Canoe Financial is the proud presenting partner for Brad Wall's BOEReport.com column Bias confirmation. We’ve all experienced it. Like when we buy a new vehicle, a make and model we haven’t really noticed or favoured before. In fact, in the back of our mind, while we were doing the sales dance in the showroom, the doubts keep creeping in. Why have I never seen any of these out in the street? Why am I thinking about being the first one in the history of ever to buy this vehicle? And then [Read more]
Brad Wall: Old election advice still rings true
Canoe Financial is the proud presenting partner for Brad Wall's BOEReport.com column To train his political pugilist for the 1992 US Presidential primary and subsequent election campaigns Democratic strategist and cornerman James Carville famously told his contender from Arkansas: “It’s the economy stupid!” Apparently he wrote it on a note and ensured it was ever present in Bill Clinton’s pocket. His fighter never forgot. Clinton with the help of a Ross Perot-gifted vote split rode the [Read more]
Brad Wall: Curtailment Considerations
Canoe Financial is the proud presenting partner for Brad Wall's BOEReport.com column Governments, no matter their ideological mooring, earnestly seek to solve problems. That’s been both my experience and my observation. I believe that to be the case with Premier Notley’s efforts to deal with the oil industry's backbreaking and government bank-breaking differential. In this space a few weeks ago I offered that blunt instrument policies like curtailment often lead to unintended consequences [Read more]
Brad Wall: If curtailment is where we are, improvements should be on the table
Canoe Financial is the proud presenting partner for Brad Wall's BOEReport.com column I could not stop looking at the photographs in his Calgary office. Captured therein were some of the most important moments and players in the recent history of our confederation. Trudeau, Levesque, Davis, Blakeney and there too, my host, featured in iconic photos. Peter Lougheed, one of Canada’s great leaders if not its finest provincial Premier was so very generous to me as a rookie Saskatchewan Opposition [Read more]
Brad Wall: Bill C-69 presents a serious risk to Canadian industry and prosperity
Canoe Financial is the proud presenting partner for Brad Wall's monthly BOEReport.com column It's almost Halloween. Time for fatherly object lessons about the unfairness of socialism as candy is confiscated in the name of the ‘Dad Tax’(maybe that only happened in my house) and scary movies. Have you ever yelled out loud at the unhearing characters in those movies who blithely insist on opening every closet door they pass? It is a nugatory thing, but I do it anyway We should all hope current [Read more]
This is a Working Title for Future Brad Wall Column
Canoe Financial is the proud presenting partner for Brad Wall's monthly BOEReport.com column Oil edged higher on Thursday, driven by the prospect of a shortfall in global supply once U.S. sanctions against major crude exporter Iran come into force in five weeks. U.S. President Donald Trump this week demanded that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries raise production to prevent further price rises ahead of midterm elections in November for U.S. Congress members. “The [Read more]