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As extreme weather events become more frequent and destructive, Alberta homeowners are facing steep increases in insurance premiums, with experts warning the trend is unlikely to reverse without significant changes. Industry officials say the cost of home insurance in Alberta has surged dramatically over the past two decades, rising about 400 per cent as insurers…
“If we’re spending this money on interest costs, that’s money that’s not going towards those programs you care about, like education, health care, pensions, things like that,” he said. “And ultimately we are basically spending the same amount or more on interest costs than we are spending on K-to-12 education, for instance.”
As our institutes have recently argued, re-grounding U.S.-Canada trade in a broader deal would see the stock of Canadian direct investment in the U.S. increase by $450 billion over 5 years, and more than $1 trillion over ten years, unlock major Canadian defence spending, strengthen America’s northern border, help keep China at bay and increase…
In 2019, Hamas official Fathi Hammad demanded that Palestinians abroad attack Jews worldwide. Since 2015, there has been a 417 per cent increase in antisemitic crimes in Canada. A country cannot import people en masse, without some kind of values test, and expect that their stories, as Carney described them, will not contain hatreds and…
In comparison, the other groups whose land intersects with the project are a lot more substantial. The officially recognized Tahltan have 2,255 members; the Nisga’a have nearly 5,000, 1,800 of which live on traditional lands. Both have agreements with KSM regarding jobs and contracting opportunities with respect to the project, along with broader financial support…
There are all kinds of legitimate criticisms that could be leveled at Alberta’s premier for how she’s navigated the separation debate or the question she’s chosen to place on the October ballot. Read More
Optimists like me had hoped this war would lead to a recalibrated Middle East, focused on peace and the Abraham Accords. Sadly, the Trump deal is silent about Iran’s development of ballistic missiles that caused millions of Israelis to run for shelter over these past two years. Even more critically, the MOU fails to demand…
Wagner would not deny that other people must be scrutinized and corrected. It’s what he and his colleagues do, albeit with increasing languor, from on high. Way up high. As Woodfinden complained, “A bronze likeness of the sitting chief justice now stands in the Supreme Court’s entrance, paid for by a donor the court won’t…