I don’t know what’s dumber when Jason Kenny put Alberta’s dwindling tax dollars into Keystone: that Jason thought Trump would get re-elected or that he could bully the eventual Democratic candidate into backing off near universal support in killing the project...

While no one knows better than I anything can happen in politics, betting on the former at any point in Trump’s presidency was like betting on a three legged horse would win the Kentucky Derby. For the latter, the Dems decided a decade ago the environmental were ...

more reliable FINNs (DC speak for Friends I Need Now) than trade unions, whose official support at the leadership level was seeing diminished returns at the ballot box. ...

For a guy who cut his teeth bashing gov’t investment to prop up the economy in Atlantic Canada, he certainly pulled a Richard Hatfield on this one. The Bricklin was a sound investment by comparison. 1990s Jason would have spent the last year browbeating 2020s Jason ...

The worst part is the false hope it gives the workers in the industry. While we’ll likely be filling up our cars with gas for years to come, we are likely seeing the last generation of jobs in the oil patch as we know it. ...

Growing up in Cape Breton, we were fed hope on spoons provided by the Canadian and provincial taxpayer. Then the province sold the steel plant and the Feds shut down the coal mine. We still need use steel and coal, but neither level of gov’t could run a business to profit ...

We all knew it would happen one day. Fuck, DEVCO’s actual mission was to wean the island economy off coal. That got tossed during the energy crisis. The market for CB’s high sulphur coal was further constrained by clean air treaties in the 80s and 90s. We knew, but didn’t want to

We believed the promises our politicians made because we wanted to. We wanted to see the “for sale” signs on our neighbours’ lawns disappear. We wanted to stop attending going away parties. ...

Jason is no better than the politicians on my childhood doorstep who lied to my parents’ faces. He could have positioned himself as a transformative leader. “We provide energy to the world today. We will develop the next generation of the world’s energy resources.” ...

That would involve being honest with both the people across Canada who fly in for those jobs and the industry itself. 1990s Jason would have written about five op-eds to this effect in the time I typed out this tweet. I never thought I would say this, but I miss that guy. ...Fin