Big Oil’s Man in the Senate
Alberta Conservative Senator Doug Black worries that Canadians are illiterate when it comes to energy and he’s on a mission to educate them. “If we don’t address the issues facing…
Donald Gutstein
Big Oil’s Man in the Senate
Alberta Conservative Senator Doug Black worries that Canadians are illiterate when it comes to energy and he’s on a mission to educate them. “If we don’t address the issues facing…
Purchasing Credibility: Industry and Academy Align Forces Through The Calgary School of Public Policy
During her recent election campaign, Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley pledged to raise Alberta’s minimum wage from $10.20 an hour to $15 by 2018, which would make the province’s minimum…
Purchasing Credibility: Industry and Academy Align Forces Through The Calgary School of Public Policy
During her recent election campaign, Alberta NDP leader Rachel Notley pledged to raise Alberta’s minimum wage from $10.20 an hour to $15 by 2018, which would make the province’s minimum…
Resource Works: Two Cheers for Natural Resources?
“Without natural resources we’d be naked” claims a message stencilled on the chests of four nearly naked, muscular young men. They are the Natural Runners team in the April 2015…
Resource Works: Two Cheers for Natural Resources?
“Without natural resources we’d be naked” claims a message stencilled on the chests of four nearly naked, muscular young men. They are the Natural Runners team in the April 2015…
How Stephen Harper Used God and Neoliberalism to Construct the Radical Environmentalist Frame
Stephen Harper’s efforts to frame environmentalists as radicals who deserve to be investigated by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service took three years to come to fruition. It’s often claimed that…
Shooting the Messenger: Tracing Canada’s Anti-Enviro Movement
When former environment minister Jim Prentice held his introductory lunch with U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson in November 2009, Prentice described to Jacobson how he had been shocked during a visit…
Tracing the ‘Endless War’ on Environmentalists Back to the War in the Woods
No one admits to recording Richard Berman’s address to a room full of energy executives in Colorado Springs in June 2014, but it’s an eye-opener. One unnamed industry executive recorded…