Best drilling rig count in years for Saskatchewan

Drill, Baby, Drill No Comments

Highest drilling rig count in Saskatchewan for several years seen Nov. 3.

WCS WTF???

Jim Warren: Differential differences: How online oil price publishers come up with vastly different WCS crude prices and why it matters

Last month when I finished with Bray I realized that there is now a wide divergence in the reported Western Canadian Select prices, depending on which site you look at. I asked columnist Jim Warren to look into it, and he spent the better part of the month on it. It turns out there are significant differences, and implications. A narrow majority of the insiders he spoke to says BNN Bloomberg is the price to follow, and that’s got huge policy implications for Canada, Saskatchewan and Alberta. That’s because it’s showing an enormous differential to WTI.

Example: Late Monday night

  • BNN Bloomberg WCS US$63.22      (WTI 96.95)
  • Oilprice.com WCS       US$91.77        (WTI 97.46)
  • AlbertaOil.ca WCS     US$81.36         (WTI 97.36)
  • EnergyNow.ca WCS   US$71.26        (WTI 97.07)

If you look at the other ones, you’ll think the differential is not a big deal. If you look at Bloomberg, it’s an enormous deal for the province’s finances. So, what is reality?

This has huge implications on the need to build a pipeline to the West Coast.

 

Expressing Their Values In A Heartwarming Way

Forward! Our Diversities Persuasion 2 Comments

On the John Lewis department store’s misjudged Christmas advert:

It does rather suggest a gulf between, on the one hand, progressively-inclined John Lewis management and progressively-inclined London ad executives who think that sneaking trans flags into Christmas adverts watched by children is terribly clever – and on the other hand, actual John Lewis customers and the general public.

We’ve been here before, of course. When customers were expected to find charming the thought of their homes being trashed by a selfish, vamping, cross-dressing child.

And then there was the attempt to endear customers by announcing, very proudly, that they employ middle-aged transvestites with whipping fetishes because doing so results in “a better connection to our customers.” Thanks to these “identities we share.”

I kid you not.

Open Thread: 2026 Midterms

Democrats Margin Of Fraud Political Animal Republicans 35 Comments

Here’s your 2026 midterm open thread. Our US readers in particular are invited to weigh in with observations and predictions. I may update as the evening progresses, or I may just leave it to the experts.

Walter Kirn and Matt Taibbi are reuniting for a America This Week Special livestream, beginning at 8pm Eastern, so that’s where I’ll be. (I’ll embed later if I can get it to load reliably.)

No contest this time. By the time California has finished reporting, we’ll be into the 2028 cycle.

Follow Larry O’Conner at @townhallcom for live results.

Coudes Vers Le Bas!*

Canada’s Bolsheviks New Governor There Goes The Narrative 23 Comments

If your nation’s alleged goal is to somehow “show those Americans who’s boss”, news like this probably won’t do much for your credibility. In any case, someone should let Blubber Dougie know before he opens his trap again.

Hydro-Québec has released a report suggesting it may need to import electricity from neighbouring provinces or the United States within the next three years.

The utility expects this demand could cause it to face energy deficits as early as 2029.

*Elbows Down!

Those Moderate Democrats!

Democrats Religion Of Submission Terrorism 16 Comments

Mariam Odeh, a former staffer on Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign,

…is currently facing federal charges alongside 11 other anti-Israel activists accused of vandalizing the homes of members of Michigan’s Jewish and pro-Israel community and plotting to poison and murder them and their families.

Jars containing noxious chemicals were thrown into family homes. Windows were smashed. Homes were marked with the Hamas red inverted triangle, designating them as targets for death.

Surely an outlier.

Canary Mission, an independent research organization, says it has found that a significant source of financial support for El-Sayed and a cadre of other far-left candidates—in the millions of dollars—is coming from more than a dozen political action committees, many of them created in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack, that are specifically focused on opposition to Israel.

Tuesday On Turtle Island

Turtle Island 15 Comments

The Democrat Party’s America:    Victor Davis Hanson – The midterm election.    Jew hatred.    Terrorist.

Conman Carney’s Canada:    Don’t upset the Muslims.    Immigration.    Poppy sales in Hamilton.

Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s Bought And Paid For Media:    On with the show.    Climate grift.    Muslim or leftist suspect?    Carney’s new strategic partner.    Doctors and engineers.    Good vision.

Your morning cartoon.        And at the Bee.

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