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NEW CANADIAN COUNTERTERRORISM LAW THREATENS ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS
NEW CANADIAN COUNTERTERRORISM LAW THREATENS ENVIRONMENTAL GROUPS Geraldine Thomas-Flurer, who campaigns for environmental protection on behalf of indigenous First Nations in Canada, wasn’t surprised when, in 2012, she found out that the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had been keeping tabs on her. The Toronto Star that year obtained documents showing that federal police had monitored private meetings […]
Low Oil Prices Not Enough To Kill Off Oil Sands, Yet
Low Oil Prices Not Enough To Kill Off Oil Sands, Yet On Friday I visited the University of Alberta in Edmonton, where falling oil prices have brought a record provincial budget deficit despite aggressive tax increases and spending cuts. Here I pass along some of what I learned about how the plunge in oil prices is affecting […]
Canada’s Energy Policy Should Not Be an Oil and Gas Policy
Canada’s Energy Policy Should Not Be an Oil and Gas Policy I was out for dinner with a friend the other night and, naturally, the conversation turned to food, energy policy and how they are linked. As our server was well aware, and as almost any restaurant employee could tell you, language is important. Culinary […]
Economists Fear Oil-Price ‘Contagion’ Has Hit Canada’s Economy
Economists Fear Oil-Price ‘Contagion’ Has Hit Canada’s Economy ‘Unbelievable’ decline in oil drilling could impact banks, construction Cost-cutting budgets in Alberta, Quebec will reduce economic growth Analysts completely divided on where oil prices are headed now Following some nasty recent surprises in Canada’s economic data, analysts are starting to sound more pessimistic about the country’s […]
Canada-China Ties Deepen With Renminbi Trading Hub
Canada-China Ties Deepen With Renminbi Trading Hub China’s growing global financial influence has skeptics, requires reforms to keep pace Canada and China officially opened the first North American renminbi trading hub in Toronto on Monday, March 23, amid other initiatives that are poised to give the Asian power greater financial influence internationally. These developments give […]
Access Denied: Ministry of Environment Vetoes Interview Request on Oilsands Toxins in Animals
Access Denied: Ministry of Environment Vetoes Interview Request on Oilsands Toxins in Animals Documents obtained by DeSmog Canada reveal that Canada’s Ministry of Environment vetoed an interview request on toxins in fur-bearing animals in the oilsands, even though the federal scientist was “media trained and interested in doing the interview.” The Environment Canada scientist in question, […]
Police Gas Student Protesters In Quebec
Police Gas Student Protesters In Quebec Earlier this week we reported that the Blockupy movement — supporters of which set fire to the streets of Frankfurt earlier this month in an anti-austerity protest timed to coincide with the grand opening of the ECB’s new headquarters — had apparently spread across the Atlantic to the streets ofMontreal where students […]
Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests
Montreal Students Clash With Riot Police In Austerity Protests Last week, anti-austerity protests in Germany turned the streets of Frankfurt into a veritable horror show as Blockupy supporters dressed as clowns clashed with riot police against a backdrop of flaming cars and utter chaos in what looked like a scene out of Pennywise The Clown Meets Black Hawk […]
The Canadian Housing Bubble Has Begun To Burst
The Canadian Housing Bubble Has Begun To Burst Don’t look now but slumping crude prices are hitting the Canadian housing market like a freight train. Energy accounts for 10% of Canadian GDP and around 25% of exports and the swift fall in oil prices is having a profound effect in the nation’s oil producing regions. Take […]
What You’ll Have to Do to Stay Under the Radar if Bill C-51 Becomes Law
What You’ll Have to Do to Stay Under the Radar if Bill C-51 Becomes Law Bill C-51 is an omnibus anti-terrorism bill that grants CSIS new information sharing powers and converts CSIS from a covertintelligence gathering organization to acovert enforcement agency. No wonder Canadians don’t know what the heck is going on! Ms. Soapbox is here to […]
Ontario’s Ring Of Fire, Formerly ‘The Next Oilsands,’ Sold For Peanuts
Ontario’s Ring Of Fire, Formerly ‘The Next Oilsands,’ Sold For Peanuts A junior miner will soon be the biggest player in Ontario’s fledgling Ring of Fire mining development, after agreeing to pay US$20 million for the properties of Cliffs Natural Resources, a U.S. mining giant who has abandoned hope of developing the area. Toronto-based Noront […]
Forget About Keystone XL – Canadian Crude Is Coming
Forget About Keystone XL – Canadian Crude Is Coming While Congress and the White House continue to wrangle over the Keystone XL pipeline extension, the oil industry is taking matters into its own hands. Markets are primed for an influx of Canadian crude oil, but with pipeline transport off the table for the foreseeable future, […]
Eh is not OK: Canada’s Jobs Begin to Unravel
Eh is not OK: Canada’s Jobs Begin to Unravel Canada’s employment stats for February were not what most expected – there was a huge jump in full time jobs. Most commentators tried to put a positive spin on this but I have to disagree. Canada’s labour market is struggling and the outlook for the near […]
Bill C-51 ‘Day of Action’ protests denounce new policing powers
Bill C-51 ‘Day of Action’ protests denounce new policing powers NDP Leader Tom Mulcair, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May join protests in Montreal, Toronto Protests are underway across Canada against the government’s proposed anti-terrorism legislation, which would give police much broader powers and allow them to detain terror suspects and give new powers to Canada’s spy […]
Household Debt Soars in Canada, “Stability” at Risk
Household Debt Soars in Canada, “Stability” at Risk Debt by Canadian households is a special phenomenon. Statistics Canada reported today that in the fourth quarter, household debt set another breath-taking record. Earlier this month, even Equifax Canada, which is in the business of facilitating and increasing this indebtedness, had warned about it. The total indebtedness […]
