Simpson Centre New Growth: Reviews of Current Ag Policy Research and Articles Source: Simpson Centre for Food and Agricultural Policy Summary: A new website was recently launched by the Simpson Centre, produced through the two-year Carbon Program, a major program of study focused on agriculture-based greenhouse gas emissions with the goal of developing policies to […]
You could say Dr. Kent Fellows has become a fixture on the University of Calgary campus. The Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics and the School of Public Policy has been at the university as a student and professor now for a number of years. Fellows has been in his current position since September […]
China’s application on September 16 to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the eleven state plurilateral trade agreement that was signed in 2018 after the United States withdrew from its predecessor, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, is a clever political and strategic move on China’s part. It also raises the question as to whether China […]
As the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the deficiencies in income support systems in Canada, calls have been amplified for a Guaranteed Basic Income (GBI) to provide more comprehensive, ideally universal, protection for household incomes. Some called for permanent implementation of the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) but, popular as the CERB was, it has recognized design […]
Simpson Centre New Growth: Reviews of Current Ag Policy Research and Articles Source: Science Summary: A recent post from the website “Epicurious” outlined their stand on beef, specifically choosing to exclude any new beef recipes on their website due to the relatively high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per kilo compared to plant protein sources, […]