Jason Markusoff: You’re a too-convenient target. There’s too much overheated political rhetoric about Alberta deficits and Quebec daycare provisions (which have nothing to do with equalization’s formula)
It isn’t dead, but Ottawa’s purchase could be resting a long time as it navigates a maze of challenges
Ottawa’s takeover of Trans Mountain may hurt B.C.’s efforts to obstruct the expansion project, but protesters say it has ‘lit a fire’ under them
With the pipeline in federal hands, and Alberta politicians high-fiving each other, any antagonistic relationship will be hard to sustain
Ottawa is set to take over the expansion project in August, with the clock ticking to find a buyer before construction ends, perhaps in 2021
Rachel Notley needed an issue that would stir Albertans’ oft-wounded provincial pride. John Horgan gave it to her.
And this time, oil-by-rail gets tarred alongside pipelines