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Most people don’t think about energy until it isn’t there when they need it. Just imagine one million people without power to their TVs during last night’s airing of The Walking Dead? Many would be outraged, but- what about the rest of the time? Where, when and how do we talk about energy in Canada, […]
As a frequent user of Calgary public transit, I often think about how we can improve the public transit system, and I can’t help but notice what we might have done better. One issue I tend to wrestle with is how we pay for transit access as individual users. How a municipality implements transit fees […]
In Romanian, my native language, we have a saying along the lines: “don’t sell the bear’s skin while the bear is still in the forest”, some words of wisdom which have an equivalent in many other languages, like the English expression “don’t count your chickens before they hatch”. Yet both the provincial government in B.C. […]
On February 5th, Alberta Health Services President and CEO Vickie Kaminski announced that AHS would be implementing cost reductions.* Small wonder. Spending on health care in Alberta is very high and is increasing quickly. In this note I want to show this and then talk about the implications. The graph below uses data from the […]
Quebec is known to be rich in hydro-electricity. At the same time, hydrocarbons have played a central role in its energy sector, notably in its transportation sector. The public debate about the role of hydrocarbons in Quebec has often been quite muted and focused on the environmental impacts of using oil and gas, coming almost […]