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Michael Taube: Saskatchewan’s Success With Uranium Could Be Alberta’s Renewed Success With the Oilsands

June 19, 2023
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Commentary Saskatchewan, one of the world’s leading sources of uranium production, recently announced a significant achievement. “Saskatchewan is now the second largest producer of uranium in the world!” Premier Scott Moe tweeted on June 15. “Ranked third in 2021, Saskatchewan has now passed Namibia and Australia making our province a front-runner in supplying a reliable,…

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​​​Daniel Ellsberg, RIP

June 19, 2023
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Commentary Daniel Ellsberg has died at age 92. I’m not sure where the cut-off line would be between Americans of a certain age who remember Ellsberg’s turn in the national spotlight in the early 1970s and those who might never have heard of him. My guess is that the cut-off age would be in the…

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Are You a Conspiracy Theorist?

June 19, 2023
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Commentary Are you a conspiracy theorist? If you are thoughtful and interested in public affairs, the media will say you are. And they will smear and dismiss you for it. For more than half a century, certainly since the Kennedy assassination, anyone who notices patterns and missing pieces in public life, and attempts a possible…

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Blinken Arrives in Beijing Amid Strained US–China Relations

June 19, 2023
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News Analysis U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Beijing in the early morning of June 18 to begin his trip to China. At a time when the Chinese communist regime has repeatedly provoked the United States and U.S.–China relations have hit rock bottom, Blinken is the first U.S. secretary of state to visit…

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Making Canberra an ‘Electric Vehicle Only’ City Will Be to Its Own Detriment

June 18, 2023
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Commentary What is it about the thought processes of the policymakers in our capital cities? The disconnect between reality and the lot of the citizens seems of Grand Canyon proportions. Australia’s capital city and its government—the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly—is seriously exploring its ability to cement its reputation as being seriously out of…

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Six Reasons Why Making Canberra an ‘EV Only’ City Is a Bad Idea

June 18, 2023
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Commentary What is it about the thought processes of the policymakers in our capital cities? Australia’s capital city and its government—the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly—are seriously exploring ways to cement a Grand Canyon-like disconnect between the people and lofty ideas. Currently, the latest thought bubble to hit the ACT’s Legislative Assembly is to…

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6 Reasons Why Making Canberra an ‘EV Only’ City Is a Bad Idea

June 18, 2023
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Commentary What is it about the thought processes of the policymakers in our capital cities? Australia’s capital city and its government—the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Legislative Assembly—are seriously exploring ways to cement a Grand Canyon-like disconnect between the people and lofty ideas. Currently, the latest thought bubble to hit the ACT’s Legislative Assembly is to…

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Canada’s Housing Crisis: Inevitable Crash and Economic Turmoil Predicted

June 18, 2023
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Commentary Bank of Montreal economists Doug Porter and Robert Kavcic, in an article titled “Catch-’23: Canada’s Affordability Conundrum,” go into detail about a difficult issue which has been a concern for years, especially in urban and suburban areas. There seems to be no easy way out of this situation despite the assurances of politicians. Single-family…

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Enough of Pride–It’s a Sin

June 18, 2023
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Commentary I support gay rights but oppose the endless Pride celebrations and Pride Month. This isn’t just because of the recent display on the White House lawn that made us the laughingstock of the world—or a good portion thereof. That event was the unfortunate apotheosis of a movement that surfaced in 1970 with the first…

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Chinese Economy Now in Deep Peril

June 18, 2023
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Commentary At the beginning of the year, many economists had predicted that the COVID “great re-opening” of China would spur domestic spending and the consumer sector. Following years of periodic lockdowns, the hope is that consumers would roar out of the gates to offset slowdowns in traditional growth areas such as manufacturing and real estate….

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