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…
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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…
BC LNG economics don’t add up: New report
Christy Clark announces agreement to build an LNG facility at Grassy Point ( BC govt photo) The Clark government’s rosy projections of a $100 Billion “Prosperity Fund” from its proposed…
Corporatism, capitalism and real alternatives: On the power to choose our destiny
Corporatism is simply a more virulent form of capitalism – or a late stage of capitalism: it is what happens when capitalism is left unchecked, to run its own course.…
Green jobs see huge growth globally: Why is Canada missing out?
There are those like Stephen Harper who repeatedly say we must choose between economic development and sustainable development. And there are those who, concerned about the environment and the latest…
Brothers in Weyburn
Brothers restaurant owner in #Weyburn says he can't comment on TFW controversy due to employee privacy. #yqr #sask http://t.co/l6GwqSj5G5— Kim Smith (@KimSmithGlobal) April 22, 2014 Then this: #Weyburn restaurant releases…