Oil CEOs won’t be missed

Originally posted on Mastodon June 7, 2024. Sent to the National Post and Suncor (info@suncor.com) June 8, 2024. (this letter is more than 200 words… but so be it) Dear Editor, “Not one less lemming will jump off the cliff if we don’t also jump off the cliff”, so said the millionaire chief of the …

Here we go again… Oil Price Speculation or Real?

CNBC.com this morning has an article that I wasn’t expecting until at least August this year. But here it is all the same. The topic? Oil Prices Resist the World’s Recession Trend Their main point: The resilience shown by the oil markets is not because of any improvement in the global economy or rise in …

The NDP should Axe the Tobacco Tax.

Yes, they should. It adds $37 to a carton of cigarettes. Canadians have pumped $138 Billion into government coffers since Louis St. Laurent levied the first tobacco tax in 1950. And where has that gotten us? Censorship. Certain companies can’t advertise in certain places… or at all? Discrimination. Folks, stuck outside, 5 metres from everything, …