History lessons: Resource management means reclaiming our environmental and...
Just about at the same time that people in the province of Quebec decided, in overwhelming majority, that decisive action was required by their provincial government to protect the French language,...
View ArticleDebating the uses of resource royalties
In an interesting and well-argued column in the Calgary Herald recently, Mark Milke from the Fraser Institute took issue with my last post here. I can't resist replying to one of his points.Mr. Milke...
View ArticleRio+20: It's time for new solutions
In the search for appealing, catchy, urgent and simple slogans, we climate justice activists have come to accept the phrase "climate change is the defining issue of our time" as gospel. But is it...
View ArticleFailing grades: The Canadian resource economy -- Part 1
Many Canadians understandably chafe under the designation of "hewers of wood and drawers of water." Yet geography it what it is and our country is blessed with energy resources, minerals, forests,...
View ArticleRaw deal: The Canadian resource economy -- Part 2
In Failing grades: The Canadian resource economy -- Part 1 I embarked on an exploration of Canada's resource economy. My motivation was the publication of The nine habits of highly effective resource...
View ArticleB.C.'s natural gas and the folly of using resource royalties to fund public...
In September, when the B.C. government tabled its First Quarterly Report on the B.C. budget the big story was on plummeting natural gas royalties, which means cuts to public services in order to keep...
View ArticleForeign aid and natural resources: Allies or enemies?
In a continuing series of articles motivated by Madeline Drohan's The nine habits of highly effective resource economies: Lessons for Canada published by the Canadian International Council (CIC), I've...
View ArticleYukon's court ruling on free-entry mining could help Idle No More
Change the conversation, support rabble.ca today.On December 27 this past year, the appeals court of the Yukon Territory gave an important ruling regarding the rights of First Nations in relation to...
View ArticleSaskatchewan 2013 budget: Balanced growth or fiscal myopia?
While Finance Minister Ken Krawetz characterized this week's provincial budget as an example of "balanced growth," and NDP Finance critic Trent Wotherspoon likened it to a "credit card budget," perhaps...
View ArticleRip and ship (hewers of wood, drawers of water 2.0)
Canada has an industrial/manufacturing economy because for more than a century governments of every political stripe insisted that natural resources be processed in Canada before being exported. Thus,...
View ArticleThe Staple Theory at 50: The staples trap in developing countries
Here is an entry from the global South in our continuing series of commentaries marking the 50th anniversary of Mel Watkins' classic article, "A Staple Theory of Economic Growth." Dr. Alberto Daniel...
View ArticleCanada at a crossroads: Indigenous rights to resources
It may turn out that 2013 is the year Canada started taking Indigenous resource rights seriously.Five centuries ago, when Europeans began trading with the Indigenous nations here for resources, the...
View ArticleNova Scotia: We have everything we need to succeed
The concluding piece in this year's Alternative Provincial Budget for Nova Scotia is written by Larry Haiven, who is Professor of Management, Saint Mary's University. He has been involved in the...
View ArticleConsumer electronics and the miracle of materials
Wednesday, August 13, 2014Who, three decades ago, would have imagined that the materials that would change consumer electronics would be glass, ABS plastic, sapphire, graphite and aluminum?Back then...
View ArticleTears are fine, but will Trudeau respect Indigenous rights to resources?
rabble is expanding our Parliamentary Bureau and we need your help! Support us on Patreon today!Prime Minister Justin Trudeau deserves full marks for his reaction to the final report of the Truth and...
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