I don't know who does page layout at the Globe and Mail these days. Maybe that's a function that's been out-sourced to some sweatshop in India by now. For "efficiencies," of course...
Regardless, I often get the impression that whoever it is has a more nuanced appreciation of current events than the nabobs who make the big calls at the Globe.
Take the front page of Report on Business today, for example. Note the clever juxtaposing of two stories re: Canada's fossil fuel dependency. You've got Brent Jang's story on Coastal GasLink above the fold, and Jeffrey Jones' story about orphan wells right under it.
Jang's story is all about the colonists running rough-shod over the natives. Sure, you people had your "hereditary Chiefs" and all, but fuck that, you're gonna be democratic now, so we'll only deal with the democratically elected Chiefs.
Apparently most of the elected Chiefs recognized by the Colonists are all in for the Colonist's plans to push pipelines through unceded native territory. What a surprise!
That's the end of "nation to nation" dialogue in my book.
Then Jones has a story about orphan wells. That's what's left when a well's got nothing left to give. Sometimes they get orphaned before they even gave anything! Other times they're orphaned after giving their owners millions of barrels of oil.
When the well is done giving, the entrepreneurs who own it fob it off to some undercapitalised fringe outfit that milks the last few millions out of it and walks away, leaving the cleanup to guess who?
Meanwhile, our government, in the spirit of reconciliation, has effectively criminalized any Wet'suwet'en resistance against pipelines pushed through unceded native territory.
That's just wrong.
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