Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer has released a report highlighting the possible economic scenarios Canada could face in the coming year. The PBO analysis estimates that Canada will experience negative GDP growth and forecasts that low oil prices are here to stay for the foreseeable future.
Cold Turkey Kenney: Oil-Addiction, Withdrawal and Alternatives in Alberta – The Bullet
Good oil branding is over, now it is about getting as much as you can out of the province for him and his buddies before closing the shop for good. If you ever wondered what cold turkey looks like – here it is.
Internal audit of Scheer’s expenses turns up money on school, clothes, minivan
As leader of the Opposition, Scheer made about $264,000 a year. That was before the automatic salary increase that took effect Wednesday, but he is promising to donate the difference to charity. He also receives a $2,000 car allowance.
He and his family live rent-free in the official Opposition leader’s residence, Stornoway, although they continue to maintain a home in Regina.
The money for schooling covered the difference between the cost of a private Catholic school in Regina and in Ottawa, amounting to $18,000 in total a year for Scheer’s four school-age kids.
Keystone XL Receives Financial Aid from Alberta – The Energy Mix
With one U.S. dollar selling for C$1.40 on the day of the announcement, Alberta’s gift to the pipeliner formerly known as TransCanada is worth $7.42 billion in Canadian funds, in the same week the province announced layoffs for thousands of teaching assistants, school secretaries, and janitors whose schools were closed by the coronavirus pandemic. Fossil industry newsletter Rigzone styled Kenney’s unparalleled generosity as “an approximately US$8 billion worth of financial support from the Province of Alberta”.TC Energy CEO Russ Girling said the pipeline “could not have advanced” without the support of both Kenney and Donald Trump.“Never has there been a more critical moment to support health, workers, and communities,” said Hannah McKinnon, energy transitions and futures director at Oil Change International. “Instead, the Alberta government is diverting limited and desperately needed public money to Big Oil in the latest misplaced attempt to revive the Keystone XL pipeline and prop up a sector that has no role in a more resilient, safer climate future.”
N.B. customers slam Bell Aliant for price increase amid COVID-19 outbreak | CBC News
The company says it notified customers of the increase in December, but some of them are only seeing it show up on their most recent bills.
That has prompted angry social media posts.
“How dare you take a price increase in the midst of a global pandemic with thousands laid off,” said Tanya Clark, a Toronto woman with elderly parents in New Brunswick. “You ought to be reported. … Absolutely disgusting.”