As we all head into the allegedly merriest but unquestionably darkest part of the northern hemisphere year, it might be instructive to read, critically, between the lines and past the buzzwords, the self-congratulatory (and effective) 2015 Corporate Social Responsibility Report…
Ottawa Food Bank: does cold weather + high electricity prices = new clients?
The Ottawa Community Food Bank’s client list is doing what I and my fellow consultants always wish our client lists were doing more of: growing. I doubt the OCFB is happy like I am when my client list grows by…
Ontario’s real energy peaks, stated and understated: today’s focus, Thunder Bay
Outside temperatures in Thunder Bay Ontario at around 7:30 local time this morning are -14°C, which with the windchill feels like -20°C. It’s probably safe to say that most of Thunder Bay’s 121,000 residents are indoors: either inside the city’s…
Yawning China dominates Bitcoin mining with cheap baseload electricity: Canada can help
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Green energy, the Green Party, and Germany’s governance crisis: the McGuinty Syndrome?
Dalton McGuinty, Ontario’s most recent former premier, might have in mid-2011 whispered a rueful warning to German Chancellor Angela Merkel about the political wisdom of green energy: “note the world values survey when it comes to paying money to help…
The Iron Chancellor and the Iron Rule: Merkel struggles to explain reality to game-theorizing Greens
Angela Merkel is as dexterous and tough in domestic affairs as Bismarck was in foreign affairs, so I mean no disrespect to her or any German when I give her Bismarck’s nickname The Iron Chancellor. I mean quite the opposite:…