Academic Director of the Ualberta Sustainability Council and Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning.
Edmonton, Alberta
Joined April 2012
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The Oilers Entertainment Group are likely going to learn an expensive lesson. They tried to push ticket prices to extract the maximum value people would be willing to pay. Not an unreasonable idea in a simplistic market situation. Why let scalpers capture the scarcity profit? /1
The OEG will have to drop prices to woo folks back, and with the scarcity premium gone, that’s going to require a big drop. They could have maintained a higher price for a long time, but will have to deal with a new lower price equilibrium.
Bad for OEG, but good for fans!
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Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
Inclusionary zoning cuts housing construction by as much as a third, argues a PRI commentary citing a July UC Irvine study.
Builders must set aside homes or pay a fee, which raises project costs and makes fewer projects pencil out.
Having the separation question on the referendum almost certainly hurt the Premier a lot with the other 9 questions. I feel like a lot of ‘No’ voters might have just stayed home if separation was not on the ballot.
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I don’t remember this SCTV sketch but, man, I do love Dave Thomas and Catherine O’Hara.
Smith knows she won’t satisfy the radical separatist wing of the party, but I’m thinking she hopes that the other UCP party members get tired of them and turn fully against them thus allowing her to avoid being ousted in the next leadership review.
'Alberta will never be independent' as long as Smith is UCP leader: Alberta separatist leader Rath
🔗ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/…
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This has been Putin's dream for years: That his country, with GDP per capita lower than Poland, unable to conquer Donbas since 2014, will be treated as an equal to the US and China.
wsj.com/world/russia/putin-f…
Nearly 3 hours after we were supposed to have results, I’m wondering if any of those who voted to separate are questioning the ability of the Alberta government to run a simple thing like an election.
Branko has written some well researched stuff, but there comes a time that one beclowns themself that they can no longer be taken seriously. He really thinks countries should just be sacrificed for Putin’s dreams of empire.
It is a strange world.
Because 5.7 million people live in three small Baltic countries (whose total size is less than a Chinese Tier II city). and whose half of the population lives in Europe, and another third are Russians who cannot get citizenship, and because they have traumas and bad memories of the Soviet rule, the entire world of 8 billion people should go into a nuclear apocalypse and die.
Edmonton drivers - just a friendly reminder that when traffic lights are out at an intersection, it crimes a four way stop.
Also, it’s astonishing how many of you are idiots who don’t know this and just fly through intersections at full speed.
Robert (Bob) Summers retweeted
“we will pay any price….to assure the success and survival of liberty.” Is this still true? Do we prize liberty or do we prize power and purse? No more clear test than the choice between Ukraine and Russia. Abandon Ukraine and we abandon liberty. Eventually even our own.