This is the story of how Western automakers are inviting the Chinese to take their US & Canadian market share. Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last two years you already know that the price of everything has gone through the roof. Cars have been no exception. The Read more…
A few days ago a biofuel refinery that will produce nearly 1 billion liters of biodiesel every year was announced as an expansion to the existing Co-Op refinery in Regina, Saskatchewan. Generation 1 Biofuels are Bad For The Environment By the year 2020 we thought biofuels had been largely dispensed Read more…
In this video we show our 2021 Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus driving in extreme cold winter conditions and you will be shocked to see the amount of battery drain: This is Canadian winter driving of a Tesla Model 3. It is driving in very cold weather and the Read more…
How does al Tesla Model 3 Standard Range Plus with the factory All Season Tires handle during a Calgary blizzard? In this video we drive through the snow on icy roads speeding up, slowing down, cornering and even trying to do some donuts.
Publicly Alberta Bill 81 (2021) was proposed by the UCP Government to block foreign influences on Alberta elections and it has a pretty good veneer of legitimacy: However, like all such laws, the devil is in the details and Mr Madu forgot to mention some mighty nasty changes Bill 81 Read more…
If you live in Alberta or Quebec these are a particularly important questions. Quebec continues to receive tens of billions of dollars in transfer payments that are effectively paid for by Alberta, even though Alberta has been dealing with a crushing economic turn down in their primary industry, oil and Read more…
Using the first half of 2021 auto sales figures we show just how important the Chinese market is to global automakers like VW, Mercedes, GM, Ford, Mazda, Jaguar / Land Rover, Toyota, Nissan, Volvo and Tesla. We explain the auto industry unit sales figures globally, then we show how much Read more…
In a world in which big data analytics constantly surprises us with what at first appears to be counter intuitive findings, there are still times that the data validates our gut feelings. UPS safety trainers have know since the 1980’s that: “…Left turns mean idling, which increases the time a Read more…
One month ago we noted that Chestermere had double the Alberta Provincial Average of active COVID19 cases. In recent days the signage at the end of town has jumped up twice and now reads CHESTERMERE HAS 150+ COVID CASES, so we decided to update our numbers and some of the Read more…
The City of Chestermere has a sign on Chestermere Boulevard indicating the City has “More Than 90 COVID Cases” and that got us to thinking about just how that ranks with the region. It is not good: CLICK TO EXPAND And that got us thinking about how we compare globally: Read more…
Now that COVID-19 has had its first year anniversary in Western countries, it is a good time to calculate some metrics. In particular, how much spending did governments do to fight COVID19 and keep their economies moving. Estimates of how much money each country spent on COVID-19 are difficult to Read more…
At PartisanIssues, we work hard to focus on facts and not opinion, and we avoid municipal issues like the plague. However, a week ago it was brought to our attention that the City of Chestermere passed a “PUBLIC CONDUCT AND CIVIL DISCOURSE POLICY” which we feel is important enough to Read more…
As we explained in the fall of 2020 which was a follow up to our spring of 2020 article the oil industry, in spite of drastically lower wind and solar prices, has continued to exist. In fact the massive downturn in the oil industry in 2015 combined with Russia and Read more…
It is conventional wisdom that large vehicle sales (like pickup trucks, large SUV’s and full size sedans) crash when the price of gasoline spikes. This is an “proof” offered by some on the left that carbon taxes reduce consumption. We wanted to find out if this is true and what Read more…