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Blog Entries: Politics

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)
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)

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Is Quebec becoming a climate action laggard? (12 Dec 22)
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Is the Canadian Dollar still a petrocurrency? (28 Oct 22)
When are Plug-In Hybrid-Electric Vehicles (PHEV) a good choice? (15 Aug 22)
Lessons from Germany's transition towards renewable energy (10 Aug 22)
The commercialization potential of turquoise hydrogen (7 Jul 22)
The mystery of the diesel premium (20 May 22)
Bitcoin is a cryptoasset and not a currency (13 May 22)
Fuel tax cuts are popular but badly misguided (11 May 22)
Reglobalization, not deglobalization (21 Apr 22)

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