Category: Economics
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Government Incompetence Galore – Keystone XL
Why would the Alberta provincial government spend $ 1.1 billion of money that it doesn’t have to fund a pipeline that had a strong probability of not being finished due to the political position of the U.S. Democratic Party? Well of course there was this small matter that your federal government would have been endorsers…
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Wishful Thinking Versus Accountable Action
Words matter but action speaks volumes. There is enough apathy circulating with respect to the conduct of public officials that we could soon be reaching a point in time in first world countries when behavioural patterns lose respect for the public good. That my friends would not be good. In the U.S. federal game…
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Editorials In Lock Down
Whenever I click an editorial on line and am prompted for a news subscription trial I come away thinking, “fat chance you’re going to get me to pay for this second rate opinion”. I harbour no ill will toward editorials in lock down and news outlets needing to fund their reason for being. I’ve just…
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Favre Speech Money And Lessons Learned
It’s a talking point I trumpet often with my clients. Your money is yours and you must know what you are doing with it and where it comes from. Somebody apparently forgot to share the message with Brett Favre. He will now return 1.1 million dollars to the U.S. welfare system for money received for…
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Pandemic Reveals Canada’s Health Care Cracks
While Canadians turn to twitter and laude the public relations campaign by Alberta’s Chief Medical Officer, Deena Hinshaw, let me remind fellow Canadian regarding the disparity of pay between her, and care aides tending to the elderly. You see, The Canadian Medical Association for decades has ensured that Canadian doctors hit the gravy train right…