alberta https://canadianriley.com Canadian Riley From Parliament to You Independent Political News Blog Sun, 04 Jun 2023 02:42:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/canadianriley.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-canadian-riley.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 alberta https://canadianriley.com 32 32 214541444 Notley told Brian Jean of Fort McMurray to “Stop the Fear Mongering” after the NDP cut the firefighting budget https://canadianriley.com/notley-told-brian-jean-of-fort-mcmurray-to-stop-the-fear-mongering-after-the-ndp-cut-the-firefighting-budget/ https://canadianriley.com/notley-told-brian-jean-of-fort-mcmurray-to-stop-the-fear-mongering-after-the-ndp-cut-the-firefighting-budget/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 09 May 2023 21:22:51 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=2621 Rachel Notley told Brian Jean of Fort McMurray to “Stop the Fear Mongering” as his house burned down after the NDP cut the firefighting budget.

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]]> https://canadianriley.com/rcmp-confirm-in-testimony-that-guns-found-in-coutts-alberta-were-not-involved-with-the-freedom-protestors/feed/ 0 1886 Albertans to Receive First Carbon Tax Rebate This Week https://canadianriley.com/albertans-to-receive-first-carbon-tax-rebate-this-week/ https://canadianriley.com/albertans-to-receive-first-carbon-tax-rebate-this-week/?noamp=mobile#respond Sat, 16 Jul 2022 01:18:47 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=1391 Residents of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario are getting paid to help offset Ottawa’s carbon tax. Under the Liberal government’s carbon pollution pricing system, a price is imposed on provinces that do not have their own system which meets the federal benchmark—specifically Alberta, Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan.

Today the federal government releases the first batch of 2022 carbon tax returns to Albertans, according to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF).

Individuals and lower income families will likely benefit from the carbon tax rebates. However; the carbon taxes are potentially crippling for farmers, and other commercial operations that are forced to pay thousands into carbon taxes while trying to maintain profitability.

For individuals and families the CTF estimates that from 2022 to 2030, the carbon tax will cost the average household a net total of $13,041 in Alberta, $8,091 in Saskatchewan, $8,059 in Ontario, and $6,439 in Manitoba.

The first round of the quarterly-based Climate Action Incentive (CAI) rebate starts with a “double-up” payment that returns proceeds from the first two quarters of the 2022-2023 fuel charge year. Two further single-quarter payments will be released in October 2022 and January 2023.

Single adults will receive $269.50. For a couple, or in the case of a single parent, the first adult or the single parent will also receive $269.50, while the second adult in the couple or the first child of the single parent will receive $135.

Additional children under 18—starting with the second child in the case of single parents—will receive $67.50 each.

The Federal government says the incentive payments mean 80% of families will be better off financially compared to what they pay in carbon taxes.

However, the parliamentary budget officer says when the total impact of Trudeau’s carbon tax on the economy is considered, 60% of families are left worse off.

]]> https://canadianriley.com/albertans-to-receive-first-carbon-tax-rebate-this-week/feed/ 0 1391 Hypocrite F1 driver Sebastian Vettel at Montreal Grand Prix in Anti-Oilsands T-shirt https://canadianriley.com/hypocrite-f1-driver-sebastian-vettel-at-montreal-grand-prix-in-anti-oilsands-t-shirt/ https://canadianriley.com/hypocrite-f1-driver-sebastian-vettel-at-montreal-grand-prix-in-anti-oilsands-t-shirt/?noamp=mobile#respond Tue, 21 Jun 2022 00:22:52 +0000 https://canadianriley.com/?p=712 Vettel, who drives for Aston Martin, arrived on a bicycle at the site of the Montreal Grand Prix wearing a T-shirt with an anti-oilsands slogan.

The T-shirt said “Stop Mining Tar Sands” and, below a picture of a pipeline, added “Canada’s Climate Crime.”

Vettel was asked about the T-shirt at a news conference, and he described it as a “small gesture,” adding that he’d be wearing a special helmet to raise awareness about the oilsands.

“I think what happens in Alberta is a crime because you chop down a lot of trees and you basically destroy the place just to extract oil, and the manner of doing it with the tarsands, oilsands mining, is horrible for nature,” Vettel said. “There’s so much science around the topic that fossil fuels are going to end, and living in a time that we do now, these things shouldn’t be allowed anymore, and they shouldn’t happen.”

Sonya Savage, Alberta’s Minister of Energy shot back “I have seen a lot of hypocrisy over the years, but this one takes the cake. A race car driver sponsored by Aston Martin, with financing from Saudi Aramco, complaining about the oilsands.”

 

“In a shocking way of hypocrisy this past weekend in Montreal German Formula One driver Sebastian Vettel had the audacity to call Alberta’s oil sands a crime. The Aston Martin driver is sponsored by Saudi Aramco, the largest oil producer on the planet.”
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