Side projects
Can I blow your mind with some economic indicators?
I spend a lot of time looking at economic data. I’m constantly pulling numbers from Statistics Canada, the OECD, FRED, the Bank of Canada trying to get a clear…
United States
12 posts on United States from Stephen Taylor's archive of Canadian political commentary.
US Politics
Time to look at repeal
The United States of America is again reeling from the unimaginable violence of a mass shooting this week after a young man opened fire taking the lives of…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Awkward tweet from the UN
A one state solution tweet that could have come from Hamas. Amazingly, it came from the United Nations. The @UN later corrected their tweet: On Day of…
Columns
Mr. Obama, it’s the economy, stupid
Why is this significant? Jobs, the economy and the political base. Both Canada and the United States would benefit tremendously if the Keystone pipeline…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
Osama bin Laden is dead
Reaction from world leaders: Barack Obama (United States): Stephen Harper (Canada): Julia Gillard (Australia): I welcome the death of Osama bin Laden, I…
US Politics
Why Canadians should be wary of a Democrat victory tonight
Today is election day in the United States. Both houses of Congress are up for grabs tonight and the Democrats may regain the majority in the House of…
Disaster Relief
Ernesto is first hurricane of 2006
At 5:04 this morning, the US National Hurricane Centre measured Ernesto’s winds at 75 MPH (121 km/h) making it the first hurricane of 2006. At this time last…
Foreign Affairs and Defence
UK Terror Plot: “Mass murder on an unimaginable scale”
post started at 3:15am EST The British home secretary has raised the terror threat level to “critical” following a extensive operation conducted by MI5 and the…
Stephen Harper
Katrina used as a disproportionate response by critics
Regarding the evacuation of foreign and resident nationals from Lebanon, the following has been said about the (what should have been) obvious difficulty in…