Federal and provincial laws designed to protect whistleblowers are woefully inadequate, says an advocate who has worked for stronger whistleblower protection for over a decade. David Hutton, a senior fellow at Ryerson University’s Centre for Free Expression Whistleblowing Initiatives (CFEWI), says the federal Public Servants Disclosure Protection Act (PSDPA) has numerous significant problems. “It’s just…
Workers Lament Alberta’s Troubled Resource Sector
The new year has brought more woes for Alberta’s resource sector already hit with low oil prices and fleeing investments before the U.S. announcement of the Keystone XL pipeline cancellation. Forty-one-year-old Albertan Ryan Telford, who has worked in the oil and gas sector since he was 17, says that from his experience and knowledge of…
Alberta Premier Urges Federal Agencies to Be More Transparent Over Mandatory Quarantine Locations
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney urged federal agencies to be more transparent about where Canadians are being directed to stay to “self-isolate” after returning from abroad. “There are reports of Canadians returning from abroad being directed to self isolate in airport hotels, with federal agencies failing to disclose where they will be staying,” Kenney said in…
Alberta’s Winning Hand
Commentary Alberta is a pariah province, its fossil-fuel economy an impediment to the Great Reset Prime Minister Justin Trudeau envisions for Canada, its oilsands the epitome of evil to those on the left. Alberta is even an embarrassment to the federal Conservatives under Erin O’Toole, whose embrace of the Paris Climate Agreement represents but one…
Keystone XL Cancellation: Retaliate, Demand Compensation, or Move On?
The decision by the Biden administration to cancel the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline continues to make waves, with the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan calling for retaliatory measures and holding out hope, while Canada’s ambassador to the United States says it’s time to move on. U.S. President Joe Biden cancelled the US$8 billion…
Pipeline Saga: Keystone’s Cancellation Puts Focus on Trans Mountain
Although Keystone XL has been cancelled, all Canadians remain owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline and its expansion project, which the federal government acquired in 2018 for $4.4 billion. But Ottawa’s plan was always to eventually divest of the Trans Mountain pipeline system, and that’s where oil and gas executive Joe Dion hopes his group can…
Pipeline Saga: Keystone XL’s Cancellation Puts Focus on Trans Mountain
Although Keystone XL has been cancelled, all Canadians remain owner of the Trans Mountain pipeline and its expansion project, which the federal government acquired in 2018 for $4.4 billion. But Ottawa’s plan was always to eventually divest of the Trans Mountain pipeline system, and that’s where oil and gas executive Joe Dion hopes his group can…
Inquiry Into Alleged Foreign Funding of ‘Anti-Oilsands Campaigns’ Will Soon Deliver Report
Alberta’s public inquiry into the role foreign money may be playing in undermining the energy sector will deliver its report at the end of January. Accountant Steve Allan has been tasked with the inquiry’s mandate to examine “whether any foreign organization that has evinced an intent harmful or injurious to the Alberta oil and gas…
Alberta Cancels Coal Leases, Pauses Future Sales, as Opposition Increases
EDMONTON—Alberta has decided to cancel recently issued coal leases in the Rocky Mountains, as public opposition grows to the United Conservative government’s plan to expand coal mining in the area. Late Monday afternoon, Energy Minister Sonya Savage issued a press release saying the sale of 11 recently purchased coal leases would be cancelled. Savage added…
Provinces Delaying or Revisiting Vaccine Programs as Pfizer Delays Dose Deliveries
OTTAWA—At least three provinces are now temporarily delaying or pausing COVID−19 vaccination programs amid fallout from Pfizer’s decision to reduce Canada’s vaccine deliveries over the next month. More than half a million Canadians have been vaccinated against COVID-19 thus far, and more than 822,000 doses of the two approved vaccines have been delivered from Pfizer-BioNTech…
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