Alberta Politics: Has anyone thought about the impact regime change in Venezuela will have on Alberta’s oilpatch? It won’t be pretty!

In the stampede by Canadian politicians of all ideological stripes to support Venezuela’s self-declared “interim president,” has anyone given even a nanosecond’s thought to the impact the handover of the troubled South American petrostate’s government to Juan Guaido would have on Alberta’s oilpatch? It won’t be pretty. The federal government’s

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Life...A Small Spark Between Two Eternities: Role reversal: China cites human rights in spat with Canada

   When China’s government recently protested the arrest in Vancouver of Huawei Technologies executive Meng Wanzhou, it used something rarely heard from Beijing — the language of individual human rights. “The detention without giving any reason violates a person’s human rights,” Says the country with no Human Rights whatsoever…FULL STORY

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Accidental Deliberations: New column day

Here, on how the Saskatchewan Party’s self-induced aversion to responsible climate policy may producing serious political and economic consequences. For further reading…– D.C. Fraser reported on the NDP’s Regina Northeast by-election win. And Jennifer Quesnel reported on Moe’s response to a meeting with his federal counterparts which signals a refusal

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