Gas prices are down across Canada after the pause of the consumer carbon levy came into effect on April 1. As BCN’s Naveen Day explains, however, it’s not all cause for celebration. Read More
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Kris Sims, Alberta Director with the Canadian Taxpayers Federations spoke with BCN’s Jeannette Rocher and says that Mark Carney’s is hiding a new carbon pricing plan.Read More
Franco Terrazzano of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation says that Mark Carney must clarify what his Carbon pricing plan would mean for Canadians, highlighting that it could be just another carbon tax renamed as an incentive.Read More
Recent stats show that violent gun crime has been increasing in Canada especially in our major cities including Vancouver and Toronto. In October, Prime Minister Trudeau spoke about the effectiveness of the handgun ban his Read More
The Parliamentary Budget Officer says his updated report on the federal carbon tax is consistent with his earlier findings. Yves Giroux says once broader economic effects are factored in, the gains from the rebate cheques Read More
A recent Leger Poll says 70 per cent of Canadians support removing the carbon tax from all home heating fuels. The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on premiers in our country to join in a carbon Read More
With China retaliating against Canada’s tariff on Chinese made vehicles with a tariff of their own on Canadian canola that will severely impact our agriculture industry. Alberta’s Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, RJ Read More
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is upset that the federal government spent $1.7-million taxpayer dollars promoting the federal carbon tax to other countries in the world. The group’s federal director, Franco Terrazzano, shares the details Read More
You may have noticed that gas prices have increased quite a bit in many regions of the country. In Alberta, it is due in large part to the return of the provincial fuel tax along Read More
It’s simple economics…rising input costs lead to higher prices for consumers. And the recent 23 percent hike in the federal carbon tax and the reinstatement of Alberta’s provincial fuel tax has become a Read More
There has been a lot of pushback on the 23 % increase in the federal carbon tax from protests across Canada to rumblings by seven of Canada’s premiers. Political reporter and Sun columnist Brian Lilley says Read More
As you have heard on BCN, the federal carbon tax is going up by 23 per cent on April 1st. According to political reporter Brian Lilley federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault was asked if we could Read More
The vote for non-confidence in the Trudeau government was defeated on Parliament Hill. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre brought forth the motion to declare non-confidence in the prime minister and his government increasing the carbon tax Read More
The federal carbon tax is set to go up by 23 per cent on April 1st. The federal director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation, Franco Terrazzano, explained to BCN’s Hal Roberts how much more it Read More
Alberta’s Affordability and Utilities Minister, Nathan Neudorf, says electricity rates in the province are coming down. In this special one-on-one interview with BCN’s Hal Roberts he also discusses why the Alberta government is Read More
When April 1st rolls around motorists in Alberta will be hit with a double whammy. The remainder of the provincial fuel tax is scheduled to come back which is another four cents a litre PLUS Read More
The federal carbon tax is going up around 23 per cent on April 1st. The federal levy has hurt many even with the rebates. You don’t have to look much further than our home heating Read More
A new poll by Leger says the majority of Canadians are dead set against the federal government’s carbon tax increase which is coming up April 1st. To discuss this in more detail is the Read More
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the Alberta government to strengthen the Taxpayer Protection Act to shield Albertans from a future provincial carbon tax. To discuss this in more detail is the Alberta director Read More
The carbon tax is still hurting Canadian families in so many ways. That is according to Lethbridge Conservative MP Rachael Thomas. Thomas says the carbon tax also continues to impact so many different industries across Read More
When we think of New Year’s Resolutions we often time think of getting in shape and losing weight. How about losing more taxes? Well, it appears as though the opposite may be true for 2024. Read More
The pause on the provincial gas tax is scheduled to come to an end at the end of next month. That would make life much for expensive for Albertans. We asked Alberta’s Affordability and Read More
According to recent polls, the Trudeau Liberals are plummeting in popularity across the country. Political reporter Brian Lilley says having the Liberals vote against the Tory motion of exempting the carbon tax on ALL forms Read More
Many premiers are not happy that Atlantic Canada will get a break on the carbon tax for their home heating from the federal government. Political reporter Brian Lilley says Saskatchewan is also giving its residents Read More
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent ruling on Ottawa’s Bill C-69 which was deemed unconstitutional was a big win for our province. The bill sought to regulate activities Read More
This week we chat with political reporter Brian Lilley about the Manitoba election, how a new Leger poll says most Canadians want the carbon tax scrapped, how Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe may use the notwithstanding Read More
Lethbridge MP Rachael Thomas says Canadians simply cannot get ahead. She says poor decision making by the Trudeau government continues to hurt families financially including many here in Alberta. She explains in this Q and Read More
The Canadian Taxpayers Federation is calling on the Trudeau government to rescind its grocery tax threat. Ottawa is demanding major Canadian grocers come up with a plan to stablize prices which is also receiving pushback Read More
Lethbridge MP Rachael Thomas who hosted a pre-Whoop Up Days pancake breakfast on Monday morning is responding to the Trudeau government’s second carbon tax that was implemented last month. Thomas says she has heard Read More
Government public policy can impact our lives in a wide variety of ways. It can also impact major industries in Canada including our energy sector. David Leis is with the Frontier Centre for public policy Read More
