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Is A Gas War Between The U.S. And Canada About To Start?
Is A Gas War Between The U.S. And Canada About To Start? The United States and Canada work well together. The countries share the world’s largest and most comprehensive trade relationship, exchanging more than $2 billion per day in goods and services; the U.S. is Canada’s largest foreign investor and Canada is the third-largest foreign investor in […]
Growing International Movement Seeks to Place Arms Embargo on Saudi Arabia
GROWING INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT SEEKS TO PLACE ARMS EMBARGO ON SAUDI ARABIA A LAWSUIT FILED last week in Canada is seeking to halt a major $15 billion sale of light-armored vehicles to the government of Saudi Arabia, part of a growing international movement to stop arms sales to the Saudi government over its alleged war crimes in Yemen. The suit, […]
Alberta and oil prices: How Middle East geopolitics and religion affect our future
Alberta and oil prices: How Middle East geopolitics and religion affect our future Calgary’s economic fortunes enmeshed in decisions made on the other side of the globe Saudi Arabia’s Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi at a news conference following a meeting in Doha, Qatar February 16, 2016. (Naseem Zeitoon/Reuters) Calgary is unlike most other cities. It […]
What Do Canadians Think about TPP? US Might Not Care
What Do Canadians Think about TPP? US Might Not Care American demands would likely trump our concerns about mega trade deal. The Liberal government has launched a much-anticipated public consultation on the TPP. But will it matter? arindambanerjee / Shutterstock.com. The Trans Pacific Partnership, a massive trade deal that covers 40 per cent of the world’s GDP, has […]
World watching as Canada casts aside austerity and gambles on a fiscal surge
World watching as Canada casts aside austerity and gambles on a fiscal surge A global economic debate plays out in Canada as our government goes from miser to spendthrift Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau are taking Canada into unknown waters, betting that spending will do what austerity has not. (Reuters) […]
Chinese Take Over Canada’s Real Estate Market, Buy One-Third Of All Vancouver Homes Sold In 2015
Chinese Take Over Canada’s Real Estate Market, Buy One-Third Of All Vancouver Homes Sold In 2015 “Housing in Vancouver is insane — it was insane when I left and it’s more insane now.” That’s from 33-year-old Kevin Oke, co-founder of LlamaZoo Interactive who left Vancouver for Victoria two years ago because he couldn’t afford to buy a […]
Steam Injection Fractures Caprock in Big Alberta Spill, Regulator Confirms
Steam Injection Fractures Caprock in Big Alberta Spill, Regulator Confirms Incident highlights fragility of high-cost energy extraction. Large fractures in earth seeped bitumen at one of four well sites operated by CNRL near Cold Lake, Alberta. Photo: CNRL, September 2013. Three years after an eruption of 10,000 barrels of melted bitumen contaminated the boreal forest […]
New law proposed to shift bank failure risk from taxpayers
New law proposed to shift bank failure risk from taxpayers Ottawa proposes ‘bail-in’ regime to force creditors to prop up failing banks The Liberal government says it will create legislation that shifts some of the risk in a bank failure to creditors. (Canadian Press) Canada will introduce legislation to implement a “bail-in” regime for systemically […]
Remember the people involved
Remember the people involved When I was in University, I vividly remember one of my economics professors telling students to always remember the people involved when analyzing a policy change. I was reminded of this sage advice upon reading Matthew McCaffery’s Mises Daily article titled, “Who will pay for it?” is the wrong question to ask […]
Solar on the roof taxed as income
Solar on the roof taxed as income But the cost of a solar system can be written off over a period of years The solar panels on Mike Brigham’s roof in Toronto allow him to sell power back to the grid. He says solar provides power when Ontario most needs it — when the sun […]
Canada’s inflation rate cools to 1.4% in February
Canada’s inflation rate cools to 1.4% in February If gasoline prices aren’t factored in, cost of living would have increased by 1.9 per cent Canada’s annual inflation rate fell to 1.4 per cent in February, thanks to lower pump prices. (Seth Perlman/Associated Press) The cost of living in Canada increased at an annual rate of 1.4 […]
It’s the Food Economy, Stupid!
It’s the Food Economy, Stupid! I believe Rod MacRae (shown here) is one of a handful of experts to develop a critique of today’s food system based on its bad business case and its failure to do proper scenario planning. If you don’t like reading arithmetic, you will find his writings tough going, but as soon […]
Four More Whoppers about LNG in British Columbia
Four More Whoppers about LNG in British Columbia The real facts behind Christy Clark’s rosy claims. BC Premier Christy Clark: a million-dollar website to drum up LNG jobs, but not a single job yet. The B.C. budget claims the province is making money from shale gas. But last month The Tyee showed the province is pouring more […]
Fallout in Alberta: The oil crash isn’t just about lost jobs
Fallout in Alberta: The oil crash isn’t just about lost jobs Disillusionment has a way of setting all sorts of bad thoughts in motion The story assignment from The National was simple. Go to Alberta and talk to regular people about the crash in the price of oil. Humanize the downturn. Harsh economic numbers coming out of […]
Canadians conflicted about 3 Es: Environment, energy and the economy
Canadians conflicted about 3 Es: Environment, energy and the economy EKOS-CBC poll suggests 56% more worried about the economy than the environment Alberta produces the most greenhouse gases of any province in the country, and has for more than a decade. (CBC) Justin and Leanne Mills are in a situation familiar to many Albertans these […]
