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The Alpha and the Omega of mid-2007

…that claim Friday, trying to explain Why Canada is Different. (I’ll take Stephen Gordon’s analysis, instead.) This is an attempt at being positive: in the wake of an annualized 3.4%…

WTO and the auto industry bailout

…to subsidize their industry or just making up for state aid that foreign rivals already enjoy. As the U.S. considers a lifeline for its auto companies, officials in Europe, Canada

Why I Don’t Do Market Timing

…2002-2008 expansion provided significant real income gains, and more than half of those gains were due to the improvement in Canada’s terms of trade. So there really isn’t an infrastructure…

Infant Mortality – The Excuse is Addressed

…gets chucked onto the trash heap. So that proves our glorious free market healthcare system outperforms the socialist and semi-socialist medical systems in Scandinavia, Japan, Western Europe, Canada, and Singapore,…

Alice in Co-payland

…percent hike in 2007. .. This only looked weird to me because I live in Canada. So if you didn’t see what I saw, let me remind you they aren’t…

Rarely mentioned night soil and mineral

…yards, even if it has been heated to kill pathogens and bacteria and composted to a form that meets the highest standards of the Composting Council of Canada. Don’t think…

After the Recession: What then?

…the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Japan — stopped short of declaring that the U.S. economy was heading for a recession and steered clear of recommending the…

Great Lakes and regulation

…of a multi-year research project by CDC and the International Joint Commission (IJC). The IJC, an independent organization that negotiates boundary water issues between the U.S. and Canada, has also…