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Posted: May 28, 2021 7:00 AM MT | Last Updated: May 28 Chandresh Patel and his wife Sneha stop to charge their Tesla. They hope to see more of these charging stations between Edmonton and their home in Fort McMurray.(Submitted by Chandresh Patel)
Rex Murphy: It's 'hard, hard times' in Newfoundland. And it doesn't look hopeful Rex Murphy © Provided by National Post The fishing village of Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island, Newfoundland and Labrador, is seen in an undated file photo. The province is facing its greatest crisis since the collapse of the cod fishery, writes Rex Murphy. It was 87 years ago and under pressure of entering full bankruptcy that Newfoundland became the first of the British Empire’s “Dominions” to give up its autonomy and to abandon self-government. As a consequence, for 15 years the former cou...
Article content Last month, I logged on to an online economic development forum run by people who did not live in Fort McMurray five years ago, when a wildfire levelled swaths of the city and sent 80,000 residents scrambling to escape the inferno. The organizers talked about how, miraculously, no one was killed in the flames that circled the town and how quickly we rebuilt our homes, our businesses and our lives. Fort McMurray likes to think of itself as a “get ‘er done” town. We brag that one year in our work-centric, high-energy oil town is like five anywhere else. Disaster recovery a...
Try refreshing your browser, or BONOKOSKI: Bad vibe aside, oilsands a uniquely Canadian success story Back to video No matter the bad-vibe moniker, the enviro-activists and their progressive backers love the word tarsands, there is still big money going in and coming out of the oilsand’s Fort Mac — all vital to Canada’s economy. Consider this: While substantially less than at its peak at the height of the oil boom in 2014, oilsands investment around Alberta’s Fort McMurray — totalling $8.3 billion in 2020 — is still 4.5% of all business investment in Canada. This, says a new rep...
Cold Lake Fighter Jets planning for 2021 return SHARE ON: - Cold Lake Fighter Jets Football Club A football team in Cold Lake says they’re looking forward to a return to regular season play in 2021. The Cold Lake Fighter Jets of the Alberta Football League have released a statement online, saying they have plans to return to the field on July 10th against the Fort Mac Monarchs. “The 2021 Fighter Jets season is about to kick off and we are excited to have our fans back in the stands.” “Over the last year and change we, as an organization, witnessed the Lakeland’s resilience and coo...