MEASURING DIFFERENCE
When we calculate things like income disparity in this country we don’t typically look at the difference between people’s incomes. (No,...
Jun 18, 20146 min read
EVIDENCE-BASED
In my lifetime corporate taxes have been slashed in half, from 36% down to 15%. (And we can thank Prime Ministers Mulroney, Chretien, and...
Jun 12, 20142 min read
FUEL
We seem to have bet the farm, the whole town and county too, on $100 per barrel oil. Why is that? Nobody thinks this is a terrible idea?...
Mar 26, 20136 min read


I SEE WHY THEY CALLED IT A STING
So there was this news story a while back. It caught my attention as the top news item of the day on my newsfeed. The article was about...
Jul 8, 20128 min read


FUNDS
Recently I had some money I wanted to put away and, really, never think about again. I was convinced to talk to someone at my credit...
Mar 13, 20129 min read

REMEMBERING MASSEY or FILMS NOT BOMBS
The findings of Canada’s Royal Commission on National Development in the Arts, Letters and Sciences (or “the Massey Report”, if you...
Dec 9, 20115 min read
CREATIVE or PRECARIOUS?
I came across a report put together by PriceWaterhouseCoopers for the Business Council of British Columbia. The report clearly defines...
Jun 29, 20116 min read