Prof. Werner Antweiler, Ph.D.
Werner's Blog — Opinion, Analysis, Commentary
Blog Entries: Politics
- Canada's notwithstanding clause is ripe for misuse (April 21)
- China could come out ahead in a trade war with Trump's America (April 17)
- A closer look at Germany's 2025 federal election (March 2)
- What would the end of consumer-side carbon pricing mean for climate action in Canada? (16 Sep 24)
- Canada's Defence Spending Gap (23 Jul 24)
- The social cost of bitcoin mining in BC (8 Feb 24)
- How are sanctions against Russia's crude oil trade developing? (13 Jun 23)
- Is Quebec becoming a climate action laggard? (12 Dec 22)
- Fuel tax cuts are popular but badly misguided (11 May 22)
- NO TO WAR (25 Feb 22)
- How deep is is Canada's trade relationship with Russia? (24 Feb 22)
- Protecting critical infrastructure (17 Feb 22)
- The uncertain future of Nord Stream 2 (28 Dec 21)
- How to slim down Germany's parliament (31 Oct 21)
- Canada's 2021 federal election in graphs (17 Oct 21)
- Germany's new political landscape in maps (2 Oct 21)
- Canada deserves a 21st-century electoral system (24 Sep 21)
- Political swing votes are not uniform (13 Sep 21)
- Where Canada's federal election is competitive (8 Sep 21)
- Using hexagon tilemaps for election outcomes (15 Nov 20)
- BC's mail-in vote revealed political biases (9 Nov 20)
- BC's mail-in vote is unlikely to hold any surprises (26 Oct 20)
- What can Canada learn from Germany's short-time work model? (17 Mar 20)
- Visualizing Canada's Trade Profile (2018) (27 Feb 20)
- Towards care-based automobile insurance in British Columbia (6 Feb 20)
- Canada's parliament with provincial proportional representation (26 Oct 19)
- Canada's growing urban-rural political divide (23 Oct 19)
- Carbon pricing works - but what is the right dosage for the patient? (6 Oct 19)
- Electoral reform with strong local representation (28 Sep 19)
- The mathematics of US Senate reform (4 Jul 19)
- Euromyths and the Brexit train wreck (7 Feb 19)
- Should Canada abolish its $100 banknotes? (1 Feb 19)
- The federal carbon pricing backstop becomes a carbon dividend (23 Oct 18)
- Homicides across countries: a sad case of U.S. exceptionalism (4 Oct 17)
- What does voter participation tell us about the outcome of the British Columbia 2017 provincial election? (11 May 17)
- The European Union turns 60 (29 Mar 17)
- Growing income inequality and its political consequences (9 Nov 16)
- In support of Washington State's Initiative 732 (6 Nov 16)
- Brexit and the illusion of independence (5 Jul 16)
- Electoral reform in Canada after the October 2015 elections (27 Nov 15)
- Electoral participation in Canada (2 Nov 15)
- About good debt, bad debt, and debt breaks (10 Oct 15)
- The high price of Canada's segmented oil markets (3 Oct 15)
- Electoral entropy: the case for electoral reform continued (31 Jul 15)
- Let our Canadian expats vote! (30 Jul 15)
- The case for electoral reform in Canada (27 Jul 15)
- Are Canada's carbon emission reduction targets realistic? (5 Jul 15)
- Ontario joins Quebec and California in carbon trading (18 May 15)
- The Alberta Disadvantage (1 May 15)
- Fixing the U.S. Budget (1 Mar 15)
- Alphabetical ballot order in Vancouver politics (19 Dec 14)
- Income splitting in Canada (6 Dec 14)
- Discouraging marijuana use (19 Aug 14)
- New York Times endorses marijuana legalization (27 Jul 14)
- Why liberalize marijuana? (4 Jul 14)
Recent Blog Entries
- Canada Post is in a death spiral (May 21)
- The transportation emission equation (May 10)
- Canada's notwithstanding clause is ripe for misuse (April 21)
- China could come out ahead in a trade war with Trump's America (April 17)
- Canada's Electricity Trade with the United States (March 15)
- Value-added taxes are not tariffs (March 4)
- A closer look at Germany's 2025 federal election (March 2)
- Trade deficits are not subsidies (February 27)
- Electric vehicle adoption in Germany (February 19)
- Export surcharges as effective retaliation in a trade war (January 20)
- How is the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline being utilized? (31 Dec 24)
- How BC Hydro incentivizes independent power producers (16 Dec 24)
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