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Twenty years of talk about climate change
Doha, Qatar — The 18th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is now underway…
Mark Carney’s tenure and the state of monetary policy
Mark Carney’s tenure as Governor of the Bank of Canada overlaps some challenging economy history. Appointed in early 2008 just as the…
Stagnant economy may mean more cuts to come
The federal government released its annual fall update on the country’s finances today. Despite the upbeat messaging around the “Update of Economic and Fiscal…
The Attack on Organics
Anti-organics study funded by Cargill and other corporations Food issues have been much in the news recently, but I want to focus…
Capitalism is the Crisis (Part III)
Time to sow seeds of a better world, says Vandana Shiva British colonial rule in India led to the killing of 200…
Will Frankenstorm put climate change back on the political radar?
In recent years the world has experienced a sequence of climate-change-related disasters. Hurricane Sandy comes on top of massive drought through the…
The Limits of Demography
Here is a piece I wrote for today’s Globe Economy Lab re the Department of Finance report on the costs of an aging society.…
Fast Facts: The CETA and Nova Scotia
Oversold benefits, untold costs After close consideration of the costs and benefits, our new report on the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA)…
Right-to-Work: The (Ayn?) Rand Formula
There’s reluctance among Canadian proponents to call for it by name. But Right-to-Work (longer, harder, without representation or recourse, for less money…
Tax Increment Financing and Social Enterprise
Promoting Equitable Community Revitalization in Winnipeg Currently, Manitoba is one of only two provinces in Canada that utilizes Tax Increment Financing (TIF)…
CETA’s Harmful Constraints on Ontario
Trade deal with Europe threatens many costly ill-effects The governments of Canada and the European Union (EU) are in the final stages…
The Oil Industry’s Dilbit Cover-Up
Tar sands bitumen spills harder and costlier to clean up It’s amazing to watch the lengths to which Enbridge and the oil…