns A privacy expert tasked with protecting personal data within a Google-backed smart city project has resigned as her pro-privacy guidelines would largely be ignored by participants. “I imagined us creating a Smart City of Privacy, as opposed to a Smart City […]
The Triumph of Evil
The Triumph of Evil The murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi Arabian embassy in Turkey is unprecedented in its audacity. The response from Washington and the Canadian government is to sell more weapons to Saudi Arabia, weapons that are being used by the Saudis in their destruction of the Yemeni population. The Russian response, […]
Why Is Canadian Crude Selling For $20?
Why Is Canadian Crude Selling For $20? Oil prices in Canada plunged late last month, with the losses continuing throughout much of October. Canadian oil producers exposed to the low prices are now fetching around $40 to 50 per barrel less than their counterparts in the United States. Western Canada Select (WCS), which tracks heavy […]
Assassination as a Criminal Tool by the Powerful Against the Weak and Oppressed
Assassination as a Criminal Tool by the Powerful Against the Weak and Oppressed Photo Source James N. Mattis | CC BY 2.0 Only recently a spat between Saudi Arabia and Canada made headlines as a result of the Saudi Government’s beheading of a Myanmar guest worker. After the public barbaric and gruesome decapitation, the corpse […]
Loonie Tumbles To 6-Week Lows After Inflation, Retail Sales Slump
Loonie Tumbles To 6-Week Lows After Inflation, Retail Sales Slump The loonie has tumbled to six-week lows (above 1.31/USD) following dismal prints for retail sales and inflation this morning. Against expectations of a 0.1% rise MoM, Canadian core retail sales slumped 0.4% MoM in August. This is the first drop in retail sales since 2017… […]
Big Oil Cheers Trump’s ‘New NAFTA’ But Mexico Could Complicate Things
Big Oil Cheers Trump’s ‘New NAFTA’ But Mexico Could Complicate Things While the oil and gas industry has lauded the new trade deal that may soon replace the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a provision added by Mexico, along with its new president’s plan to ban fracking, could complicate the industry’s rising ambitions there. The new agreement, […]
NATO Coordinates Information War on Russia
NATO Coordinates Information War on Russia The US, Britain and other NATO allies upped the ante this week with a coordinated campaign of information war to criminalize Russia. Moscow dismissed the wide-ranging claims as “spy mania”. But the implications amount to a grave assault recklessly escalating international tensions with Russia. The accusations that the Kremlin […]
USMCA: New Economic Alliance Formed to Isolate China
USMCA: New Economic Alliance Formed to Isolate China The almost 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has been relegated to the dustbin of history. The United States, Canada, and Mexico have agreed on a trilateral trade deal — the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) — to replace it. As expected, the agreement finalized on Sept. 30 is intended to stimulate production […]
September the Coldest Month in a Decade – Must be Global Warming
September the Coldest Month in a Decade – Must be Global Warming It is not looking very good for the winter ahead. A reader from Calgary sent this picture in about the early snowfall up there. Indeed, Calgary just experienced the Snowiest Day in More Than Three Decades. It Broke an October Snowfall Record. Of course, […]
LNG Canada project called a ‘tax giveaway’ as B.C. approves massive subsidies
Canada and British Columbia have put “the right fiscal framework” in place for LNG Canada to go ahead, according to Shell. What that means is more than $5 billion in subsidies. Photo: Province of British Columbia / Flickr LNG Canada project called a ‘tax giveaway’ as B.C. approves massive subsidies Fracked gas export project will […]
How this man’s legal challenge could stall LNG Canada
Smithers resident Michael Sawyer is arguing to the National Energy Board that a pipeline that would serve the LNG Canada plant should have undergone a federal environmental assessment. Photo: Dan Mesec / The Narwhal IN-DEPTH How this man’s legal challenge could stall LNG Canada A massive new fracked gas export plant in Kitimat may have […]
Government Are Just Going Broke
Governments Are Just Going Broke The events in the Senate concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh’s illustrates that career politicians are destroying our way of life because they are so intent on just beating the opposite party that nobody is paying attention to the real problems we are staring at straight in its eyes. We face a […]
