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There was an appeal before the Alberta Court of Appeal regarding the definition of an "advanced coal project" and the Energy Minister's influence on the AER's decision. [69] Ongoing litigation by Benga/Northback, Piikani Nation, and Stoney Nakoda Nations seek to overturn the provincial decisions that denied approval for the project. [70] [71]
The prairie portions are chiefly tallgrass on finer, dry soils. [2] Overall, the Cross Timbers are not as arable as the surrounding ecoregions. [3] Today, land use is a mixture of rangeland, pastures, and farmland. [2] The area has also been an important site of oil extraction for over 80 years. [3]
The prairies, they were promised, did not mean backbreaking toil because "settling on the prairie which is ready for the plow is different from plunging into a region covered with timber". [178] The settlers were customers of the railroads, shipping their crops and cattle out, and bringing in manufactured products.
Trump and his economic team have made many contradictory statements about the rationale for tariffs, leaving American multinational businesses unsure how to plan, and foreign countries unclear on ...
Julie A. Nelson (born 1956) is an emeritus professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston, most known for her application of feminist theory to questions of the definition of the discipline of economics, and its models and methodology. Nelson received her Ph.D. degree in economics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. [1]
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life is a 2013 book by Canadian scholar James Daschuk. [1] The book takes an epidemiological approach and documents the historical roots of modern health disparities between Canadians and Indigenous peoples living in what is now Canada. [2]
Prior to European contact, First Nations people on the Pacific Coast would frequently trade salmon with First Nations people of the Canadian Prairies. [2] Shortly after European settlements had begun appearing in British Columbia in the mid 19th century, the first salmon canneries had begun appearing alongside them, the first being a salmon cannery in the Fraser river in 1867.
If its economic base is concentrated in sectors that are growing, then it is in good shape. Methodologically, economic base analysis views the region as if it were a small nation and uses notions of relative and comparative advantage from international trade theory (Charles Tiebout 1963). In a sense, the activity is macroeconomics "written ...