Category: Potash

American Backlash, Potential Pipeline Catastrophe, and Other Facts

  Isn’t it so typical of the National Post to publish a long negative article by an American (Steven Globerman) attacking Canada’s recent potash decision as being unbeneficial from the standpoint of public policy.  Does anyone care what this guy thinks? *     *     *     *     * A real potential for catastrophe!  The proposed Enbridge Gateway [...]

Sunday December 5th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Electoral Reform, First Nations, Oil, Potash, Tax Havens, US Politics | 1 Comment »

America’s Politicians / Debt / Foreign Investment & Potash

  Hey, how’s this for a little list? Richard Nixon Ronald Reagan George W. Bush Sarah Palin What do you think this says about the average American voter? A new poll shows that 80% of Republicans “admire Sarah Palin.” Good grief.  And other Republican possible candidates are frozen, afraid to take her on. Good grief [...]

Sunday November 28th, 2010 in Corporate Profits, Debt, Environment, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Liberal Party of Canada, Potash, US Deficit/Economy, US Politics | Comments Off

Victory!

Hurray!  Looks like we finally won one.  And bravo to Brad Wall and his Energy Minister who’ve done such a great job.   And, hurray to, finally, the people of Saskatchewan who woke up in time.  This whole potash business is more than just symbolic.  It could represent an important turning point in our country’s history.  [...]

Friday November 5th, 2010 in Foreign Takeovers, Potash, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Floundering US Economy / On Potash – It’s Looking Like Victory

You’ve probably seen my comments about how the average Canadian worker has done so poorly when compensation is compared to inflation during the past quarter century. Now the Conference Board forecasts that in 2010 and 2011, net wage increases will likely be non-existent, and, contrary to so much right-wing propaganda, public sector increases will be [...]

Sunday October 31st, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Foreign Takeovers, Income Disparity, OECD Comparisons, Peacekeeping, Potash, Right-Wing Think Tanks, The Economy, US Deficit/Economy | Comments Off

Desperate Pakistan Still Buying Fighter-Jets!

  The new edition of The Monitor (CCPA) has some very good stuff. In particular see the excellent articles on money-saving pharmacare and Bruce Campbell’s on neo-con economics. *     *     *     *     * Print journalists don’t seem to understand how much trouble Canada is in because of our steadily deteriorating current account balance which has [...]

Thursday October 14th, 2010 in Deficit, Health Care, Income Disparity, Military Spending, Potash, Poverty | 1 Comment »

Obscene Potash Deal / More Disturbing Indicators

  Sorry.  Been away.  Edmonton was great.  Mary Simon gave a first-class talk.  CBC’s Ideas will broadcast it. U of A Provost gave a very nice dinner.   All in all, two great days.  Off to Ottawa for celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the publication of The Canadian Encyclopedia. *     *     *     *     * [...]

Saturday October 2nd, 2010 in CBC, Canadian Politics, Corporations, Democracy, Foreign Takeovers, Harper, Income Disparity, Potash, Poverty, US Politics | 1 Comment »

It’s Time to Turn Things Around

  Several people, mostly on the left, have been complaining about Canada’s loss of some 300,000 manufacturing jobs during the recent recession.  That’s a huge loss affecting the entire economy in a major way. But, it’s actually much worse than that.  In 2004 there were 2,292,000 Canadians employed in the high-wage manufacturing sector, with all [...]

Monday September 20th, 2010 in Canadian Politics, Electoral Reform, Foreign Takeovers, Health Care, Manufacturing, Media, Potash, Poverty, US Deficit/Economy, US Politics | Comments Off

Where are the mass rallies on Potash???

  Just as I predicted, BHP has to borrow tens of billions of $ for its Potash takeover.  Looks like there are 25 banks involved, including the CIBC and the TDBank (both always ready to sell the country at a moment’s notice if the price is right). Now, please guess who it is that is going [...]

Sunday September 19th, 2010 in Foreign Takeovers, Potash | Comments Off

Where Is The Protest Over Potash…

  Is Canada over-centralized as you hear so often from Alberta, Quebec, The National Post and Bay Street? Nonsense, nonsense and double-nonsense. Every year, the other levels of government take in and spend much more than Ottawa.  And every year, the gap grows bigger. Here are new figures from Statistics Canada.  In 2009, the federal [...]

Monday September 13th, 2010 in Decentralization, Interest Rates, Potash, Poverty, Trade Deficit, Unemployment | Comments Off