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This Week in RWRDS: December 2 – 8, 2023 Dec 10th
This week we discuss the return of AIR MILES Shop the Block promotion, take a first look at the new PC Insiders World Elite Masterecard and much more in our weekly credit card and loyalty rewards newscast! Watch This Week in RWRDS here: Listen to This Week in RWRDS here: Topics of discussion: Earn u.... More »
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A closer look at the newly refreshed Platinum Card from American Express + MORE Mar 11th
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January 27 Update: Alaska Airlines changing some mileage earn rates, Amex Offer for Hillberg & Berk and 50,000 bonus PC Optimum points with Shoppers Drug Mart online Jan 28th
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British Columbia Premier John Horgan THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl DyckBlake Shaffer is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary, Fellow-in-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute, and former electricity trader.
The bated-breath decision on Site C, B.C.’s controversial-is-an-understatement dam on the Peace River, has been made. John Horgan and the B.C. NDP have decided to complete the project begun by Christy Clark’s Liberal government.
The cheers and boos heard far and wide from this decision reinforce the notion that, lately, it seems public policy debates have turned into the less-fun equivalent of a sports match—“which side are you on?” Be it pipelines or Site C, the debate often devolves into polarized groups, each unwilling to acknowledge the arguments of the other.
It needn’t be. Passion and engagement in public policy discourse is critically important, but so too is the need for dispassionate analysis.
Let’s start with what is clear about Site C
Site C should never have started in the first place…
British Columbia Premier John Horgan THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl DyckBlake Shaffer is a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary, Fellow-in-Residence at the C.D. Howe Institute, and former electricity trader.
The bated-breath decision on Site C, B.C.’s controversial-is-an-understatement dam on the Peace River, has been made. John Horgan and the B.C. NDP have decided to complete the project begun by Christy Clark’s Liberal government.
The cheers and boos heard far and wide from this decision reinforce the notion that, lately, it seems public policy debates have turned into the less-fun equivalent of a sports match—“which side are you on?” Be it pipelines or Site C, the debate often devolves into polarized groups, each unwilling to acknowledge the arguments of the other.
It needn’t be. Passion and engagement in public policy discourse is critically important, but so too is the need for dispassionate analysis.
Let’s start with what is clear about Site C
Site C should never have started in the first place…
