Alberta

Alberta’s Health-Care Privatization Courts Disaster

27/12/25

Author:

Doug Firby

Link:

The Tyee

Alberta’s push toward for-profit health care will lead the province onto the rocks, writes Doug Firby. Photo via the Canadian Press.

Dec. 22, 2025

The UCP government has chosen a discredited ideology over real solutions.

Alarmists have compared the decline in Canada’s health-care systems to the Titanic disaster — an “unsinkable” system that has run into the iceberg of an aging population.

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Alberta

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Mark Carney’s pact with Danielle Smith is climate carnage

17/12/25

Author:

The Breach

Link:

The Breach

Smith and Carney - Mark Carney’s pact with Danielle Smith is climate carnage

Website editor: in depth and insightful interview

Dec. 4, 2025

Author and analyst Seth Klein joins Desmond Cole to break down how Carney and Smith have fulfilled Big Oil’s entire wish list

Mark Carney’s deal with Alberta’s Danielle Smith is the climate sell-out of the century.

Author and analyst Seth Klein joins Desmond Cole to break down everything it contains—from pipelines, to AI data centres, to dirty electricity, to a rollback of almost every Trudeau-era climate policy.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canadian fossil fuel workers won’t be saved by Carney’s oil and gas boosterism

14/12/25

Author:

John Woodside

Link:

National Observer

Dec. 8, 2025

Workers in Canada’s oil and gas industry won’t be able to escape the sector’s coming collapse regardless of the fossil fuel boosterism from politicians in Ottawa and Alberta.

That’s according to new research from the Centre for Future Work, which found that concerns about fossil fuel employment “have been weaponized by industry” to prevent or delay policies to reduce oil and gas production and use.

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American decline and Canadian complacency

14/12/25

Author:

Andrew S. Wright Anil (Andy) Hira Stefan Pauer Opinion

Link:

National Observer

LNG pipeline construction in North Bear Lake, photo by Andy Wright

Dec. 11, 2025

The world’s axis of rotation has shifted. America is no longer able to provide leadership in global discourse and guidance. US President Donald Trump has effectively sidelined America. China’s hard-earned, multi-decade focus on economic success and global acquisition of resources and critical minerals has accelerated its geopolitical ascendance.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Canada’s environmental ‘realism’ looks more like surrender

14/12/25

Author:

Tzeporah Berman

Link:

The Guardian

‘The contrast could not be sharper: while climate effects intensify and economies pivot, Canada is reinforcing the very industries driving the crisis.’ Photograph: Canadian Press/Shutterstock

Dec. 8, 2025

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

Where are the customers? Why the idea of a pipeline to Asia is built on Fantasy

11/12/25

Author:

Markham Hislop

Link:

Canadian Association of the Club of Rome

pipeline in the ocean - Asia is electrifying. It doesn't need or want Alberta's ultra heavy sour crude

Dec. 6, 2025

Posted by: Richard van der Jagt

Where Are the Customers? Why the Idea of a Pipeline to Asia Is Built on a Fantasy
Asia is electrifying. It doesn’t need or want Alberta’s ultra heavy sour crude.
MARKHAM HISLOP
DEC 06, 2025

roainamini/Pixabay
This post first appeared on Markham Hislop’s Thoughtful Energy Journalism blog on November 28, 2025. Republished with permission.

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'Alternative' energy and less energy

How the Carney-Smith Pact Could Bring More Tankers to Burrard Inlet

11/12/25

Author:

Andrew MacLeod

Link:

The Tyee

The MOU between Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Prime Minister Mark Carney includes support for a northern pipeline and a Trans Mountain expansion. Photo via Shutterstock.

Dec.11, 2025

BC hoped expanding Trans Mountain would be an alternative to a new pipeline. Instead both are possible.

With public attention focused on a proposed bitumen pipeline to British Columbia’s northwest coast, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith let drop that Premier David Eby had told her he agreed to a different proposal to expand oil shipments through B.C.

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Carney Flips on Tax Breaks for Phony Carbon Capture

04/12/25

Author:

Nick Murray - The Canadian Press with files from The Energy Mix

Link:

The Energy Mix

Shell Quest CCS plant, photo by @EarthAccounting

Dec. 3, 2025

Carney ‘Will Have To Answer’ Questions About Flip-Flop on Tax Credit, Liberal MP Says

A British Columbia Liberal MP said Wednesday Prime Minister Mark Carney “will have to answer” questions on why he reversed a budget commitment on tax credits for a controversial and self-defeating form of carbon capture and storage when he signed the Alberta energy deal.

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Did the climate world misread Carney?

01/12/25

Author:

John Woodside

Link:

National Observer

Dec. 1, 2025

Mark Carney, the central banker, was the thought leader the climate movement needed: someone who could translate the reality of climate change into the language of finance. As prime minister, he is torching the country’s climate policies, while pouring government time and resources into new fossil fuel infrastructure. To state the obvious, these are not the decisions of a climate champion.

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A New Oilsands Pipeline? What Politicians Won’t Admit

01/12/25

Author:

Andrew Nikiforuk

Link:

The Tyee

The plan to daily pump 1.4 million more barrels of bitumen includes expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline, shown here being buried in Abbotsford, BC, in 2023. Photo by Darryl Dyck, the Canadian Press.

Dec. 1, 2025

An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.

Lo and behold, Prime Minister Mark Carney, a global banker, and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, a petro-populist à la Donald Trump, have big energy plans for Canadians.

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Alberta

The UCP government has chosen a discredited ideology over real solutions.

Author and analyst Seth Klein joins Desmond Cole to break down how Carney and Smith have fulfilled Big Oil’s entire wish list

BC hoped expanding Trans Mountain would be an alternative to a new pipeline. Instead both are possible.

Carney ‘Will Have To Answer’ Questions About Flip-Flop on Tax Credit, Liberal MP Says

An energy expert lays out the risks and fallacies as Canada and the world fail to face the climate crisis.

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