TODAY IN HISTORY | APRIL 13 1993: The B.C. government announces it will allow limited logging of the last major old-growth rainforest on Vancouver Island. At least half of Clayoquot Sound was opened to logging. This could be the biggest mistake we’ve ever allowed our government to make. Let’s not allow our past mistakes to …
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Now these are great ideas!!!
FUTURE CANADA 18 Big Ideas to Supercharge Canada’s Economy By Claire Porter Robbins Canada is, by many metrics, a great country. But the recent trade war has underscored that it could benefit from some bold thinking to help propel it forward. Canada is at a crossroads. We have an increasingly complex relationship with our southern …
What do cities and counties get in return for their public investment? (in sports facilities i.e. Major League Baseball stadiums)?
What do cities and counties get in return for their public investment? Scholarly econometric studies on the impact of professional sports stadiums are almost unanimous in their conclusion that they do not promote employment or per capita income growth (see here and here). Despite the outsized role they play in U.S. cultural life and in …