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Football Fables

The beautiful game bestrides the world like a colossus

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

Alberta and Me

From a land of oil, true enough

Mike Moffatt

Mike Moffatt is a professor in the Business, Economics and Public Policy group at the Ivey Business School at Western University and the chief economist of the Mowat Centre.

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Reforging Ontario

Given manufacturing’s collapse, can the province spark an economic renaissance? December 2014
As an economist, I am trained to look at the changing economic landscape through a cold, calculating lens. But as someone who was born and raised in the industrial heartland of London, Ontario, I see the issue of manufacturing job loss as a personal one. Londoners have always had a love-hate relationship with our factories. We loved being able to leave high school and get stable full-time…