Hey folks, don’t worry about that “bail-in” clause, Mark Carnage says. Your deposits are safe! they’re insured! We’ll never need it, which is exactly why we’ve added it. As we…
Contained in a video exclusive by Global News which centers around backroom deals to control the Calgary City counsel. Perhaps more important though than the backroom deals we all know…
Alberta faces a significant and unrecognized challenge, one not of the environment or financials but of disbelief and if we’re to fix the problems in this province then the people…
I’ve decided to end my CISPA blackout early in light of the “foiled” terrorist plot here in Canada. The purpose of this post specifically is to clear up some of…
It’s always difficult for me to decide whether to comment on tragedies such as Boston or not. I am not one to publicize my grief, if I choose to comment…
Edmonton city council’s “Plan B” to fund the arena is well basically this: source These 3 bullet points present so many problems I don’t know where to begin. Let’s start…
It appears RBC has blown the lid off the TFW can of worms to the public’s discontent. The predictable reactionary responses have of course followed, such as “Boycott RBC” with…
See what’s going on in Europe? Spain? Cyprus? See a pattern developing here? We’re going to be skipping ahead in the budget analysis for this post. Chapter 3.2 “Establishing a…
Oh those poor uneducated First Nations! To think that before our superior scurvy filled boats arrived here to share our good fortunes with the simple natives that they were basically…
Feeling apathetic? Hopeless? Lost? Have you lost confidence in the election system and politicians? One might think that these symptoms are the result of free thinking, critical thought, a peek…
I will resume my budget analysis once the Euro has calmed down a bit as the outcomes will likely further influence my analysis. However in the meantime I just want…
Two years ago I wrote a what I then thought was a contrarian piece on why I did not support Earth Hour and felt it is actually counter productive with…
Last year I attempted to analyze the massive omni-budget but eventually gave up when I saw that the government’s risks underestimated the real global risks we were about to face…
If you’re one of the people out there who believe that due to the shale discoveries in the U.S. and elsewhere that we are on the cusp of an energy…
Flaherty’s latest “intervention” further confirms that Canada’s fiscal situation is far from that that has been described and repeated like a broken record for Canadians and is actually much closer…
Hooollly crap! That was epic! Did I not say it would be epic? I totally did. Where to even begin? The fact there is less than a billion left in…
So, do you all remember how over the past year we’ve been constantly bombarded with warnings about how the interest rate just might go up at any time? do you…
I’ve been talking a lot about how Canada’s own economic crisis isn’t going to be sudden but rather a gradual decline, each year getting worse from now on. The reason…
Canadians are jumping out of one lie and into bed with another. Buzz words like “bitumen bubble” pop up out of nowhere and are dominating Canadian news. The news which…
(Unlike my usual updates, Update-1 and subsequent updates for this post will not be noted as I will be making several revisions to this post as a whole as I…
