Canada’s ‘half-pregnant’ ballistic missile defense stance

(DND Headquarters in Ottawa. Photo: CP) By Jeff Collins, Research Associate Ballistic missile tests on the Korean peninsula and Russian deployments of cruise missiles bring nuclear proliferation back into focus. The National Post reports that the federal cabinet has considered Canadian involvement in the U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system. BMD is a series of…

Commodity conditions push equalization into uncharted territory

Historical price of oil (WTI) 2007-Present. Source: Marcotrends.net By Marco Navarro-GĂ©nie, President and CEO The notion of fairness among Canadians and our beliefs to help one another are going to be tested in the months ahead when some of the implications of the collapse in commodity prices become known. This collapse will have enormous effects…