THURSDAY 2, [27], 25
Verses for today:
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:15 KJV
The LORD thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17 KJV
A friend loveth at all times, And a brother is born for adversity.
Proverbs 17:17 KJV
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Hebrews 4:10 KJV
bless them that curse you and pray for them which despitefully use you.
Luke 6:28 KJV
Trump likes Alberta & the oil:
Trump's push for Keystone XL could be just the bargaining chip Canada needs, says former premier
Ottawa could agree to supply more oil if president backs off tariffs, says Jason Kenney
United States President Donald Trump is calling for the immediate revival of the Keystone XL pipeline, a cross-border project that cost the Canadian oilpatch billions when it was cancelled in 2021 by the former administration and is still the subject of an ongoing $1.3-billion lawsuit by the Alberta government.
Upon taking office in 2017, he issued a memorandum inviting TC Energy Corp. (then TransCanada) to resubmit its permit application after former president Barack Obama rejected the project. TC responded with a new application within two days.
This time, however, the company’s response to the president’s entreaty was entirely different.
“We’ve moved on from the Keystone XL project,” South Bow Corp., TC’s oil pipeline spinoff, said in a statement on Tuesday. “We continue to engage with customers to develop options to increase Canadian oil supplies to meet growing demand.”
There are also serious doubts in the Canadian oilpatch about the possibility that another company would be willing to step up to build without significant assurances from the U.S. government.
“It is a crazy thing to say he wants the pipeline built right away when the U.S. has cancelled it twice and there’s billions lost along the way,” former Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission chief executive Richard Masson said.
“I can’t imagine anybody stepping up to do that without some kind of explicit contractual guarantee from the U.S. government that if it goes sideways again, they would pay for the whole shot.”
Trump’s renewed call for KXL comes on the heels of his administration’s proposed tariffs on Canadian products, including a 10 per cent levy on energy exports, and his repeated claims that the U.S. doesn’t need Canada’s exports.
It also comes as Alberta continues to pursue its suit against the U.S. through a legacy claim under the old North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The suit alleges the U.S. breached its free trade obligations in cancelling the project in 2021 and prioritized “political theatre” over fundamental procedural fairness.
Alberta’s case still faces a question about jurisdiction, but a preliminary hearing before a World Bank tribunal is scheduled for September, though its success may be a long shot since TC Energy’s own claim seeking US$15 billion in damages was thrown out by the same tribunal last July.
The tribunal sided with the U.S. in concluding that legacy provisions related to NAFTA only permitted claims based on breaches that occurred while the free trade agreement was in force. Joe Biden revoked KXL’s permits after NAFTA was replaced by the new United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement.
Trump on Monday said KXL was “viciously jettisoned” by his predecessor, and the company should come back and “get it built – NOW!,” adding that his administration would be “very different” by offering “easy approvals” and an “almost immediate start.”
“We want the Keystone XL Pipeline built!” he said in comments on Truth Social, seemingly contradicting claims he has repeatedly made since the election that the U.S. doesn’t need Canada’s oil and gas.
Despite the cold response from KXL’s former proponents, there have been some echoes of support for resurrecting the project, which would substantially expand crude flows between Hardisty, Alta., and refineries along the Gulf Coast.
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said in a post on X on Tuesday that she agreed with Trump, nudging the president to “scrap these inflationary tariff ideas” in order to focus on getting shovels in the ground.
Former Alberta premier Jason Kenney, whose government pledged to invest US$5.3 billion in the project, said Trump’s comments underscore a point of leverage that Canada could use to extract an agreement to drop tariffs on Canadian products, though it would almost certainly require the government to backstop KXL.
“A Canadian government could go to Donald Trump and say, ‘Hey, we agree with you, we’d like to sell you more oil, we’re prepared to make it happen, but you’ve got to commit to us that Canadian energy exports and other exports are not going to be tariffed,'” he said.
“We need leverage to deal with Trump. He is indicating one area where we have unused leverage and we should take ‘yes’ for an answer.”
The FINANCIAL Post
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February 26, 2025
REBEL BUZZ:
Canada needs its own DOGE — not a socialist witch hunt against Musk
Good morning, Rebels!
Did you catch last night’s excellent RebelNews+ shows? If not, here’s what you missed.
On The Ezra Levant Show, Ezra exposed how billionaire-owned media giants are suddenly embracing “freedom”—but is it real or just opportunism? Jeff Bezos has reportedly ordered The Washington Post to fight for free speech, while Mark Zuckerberg’s meeting with Donald Trump seemed to shift his stance, leading him to fire 40,000 censors.
And of course, Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter (now X) set off a chain reaction in favour of free expression. But are these billionaires truly backing freedom, or are they just adapting to political winds? Click here to watch now.
Then, on The Gunn Show, Sheila Gunn Reid broke down the Canadian Taxpayers Federation’s legal fight against the CBC on The Gunn Show. The state broadcaster refuses to disclose how it spends taxpayer dollars on advertising, despite raking in $1.4 billion last year. Now, with Trudeau’s government planning to double the CBC’s funding while shielding its finances from scrutiny, the fight for transparency is heating up.
CTF’s Kris Sims joined Sheila to discuss the lawsuit, Liberal leadership race, and the latest political games over the carbon tax. Watch it here.
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Deal of the Century: The America First Plan for Canada’s Oil Sands Paperback – Feb. 17 2025
by Ezra Levant (Author)
What would an America First strategy for Canada-U.S. trade look like? And is there room for a Trump-style mega-deal — even bigger than Greenland? Ezra Levant is the best-selling author of Ethical Oil:
The Case for Canada’s Oil Sands, which made the liberal case that the oil sands are the fair trade coffee of the industry. In Deal of the Century, Levant looks at Canada-U.S. trade through an America First lens and comes to the compelling conclusion that, far from putting tariffs on Canadian oil, Trump should ink a 50-year, $13 trillion deal to buy all 170 billion barrels of it, shutting out China and giving Canada the means to pay for a rebuilt military. And as for yanking Trudeau’s chain, Levant has a provocative suggestion for how Trump can do that without hurting America’s economic interests.
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