Every so often the COPs conclude a big agreement on emission targets, as they did in Kyoto 1997 or in Paris 2015. Countries like Canada and the United States then ignore the targets.
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We have a Sears at the major mall in Kingston. It will close soon I suppose, given the bankruptcy. The same mall saw the closure of Target a few years back, when its Canadian expansion went belly up.
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Sovereign debt is dull television compared with a president lobbing paper towels into a crowd, but the former is rather more important to Puerto Rico.
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Just as Pope Francis used his visit to Mexico to influence immigration politics across the border in the United States, it would be impossible for the first Latin American pope to ignore the crisis across the border in Venezuela.
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The answers that Pope Francis gave to workers at a steel plant in Genoa, Italy, last month suggested an important distinction in the Holy Father’s economic thinking, one that addresses the increasing importance of the financial sector in the contemporary economy.
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Shopify, for those who don’t know – and I would have been among them until recently – is a site that lets merchants sell their wares online. Not everybody is happy about the website Breitbart being one of those vendors.
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Horsesh–. That’s what came to mind when reading reports of the recent meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (Pass), convened to discuss “biological extinction” last week. It’s not that the learned scholars were talking horse dung, but that they weren’t.
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In practice though, the carbon tax will change carbon consumption decisions only if set at the right level. If the cost of reducing carbon emissions is, say, $45/tonne for a particular producer, then Alberta’s carbon tax will have no effect on its energy consumption.
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Dickinson’s criticism is not just that O’Leary is a flawed man, lacking the necessary empathy we desire in our leaders. She accuses him of not understanding business, and the personal nature of the market system.
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