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!

Whiplash has become the most common injury that occurs to a large number of Canadian’s necks following the sudden acceleration-deceleration forces that causes unrestrained, rapid forward and backward movement of the head and neck, most commonly caused by the shifting political and social forces lashing the Great Dominion!

Peter MacKay a front-runner for the federal Conservative party leadership has deleted a tweet that praised citizens opposed to rail blockades for taking matters into their own hands.

“Glad to see a couple Albertans with a pickup truck can do more for our economy in an afternoon than Justin Trudeau could do in four years,” MacKay wrote in the deleted tweet.

As a practising lawyer and former justice minister and attorney general he should know encouraging vigilantism in an already inflammatory circumstance is down right STUPID  however it is true to the brand that MacKay has worked on for his entire political career!