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Jan 01

Sleeper Story of the Year 2018

Alberta’s Premier calls for bids to build new oil refinery

Finally! Someone that actually (or accidentally) sees the stupidity of worrying about fighting everyone everywhere for the “opportunity” to make it easier to give away our raw materials for chump change by comparison to what they will sell it back to us for once it has been refined.  Here’s hoping she (and the feds) follow through and this becomes the first of many refineries and other raw material processing plants that generate employment for Canadians as opposed to all those other countries.

 

Runner-up: High Demand for Legal Marijuana in Canada leads to shortages everywhere”

Could this dream come true for the Canadian munchie market come down to a future global hunger nightmare when Canadian farmers turn on to marijuana as a happier, more profitable alternative to a lot of more nutritious cash crops that Canada has traditionally pushed abroad?