I do sense the turbulence everywhere (well almost). US, UK, Canada, Turkey, Israel, Syria, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, South Africa, Congo, Sudan, Sweden, EU. Nefarious forces seem to be at work. It's very depressing and stressful. Sometimes I wonder if it's 'the end times'. Hopefully people everywhere will wake up.
On Tesla, the stock was valued on the assumption that Tesla would maintain technology leadership. It has not. It is now behind BYD and Hyundai and will likely soon be passed by VW. The company should be valued at slightly less than Hyundai, if that.
On the election, I get that you are a CPC supporter but I have seen no evidence that Poilievre is better able to communicate with Canadians than Carney. Poilievre is even more divisive than Harper and is doing everything he can to divide Canadians from each other. He had soft support when the alternative was Trudeau, who had passed his best before date. We will see how well he can campaign against Carney. Unlike Poilievre, Carney has experience outside of politics, and as a guy born in the NWT and growing up in Edmonton, meeting his wife playing hockey ... that is a Canadian story.
On a 'Canadian story', I think Poilievre with a single mom, adoptive parents, a gay father, a French name and married to a Venezuelan immigrant is equally compelling and maybe even more representative of the diverse society that Canada now is.
I think at some level this is not even a right-left election. It is one about change, transparency, values and the future. That may also be why the young favour the conservatives over the liberals. We'll see. It will be an interesting and revealing election.
I would not put too much weight into any poll at this point, things are shifting rapidly. Speaking for the young people in my life, not representative and young here refers to people who are from 22 to 42, they all repelled by Pierre Poilievre's attacks on the LGBQT+ community and by his wrong headed housing policies. Those are the only two issues they are personally concerned with.
Personally the two big issues for me are per capita productivity (which is the foundation of future prosperity and there Canada has struggled since i came to Vancouver in 1988) and how we are going to transition society and economy to both mitigate and adapt to climate change. On current policies and trends we are headed to 3 degree plus of warming. I suppose that is a situation that will solve itself as the deaths and economic devastation this would cause will remove many of the drivers of GHG emissions.
There should probably be a debate on population growth as well,as I did some modelling recently that makes me think Canadian population growth will be much lower than projected.
I hope you can write at some point on what you see as the roots of Canada's poor performance on productivity. My own perspective is that this is partly cultural and partly structural. It is cultural in that the leadership of many large Canadian organizations are risk adverse (private and public) and are slow adopters of technology. This is likely a result of Canada being a combination of a branch plant and resource economy. Branch plants do not invest in or lead the adoption of innovation. And the way resource extraction companies understand, invest in and reward risk is very different from that of the digital economy. Structural in that Canada is investing too much of its wealth in housing and has systematically under invested in basic research and education for several decades.
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I do sense the turbulence everywhere (well almost). US, UK, Canada, Turkey, Israel, Syria, Iran, Russia, Ukraine, South Africa, Congo, Sudan, Sweden, EU. Nefarious forces seem to be at work. It's very depressing and stressful. Sometimes I wonder if it's 'the end times'. Hopefully people everywhere will wake up.
Plain to see for everyone who is paying attention:
1) The left obsession was never truly about climate change, just a way to power grab.
2) DOGE is ending the grift that fueled a lot of leftist power. The resulting hate is understandable but revealing.
3) The left is the party of violence - setting teslas on fire, blm riots, college destruction for hamas support, the list is long.
On Tesla, the stock was valued on the assumption that Tesla would maintain technology leadership. It has not. It is now behind BYD and Hyundai and will likely soon be passed by VW. The company should be valued at slightly less than Hyundai, if that.
On the election, I get that you are a CPC supporter but I have seen no evidence that Poilievre is better able to communicate with Canadians than Carney. Poilievre is even more divisive than Harper and is doing everything he can to divide Canadians from each other. He had soft support when the alternative was Trudeau, who had passed his best before date. We will see how well he can campaign against Carney. Unlike Poilievre, Carney has experience outside of politics, and as a guy born in the NWT and growing up in Edmonton, meeting his wife playing hockey ... that is a Canadian story.
On a 'Canadian story', I think Poilievre with a single mom, adoptive parents, a gay father, a French name and married to a Venezuelan immigrant is equally compelling and maybe even more representative of the diverse society that Canada now is.
I think at some level this is not even a right-left election. It is one about change, transparency, values and the future. That may also be why the young favour the conservatives over the liberals. We'll see. It will be an interesting and revealing election.
I would not put too much weight into any poll at this point, things are shifting rapidly. Speaking for the young people in my life, not representative and young here refers to people who are from 22 to 42, they all repelled by Pierre Poilievre's attacks on the LGBQT+ community and by his wrong headed housing policies. Those are the only two issues they are personally concerned with.
Personally the two big issues for me are per capita productivity (which is the foundation of future prosperity and there Canada has struggled since i came to Vancouver in 1988) and how we are going to transition society and economy to both mitigate and adapt to climate change. On current policies and trends we are headed to 3 degree plus of warming. I suppose that is a situation that will solve itself as the deaths and economic devastation this would cause will remove many of the drivers of GHG emissions.
There should probably be a debate on population growth as well,as I did some modelling recently that makes me think Canadian population growth will be much lower than projected.
I hope you can write at some point on what you see as the roots of Canada's poor performance on productivity. My own perspective is that this is partly cultural and partly structural. It is cultural in that the leadership of many large Canadian organizations are risk adverse (private and public) and are slow adopters of technology. This is likely a result of Canada being a combination of a branch plant and resource economy. Branch plants do not invest in or lead the adoption of innovation. And the way resource extraction companies understand, invest in and reward risk is very different from that of the digital economy. Structural in that Canada is investing too much of its wealth in housing and has systematically under invested in basic research and education for several decades.