By Scott Jeffrey I’ve long since given up expecting politicians to stop treating their game like a blood sport. Anything the opposing faction does is bad, and what should be reasoned critique descends into back-biting, name-calling, and “my budget’s better than yours” rhetoric. I’m not going to debate the most recent Saskatchewan and Alberta budgets…
By Maurice Walch Time to pull out those shoeboxes full of receipts and try to make sense of the changes to the tax legislation from the most recent Budget. Here are some things to keep in mind while you prepare to complete your tax return. What’s New in the Zoo? Selling your house? Big Brother…
In my day: Clean One-liners: • ‘Grass’ was mowed. • ‘Coke’ was a cold drink. • ‘Pot’ was something your mother cooked dinner in. • ‘Rock music’ was your grandmother’s lullaby. • ‘Aids’ were helpers in the Principal’s office. • ‘Chip’ meant a piece of wood. • ‘Hardware’ was found in the hardware store. •…
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Mark Twain (1835 – 1910), pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American writer and humourist. The word ‘fake’ invokes deliberate deception, it hints at cunning disguises meant to dupe customers into buying an ersatz…
MMEX Resources Corp., announced it plans to build a $450 million, 50,000 barrel/day (bbl/d) crude oil refinery located in the West Texas Permian Basin, called the Pecos County refinery. The company has allocated 250-acre northeast of Fort Stockton, TX to export diesel, gasoline, and jet fuels, liquefied petroleum gas, and oil to western Mexico and…
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) is looking at updating the clean fuels regulations in its Canadian Environmental Protection Act (1999). Of course, the purpose is to reduce Canada’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through the adoption of lower carbon fuels and related technologies. The bureaucrats intend to consult with the provinces and territories, Indigenous Peoples,…
