We hear you, Alberta. We get it. Unemployment is up. Earnings are down. You feel threatened. You feel your children’s future is threatened. We get it. We’ve been there, too. We all have. We all are, right now. Here’s the thing: as a civilization, we cannot afford to keep doing things the way we have […]
Some communications pack a lot of information into a very few words. A skit on the CBC comedy program The Irrelevant Show last weekend is the best example I have heard in a long time. A sketch started with a narrator explaining that in about the year 2050 (or maybe it was 2030—I’m not sure), […]
Creative Commons Every January, pundits put on their Janus masks to look back and forward at the same time and make predictions about the year to come. They try to give their words as much gravity as they can, but if we look at history, we see they’re somewhat less reliable than the weather. Some […]
This blog was originally published a year ago, as the oil bubble is deflated. I have updated it in the context of the current election campaigns going strong in Canada and the US. The bubble blows It seems that everyone, including economists and political leaders, need to be reminded of the definition of bubble regularly, […]