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Our Oil, Our Choice: Canada needs a national energy strategy to power up for a brighter future
Alberta and the Curse of the Petro State
It's Time to Get a Better Deal from Big Oil: Albertans deserve a fair share of the money made from their natural resources
This is a very good point but it leaves me curious as to if there has been any interest in building a ref...
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Oil sands jobs should stay in Canada, not be shipped to China
The temporary foreign worker program is simply a guise to acquire cheap labor at the expense of Canadian ...
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List of ‘accelerated’ TFW approvals reveals widespread abuse of program
look at this and ask if there is a connection?? I would say yes! http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/...
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Businesses being given temporary foreign worker permits regardless of economic need
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