Green Game: Is Hunting your Meat "Sustainable?"
This article, “Ethical Killing,” popped up on my Facebook news feed today. The sub-headline is “hipsters, hippies and women are taking up hunting.” Hunting, apparently, is part of the sustainable…
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It’s vital we support the lower class, Mr. Trudeau
I voted for Justin Trudeau yesterday, despite my enthusiasm for Martha Hall Findlay’s supply management proposal. I wrote a blog about Justin Trudeau a few months ago, where my main…
Globalization and the Internet: What is the Optimal Level of Integration?
Comparisons of the internet and economic globalization is pretty obvious, both involve the path-enforcing evolution of global social networks, triggered by technological development. This exponential evolution, and the profound impact…
NDP Policy Issues Run Deeper than their Constitution
This editorial effectively communicates the opinion within the New Democratic Party that the Constitution should not be changed to eliminate hardcore socialism Now, I am quite indifferent to this question,…
The NDP Constitution: Capitalism is NOT "at Odds" with Socialism
This sort of thing, I cannot stand. The Globe argues the NDP should remove the clauses from the preamble of their constitution stating the basic tenets of socialism: goods and…
Carbon Taxes are about Climate Change, Go Figure
This is going to be a rather brief post, but I think this warrants attention. Google obviously is aware I am interested in climate and energy issues, so an ad…
Strange Claims from the Globe on Family Policy
Doug Saunders, reporting on a German family policy study, concludes his article with a couple very strange claims: This (debate about the ineffectiveness of family policy) is all a tortured…
The Goal of Democracy is Marginalization
The most interesting thing I find out about debates concerning electoral reform is that they are often premised on the assumption that the goal of democracy is to eliminate marginalization.…
Why Dairy Farmers Should Support Martha Hall Findlay, or Perish
It seems the Conservatives are prepared to ease up on supply management, according to this report from the Globe. In order to secure new markets for Canada’s pork and beef…
A simple explanation for the falling value of University
It’s no secret that a university degree is no longer a guarantee of a high income. There are lots of very plausible explanations for this, and these are well documented.…
Globe bases Pupatello Endorsement on Two Words
The Globe has again proven to politicians how easy it is to fool journalists into thinking that they are actually saying something. The Globe and Mail’s endorsement of Sandra Pupatello…
High Speed Rail is NOT a Luxury Good
Last year I attended the Liberal Policy convention in Ottawa as a delegate. One of the policies up for debate was a resolution supporting the implementation of High Speed rail…
A Minimum Income Could Boost Free Trade
I will not go on about the possible benefits of implementing a negative income tax, or a guaranteed minimum income program (GMI) in Canada. If you want to read an…
Ditching Quinoa the Wrong Reaction to Peruvian Realities
This article in the Guardian and similar articles seem to be getting a fair bit of traction on social media. While they focus on quinoa specifically, they discuss more broadly…
Idle No More Seems United in Little Besides Principle
Wab Kinew and Llyod Axworthy have an interesting editorial in the globe today. They argue First Nations issues are too often seen as a zero sum game, when really the…
Book Review: The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King
I enjoyed reading Thomas King’s new book “The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America.” I’ll stop short of saying “it’s something everyone should read,” but…
Care about equality? Suck up the tall buildings
Over the holidays I read Matt Yglesias fantastic book “The rent is too damn high,” which deals with urban policy in the United States and its effect on housing prices.…
Why The Globe has a Strong Case for Seceding from John Ibbitson
John Ibbitson has an article today suggesting that the Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s report on Ontario’s fiscal relationship with the federal government is evidence for seceding from the country. While…