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No government would be willing to leave Alberta’s bitumen in the ground. The political costs would be too high. In that sense, we are all Trumpians. Saving the planet is a fine idea. But not if it costs us.

The Ontario government wants to declare the double-crested cormorant a game bird, although they are essentially unedible.

Taking over a company that provides electricity and natural gas to Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Alaska and Montana might work to the benefit of Hydro One shareholders (including the Ontario government), but it would do nothing to improve the electricity transmission and distribution systems Hydro One owns in Ontario. Nor would it reduce the steep rates Ontarians pay.

Government-mandated production cuts and government-purchased rail tanker cars can keep the oilsands limping along. But in a world whose very existence is threatened by the greenhouse gases this industry creates, the more sensible option is to shut it down.

Don’t be too hard on Premier Doug Ford. His climate change plan is largely empty. But in real terms no one else is doing much either. Maybe that’s what people want.

The glow of the Donald Trump-Kim Jong Un summit has dissipated and both sides are falling back to their old positions. Something more is needed to keep the momentum up.

The U.S. president has threatened GM, which shows he’s not taken in by arguments of economic inevitability. He knows that when it comes to the auto industry, nothing is written in stone.