Long Way Around
During the Arab Oil Embargo, Canada had to use foreign tankers to transport its oil. This is the story of the MS Kimon, a Greek-flagged tanker commissioned to make a circuitous journey from the west c...
5 Mar 202014min
Alfred Dickie's Utility Bill
The 1915 utility bill of a lumber magnate gets energy economist Peter Tertzakian thinking about our relationship with our energy sources and the shared responsibility of consumers and producers. That ...
5 Mar 202017min
Once Upon a Time
In a 1924 children's book, a poem called "The Whale" takes jabs at energy and environmental issues. It's one of several children's stories — including Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, The Caboose W...
5 Mar 202014min
