How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Pharma….?
Nadeem Esmail Director, Health Policy Studies, The Fraser Institute Bulk Buying Pharmaceuticals Isn’t All It’s Cracked Up to Be Posted: 05/24/2013 5:30 pm OOOHHHH….a warning from a minion of the…
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Mars As Inspiration
Here’s an excellent space exploration mission: Orbit Mars, and return two humans safely in under 2 years. It can be done. Us humans could have several missions launching in 2018,…
Eatin’ Bugs
Insects will be a staple food on Mars and other space colonies. Paul Pardee : Lets have the delegates to the UN have a bug banquet to show their support…
One benefit of getting older…
…is that you age your way out of the generational gaze. You know the one. The one that fixes on everything younger than 30 or 40, and can’t see anything…
I just saw that today, May 5, is the birthday of Karl Heinrich…
I just saw that today, May 5, is the birthday of Karl Heinrich Marx (1818-1883), the German economist, historian, journalist and philosopher. I post this video in honour of the…
Troubling news from the Bank of Canada
The Bank of Canada, like all central banks, is supposed to be independent from the government. That, as the Globe & Mail put it this morning, is sacrosanct. When a…
The Audit With a Twist #cdnpoli
$3.1 Billion is missing according to a damning audit of the Harper Government. Let’s see what political pundits recently have said about audit failure: Federal government audit ‘severely critical’ –…
The Great Academic Rejection of 2008-20??
…….. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20….. Do you know what this is? It is a count of the amount of days since my last job interview. A count that is used to monitor a…
Why an economist makes a bad leader
At least one of the reasons. Stephen Harper has an MA in economics, and he has other issues. You know what gives you a better background than economics? Camp counsellor.…
Not told by Canada’s corporate media
Fiscal record of Canadian political parties, Toby Sanger, The Progressive Economics Forum: “With all the recent news stories — as well as alarm raised by other leaders — about the…
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,…
EG Radio March 28: Federal Budget 2013, urbanization in Kenya and the tar sands “staples” trap
Download: earthgauge-podcast-march28-2013.mp3 We love covering local stories on Earthgauge and this week, we get just about as local as we can, focusing on some compelling environmental research taking place at…
Tomorrow on EG Radio: Budget 2013, urbanization in Kenya and the tar sands “staples trap”
We love covering local stories on Earthgauge and this week, we’re getting just about as local as we possibly can, focusing on some compelling environmental research taking place at Carleton…
Inform your "fiscally conservative" friends please of this astounding failure
#neoliberalism Under Flaherty the #cdnecon since 2006 has been a debt-fuelled financialized one only with little real production, productivity, or significantly increased employment to drive demand. Credit card debt has…
Inform your “fiscally conservative” friends please of this astounding failure
#neoliberalism Under Flaherty the #cdnecon since 2006 has been a debt-fuelled financialized one only with little real production, productivity, or significantly increased employment to drive demand. Credit card debt has…
Inform your “fiscally conservative” friends please of this astounding failure
#neoliberalism Under Flaherty the #cdnecon since 2006 has been a debt-fuelled financialized one only with little real production, productivity, or significantly increased employment to drive demand. Credit card debt has…
EG Radio March 14: food glorious food!
Download: earthgauge-podcast-march14-2013.mp3 On Earthgauge this week, we discuss food security from the global to the local level, and what we can do to help build a more equitable and sustainable…
Tomorrow on EG Radio: food glorious food!
Tomorrow on Earthgauge, we’re discussing food (in)security. From the geopolitics of global food security to the benefits of eating locally, this special program will consider how the food choices we…
The Strange Economics of Stephan Harper
Even though he only has a Master’s degree in economics, our Prime Minister likes to present himself as an economist. And, like the myriad other untruths propagated by his regime,…
EG Radio March 7 2013: Reconnecting with the natural world around us
Download: earthgauge-podcast-march7-2013.mp3 Ever wondered where your water comes from and where your wastewater goes? How much garbage do we produce in Ottawa and where does it go? What did the…