Edmonton Liberal MP Randy B is now in a key position to help with the shifts coming to employment roles in Canada, and especially Alberta due to climate change.
What's also interesting is is role in language issues, French to be more specific. Interesting that an Alberta MP has that responsibility too.
It gets more basic by the day. Either we face the reality of the climate emergency, and that includes accepting that it is fossil fuels that are the prime driver of that..........or we play regional tribal politics and blather on in Alberta about our 'clean oil'......an argument that is little more than a lie in the face of what we can learn about both bitumen and fracked gas.........if we do 15 minutes of research.
Neither industry will disappear tomorrow......but they'd better both start shrinking. Subsidies to extinction industries because Alberta wants to be the 'economic engine' of a dying planet will only fly with the most ignorant or pig headed. A new economy needs to be born...has been born actually and is growing rapidly inspite of Danielle and her Fraser shrink tank crowd.
Trudeau needs to ignore Alberta....and step up climate mitigation that makes sense in the short....and the long term. If a rump of the Canadian electorate prefer PP and his convoy coffee clatch, so what??
If a majority of us go down that sink hole none of us will win. Given the climate reality it seems to me Trudeau has little choice. Ignore Alberta.....but continue to speak to those of us literate enough to know where we are ........as a planet.
Today would be Peter Lougheed's birthday. In 1971, Peter Lougheed and the Alberta PCs defeated the longstanding Social Credit Party. Major things transpired for Alberta that year, and that provincial election was one thing. The British rock band, Procol Harum came to Edmonton, on a tour date, and recorded a live album with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. Their rework of their 1967 song, Conquistador, became an international hit. When Peter Lougheed finally got his time as premier, and he went on to undo the bad policies of the Social Credit Party, such as forced sterilization. Peter Lougheed bumped up the abysmal oil royalty rates that the Social Credit Party was getting, and created the Heritage Savings Trust Fund. Environmental laws were strengthened. Schools and hospitals were built. The needy were looked after. Then, we had premiers, in particular, Ralph Klein, who absolutely wrecked what Peter Lougheed was doing, and Peter Lougheed was unhappy with Ralph Klein for doing this. A disregard for the environment, including a massive orphan well remediation cost that is hundreds of billions of dollars, so many very pricey shenanigans, that lost a whole lot more money, including a return to the worst possible oil royalty rates, higher utility costs, from deregulation, damaging cuts to the public healthcare and public education systems, very shameful treatment of the poor, and a lot more. Here we are again, with the UCP. The UCP are like a hybrid between the Social Credit Party and the Reform Party. They are making a mockery of what Peter Lougheed stood for, and are following in the bad path of Ralph Klein, which isn't going to bode well for us in the future. What good things can we say happened in Alberta, in 2023?
The ndp elected the biggest opposition in our history...even if they did it running on a very anemic platform, when it comes to facing the realities of not only how dirty our unconventional oil and fracked gas is.......or how close we are to climate tipping points that may be irreversible.
Still...a majority won with less than 3000 votes is a pretty precarious place for our radical UCP folks to be sitting..........given some of the cockeyed things they want to get done.
All out to defend our national pension plan.....and our single payer health care. Do it for Peter, if not for your own children and grandchildren.
If I were Trudeau, I would worry about keeping my existing Alberta MPs elected but not rely on growth in seat count here when the 2025 federal election rolls around. Lisa Young identified fighting climate change as a political priority for the Liberals. That may be, but it should also be a policy imperative, even though the considerable conservative tranche in Alberta doesn't fully believe climate change is happening -- and is even less convinced of the need for swift action. Alberta conservatives may not like him, but Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is advancing important climate policies that trump short-term profits in oil and gas.
If I were Trudeau I would have an immediate existential crisis... but when that was done I would not spend one second thinking about placating Alberta, because that is not possible for him to do. Albertans will hate him no matter what he does.
You mean denying climate change when your lands are burning, means you continue to support oil and gas. Best of luck Alberta. I D on’t blame him for minimizing what he has to contend with
Love the last sentence: “But every action that turns this conflict into a federal-provincial dustup, and lets us talk about it in terms of federal-provincial conflict detracts from the conversation about what the hell we should be doing in the face of this.” Exactly! Another Guardian commentary that is similarly dire about the rapidity of the change we’re facing is this one discussing how we may have deeply underestimated the impact of climate changes: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/frightens-climate-crisis-do-not-know-how-bad-wildfires-greece
Everyone should read your link to the guardian article....too many of us accept the reality of climate change now........but perhaps because we were schooled into a science that 'reduces the variables to achieve certainty and repeatability of results' we don't understand the many positive feedback loops (and positive here has no new age connotations!) that are going to ripple through the climate bringing damages far more devastating than we can imagine.
Chaos Theory....big System theory, tells us more about our uncertain future, than classical causation. And yes......be afraid. The loss of iconic species will trigger other losses....the loss of our boreal forest will change weather patterns across Canada in ways we can't foresee.
Folks who argue the world will need our Fossil Fuels for decades to come are prophets(profits) of doom....we should be running them out of the province, not appointing them to positions of influence. Experts of Extinction should be their true titles.
To be fair, the feds did not turn this into a federal-provincial dustup, Albertans (with a little help from Post Media) did that. The the only thing Trudeau could do to please his Albertan critics is jump up his own butt and vanish.
Actually but so. Calgary is trying to sell itself as more than oil and gas. But the Beltline won't actually accept that fossil fuel combustion is not the hydrocarbon future. You can't steal second base with both feet firmly planted on first.
"There is always an Alberta subplot" is true. What isn't true that an Alberta subplot is Calgary centric. Calgary commentators seems to perpetually miss that reality.
Edmonton Liberal MP Randy B is now in a key position to help with the shifts coming to employment roles in Canada, and especially Alberta due to climate change.
What's also interesting is is role in language issues, French to be more specific. Interesting that an Alberta MP has that responsibility too.
It gets more basic by the day. Either we face the reality of the climate emergency, and that includes accepting that it is fossil fuels that are the prime driver of that..........or we play regional tribal politics and blather on in Alberta about our 'clean oil'......an argument that is little more than a lie in the face of what we can learn about both bitumen and fracked gas.........if we do 15 minutes of research.
Neither industry will disappear tomorrow......but they'd better both start shrinking. Subsidies to extinction industries because Alberta wants to be the 'economic engine' of a dying planet will only fly with the most ignorant or pig headed. A new economy needs to be born...has been born actually and is growing rapidly inspite of Danielle and her Fraser shrink tank crowd.
Trudeau needs to ignore Alberta....and step up climate mitigation that makes sense in the short....and the long term. If a rump of the Canadian electorate prefer PP and his convoy coffee clatch, so what??
If a majority of us go down that sink hole none of us will win. Given the climate reality it seems to me Trudeau has little choice. Ignore Alberta.....but continue to speak to those of us literate enough to know where we are ........as a planet.
The Thorburn quote is kinda evergreen...
Today would be Peter Lougheed's birthday. In 1971, Peter Lougheed and the Alberta PCs defeated the longstanding Social Credit Party. Major things transpired for Alberta that year, and that provincial election was one thing. The British rock band, Procol Harum came to Edmonton, on a tour date, and recorded a live album with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium. Their rework of their 1967 song, Conquistador, became an international hit. When Peter Lougheed finally got his time as premier, and he went on to undo the bad policies of the Social Credit Party, such as forced sterilization. Peter Lougheed bumped up the abysmal oil royalty rates that the Social Credit Party was getting, and created the Heritage Savings Trust Fund. Environmental laws were strengthened. Schools and hospitals were built. The needy were looked after. Then, we had premiers, in particular, Ralph Klein, who absolutely wrecked what Peter Lougheed was doing, and Peter Lougheed was unhappy with Ralph Klein for doing this. A disregard for the environment, including a massive orphan well remediation cost that is hundreds of billions of dollars, so many very pricey shenanigans, that lost a whole lot more money, including a return to the worst possible oil royalty rates, higher utility costs, from deregulation, damaging cuts to the public healthcare and public education systems, very shameful treatment of the poor, and a lot more. Here we are again, with the UCP. The UCP are like a hybrid between the Social Credit Party and the Reform Party. They are making a mockery of what Peter Lougheed stood for, and are following in the bad path of Ralph Klein, which isn't going to bode well for us in the future. What good things can we say happened in Alberta, in 2023?
The ndp elected the biggest opposition in our history...even if they did it running on a very anemic platform, when it comes to facing the realities of not only how dirty our unconventional oil and fracked gas is.......or how close we are to climate tipping points that may be irreversible.
Still...a majority won with less than 3000 votes is a pretty precarious place for our radical UCP folks to be sitting..........given some of the cockeyed things they want to get done.
All out to defend our national pension plan.....and our single payer health care. Do it for Peter, if not for your own children and grandchildren.
If I were Trudeau, I would worry about keeping my existing Alberta MPs elected but not rely on growth in seat count here when the 2025 federal election rolls around. Lisa Young identified fighting climate change as a political priority for the Liberals. That may be, but it should also be a policy imperative, even though the considerable conservative tranche in Alberta doesn't fully believe climate change is happening -- and is even less convinced of the need for swift action. Alberta conservatives may not like him, but Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault is advancing important climate policies that trump short-term profits in oil and gas.
If I were Trudeau I would have an immediate existential crisis... but when that was done I would not spend one second thinking about placating Alberta, because that is not possible for him to do. Albertans will hate him no matter what he does.
You mean denying climate change when your lands are burning, means you continue to support oil and gas. Best of luck Alberta. I D on’t blame him for minimizing what he has to contend with
Love the last sentence: “But every action that turns this conflict into a federal-provincial dustup, and lets us talk about it in terms of federal-provincial conflict detracts from the conversation about what the hell we should be doing in the face of this.” Exactly! Another Guardian commentary that is similarly dire about the rapidity of the change we’re facing is this one discussing how we may have deeply underestimated the impact of climate changes: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/25/frightens-climate-crisis-do-not-know-how-bad-wildfires-greece
Everyone should read your link to the guardian article....too many of us accept the reality of climate change now........but perhaps because we were schooled into a science that 'reduces the variables to achieve certainty and repeatability of results' we don't understand the many positive feedback loops (and positive here has no new age connotations!) that are going to ripple through the climate bringing damages far more devastating than we can imagine.
Chaos Theory....big System theory, tells us more about our uncertain future, than classical causation. And yes......be afraid. The loss of iconic species will trigger other losses....the loss of our boreal forest will change weather patterns across Canada in ways we can't foresee.
Folks who argue the world will need our Fossil Fuels for decades to come are prophets(profits) of doom....we should be running them out of the province, not appointing them to positions of influence. Experts of Extinction should be their true titles.
To be fair, the feds did not turn this into a federal-provincial dustup, Albertans (with a little help from Post Media) did that. The the only thing Trudeau could do to please his Albertan critics is jump up his own butt and vanish.
Actually but so. Calgary is trying to sell itself as more than oil and gas. But the Beltline won't actually accept that fossil fuel combustion is not the hydrocarbon future. You can't steal second base with both feet firmly planted on first.
"There is always an Alberta subplot" is true. What isn't true that an Alberta subplot is Calgary centric. Calgary commentators seems to perpetually miss that reality.
Guilty...
In fairness though, Calgary really is the hinge upon which so much of Alberta's politics swing these days.