In today’s National Post, John Ivison and Andrew Coyne provide an interesting dichotomy about the debta surrounding climate change, the oil sands, CO2 emissions and the politics of perception. Ivison starts by stating that Ottawa (i.e. the government of Canada) must act to reign in oil sands emissions, or else the critics will be proven correct …
Category Archive: Business
May 12
Jeff Rubin is a misguided Malthusian
Jeff Rubin, former economist at CIBC, has in the past few years, turned into a modern Malthus, proclaiming the end of the world as we know it. However, his writings are lacking in the breadth of analysis truly required to understand the problems we face, and he underestimates the ingenuity of humanity to solve problems. …
Apr 03
Stupid Proposals from Alberta Parties
OK, so the Alberta Provincial Election is a week old, and momentum has swung from the incumbent Progressive Conservatives to the upstart and conservative Wildrose Party. The leftist parties, which comprises the Liberals, NDP and Alberta Party are trailing well behind province-wide, although they have greater support in Edmonton and Lethbridge and can probably win …
Feb 28
McGuinty doesn’t understand economics
This week, Alberta Premier Alison Redford went to America and Ontario to “sell” the oilsands and made the point that Ontario should be supportive because the oil industry buys billions of dollars worth of goods and services from Ontario firms and manufacturers. Ontario Premier McGuinty countered that the booming oil industry had turned the Canadian …
Feb 14
The loss of the North American work-ethic
Nearly two hundred years ago, one of the observations made by de Tocqueville in “Democracy in America” was the great work ethic possessed by the American people. Until recent decades, I believe that Canada and the US still had that work ethic. But the advent of the socialist welfare state and “victim mentality” that came …
Nov 01
Slouching toward a Great Depression
Monty Pelerin at AmericanThinker had a great column yesterday, where he explains clearly the coming economic collapse: We are headed for an event that history will record as worse than the Great Depression. It is unavoidable… The principal reason for the dire prediction is the level of debt outstanding. Current debt levels are simply not sustainable. …
Sep 29
Spend the $5 Billion to mitigate Climate Change
Today, there was much in the news about the report by the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy, which says that the effects of global warming could cost Canada $5 Billion dollars a year by 2020. If you read my post of January 2010, this would be a great deal! We should embrace …
Aug 15
Book Review : Reckless Endangerment
In Reckless Endangerment, Gretchen Morgenstern and Joshua Rosner, both of the New York Times, do a reasonable job of exposing some of the greed and corruption that led to the financial collapse of 2008 and the Great Recession which America finds itself unable to recover from even three years later. I found the exposé of …
Aug 07
Mark Cuban on Patent Law
Mark Cuban has a very good post recommending improvements to the patent law system. While his reference is clearly the US patent system, this applies to most of the patent laws around the world, including here in Canada. I would add one more thing to Mr. Cuban’s short list of fixes. While he focuses on …