Commentary

Greenland’s Welfare Trap Replays in Canada

Greenland’s Welfare Trap Replays in Canada

This month, there was an unusual amount of international attention given to the Greenland election. This is a vast country with a tiny population of only 50,000. Every year, Denmark transfers $700 million to help fund Greenland’s government. This is a huge amount of...

Why Bitcoin can Become a Reserve Currency

Why Bitcoin can Become a Reserve Currency

On January 17, former Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper suggested bitcoin could become a reserve currency alongside the U.S. dollar. Now a business adviser with Harper & Associates Consulting, he nonetheless made a caveat: bitcoin still lacks a key money...

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What the Frac is Fracking?

The word “fracking” sends chills down some people’s spines and even causes hysteria in some environmental activist circles. But not many people are informed about what fracking actually entails. The oil industry needs to communicate to the public what fracking means...

Urban Planning For People

Originally appeared in newgeography.com The recent publication of the United States Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration's (EIA) 2014 Annual Energy Outlook provides a good backdrop for examining the importance of current information in...

It is Crunch Time for Atlantic Canada

Over fifty years, observers have become inured to troubling reports of Atlantic Canada's economic difficulties. Even the most jaundiced observer would recognize, however, that data for the last two years describes something different. The regional economy is not...

Second-quarter financials alarming

Based on Finance Minister Jennifer Howard's recent update on her government's financial situation, taxpayers should be alarmed. Despite the unexpected tax and fee hikes of the last two years, she not only expects a deficit of close to $500 million for the NDP...