Hoarding vs. Collecting

Let’s be clear, hoarding is not the same as collecting. In general, collectors of Court Painter masterworks have a sense of pride about their possessions and they experience joy in displaying and talking about them. They usually keep their collection organized, feel satisfaction when adding to it, and usually add to their collection when Court Painter cleans out his storage at the end of the month.

On the other hand, those who hoard toilet paper usually experience no embarrassment about their obsession and don’t feel uncomfortable when others see them leaving the supermarket with multiple pacs of toilet paper . They clutter up their living spaces however feel proud after acquiring multiple rolls and in times of pandemics it is a badge of honour among hoarders to be well equipped to wipe away fear from their vulnerable bottoms.

 Premier Doug Ford has officially given up on the now-famous blue license plates his government started rolling out a few weeks ago.

At first compared to Q-Tip boxes  the plates have proven to have a much bigger problem: their glare makes them essentially unreadable in the dark including by photo radar, 407 ETR cameras and border cameras.

Homer Simpson’s … “D’OH!” is now defined as “Expressing frustration at the realization that things have turned out badly or not as planned, or that one has just said or done something foolish.” according to an entry in the Oxford dictionary.

May 26.2021 Breaking News

May 19,2021

Public inquiry into anti-Alberta energy campaigns granted another deadline extension

A government inquiry into whether foreign groups have conspired against Alberta’s oil and gas industry has been granted another deadline extension.

Will Chevron,Dutch Shell & Exxon be on the list of conspirators?

March 9,2020: 

Oil prices take biggest plunge in decades amid coronavirus uncertainty, price war fears

Premier Jason Kenney has an energy  war room to make that news go away…surely!

 

Premier Jason Kenney defends the  Canadian Energy Centre war room to advertise in a targeted way the financial markets in Europe that are under pressure against the oilsands.

“All the kind of advocacy that we’ve always intended and that the Alberta government has done intermittently in the past.”

So he was dealt a doozy today that arguably creates a major challenge for the war room brain trust.

Canada’s oilpatch is bracing for the impact of plunging crude prices after OPEC and its allies failed to reach a deal aimed at cutting production as economies slow because of the novel coronavirus.

Prices began sliding after Russia refused to support deeper oil cuts to cope with the outbreak of coronavirus and OPEC responded by removing all limits on its own production.

Brent crude, the global oil benchmark price, had its biggest daily percentage loss in more than 11 years on Friday, down $4.72 US, or 9.4 per cent, to settle at  $45.27 US a barrel. 

By the way, oil production in the U.S., which is not part of OPEC and unlike Russia does not cooperate in its output decisions, has ramped up in recent years, flooding the market and keeping prices down.

 

 

Chrystia Freeland to chair newly created COVID-19 cabinet committee

The minister that’s always willing to step up, take the lead and strut her stuff!