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Data Centres in Manitoba – What’s Missing?
Both Manitoba Hydro and the Manitoba Government promote the fact that Manitoba offers the lowest cost of electricity in North America. As an additional benefit, virtually all of that power is produced from renewable hydro instead of coal, natural gas or nuclear.
According to this post, the major criteria for site selection of large data centres includes low cost power, ability to use or dissipate heat, and low-cost real estate. An obvious additional category would be very high capacity, low cost and multiple path multi-gigabit fibre links to major Internet nodes across North America.
As we go into a fall election, the political parties should be challenged to identify why Manitoba is not already attracting this type of investment in data centres and what changes in government policy will enable our province to become a home to this type of business enterprise.
Leveling the playing field when developing off-reserve band lands
One of the most crucial elements is the signing of a municipal services agreement which includes tax loss compensation. This is to offset the tax exempt status of the reserves commercial and real estate holdings.
Canada Has Its Act Together
“Look what’s not happening in Canada. There is no real estate crisis. There is no banking crisis. There is no unemployment crisis. There is no sovereign debt crisis.”
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Weaponizing the Law
The indictment of former U.S. president Donald Trump for crimes invented by his political opponents is the most egregious example yet seen of the weaponizing of the law. The United States is now full of examples. However, in Canada, we also see the law being...
“Looking At” Seizing Control Over Western Canada’s Natural Resources
OTTAWA, REGINA - Last week, two things happened that could have profound impacts on natural resources development in Saskatchewan. One is a hint the federal government might want to take control of natural resources away from the provinces, and the other is the...
Malicious Stalking as a Literary Device
Airport bookstores are often filled with customers, and surely some buy. I don’t. I just like to see what books among many millions of possible candidates land in such prime real estate. As a publisher, I’m aware of the herculean efforts, vast resources, and network...
Higher Interest Rates May Make Productivity Higher Too
It is taking a while, but a prolonged period of elevated interest rates, at both the short end set by the Bank of Canada and the Federal Reserve Board of the United States, and at the long end in the bond market set by domestic and foreign investors, is coming to be...
Solving the Global Housing Crisis
The worldwide lack of affordable housing can only be resolved politically. The global housing crisis across the high-income world, particularly in the Anglosphere, represents perhaps the single biggest challenge to the future of the middle class. From the...
Ontario College of Teachers Undermines Its Own Credibility
The good news is that inflation appears to be slowing down. The bad news is that no one seems to have told the Ontario College of Teachers (OCT) since they plan to impose a 17.64 percent fee hike on all Ontario teachers this year. Unsurprisingly, teachers are not...
The Collapse of the Progressive Economy
The future belongs to blue-collar workers In recent decades, progressive politics has been underwritten by the ascendant economic titans of capital, technology, and communication. Big Tech and financial firms have long financed Democratic causes, led by those...
‘ESG’ – The Impractical Vision of the Anointed
ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) is a risky investing fad pushed by a well-organized, self-anointed group of institutional investors and consultants where investment decisions favour companies that score well on meeting this group’s climate change, diversity...
For your Safety and Economic Forecast, Pull a Permit
One happy-place for the professional contractor and weekend DIY’ers is standing in line waiting to pull a building permit for their upcoming (most likely started and almost finished) construction project. NOT! Ok perhaps obtaining a building permit for home...
Policy Restrictions have Caused the Housing Crisis
The choice we face is clear: a modest expansion of greenfield development or greater housing poverty For 18 years, I have been monitoring international housing affordability, as author or co-author of the Demographia Housing Affordability series. The latest...
Financial Repression, Central Bank Indecision, Recession, and Stagnation
‘Financial repression’ is a term referring to governments or central banks, such as the Bank of Canada or the U.S. Federal Reserve Boar., intervening in financial markets to suppress interest rates [1]. Central banks have been intervening for nearly two years, causing...