Monthly Archives: April, 2010
Biodiesel blues
A European Union study indicates that biofuels from organic sources like soybeans can create up to four times more climate-warming emissions than standard diesel or gasoline. The EU removed that “information annex” from a report published in December but the confidential assessment was recently obtained under freedom of information laws by the Reuters news service. [...]
The Not-So-Great Recession
The Fraser Institute has published a much-needed assessment of the Great Recession, concluding that the downturn wasn’t any worse in terms of unemployment and other miseries than Canada’s previous economic slowdowns in the 1980s and 1990s. The Vancouver-based think tank points out that the public near-panic was fueled heavily by the media. In Toronto’s Globe [...]
The West grows best
Between 2005 and 2008, Canadian cities in the West outpaced the economic growth rate of their eastern counterparts, oil and gas being a major driver for expansion. The Centre for Municipal Studies predicts that the same pattern will reoccur over the next five years. Among Canada’s 13 largest census municipal areas, the centre forecasts that [...]
