National Energy Program

After years fighting a futile legal battle against the federal carbon tax, Jason Kenney’s UCP government has found another hill for its well-paid lawyers to die on, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Canada may not be ready for “Poilievremania” just yet, but the massive crowds showing up to his rallies are a clear sign the Conservative Party of Canada is embracing him with a similar degree of enthusiasm.

If irony could power our vehicles and heat our homes, we’d never need to drill for another barrel of oil in Western Canada again, writes columnist Max Fawcett.

Prime Minister Trudeau says no country “would find 173 billion barrels of oil in the ground and just leave them there.” No country, perhaps. But some energy giants are doing just that.

Travis Lane has been growing weed since high school, when his first pot plant swiftly withered and died in his bedroom closet. By the time he was 20, he had cultivated a small basement grow-operation.

On a cool wet morning in Tuktoyaktuk, I rode with the polar bear hunter. It was tied to what was about to happen to the town, and how it would open up the place to visitors.

Advocating for independence from the rest of Canada, the Alberta Freedom Party hopes to field seats in the next provincial election