Current Events, Climate change
The Globe and Mail has published a number of articles by indigenous academics in Canadian Universities and indigenous leaders.
Some of the statements made called out for rebuttal, but the “Comments” section was unavailable or the comments were closed down as “not meeting the G&M’s standards”, most likely due to being deemed racist. Continue reading “Indigenous Academics in the Press”
The Financial Post identified $129 BILLION of resource projects which are held up by:
What is the cost to the economy of these delays? In this blog I will try to quantify the cost of this to the Canadian economy (as measured by its GDP) over the next 20 years. Continue reading “The Cost of Opposition to Resource Development”
Canada’s 2018 budget was released on February 26th. It projects an estimated deficit of $17.8 billion for 2018. In subsequent years the budget deficit is expected to decrease, but only to $13 billion.
Canada’s economy is currently strong. Unemployment is at record lows and GDP growth is as high as could be expected.
Conventional Keynesian economics would expect a budget surplus under these conditions. Admittedly the budget deficit is lower than had been expected a year ago due to the strong economy. This was seen as a signal for the Trudeau government to increase spending and introduce new programs.
Continue reading “Canada’s 2018 budget: virtue signaling all the way”
The trial of Gerald Stanley, a farmer in northern Saskatchewan, over the shooting death of Colten Boushie, a 22-year-old Cree from the Red Pheasant First Nations (an Indigenous community) has stirred much discussion, most focused on the alleged racial nature of the events. Stanley was acquitted by the all non-Indigenous jury. This has given rise to protests calling for “Justice for Colten” and a number of politicians, including the Prime Minister, making statements generally critical of the verdict.
Although some of the events that took place are not clear (contradictions in statements by witnesses from both sides), several issues have not been raised publicly:
Continue reading “The verdict in the Gerald Stanley Case was (probably) Correct”