Canadian Energy
Andrew Ference heads to the Edmonton Oilers
The former unrestricted free agent and former Boston Bruin Andrew Ference has signed with the Edmonton Oilers. Ference has been a prominent celebrity voice…
Oil Sands
9 posts on Oil Sands from Stephen Taylor's archive of Canadian political commentary.
Canadian Media
Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy
I note that Kai Nagata of “I’m-not-a-CTV-corporate-whore” fame has released a new video this morning on behalf of The Tyee and the Tides Foundation accusing…
Climate and Environment
Tar vs. Blood – Fools, PR and the shifting sands of corporate social responsibility
The trendy thing to do these days for trendy companies that sell trendy products is to show their trendy customers that these companies care about more than…
Climate and Environment
Jim Prentice interview
I bumped into Jim Prentice a few weeks ago at the Manning Centre Networking Conference. I dusted off the part of my brain that stores info on current…
Alberta Politics
Live stream of the Alberta’s future conference in Edmonton
Liveblogging the opening panel of the Manning Centre Alberta Future conference. Panelists: Danielle Smith, leader of the Wildrose Alliance Party Kyle Fawcett,…
New Democratic Party of Canada
NDP convention — Saturday summary
Today, the NDP got down to business and discussed policy, policy and more policy. In fact, the difference with Liberal policy conventions and NDP policy…
Canadian Media
CTV’s Canada AM makes a poor edit
Last week, I was watching Canada AM and would have spit out my coffee if I had been drinking some at the time. I had just seen the program’s Seamus O’Regan…
Conservative Party of Canada
Liberal meltdown
This week was the first week back after a break for Canada’s New Government. Climate change was expected to lead the agenda as it seems to be the sole issue on…
CBC
PMO’s letter of complaint to the CBC
This letter’s been floating around among a few reporters. I received the following text in my email’s inbox this morning. Dear Mr Gilbert, To be sure, freedom…