We need the emissions cap
Conservatives love rhyming slogans. Alberta’s Conservative government has come up with a dandy in their latest fight with the feds: “scrap the cap.” The cap…
… a Bill Longstaff blog
Conservatives love rhyming slogans. Alberta’s Conservative government has come up with a dandy in their latest fight with the feds: “scrap the cap.” The cap…
Statistics Canada recently reported that in at least one respect this country is moving in the wrong direction. Income inequality has risen to the highest…
I believe in free markets, at least for most commerce. As do most Albertans. Partly because they believe a free market in oil made them…
Until a few days ago I had never heard of the organization Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network. And then suddenly it had become an issue…
Early last year I posted about the Frances Widdowson case. Dr. Widdowson was a tenured professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary until she ran…
Everyone has heard of the Alberta Advantage. They must have, the province never stops promoting it. And what makes the Alberta Advantage? Well, according to…
One hundred and forty-two years ago the world’s first coal-burning power station went on line at the Holborn Viaduct in London, England. Coal had already…
In 2022, Canada’s birth rate fell to 1.33 children per woman, its lowest on record. This is insufficient to maintain our current population. We are…
As much as we trust the free market, it isn’t always honest with us. It often tells lies. Big lies. Specifically, it lies about the…
In a recent article, New York Times opinion writer David Wallace-Wells poses the question “What Happens if China Stops Trying to Save the World?” Wallace-Wells…
We live, we are told, in the Information Age. All the knowledge of humanity is at our fingertips with a mere keystroke. The Internet promise…
Two articles appearing the same day in The New York Times reminded readers how technology, so generous to our way of life, can turn on…