FORSETH – Interprovincial trade remains tangled in protectionism
NOTE: The following column by Alan Forseth was first publish on March 4, 2019. He says that “Since then, there’s been little done to ensure that trade [Continue]
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FORSETH – Where is all that electric power going to come from?
ACCORDING TO a Nov. 28, 2024 Global News story, BC Hydro imported one quarter of the province’s power needs in the 12 previous months. The story stated that for the [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – New Age Temperance – Millennials, Gen Z redefine sobriety
MILLENNIALS AND Generation Z are discovering what many in my boomer generation found out – drinking too much is bad for you. In my forties, I became aware that drinking too [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Speculation Tax Declaration defies the presumption of innocence
KAMLOOPSIANS ARE RECEIVING the Speculation Tax Declaration form in the mail for the first time. I thought it must be some kind of scam but B.C.’s Finance Minister Brenda [Continue]
JOHNSON – How Trump got played by Canada and Mexico on tariff threat
SURE, OK. He threw the threat of tariffs at us, announced them, we retaliated … la, la, la. Now he says ‘a deal has been reached’, and we get a 30-day reprieve. How [Continue]
CHARBONNEAU – Cutting shopping and vacations in U.S. would counter tariffs
THERE AREN’T MANY ways that individual Canadians can retaliate to Trump’s trade war with Canada. Spending on cross-border shopping and vacations is one. Each year, a [Continue]
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