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The rules are set and the candidates are ready: Your guide to the Conservative leadership race

Patrick Brown’s official entry into the Conservative leadership contest on Sunday will add another candidate for the party’s third race in five years as it struggles to find a boss — and a direction — that it will bring it back to government.

Clean energy sector multitrillion-dollar opportunity long-term, bumpy ride in near future

Investing in clean energy makes a lot of sense from a long-term perspective. However, recently, holding renewable energy companies and those supporting it with equipment and technology, has been a painful experience for investors.

“Performance has just been terrible for the last three-plus years,” says Mike Thiessen, co-chief investment officer at Genus Capital Management in Vancouver, which specializes in responsible investing, including clean energy.

“One of the big headwinds for renewables has been higher interest rates just because it is so capital intensive.”

Many have seen share prices dive since 2022. That includes Canadian Solar Inc. — a leading manufacturer of solar panels, based in Canada but listed on the NASDAQ in the U.S. Its share price is down about 75 per cent from its peak in early 2021.

Today’s horoscope

MOON ALERT: Avoid shopping (except for food and gas) and important decisions after 5 p.m. After that, the moon moves from Virgo into Libra.

ARIES (March 21-April 19)

This is a powerful day with respect to your relations with friends and how you interact with groups, clubs and organizations. Something different might take place that transforms your relationships with one person or a group. This is meaningful.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Bearing other people’s burdens

It might feel like an honour to have a family member or friend place tremendous trust in you to be their voice when they can no longer speak for themselves.

Whether they’re physically or mentally unable to do so, or deceased, being in charge of fulfilling their wishes often can’t be fully grasped by those taking on the roles of executor of their will or power of attorney.

These important jobs may not be the most onerous on the planet, but for the uninitiated, they probably involve more twists and turns than anticipated.

There’s not many playbooks on how to be an executor or serve as the attorney-in-fact named in the power of attorney document, says Philippe Richer, lawyer and principal at TLR Law Office in Winnipeg.

Wood’s wonders a highlight of summer’s DIY delights

Seven feet off the ground, tormented by hordes of biting blackflies, sitting in hot sun on a sheet of as-yet-un-nailed-down plywood, and I was sistering two 10-foot-long two-by-fours onto both sides of a two-by-six to make a single beam. A job better done on the ground, but necessity is … well, you know the rest.

Sweat was stinging my eyes, I had bent myself into an odd contortion to both hold the wood in place with one hand and one leg, while screwing in structural bolts with a drill in my other hand, and as many things were going wrong as were going right.

Repeatedly.

Afterwards, my new beam safely tagged together, I put down the impact driver and realized I was happy. Very happy.