The Recession Recovery Alphabet

There is lots of speculation about the exit strategy on this recession, the deepest and most devastating since the Great Depression. What “shape” will the economic recovery take is the subject of speculation and “punditation.” The federal government stimulus spending is all debt financing, as it is in all provinces except Alberta, who had cash [...]

Has the IPCC Head Offered a Simple and Wrong-Headed Solution to Canada’s GHG Lethargy?

To every complex problem there is always a simple answer that is wrong.  The recent call by the Head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)is reported to be calling for Canada to “consider closing down Oilsands projects in northern Alberta” is an example of a seemingly simple but wrong-headed answer to a complex [...]