Francine Berman says AI, search and social media have become critical infrastructure, but public-interest protections have not kept pace. Her prescription: risk-based regulation, human accountability and a long-term effort to make technology safer.
Political scientist Stewart Prest argues Mark Carney governs through a distinctly conservative model: private investment, infrastructure, faster approvals and a state focused on catalyzing industry.
Evan Ellis says China’s growing role in Latin American electricity, telecoms, transport and EV markets is primarily commercial but carries major strategic consequences for the United States and the wider Western Hemisphere.
Geopolitical strategist Abishur Prakash says Europe’s decision to move gold out of North America is one sign of a broader retreat from interdependence toward national economic and strategic resilience.
Rebel News argues that a federal oil export tax would threaten Alberta investment. But economist Ed Hirs and U.S. government data show the cost would be shared among Canadian producers, American refiners and consumers — and some U.S. regions have few alternatives to Canadian crude.
A new U.S.-Venezuela oil agreement could reshape heavy-crude competition by giving Washington a direct interest in Venezuelan production and preferential access to some of the barrels.
Robert Pape argues Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada are part of a consistent punishment strategy driven by MAGA domestic politics, not conventional trade economics.
Political scientist Duane Bratt says Alberta’s oil-heavy economy has insulated it from Trump’s tariffs, while the trade war is testing Danielle Smith’s U.S. strategy and Alberta separatism.
Thomas Lukaszuk says Alberta should stop shielding oil and gas from Canada’s response to Donald Trump and cancel the October 19 referendum in the name of national unity.
Alberta’s oil sands were not simply discovered and developed. Jeremy Schmidt argues that government science, geoscience, technology and water governance helped create the modern petroleum economy — and shaped how Alberta thinks about land and energy.
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Charlie Angus says Canada’s tariff fight with Donald Trump has become a sovereignty battle—and warns Ottawa may be in for a prolonged confrontation with Washington.
The prolonged Hormuz crisis may be doing more than temporarily suppressing oil consumption. DNV warns that sustained high prices could accelerate electric vehicle adoption and produce permanent oil demand destruction — much as the oil shocks of the 1970s permanently reshaped global energy consumption.
By Bob Weber Oil, pipelines and grievance – to non-Albertans, that may sound like all […]
The collapse of Canada-US trade negotiations was about more than tariffs. Washington’s last-minute demands sought influence over Canada’s trade, resources, industries and domestic laws—and closely matched the Trump administration’s blueprint for dominance in the Western Hemisphere.