As I am off of most social media the best way to know when I post something is to subscribe. Although I do occasionally cross post to platforms, I am making an effort to stay off most platforms in 2025. So you subscribe to the blog with your email, every post (typos and all) will … Continue reading Things I am Watching in 2025
Canada
Few Thoughts: Income Data from 2022
This morning Statistics Canada released preliminarily income data from the 2022 tax year. This data is outside of the Census so isn't as comprehensive and only those who file taxes are accounted for. We also have to remember that tax filers are individuals so often family units contain multiple tax filers. The data is for … Continue reading Few Thoughts: Income Data from 2022
Tracking The Housing Crisis – HAF Fallout
If you like this blog you can subscribe on the sidebar or at the bottom of the page on your mobile device. If you want hear things that relate to this blog, the Council Conversation Podcast (link in the top bar, here and on all major podcast platforms) zooms out and looks at SW Ontario more broadly. Heck … Continue reading Tracking The Housing Crisis – HAF Fallout
A Few Thoughts: HAF undermining Urban National Park???
On Friday Mayor Dilkens shared an updated HAF proposal while standing in front of a map. Image credit CTV There is something interesting about this map on the left hand side - the orange area in the far western portion. Unfortunately I can't find a high quality image of the map online but here is … Continue reading A Few Thoughts: HAF undermining Urban National Park???
Turks and Caicos and Canada – A match made in heaven?
The Premier of the British Overseas Territory of the Turks and Caicos, Rufus Ewing was in Ottawa today (May 26, 2014) and as always happens when the Turks and Caicos comes up, media stories (here, here, here and here) emerged floating the idea about Canada annexing the Caribbean island chain and it becoming the nation's 11th … Continue reading Turks and Caicos and Canada – A match made in heaven?
School Choice in Canada
A papers that I contributed at the Fraser Institute was released today: Measuring Choice and Competition in Canadian Education. A summary can be found below. As the benefits or returns to education become more and more apparent, there is increasing interest in ensuring accessible, high quality education. The increasing body of research available on the … Continue reading School Choice in Canada
Corporate Welfare and Windsor
The 2014 Federal Budget allocated up to $500 million for automotive innovation. Although the federal government states that this budget item is a show of broad support for the automotive sector in Canada, its following the not so subtle hints by Fiat-Chrysler's CEO Sergio Marchionne that continued operation of Canadian assembly plants hinged on government … Continue reading Corporate Welfare and Windsor
Fate of Provinces: A Cursory Application of Whitney’s Work
Having finished Meredith Whitney's Fate of States: The New Geography of American Prosperity (which I reviewed in a previous post) it got me to thinking about whether her analysis applies to Canada. The crux of Whitney's argument is that due to the irresponsible spending of the various states and communities during the housing boom, these jurisdictions now … Continue reading Fate of Provinces: A Cursory Application of Whitney’s Work
Goals: 2014
We are a month into 2014 and I haven't been very accountable to one of my goals for the year, so I am about to change that. 2013 was one of the best of my life, I won an internship with one of Canada's premier "Think Tanks", the Fraser Institute. As a part of the internship, … Continue reading Goals: 2014
The Senate Scandal and Reform
I started the following article back at the height of the Duffy Scandal (June) unfortunately I got busy with other things and now have only had the time to update and finish the piece. It isn't what I wanted it to be but rather then just scrap it I figured I would post it. I … Continue reading The Senate Scandal and Reform
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