Cut taxes and cut waste to bring down the cost of gas. That’s the message from Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and it’s really too bad his proposal will fall on Mark Carney’s deaf ears.
As gas prices reach for the stars, this is one of Poilievre’s policies that the prime minister should be stealing.
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the government to temporarily pause federal taxes on gas and diesel for the remainder of the year.
Poilievre held a news conference at an Ottawa gas station on Thursday to outline his suggestion, which would temporarily lift the GST and excise tax on diesel and gasoline.
GM supplier Magna is stuck with a plant built to churn out parts for battery-powered pickups; ‘the magnitude of uncertainty is unparalleled’
ST. CLAIR, Mich.—At first, North America’s biggest auto-parts supplier was thrilled to snag the job of making enclosures for the batteries in General Motors’ new electric pickup. The contract was so big—and promised to be for years to come—that Magna International built a new factory in a Michigan cornfield.
Five years later, that million-square-foot plant is mostly empty and losing money, a casualty of America’s messy breakup with electric vehicles. It is one of dozens of now desolate or sparsely used EV parts plants across the country.
Now the war in Iran has driven gas prices up so sharply that EV enthusiasts are daring to wonder whether U.S. car buyers are willing to give the vehicles another look. But Magna and its big Detroit customers are forging ahead with plans to roll back EV investments.
Hundreds of robots hum on a factory floor in Ningbo, just south of Shanghai, their long arms swooping and twisting, welding together different models of custom-ordered electric vehicles (EVs).
Robots also move briskly in the corridors delivering parts to different areas of the plant, playing elevator music to alert the few humans who work there to their presence.
This “dark factory” — where the lights don’t need to be on for the work to be completed, such is the extent of its automation — produces Zeekr vehicles, a luxury EV line owned by Geely, which is also the parent company of Volvo and Polestar.
On the one hand you have the CBC shilling for CCP EV’s like it was the Canadian edition of the China Daily pointing out they are almost untouched by human hands.
That unfortunately negates the parallel LPC narrative that our new CCP masters will build vast EV manufacturing plants in Canada employing many grateful Elbow People.
The story of this Great Elbow Forward forgets to mention that the EV supply chain in glorious China is rife with slave labour!
Just in … Mass robotaxi malfunction halts traffic in Chinese city
A mass robotaxi outage in the Chinese city of Wuhan caused at least a hundred self-driving cars to stop mid-traffic, sparking renewed debate around the safety of driverless vehicles.
Local police said initial findings suggested a “system malfunction” caused multiple vehicles to stop in the middle of the road on Tuesday.
Videos on social media have documented the outage, with one appearing to show it resulting in a highway collision, although police said no injuries had been reported and passengers exited their vehicles safely.
No global organization has been more influential regarding public opinion and policies of governments than the United Nations (UN). Out of thin air, in an atmosphere of historically low carbon dioxide levels, it concocted a climate “narrative” with immense consequences.
What follows is an explanation of how this occurred.
In order to understand anything about public policy as the 21st century progresses, it is critically important to hone one’s ability to read esoterically. What is important is not what is said, but what is not said. There is the official, publicly acceptable, ‘exoteric’ line. And then there is the truth that lies underneath – often deliberately obscured.
I was thinking about this the other day when reading, as one tends to do over a nice lunch at the local Italian bistro with a pizza and a glass of red, a 2015 position paper on ‘Making the electricity system more flexible and delivering the benefits for consumers’. This was issued by Ofgem (the quango which regulates the energy market in the UK) at the start of the ongoing process to transform our energy market into one governed by “energy smart appliances”. These, for those who have been paying attention, are electric devices (your fridge, your washing machine, your EV charger, etc.) which are able to respond to ‘load control’ signals issued through the internet, and thereby reduce or delay energy consumption. Or, to put it more bluntly, appliances which can be controlled remotely so as to limit how much electricity households are able to use. Coming soon to a kitchen near you.
At hearings in Ottawa on Wednesday, the head of the Canada Infrastructure Bank refused to state the interest rate on the $206-million loan to a wind farm project that’s being managed by a company owned by the family members of three former Liberal MPs and a former Nova Scotia Liberal Party leader.
The examination of the deal by the Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities was launched after The Chronicle Herald revealed that Roswall Development Inc., parent company to Renewall Energy, which will be selling the power from the Mersey River wind project, has deep Liberal connections.
The number one requirement to make a business case for an oil pipeline is demand.
Or, at least, it should be.
While demand is at best somewhat predictable in the long term, it’s particularly difficult to predict in the short term. Change can strike like a bolt from the blue.
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The climate science world (‘settled’ division) is in shock following the discovery in ancient ice cores that levels of carbon dioxide remained stable as the world plunged into an ice age around 2.7 million years ago. Levels of CO2 at around 250 parts per million (ppm) were said to be lower than often assumed with just a 20 ppm movement recorded for the following near three million-year period. In addition, no changes in methane levels were seen in the entire period. Massive decreases in temperature with occasional interglacial rises appear to have occurred without troubling ‘greenhouse’ gas levels, and this revelation has caused near panic in activist circles.
Can Canada insulate itself from oil volatility caused by U.S. President Donald Trump’s illegal bombing of Iran? Experts say no. History says yes.
Iran’s retaliation against American attacks has disrupted oil supplies. Gasoline prices have spiked and left shocked Canadian motorists to wonder why their lives should be so affected by events in the Persian Gulf. Doesn’t Canada produce enough oil to supply all its provinces?
Yes — and it can supply them quickly, without waiting 10 years to approve and build a 4,600-kilometre pipeline from Alberta to New Brunswick.
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HAPPENING NOW: Shuvaloy Majumdar OBLITERATES the LEFT Net Zero Anti-Energy Policies.
After you watch his SPEECH there won’t be a SINGLE Liberal SUPPORTER left in CANADA. pic.twitter.com/xC3ZYfacWs
— Marc Nixon (@MarcNixon24) March 23, 2026
h/t Clink
When it comes to energy policy, Canada is under duress from two decades of Liberal governments that — to reverse the popular phrase from Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Davos speech — treated the world “as they wished it to be, not as it is.”
The Liberals wished for the world to run on wind, solar power and biomass, while in the real world it runs on oil, natural gas and coal.
The dirty manufacturing secrets behind the ‘clean’ green power revolution continue to pile up. As do the piles of filthy toxic waste growing across a China seemingly keen to supplant traditional energy and auto industries around the world at almost any price. The rare earth elements neodymium and praseodymium provide the best magnets for wind turbines and EVs, but they can arise from the ground at a fearful environmental cost.
“We are touchingly prone to mistaking our models of reality for reality itself, mistaking the strength of our certainty for the strength of the evidence, thus moving through a dream of our own making that we call life…we are simply not capable of processing the full scope of reality. Our minds cope by choosing fragments of it to the exclusion, and often to the erasure, of the rest.” – Maria Popova/The Marginalian
Great words, hey? All part of the human condition. All of us suck, in this regard, at some time or other. Best practice, as a human, is to just become cognizant of this trap we all fall into.
It is even easier to fall into the trap when surrounded by like-minded or sycophantic people, one’s that don’t challenge much. In other words, politics.
h/t handy n handsome
I remember how excited the media and customers were when the ugliest truck that ever existed came out, the Tesla Cybertruck. It came out in 2023.
Musk predicted they would sell 250,000 to 500,000 Cybertrucks. In 2024, Tesla sold around 40,000; in 2025, around 20,000. I wonder why vehicles that are expensive, won’t go very far on a charge, are ugly, and take much longer to charge, would have trouble selling.
According to the US government, climate change from man-made greenhouse gases is fake news. Lee Zeldin, director of the Environmental Protection Agency, brands it as nothing but “climate change religion,” while President Trump calls it a hoax and “perhaps the biggest scam in history.” The climate-change debate is dead and over — at least under one roof.
On this track, the US government is now shredding a tall stack of greenhouse-gas regulations. It’s being called the “single largest regulatory action in US history.”
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