Quietly during COVID-19 the City of Toronto issued one of Canada's first municipal Social Impact Bond. Looking for $100M for social and affordable housing; affordable basic infrastructure (access to clean drinking water, sewage and sanitation systems and transit); access to essential services (long-term care, senior services and emergency shelters) and socioeconomic advancement and empowerment (public … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 15

Happy Fathers Day to Dads out there. I guess I could have bought my dad a robot dog although he has to promise to not make it do evil things. Also announced this week was the Province's P3 Infrastructure processes update for the Spring of 2020. The new items on the list were the Ontario … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 14

Welcome to the second post in the Windsor Research Project on Racial Inequality in Windsor-Essex County. You can review the general data on racialized populations in Part 1. This post digs in a bit, and uses Statistic Canada data to draw some general correlations on our region. The points outlined below are general in nature, … Continue reading Windsor Research Project: Racial Inequality

This is a post (what is now 2 posts) has been half written the last couple of months because it is scary. As a white male with lots of privilege, these are the hard conversations. The following piece begins by digging into the basic data, while the second part digs in on some of the … Continue reading Windsor Research Project: Racial Data

I have compiled all of my previous "Thoughts" posts onto a single page for people to go back and review if they wish. A link is also found on the Table of Contents page https://twitter.com/nhotte/status/1269783879763681280?s=20 Can't have nice things For those wondering Ngaio Hotte is a PhD in Economics at UBC and Statistics Canad ahas … Continue reading My Thoughts on Week 13

The blog post which I may piss everyone off... This has been pretty widely shared by now but it made me laugh in April and part 2 made me laugh in June.A few people asked me this week why I didn't participant on #blackouttuesday. I boiled it down to three reasons: First, the platforms that … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 12

Are things becoming normal? Eid Mubarak to anyone celebrating who is reading this 🙂 (why are you reading this and not celebrating).Looking ahead on Wednesday - SpaceX will be launching people into space for the first time. The Canadian Economic Association AGM/Conference would have been this weekend but was obviously cancelled but they doled out … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 10

It's the long weekend which means the official start of summer and because it's May two-four it also means..... Rain! With rain in mind, water levels on Lake Erie and St Clair are expected to peak in July. Wondering what it is like to travel internationally, this twitter thread shows what international flying is like … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 9

Happy Mothers Day! Currently on Season 16 of the Simpson which means I am more than half done. As for lock down, that remains to be seen Based on the map of above, June will see parts of Canada on fire. Red areas are well above average risk for wildfires, pink area just above average. … Continue reading A Few Thoughts on Week 8