/channels/taxonomy/term/4159/all en /channels/channels/event/governments-role-freeing-markets-challenging-corporate-red-tape-359843 <p>Authors and competition policy experts <strong><strong>Denise Hearn</strong></strong><strong><strong> </strong></strong><strong><strong>a</strong></strong>nd <strong><strong>Vass Bednar</strong></strong> draw on their new book, <a href="https://su</body></html>"></a></p> Fri, 20 Sep 2024 20:19:27 +0000 webfull 202864 at /channels /channels/channels/news/accelerating-canadas-green-energy-transition-toronto-star-357907 <p>July 4, 2024 | Canada produces 80 per cent non-emitting electricity, however there stands a need for transitioning towards a clean energy transition that meet its emission goals by requiring building bigger, cleaner, smarter grids capable of doubling or tripling current capacity. "Net zero energy road maps from provincial governments can provide the missing direction. Road maps articulate a provincial government’s vision, objectives, and plans for how the province will meet its energy needs on the road to net zero," Chris Ragan and Rick Smith explains. </p> Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:21:22 +0000 webfull 200732 at /channels /channels/channels/news/tackling-negative-implications-less-cash-society-cbc-news-357867 <p>June 30, 2024 | The digital brigade, powered by e-transfers, PayPal and Apple Pay, has gained unprecedented momentum. This is leading towards a cashless society, as Canadians tend to embrace electronic methods of payments. However, cash holds many significance in the social and economic realm. <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7248846">CBC News</a> featured one of our MPP alum, Aftab Ahmed for their news article about the harm of leaping towards the cashless Canadian economy. </p> Wed, 03 Jul 2024 13:52:55 +0000 webfull 200685 at /channels /channels/channels/news/economist-weighs-premiers-calls-pause-carbon-tax-hike-cbc-news-356214 <p>March 14, 2024 | A growing number of premiers are urging the federal government to pause the carbon tax hike that's set to take place on April 1, or to ditch it altogether. <a href="/maxbellschool/our-people/mpp-teaching-faculty/christopher-ragan">Chris Ragan</a>, the director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy at ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University, joined Power & Politics to discuss the impact this could have on Canada's climate plan. "We're playing a long-run game," Ragan said. "It's very easy to say this is not a good time for a carbon tax ...</p> Tue, 19 Mar 2024 15:30:12 +0000 webfull 198691 at /channels /channels/channels/news/2023-environment-public-lecture-gernot-wagner-349944 <p class="note" style="text-align:center"><a href="/environment/news/video-archives"><strong>Here is the video recording of the 2023 Public Lecture.</strong></a></p> <br /> <br /> <p align="center"><strong>The Bieler School of Environment presents:</strong></p> <p align="center"><strong>Professor Gernot Wagner</strong></p> <p align="center"><strong>2023 Environment Public Lecture</strong></p> <p align="center"><strong><i>“Climate Risks, Uncertainties, and Opportunities"</i></strong></p> Wed, 23 Aug 2023 19:55:57 +0000 webfull 191319 at /channels /channels/channels/event/should-canadians-worry-about-inflation-cure-worse-disease-345969 <p>Like many countries, Canada has experienced a sharp increase in consumer price inflation since mid-2021.</p> Wed, 08 Feb 2023 21:37:33 +0000 webfull 187095 at /channels /channels/channels/news/greenlands-indigenous-population-favours-extracting-and-exporting-sand-melting-ice-sheet-340773 <p>A national survey of close to 1000 adults in Greenland (where approximately 90% of the population is Indigenous) conducted by a ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ University-led research team has found that a surprisingly large majority – 3 out of 4 Greenlanders – support extracting and exporting sand left by the melting ice sheet. A significant proportion want Greenland’s leadership to assess the impact of sand extraction and exports on both the environment and economy. Furthermore, when it comes to who mines the sand, the majority prefer local involvement to foreign collaboration.</p> Thu, 18 Aug 2022 15:27:15 +0000 webfull 181495 at /channels /channels/channels/event/women-politics-economy-and-society-europe-and-quebec-today-and-tomorrow-328670 <p><a href="https://mcgill.ca/x/oQ4"><img src="//www.mcgill.ca/continuingstudies/files/continuingstudies/036-02-21-cpd_womensevent_fb3.png" style="height:384px; width:734px" /></a></p> Wed, 17 Feb 2021 19:43:21 +0000 webfull 167984 at /channels /channels/channels/news/happiness-really-does-come-free-328342 <p>Economic growth is often prescribed as a sure way of increasing the well-being of people in low-income countries, but a study led by ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ and the<b> </b>Institute of Environmental Sciences and Technologies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) suggests that there may be good reason to question this assumption. The researchers set out to find out how people rate their subjective well-being in societies where money plays a minimal role, and which are not usually included in global happiness surveys.</p> Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:22:45 +0000 webfull 167624 at /channels /channels/channels/event/pandemic-risk-management-vs-realistic-enterprise-risk-management-322119 <p><a href="https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__X21i5jsR22OXSRTJt-pEA"><img src="https://mcgill.ca/continuingstudies/files/continuingstudies/043-05-20-pd_pandemicriskmanagementvsrealisticenterpriseriskmanagement_fb_dc_1.png" style="height:384px; wid</body></html>" /></a></p> Tue, 12 May 2020 16:03:55 +0000 webfull 160647 at /channels /channels/channels/news/fortune-coronavirus-making-clear-there-no-solidarity-eu-322024 <p>« The European Union is in trouble. From the start, its countries haven’t been on equal footing. But COVID-19 has shone a stark light on the dissimilarities between its national economies. The crisis has also laid bare that EU members have significantly different views on what obligations they have to one another.</p> Mon, 04 May 2020 17:23:07 +0000 webfull 160535 at /channels /channels/channels/event/choosing-right-target-real-options-bank-canadas-mandate-renewal-320280 <p>The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the world, pushing the global economy into recession and forcing countries to take on nearly unprecedented levels of public debt.</p> Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:31:18 +0000 webfull 158570 at /channels /channels/channels/news/heres-why-you-should-federal-carbon-tax-star-302957 <p>November 27, 2019 | In this opinion piece, it is argued how an escalating carbon price over the years accompanied by rebates, as shown by Chris Ragan, is the most transparent and the least costly for the economy and taxpayers.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/2019/11/27/heres-why-you-should-like-the-federal-carbon-tax.html">Read the full article here.</a></p> Thu, 28 Nov 2019 20:33:18 +0000 webfull 155903 at /channels /channels/channels/news/canada-needs-carbon-tax-210-tonne-2030-meet-paris-targets-report-says-national-post-302919 <p>November 27, 2019 | The Ecofiscal Commission says Canada will either have to raise carbon prices to $210 per tonne or adopt more expensive policies funded by higher income taxes to meet its 2030 targets.</p> <p><a href="https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/canada-needs-carbon-tax-of-210-a-tonne-by-2030-to-meet-paris-targets-report-says">Read the full article here.</a></p> Wed, 27 Nov 2019 20:40:48 +0000 webfull 155859 at /channels /channels/channels/news/canada-should-quadruple-carbon-tax-meet-2030-targets-commission-says-globe-and-mail-302918 <p>November 27, 2019 | The Ecofiscal Commission's latest report says that if Canada were to meet its 2030 targets to cut greenhouse gas emissions through carbon pricing, it must more than quadruple its carbon tax and rebate the revenues to consumers.</p> <p><a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canada-must-quadruple-carbon-tax-to-meet-2030-targets-commission-says/">Read the full article here. </a></p> Wed, 27 Nov 2019 20:32:33 +0000 webfull 155858 at /channels