Reading Time: 4 minutes Important shifts in production and consumption notwithstanding, any global energy revolution is still a long way off
Month: July 2016
Pokémon Go . . . Away
Reading Time: 3 minutes With so many problems confronting the world, why are so many people obsessing about something as insignificant as Pokémon Go?
Bringing Alberta’s waning economy back to life
Reading Time: 3 minutes Many of the Alberta economy’s best new ideas can’t get off the ground for lack of sufficient support from the province and its investors
More hawkish Trudeau is a welcome change
Reading Time: 4 minutes No matter how distasteful it may be to some, the change in Trudeau’s worldview – from pacifist to “warmonger” – was long overdue
Innovative risk-takers will resurrect our economy
Reading Time: 3 minutes But we need a policy regime that encourages these innovators to find new ideas, then gets out of their way while they pursue them
Pay it Forward gang rides Calgary’s Plus-15 to the rescue
Reading Time: 3 minutes A handful of heroes are riding selflessly to the rescue of oil and gas folks in distress in downtown Calgary and beyond
Nice attack symptomatic of an evolving Islamic State
Reading Time: 4 minutes With the tide turning against it on the battlefield, ISIS is returning to a campaign of indiscriminate urban violence
Our ‘forest condo’ is filled with curious neighbours
Reading Time: 3 minutes Living in a forest house is to be constantly reminded by the terrestrial and avian neighbours of their presence
Stronger IP protection for biologic medicine could save lives
Reading Time: 3 minutes Biologic medicines are difficult and expensive to develop, and Canadia’s weak intellectual property protections are making it even harder
Turmoil in the South China Sea
Reading Time: 3 minutes China’s ambitions in the South China Sea will have far-reaching international implications well into the future