Michael Bloomberg, Hank Paulson tally cost of climate change
Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg (left) and former US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson By Jonathan Fahey, The Associated Press NEW YORK – Climate change is likely to exact enormous…
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New Quebec government choosing fossil fuels over green jobs
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard is putting green jobs on the back burner (Photo: facebook) One thing Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau, BC Premier Christy Clark and new Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard…
Site C dam would hike power bills, drive mills, mines out of business
Read this June 10 column from Judith Lavoie at Demog Canada on the opposition to the proposed Site C Dam from major industrial power users. Major industrial power users in…
Are pipeline spills good for the economy, as Kinder Morgan says?
Health concerns plague many who worked to clean up the BP oil spill (photo: Wikimedia Commons) Energy giant Kinder Morgan was recently called insensitive for pointing out that “Pipeline spills…
The Pope, a Kardashian and Arianna Huffington Walk into a Bar
The pope, a Kardashian and Arianna Huffington walk into a bar. The Pope says, “Inequality is the root of social evil” as he’s trashing the global economic disorder, but since…
What Does Soft Fascism Look Like These Days?
We don’t see brown shirts and jackboots, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t seeing the de-democratization of our society. In Vancouver this month, armed police with guns drawn, raided a…
Game theory and corporate tax rates: the Ontario Liberals are almost certainly wrong
I don’t know what the optimal corporate tax rate is. I suspect neither does anyone. I believe there is reasonable evidence out there that given the kinds of goals and…
Economists aren’t buying Tim Hudak’s Million Jobs Plan
Ontario Conservative Leader Tim Hudak (Photo: Facebook) Finally, a mainstream media story that puts some of the extraordinary job claims made on the campaign trail under a microscope. Read this…
Quebec won’t see job benefits from Line 9, Energy East: report
TransCanada CEO Russ Girling promoting Energy East (Canadian Press) MONTREAL – A new report says proposals to pipe oilsands crude to Quebec refineries would only deliver negligible economic benefits to…
Mr. Hudak meets Mr. Dictionary for the very first time!
As I write this, Timmie is Googling the word “economics”… Ms. Wynne is being so unfair using such darned big words!!! I have italicized the phrase noting the flaw that…
Common Sense health care would save lives, help the economy
If the definition of good governance includes the sound management of public monies and resources, then Canada has very bad governance. The manufactured health care crisis is a case in…
Thomas Piketty’s real challenge was to the FT’s Rolex types | Comment is free | The Guardian
Thomas Piketty’s real challenge was to the FT’s Rolex types | Comment is free | The Guardian. If the FT’s attack on the radical economist’s ‘rising inequality’ thesis is right,…
The Corporation: 10th Anniversary screening
Ten years ago, The Corporation, a seminal Canadian documentary, changed the way the world thinks about the nature and role of corporations in society. It would later influence movements like…
Russia-China gas deal: The elephant in the room at BC LNG conference
BC Minister of Natural Gas Rich Coleman open his government’s LNG conference (BC govt flickr photo) Last week week, the BC Government held its second annual LNG In BC Conference,…
Hookers to be part of Italy’s GDP
Italy’s National Institute of Statistics recently announced that next year it will start including activities such as prostitution and illegal drug sales in the country’s Gross Domestic Product. And why…
Conference Board illustrates folly of conventional economic metrics
Once again conventional measurement has painted a warped view of our economic well-being. Relying principally on growth in the GDP sense, The Conference Board of Canada applauds the oil and…
Students instruct teachers to bring economics into the real world
Following the Second World War, Western nations embarked on securing the welfare state as a balance to the capitalist market economy, the result of which was the most prosperous and…
6 reasons why renewable energy is no joke
Photo: Associated Press/ Ed Andrieski Listen to the rebuttals against opponents of oil pipelines, coal, and fracking and a familiar refrain emerges – it goes something like this: It’s hypocritical…
Economics, by and for lay people
George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer and Second Lord of the Treasury of the United Kingdom, boasted recently about his nation’s modest economic growth. If expansion continues, Britain will soon…
The rise of Predator Economics
Anishinaabe Native American activist Winona LaDuke coined the term “Predator Economics” (youtube) Canadians are forever being informed, explicitly or implicitly, that the solution to the crisis of the day, or…