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The war tax you're actually paying at the pumps

Canadian oil producers and refiners are collecting some of the largest windfalls in the history of the business, all because of a war they, too, had...

16.10.2026 30

National Observer

Ross Belot

Canada's oilsands are a big cash cow, being milked for all they're worth

No major project has been announced in the oilsands for more than a decade and the companies that operate there have been funeling the profits into...

05.05.2026 40

National Observer

Ross Belot

Reality trumps a Poilievre oil fantasy

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's stand on a proposed new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast flawed on so many levels. It confuses where...

23.01.2026 50

National Observer

Ross Belot

Why Carney's pivot to Keystone XL is brilliant (even if just a fantasy)

Keystone XL avoids friction between British Columbia and Alberta over a West Coast project that would never be built anyway. Poilievre still loses a...

12.11.2025 40

National Observer

Ross Belot

The fall of a Canadian giant

The new Imperial Oil is essentially a collection of operating plants run out of “global business centres.” That is, not run from Canada or by...

06.10.2025 50

National Observer

Ross Belot

A reality check on nation building

We can either stay hewers of wood and drawers of water, or finish the job and keep the refining profit in Canada.

19.09.2025 60

National Observer

Ross Belot