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Oh Canada, Why Can’t You Shelter War Resisters?
Oh Canada, Why Can’t You Shelter War Resisters? Deb Ellis’ and Dennis Mueller’s film Peace Has No Borders tells the story of U.S. war resisters in Canada in opposition to the 2003-present war on Iraq, and the efforts of the War Resisters Support Campaign to win them the right not to be deported. Many members […]
4 In 10 Canadians Can Not Cover Basic Expenses Without Going Deeper In Debt
4 In 10 Canadians Can Not Cover Basic Expenses Without Going Deeper In Debt Back on July 13, when the BOC hiked rates by 25bps to 0.75% – its first rate hike in 7 years – followed by another unexpected rate hike in September, we documented some troubling trends among Canadian households, including the record […]
Canada’s Hunt For Taxes Turns on Minimum Wage Earners
Canada’s Hunt For Taxes Turns on Minimum Wage Earners The hunt for taxes has turned to employees of companies. Any benefit you give an employee is considered “soft-income” and is to be taxed. In the USA, the maximum value of a gift I can hand an employee is $25. I can’t even give them a […]
Lessons from the front lines of anti-colonial pipeline resistance
Lessons from the front lines of anti-colonial pipeline resistance A bridge leads to the entrance of the Unist’ot’en territory in British Columbia, Canada. (WNV/Jeff Nicholls) The Standing Rock standoff over the Dakota Access Pipeline was a reminder that colonization, and resistance to it, both exist in the present tense. Fossil fuel pipelines that despoil indigenous […]
The Real GHG trend: Oilsands among the most carbon intensive crudes in North AmericaOilsands at 50 Series – The Real Cost of Development, Part 1
The Real GHG trend: Oilsands among the most carbon intensive crudes in North America Oilsands at 50 Series – The Real Cost of Development, Part 1 The Oil-Climate Index suggests that the oilsands generate 2.2 times as many emissions per barrel than the average crude extracted in North America. Photo: Jennifer Grant Over the past 50 years, […]
Canada Aims To Solve U.S. Nuclear Woes
Canada Aims To Solve U.S. Nuclear Woes Canada believes it may have the answer to replacing some U.S. nuclear capacity with other forms of carbon-free energy. When New York state and Massachusetts retire three nuclear reactors between 2019 and 2021, the two states will lose a combined 2.7 gigawatts of carbon-free power. Both states want […]
Magnitsky Act Comes to Canada
Magnitsky Act Comes to Canada This is no secret that the driving force behind the lobbying anti-Russia Magnitsky Law is the former US and now British citizen and former hedge fund manager William Browder. Alex Krainer (AK), who is also a hedge fund manager, wrote the book “The Killing of William Browder” deconstructing Browder’s narrative. Alex has kindly […]
Canada’s Pipeline Industry Takes Another Hit
Canada’s Pipeline Industry Takes Another Hit Another oil pipeline in Canada bites the dust. TransCanada announced last week that it would scrap its plans to build a 2,800-mile major pipeline that would traverse nearly the entire country, closing off a crucial potential export route for Canada’s oil sands. The $15 billion Energy East pipeline would […]
How Oil Hijacked Alberta’s Politics: Behind the Curtain With Former Liberal Leader Kevin Taft
How Oil Hijacked Alberta’s Politics: Behind the Curtain With Former Liberal Leader Kevin Taft For decades, Kevin Taft has served as a thorn in the side of Alberta’s provincial government. In his new book, Taft, who served as a Liberal MLA between 2001 and 2012, and as leader of the Alberta Liberal Party — the province’s […]
Five Things You Need to Know About the Cancellation of the Energy East Oilsands Pipeline
Five Things You Need to Know About the Cancellation of the Energy East Oilsands Pipeline TransCanada’s Energy East pipeline is officially dead. Announced via press release on Thursday, the news confirmed long-held suspicions that the $15.7 billion, 4,500 km oilsands pipeline simply wouldn’t cut it in today’s economic context. But that hasn’t stopped commentators on all […]
Canada to Deliver Severe Blow to Relations with Russia
Canada to Deliver Severe Blow to Relations with Russia On June 12, 2017, Russia and Canada marked the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations. The relationship has rarely been worse. The two nations spoke even at the height of the Cold War. Now there is almost no dialogue, especially since Canada joined the US and […]
Update on the Deflating Housing Bubble in Toronto
Update on the Deflating Housing Bubble in Toronto Missing Chinese money? Hardest hit is the priciest segment: detached houses. Home sales in the Greater Toronto Area plunged 35% in September compared to a year ago, to 6,379 homes. The plunge in volume was spread across all types of homes. Even condos got hit: Detached houses […]
Canada: Risks of a Parliamentary Democracy
Canada: Risks of a Parliamentary Democracy A Vulnerable System Parliamentary democracy is vulnerable to the extremely dangerous possibility that someone with very little voter support can rise to the top layer of government. All one apparently has to do is to be enough of a populist to get elected by ghetto dwellers. Economist and philosopher […]
Behind Vancouver’s Housing Bubble: How Canadian Casinos Are Use To Launder Millions In Chinese Drug Money
Behind Vancouver’s Housing Bubble: How Canadian Casinos Are Use To Launder Millions In Chinese Drug Money Nearly two years after we first observed that Vancouver‘s soaring real estate market is nothing but a bubbling melange of criminal Chinese oligarch “hot money”, desperate to get parked offshore in any piece of real estate, but mostly in […]
