To choose the SolarEdge inverter inverter that best suits us, whether for our home or for our company, we must take into account a series of issues that we summarize below. Calculation Of Our Consumption In order to calculate the type and size of the installation that we want, we Read more…
This is the story of how Western automakers are inviting the Chinese to take their US & Canadian market share. Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last two years you already know that the price of everything has gone through the roof. Cars have been no exception. The Read more…
Publicly Alberta Bill 81 (2021) was proposed by the UCP Government to block foreign influences on Alberta elections and it has a pretty good veneer of legitimacy: However, like all such laws, the devil is in the details and Mr Madu forgot to mention some mighty nasty changes Bill 81 Read more…
If you live in Alberta or Quebec these are a particularly important questions. Quebec continues to receive tens of billions of dollars in transfer payments that are effectively paid for by Alberta, even though Alberta has been dealing with a crushing economic turn down in their primary industry, oil and Read more…
PartisanIssues.com does not spend a lot of time on the technicalities of publicly traded stocks but recently we received more than a few questions that required us to provide a simple explanation of the various exchanges. Note that the terms Stock Market, Stock Exchange, Market, and Exchange are used interchangeably. Read more…
In a world in which big data analytics constantly surprises us with what at first appears to be counter intuitive findings, there are still times that the data validates our gut feelings. UPS safety trainers have know since the 1980’s that: “…Left turns mean idling, which increases the time a Read more…
Apple and Microsoft are interchangeably the largest company in the world. Microsoft focuses on corporate tech products while Apple concentrates on the consumer. But that is not the only major difference between the two. Microsoft went through a nasty monopoly investigation in the late 1990’s that nearly tore the company Read more…
One month ago we noted that Chestermere had double the Alberta Provincial Average of active COVID19 cases. In recent days the signage at the end of town has jumped up twice and now reads CHESTERMERE HAS 150+ COVID CASES, so we decided to update our numbers and some of the Read more…
Over the last few years there have been an inordinate number of silly conspiracy theories covering everything from the 2016 US Presidential election to Ted Cruz’s Father being involved in the JFK assassination. At PartisanIssues we stick to facts and avoid opinion so let us state unequivocally it is our Read more…
When it comes to the pandemic response, few people actually want to see the economy shut down. Even the most argumentative accept that there is merit to keeping the economy open to some degree. A blind closing all small businesses as much of California, Ontario, Quebec other other large population Read more…
In this video we explain the how the global computer chip shortage will cost the auto industry $61 billion in lost sales just in 2021 and how the shortage will likely extend well into 2022. So how did Tesla avoid the chip shortage. It is affecting everyone from Mercedes, to Read more…
To be sure, Bitcoin and blockchain technologies are here to stay… at least for a while. There is much good with Bitcoin but there are also some serious issues. If you are thinking about Bitcoin or Ethereum or other blockchain technologies as a currency or store of value, you need Read more…
Microsoft has just released a study showing that 61% of managers are thriving in the work from home world while only 38% of staff are doing well. That means that about 60% of employees are having problems. Lifeworks (formerly Morneau Shapell) also just released a survey indicating that staff are Read more…
Now that COVID-19 has had its first year anniversary in Western countries, it is a good time to calculate some metrics. In particular, how much spending did governments do to fight COVID19 and keep their economies moving. Estimates of how much money each country spent on COVID-19 are difficult to Read more…