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Canada is at risk of a hostile takeover

some citizen ideas for the New Year
"Have you noticed how unrecognizable Canada has begun to feel? I have. It is as though the country’s basic cultural integrity is being pulled apart, from within and from without."
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Oil man Carney? Let’s not get too captured just yet

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But before everybody gets carried away with the dream (or nightmare for climate activists and former Carney green backers) that Canada is about to revive its fossil fuel prowess, one major cloud hangs over the prospect.
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There will be no oilsands production boom unless the two obstacles noted by Morningstar DBRS are removed. The first — oil and gas prices — are beyond anyone’s control. The second obstacle is Ottawa’s requirement that new fossil-fuel projects must find ways to eliminate or offset their carbon emissions.Former National Energy Board member Ron Wallace, in a paper published this week in C2C journal, uses the word “boondoggle” in his review of the feasibility of the Pathways carbon capture. “Decarbonizing is neither economically viable nor just,” says Wallace. “A cynic might regard requirements for decarbonized Western Canadian-produced oil to be a mere sophistry whereby the Canadian ...

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Tanya Clemen - AMAZING VOLUNTEER!
Part of Tanya's Speech:

"So, as the intro said, I am Tanya Clemens. I'm a farmer. I'm nothing special or extraordinary or different than anyone else that is here. I love Alberta like I imagine most of you do if you're here. This is uh my Alberta flag, the one I proudly fly on my combine at harvest. And every morning that I've walked across the field this past harvest, I see this flag hanging on the top of my combine. And I see my family working together in the field, one running the green cart, another on the combine, one hauling a load in the semi semi. And in those moments, that's where I feel the most peace. I'm not thinking about Ottawa. I'm not thinking about politics. I'm thinking about the land, the sky, the work before me, and the people that I love. And that's what freedom feels like to me in my little corner of Alberta, where my work and my way of life are respected and honored, where my faith, family, and freedom are cherished. But over the ...

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