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Reflection.. A Hint Of Regret

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.24.2013 | Canada Business
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OTTAWA - For Mark Carney it was an afternoon of reflection, a time for measuring successes with just a tinge of lament for unfinished business.Carney,...

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Get Over it! A Pipeline to Prince Rupert Is Bust

Robin Rowland | Posted 10.17.2012 | Canada British Columbia
Read More: Northern Gateway Pipeline, Prince Rupert, Canadian National Railway, David Dodge, B.C. Pipeline, CN Rail Line, Gitxsan Territory, Charles Hays, Enbridge Pipeline, Canada British Columbia News
Robin Rowland

So why do people insist, despite the evidence, that the Northern Gateway go to Prince Rupert? It's no longer a pipeline; it's emotion and ideology. Ideology in that opposition to the Northern Gateway is seen by conservatives as heretical opposition to free enterprise itself. Emotion among those who see promoting the oil patch as an issue of "Alberta pride" and even Canadian patriotism. For the promoters of the pipeline to Prince Rupert, ignoring the science of geology and the study of geography across all of northwestern B.C. is no different than repeatedly knocking your head against the Paleozoic metamorphic greenstone of the mountain cliffs along the Skeena. It only gives you a headache.

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Should Alberta's Oil Go East?

CBC | Posted 07.14.2012 | Canada Business
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Former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge is not a man for wild ideas. So his recent suggestion that it might make more sense to send the...

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Time to Move Beyond Private vs. Public Debate and Reform Our Health Care System

Cy Frank | Posted 09.21.2011 | Canada Politics
Read More: Public Health Care, Health Care Reform, Private Health Care, David Dodge, Provincial Elections, Health Canada, Health Care Reform Canada, Canada Politics News
Cy Frank

Health care, which pollsters insisted was the issue of greatest concern to voters in the federal election, was summarily dismissed by our political parties with a unanimous promise made up of two simple words: "more money." But throwing ever-larger amounts of taxpayer dollars at the problem without measuring value often simply results in more waste and duplication.

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