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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 20/02/2026

Would you take this class? If no, why not? What's missing? What would you cut? Please share your thoughts.

Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 03/02/2025

Here's Canada's refined product sector. We basically produce what we use, with exports and imports on the margin for most products.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 03/02/2025

We produce most of our own products. The bigger issue is that we move a lot of our crude *through* the US to Ontario and QC.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 03/02/2025

Very small net exporters.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 03/02/2025

Too many Canadians are under the impression that we export crude and import refined products in our trade relationship with the US. The first is true, and the second is true to a much smaller degree only in some parts of Canada for some fuels. In general, we're net exporters of refined products too.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 01/02/2025

Offered without comment: almost all of the US supply of nuclear fuel is imported. Here's where it comes from:

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 31/01/2025

When was this Canada where "everyone who works hard gets a powerful paycheque and a pension?" And given that much of our remaining pension coverage is in the public service, how is PP going to make this happen? Expand the PS? Force private companies to offer pensions? Push unionization? What?

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 16/12/2024

@jlisayoung.bsky.social opened a browser and chose academic violence...

Image says "classes are over, grades are submitted"

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 14/12/2024

The long-awaited follow-up to this Icelandic masterpiece

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 14/12/2024

Graphic design is my passion.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 12/12/2024

Those who enjoy reading the specific wording of the Constitution in terms of provincial jurisdiction over resources might want to take a glance at sections 91(2) and 92A(2) and (3). Section 92A(3) is particular worth reading carefully.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 11/12/2024

Are you just interpolating around the confidential months? Also, how is this the state of our data?

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 11/12/2024

Where in the US does Canadian crude oil go? Mostly to the midwest, with increasing although much smaller volumes headed to the Gulf Coast. Not as much of a bump into PADD V (West Coast) as I would have expected w TMX. cc @roryjohnston.bsky.social

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 11/12/2024

Each term, I have to recompile all of my data exercises and assignments for my economics class at which time I learn of all of the updates to column names, API content types, and other frustrating changes to public data!

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 11/12/2024

Seems that Alberta must have built a whole lot of wind and solar plants that all came online simultaneously on Jan 1, 2021 and drove up price levels and market volatility? Or, perhaps it was something else? Gee, I wonder what it could have been? An increase in market concentration, perhaps?

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 05/12/2024

Updated my data and charts page on Alberta oil production with this week's data. st3.aleach.ca/st_3.html

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 15/11/2024

As @blakeshaffer.bsky.social points out, it's crickets out there on political sustainability of green industrial policy. Industrial policy may be more politically sustainable than taxes, but the issue was and is never that. The issue is the political viability of action on climate change.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 24/11/2023

I'm pretty sure Nikiforuk is cheering for the pandemic here...

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 22/11/2023

Oh look, my book is on sale! sutherlandhousebooks.com/product/betw...

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 22/11/2023

If you've convinced yourself that Poilievre would not touch industrial carbon pricing, or that he's just worried about the current affordability crisis, let me offer you this. The very notion of support for carbon pricing in general was enough to torpedo Conservative support for a trade deal.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 22/11/2023

Very creepy. Inside the lids of both boxes in a 2-pack of Honey Nut Cheerios were these messages.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 24/10/2023

Three figures every Albertan should see from today's World Energy Outlook.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 20/10/2023

Good morning / afternoon from Parliament Hill. I think this makes me intra umbra Parliament.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 12/10/2023

Tomorrow is decision day for Reference re: the Impact Assessment Act (Bill-C69) from the Supreme Court of Canada. Here's my take on what I hope to see tomorrow. I don't relish the idea of federal impact assessment legislation being found ultra vires, but this legislation goes too far.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 07/10/2023

New bike means a lot of riding.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 06/10/2023

Teaching my students to make this graph this week.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 03/10/2023

The chutzpah equivalent of Argentina standing up a global PR campaign offering themselves up as the leaders on mitigating inflation. Alberta electricity prices are roughly more than 4x what they were when Minister Schulz joined cabinet.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 20/09/2023

Some new 2022 full year data for the oil sands was posted at the end of August, and it was a good year for most projects! Wow. More here: aleach.ca/facility_roy...

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 20/09/2023

Oh, the blissful early days...

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 19/09/2023

And, here's a little snapshot from the introduction so you can see what you're in for in the book. More soon, but that's my exciting news for the day. Thanks for following me on Bluesky.

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Andrew Leach @aleach.ca · 19/09/2023

These little lies and half truths are the subject of both my NEW BOOK coming out shortly and for a series of lectures across Canada in October and November. More details on the lectures to come, and please watch for Between Doom and Denial, published by Sutherland House, in book stores near you. 4/

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